In this course, students will design, build, and manage an escape room on Hampshire campus under the guidance of Professors Kallok and Fay. Though the professors will provide team leadership and direction, the students will be the ones creating the escape room, including concept art, storyboards, game design, puzzle design, set design, set construction, painting, lighting, sound design, production management, marketing, and live production.

Our focus will be on recognizing, analyzing, and developing the different narrative techniques used to write the short story. Each technique will be studied individually, as well as in relation to the work as a whole. As David Lodge writes in The Art of Fiction, "Effects in fiction are plural and interconnected, each drawing on and contributing to all the others." We will take apart these "effects" in order to better appreciate how they are linked, both when reading and writing.

In this course students will explore the sculptural object as a self contained form and as an element within a found or created environment. Traditional materials such as steel, wood, plaster and concrete will be taught concurrently with more ephemeral materials including paper, wire mesh and found materials. Ideas originating within the traditions of modernism, postmodernism, minimalism, post minimalism, installation art and public art will be introduced through slide lectures, readings and independent research. The course will culminate in an independent project.

This is an introductory level design class that wil begin with a series of guided activities and culminate in a final independent project. Students will become familiar with a range of basic design tools and skills, such as drawing, model making, and prototype in materials such as cardboard, metal and plastic. We will also consider aesthetics, manufacturability, and usability of the objects we create. Throughout the course students will work toward improving visual commmunication skills and the abilility to convey ideas.

Methods for Teaching Art to Children: Exploring traditional and experimental approaches to teaching through the arts: This course will explore methods for teaching art to children in grades k-12. We will plan lessons and units of study, which focus on the arts in education while learning theoretical and practical approaches relevant to the teaching of visual arts as a stand-alone subject and in concurrence with other academic subjects.

Contemporary ideas in sculpture will be introduced in relation to art production in a range of media including clay, wood, steel, and found materials. This course provides training for all equipment in the Art Barn Sculpture Studio. Student generated imagery will foster discussions around representation, abstraction, the body, technology, public art, and installation art. Readings, slide lectures, and group critiques will inform the development of independent work in three dimensions. The course culminates with a lengthy student defined independent project.

This course explores different forms of personal and communal trauma, and the ways that writing offers a means to redemption. By analyzing a range of novels, poetry, memoirs, and films, we will consider the different ways that trauma has been turned into narrative and how narrative in turn seeks to transform trauma into something else. Primary texts will focus heavily on ethnic American literature. The forms of trauma we will discuss range from personal and sexual violence, to large-scale communal and cultural violence.

How do objects speak to us, and act on us? How is an encounter with an object different from reading a text? Why do we collect things? In recent years there has been a turn from texts to visual studies, and then to material culture and thing theory. In this course, we will explore some of the ways that contemporary writers and artists approach things, artifacts, the natural world, discarded objects, "vibrant matter." We will also visit museums and collections.

This course invites artists, designers, and other creative-workers to immerse in experiential physical practices as resources for art making, and self/community care. We will ask: What can be gained from listening to the body-yours, another's? How does a dialogue with the body enrich a dialogue with the world and vice versa? The practices in this course are drawn from dance improvisation, somatic movement, mindfulness meditation, and ecological movement-based research.

The focus of this course is the development of a semester-long photographic project. Students will acquire the technical and critical skills needed to create and sustain an in-depth body of work. They will plan, research and edit a project with the aim of effectively conveying complex narratives, ideas and questions through images. The class will also focus on refining critique skills, writing about art, and researching funding for projects. Artist visits and presentations will further acquaint students with contemporary photographic practices and the potential of long-form photographic work.