Students will gain experience in the fundamentals of painting, including color, composition, material and technical considerations in this hands-on, work-intensive studio class. We will explore a range of painting surfaces, sizes, materials and artistic approaches. Assignments will include color mixing, landscape, self-portrait, figure painting, conceptual painting, narrative painting and experimental work using unconventional painting materials. Students will paint individually and collaboratively.

Gothic fictions are known for their ability to send shivers down the spine, evoking sensations of discomfort, fear, and horror. This interdisciplinary course will explore the genre of the Gothic from its roots in the late eighteenth century through the present, moving among literature, film, television, and digital media forms. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein will be a key text as we commemorate the novel's 200th anniversary; we will explore intermedial texts like Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Dancing Modern 1 is a beginning level studio practice course designed to introduce students to ensemble performance-making as research practice, and employing "modern" and "contemporary" dance methodologies as a framework. The course will function as part dance technique class, part rehearsal/dance-making session, and part research seminar. Together we will examine ensemble dancing as a collective mode of being.

This introductory course explores global contemporary art produced between 1960 and 2018, with a focus on art in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, along with the practices of artists of color in the Euro-America. The course challenges art history's Euro-American-centrism by considering the multiple histories that artwork produced on the so-called "periphery" or in the "Global South" propose. It addresses the following questions: How do global consumerism, art markets, and international biennials interact with national or ethnic identities and local practices?

Online platforms often privilege the new, the exciting and the dramatic. But the online world and digital photography can also convey the ordinary, the mundane and the dull. This class will open a space for making pictures and reading pictures that might be overlooked - or even considered boring. What does it mean to be bored and what is a boring picture? We will study a range of artists who use seemingly simple images as a way to speak about complex and potent ideas. We will explore the language used to describe images, practice a range of photographic techniques, and exercise slow looking.

This is an introductory course for students who would like to explore their interest in documentary practice. Through a combination of screenings, lectures, readings and technical workshops, we will explore a critical/historical overview of this genre and incorporate our knowledge and experience to produce individual or collaborative projects in a variety of "modes of representation." Projects need not be restricted to a particular medium; in fact, students will be encouraged to explore the ways in which film, video, and/or animation can be utilized together.

This course can be summed up as: everything you wanted to know about aliens but were afraid to ask (a scientist). The course will explore the topic of extraterrestrial intelligence from the perspective of several different fields. We will look at the history of UFO sighting claims and analyze the reliability of eye-witness testimonies, explore psychological & sociological reasons behind claims of alien abductions, and analyze the current state of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) from the perspective of astronomy and planetary research.

This course is an advanced reading seminar exploring a broad range of topics of interest to the collaborating disciplines of cognitive science. Each week, in a three-hour session, participants will choose to read and discuss a paper (or set of papers) from the professional literature in various fields, including animal behavior & cognition, artificial intelligence, cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuropsychology and neuroscience.

Students in this course will become members of research teams focusing on projects designated by the instructor. Projects will involve open research questions in artificial intelligence, artificial life, or computational models of cognitive systems. They will be oriented toward the production of publishable results and/or distributable software systems. Students will gain skills that will be useful for Division III project work and graduate-level research. Prerequisite detail: Strong computer programming skills

Mobile communication devices such as smart phones and tablets have become prevalent in the U.S. These devices have the capacity to change the way in which people interact with each other and with information. In this course we will study how to develop programming code for these devices, the current state of technology and use of mobile computing devices, and a series of user interface design concepts angled towards maximizing user efficiency with these devices.