This course is a thorough introduction to color photography. Weekly project-based assignments and critiques address students' aesthetic and technical progress; readings and discussions will introduce students to historical and contemporary art practices, with an emphasis on current photographic theory. Lab sessions will cover a range of techniques including the nuances of color, color film, digital capture, color management and archival inkjet printing. An additional lab workshop will meet once a week for two hours.

Video I is an introductory video production course. Over the course of the semester, students will gain experience in pre-production, production and post-production techniques as well as learn to think and look critically about the making of the moving image. We will engage with the legacy and trajectory of video as a specific visual medium for expression and provocation, and we will apply black studies, queer theory and practice, feminism, and media activism as a lens and sounding board in relation to issues of representation, spectatorship, identification, production, and distribution.

This studio course is an introduction to 16mm filmmaking presenting basic skills of production including cinematography, editing, lighting, and sound recording. Through a series of assignments and projects, students will become familiar with the Bolex camera, hand-processing techniques, optical printing, camera-less filmmaking practices and editing methodologies. There will be weekly screenings of diverse forms of experimental 16mm films along with readings and writing assignments.

This course emphasizes a “hands on” approach to language acquisition. It will be conducted at various academic locations around campus in collaboration with colleagues of the respective departments and facilities. (Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology, Studio Art, Landscape studies, Museum, etc.). Students will engage in experiments and other activities at these various locations through which they will learn to express themselves in written and oral German in a variety of disciplines and situations.

This course provides an introduction to the international relations of contemporary
Africa. It explores how Africa has redefined our understanding of international relations
and its role as a global actor. Core themes include the politics of post-independence
international alignments, the external causes and effects of authoritarian rule, and the
continent's role in the global political economy. The course concludes with a
consideration of pressing current issues on the African continent, including state failure,

Designed to support intermediate Italian students to help them improve their conversational skills, this course offers intensive practice in pronunciation, vocabulary, oral comprehension and conversation. It includes class discussions, role-playing and short oral presentations. Prerequisite: two semesters of ITL 110 or placement exam to ensure correct language level.

This course engages critical literary analysis through an examination of the construction and reimagining of race through graphic novels. Visual representations of race have long constructed the meaning of race, as well as been a critical tool for people assert new meanings. How have writers used this genre to explore their experiences of racialization and talk about social inequalities and racial difference? What knowledge, ideas and affects emerge from reading the medium of graphic novels, and what makes the form unique?

This course is designed to give FMS majors and minors a solid grounding in the primary methods of our field. In other words, what are the broad approaches scholars have taken to the study of media, and what specific methodological strategies have proved most effective? We begin with theory as one such method—one that zooms out to ask broad questions about the essential nature of a medium. Our history unit shifts the focus to how media are impacted by and implicated in the progression of time and culture. Finally, our criticism unit features strategies for analyzing individual media objects.