This course analyzes the concepts of race and racism from an interdisciplinary perspective, with focus on Latinas/os/x in the United States. It explores the sociocultural, political, economic, and historical forces that interact with each other in the production of racial categories and racial "difference." In particular, we focus on racial ideologies, racial formation theory, and processes of racialization, as well as the relationship between race and ethnicity.

In which our heroes will explore contemporary and classic fabulist fiction, fairy tales, and mythic fiction in order to produce their own short stories. Some of the authors we may read include Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Isak Dineson, Gabriel García Márquez, Nalo Hopkinson, Porochista Khakpour, Larissa Lai, Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, and Bruno Schulz.

Performance study - individual instruction.

This hands-on interdisciplinary introduction to the tools and practices of 2D, 3D, and 4D art will focus on the creative process, interdisciplinary dialogue, and the fundamental tools of art making in the 21st century. We will explore multiple approaches including drawing, sculptural construction, site-specificity, and video. Studio projects will be supplemented with critiques, reading, discussion, collaboration, and research, as well as study of relevant contemporary and historical artists.

This hands-on interdisciplinary introduction to the tools and practices of 2D, 3D, and 4D art will focus on the creative process, interdisciplinary dialogue, and the fundamental tools of art making in the 21st century. We will explore multiple approaches including drawing, sculptural construction, site-specificity, and video. Studio projects will be supplemented with critiques, reading, discussion, collaboration, and research, as well as study of relevant contemporary and historical artists.

An intensive practice of observational drawing will challenge common assumptions about how the world is seen and has implications for all aspects of imagination and critical thought. The course will focus on the foundational elements of space, line, tone, value, vision, and the body. It will utilize multiple drawing techniques, tools, materials, and scales, and it will engage in rigorous observation to tap the analytic and expressive capacities of the medium. Studio investigations will be supplemented with critiques, lectures and demonstrations.

Students in this course will explore diverse approaches to painting abstractly, such as abstraction from observation, gestural improvisation, geometric abstraction, and systems painting. After examining why such strategies were used by previous artists, students will be asked to develop their own approaches to abstraction. Students will also develop skill and confidence in handling materials, the ability to interpret and make meaning in abstract images, and a personal approach to color.

An introduction to early Christian understandings of the body and sex that aims at familiarizing students with a culturally and geographically diverse range of relevant primary sources and at equipping students with the critical-theoretical methodologies necessary to analyze, interpret, and assess these sources in their historical context. Students will read sources penned between the first and seventh centuries CE within the geopolitical limits of the Roman and Persian Empires and originally written in Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Coptic.

Data Science is a rapidly growing field that uses statistical techniques to gain useful insights from data. This course will cover data visualization for data exploration and modeling and prediction techniques that include classification, shrinkage methods, tree-based methods, and clustering. We will use the techniques learned to look at economic data sets and see what conclusions we can make.

This research seminar investigates how different kinds of stories unfold in contemporary public spheres. How do we make sense of pressing matters of common concern? It asks: what are the effects of a pervasive cultural distrust in social institutions, the widespread mediatization of everyday life, and the intercultural and intertextual nature of media texts themselves? Drawing from foundational texts about the role of intellectuals and the public sphere, students will be asked to develop an empirical case study to explore these questions and test their ideas.