Travel through our solar system using results of the latest spacecraft. Explore the origins of our worlds through the study of planet formation, meteorites, asteroids, and comets. Discover the processes that shape planetary interiors, surfaces, and atmospheres. Compare our solar system to others by learning about newly discovered exoplanets. Trace the conditions that may foster life throughout the solar system and beyond.In lab, learn the constellations and how to use the telescopes. Use them to observe celestial objects, including the moon, the sun, the planets, nebulae, and galaxies.

Travel through our solar system using results of the latest spacecraft. Explore the origins of our worlds through the study of planet formation, meteorites, asteroids, and comets. Discover the processes that shape planetary interiors, surfaces, and atmospheres. Compare our solar system to others by learning about newly discovered exoplanets. Trace the conditions that may foster life throughout the solar system and beyond.

Travel through our solar system using results of the latest spacecraft. Explore the origins of our worlds through the study of planet formation, meteorites, asteroids, and comets. Discover the processes that shape planetary interiors, surfaces, and atmospheres. Compare our solar system to others by learning about newly discovered exoplanets. Trace the conditions that may foster life throughout the solar system and beyond.

Intermediate Korean II is the second part of a one-year intensive course for students who have already completed the intermediate-level course, Intermediate Korean I, or who have the equivalent language competence in Korean. Designed for students seeking to become bilingual (or multilingual), this course provides numerous and varied opportunities to develop and practice speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

The course intends to further advance students' language skills in Chinese through both traditional mass media and the emerging social media. In addition to the four basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), oral interpretation and written translation (from Chinese to English and vice versa) will be emphasized in class as a way of deeper comprehension and useful skill of communication.

In this course, beginning and advanced painting students will investigate the physical and metaphoric dimensions of materials within the field of painting. The process of how artists interact with materials can be parallel to the experience of thinking. We will work with multiple types of paint, ink, and drawing techniques, as well as painting on and off the canvas, to address color, light and form in a visceral and tangible way.

This introductory course will explore computation as an artistic medium with creative approaches to computer programming as its central theme. We will examine a range of computational art practices through readings, viewings discussions, labs, projects, critiques, and guest artist/researcher presentations.

This course will consider the development of modern Chinese art from the overthrow of the Qing dynasty in 1911 to contemporary trends today. Along the way, professional artists in China faced an acute identity crisis: How could they make foreign styles and methods their own? Which aspects of centuries-old ink and brush painting and other traditional art forms ought to be retained and developed? How could art be made to serve ordinary people, not just elites? How much independence was possible in Mao's China?

This course surveys architecture from the ancient world to the present as both a functional response to human activity and as a medium that expresses cultural values. In the service of domestic life, religious ritual, political agendas, commerce, and leisure, architecture reflects and shapes the natural environment, technology, economics, and aesthetic taste. While the history of Western architecture constitutes the primary touchstone, we will pursue themes that include buildings, cities, and sites from around the world.

Discussing both canonical and lesser-known films from the Weimar and Nazi period, we explore various artistic tendencies, movements and genres in order to define cinema's complex role in representing social and historical experience. We pay special attention to the modes of constructing cinematic spaces, and the social utopias and catastrophes which cinema came to represent.