This semester we will explore organic structure, reactivity, and spectroscopy through the study of aromatic molecules, carbonyl compounds, nitrogen-containing compounds, pericyclic reactions, and radical chemistry. The emphasis will be on organic mechanism and synthesis, along with relevance of the chemistry to biology, medicine, society, and environment. By the end of the semester you will have a solid intuitive sense of how organic molecules react and will be able to extrapolate your understanding to many inorganic molecules as well. Prerequisite: Organic Chemistry I.

This laboratory course will involve a full-class, full-semester research project aimed at the synthesis of catalysts allowing the use of renewable materials as chemical building blocks. Students will become proficient in synthetic organic laboratory techniques including running and monitoring air- and moisture-sensitive reactions. purifying compounds by extraction, distillation, and column chromatography, and characterizing compounds using physical, spectrometric and spectroscopic techniques, especially NMR and GC/MS.

Marginalized people have always existed in the games industry, and their contributions have had an indelible impact on the field. This course examines the historic accomplishments of many such individuals as well as the tumultuous backlash they often face from misogynistic and white supremacist movements. Students will research and discuss gaming communities, the political movements and ideologies fostered within them, portrayals of power and identity in games, and the labor conditions under which games are produced.

When the Roman Empire imploded in 476, refugees from the Italian mainland settled on a few disconnected islands sheltered from the open Adriatic Sea by a lagoon. Within a few centuries, they created one of the most unlikely, beautiful, and long-lasting European cities ever to have been built. The cooperative spirit with which early medieval Venetians were able to create an urban environment built on seawater found its expression in the political and societal structures they formed to govern their city, republic, and, eventually, empire.

The Virgin Mary is not Catholic. When, in 431, the Council of Ephesus declared the Virgin Mary to be Theotokos or God-Bearer, she had already been venerated in Egypt since the third century as a re-instantiation of Isis. The syncretism of her cult explains her ubiquitous popularity in medieval Byzantium and the Latin West, but also early Islamic Syria, Ethiopia, and colonial Latin America. Her frequent depiction on moveable wooden panels (icons) and mosaics accompanied her early rise to liturgical prominence.

Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, Watchmen "presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history-the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect." Damon Lindelof's adaptation/remix/continuation of the 1986 graphic novel updates its themes of Cold War and nuclear annihilation to center race and white supremacy. This course will closely examine both treatments, along with interstitial materials that act as supplementary documents and a crucial part of each narrative's structure.

Translation is inherently an ethical and political act, involving inevitable misunderstandings and ambiguity. Things that can be said in one language cannot be neatly transferred into another. The translator works on the border of cultures as well as languages. This gap becomes even more difficult when translating across cultures that do not share the same basic concepts. The idea of translation as treachery is an old one. In this class we will read theoretical and practical works about translation, as well as fictional texts that foreground the task of the translator, such as R.F.

In this class, students will begin by studying fibers and textile practices that are engaged in political action, liberation and social crs change while learning and practicing a range of fiber arts techniques through a series of small projects. In the second half of the class, students will propose and execute their own personal or collaborative activist project.

In this course, students will develop their 3-Dimensional composition skills using materials like paper, foamcore, wire and non-ceramic clay with a focus on non-objective (nonrepresentational) forms. Alongside development of formal language, the class will reflect on ways in which ideas about composition, form and beauty are culturally constructed. Texts will include readings from The Black Design Experience, A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Context and Elements of Design.

This course will involve a detailed study of the Japanese cinema. It will highlight works in the dramatic narrative, documentary, and experimental traditions. The films screened will use the past to explore the meaning of the present, examine the relationships within families, investigate formal issues in cinematic construction, and attempt to articulate broader social issues within Japanese society. Class will meet once a week for two hours and fifty minutes plus additional time for second screenings.