This integrative seminar is designed for students who are working on a DIV III or an advanced DIV II Project (or independent Study) in the arts, media, and humanities. The course will include regular opportunities for class workshopping of students' ongoing DIV III /DIV II advanced projects work. In addition, during the first half of the semester, students will read broadly on topics of shared interest and complete several short written responses to articles that draw from various disciplines in the arts, media, and humanities.

This studio course introduces intermediate level sculpture and studio art concentrators to mold making and casting processes. Students will be exposed to a range of cast sculpture both historic and contemporary via books and slide lectures. Through assignments and independent work, students will explore the process of mold making and casting through a range of different materials including Plaster, concrete, silicone rubber and thermoplastics. Students will research historical and contemporary artists who utilize casting and present relevant work for class discussion.

This course will examine queer love, relationship structures and attachments, and how these elements of the relational self inform individual identity development. These themes will be explored within grounded foundational paradigms of intersectionality, queer theory, and relationship anarchy and through the lens of various psychological and sociological theoretical models, including the ecological systems model, attachment theories, and the nested model of trauma, amongst others.

This course is designed for beginning and intermediate-level dancers. The studio will be our laboratory for a semester-long exploration of applying contemporary dance concepts to a ballet practice to discover alternative approaches to ballet technique. Contemporary dance practices, such as release methods, floorwork, and somatic techniques, will activate strength, stamina, spatial awareness, alignment, and breath, which we will then bring to codified ballet barre and center work.

This course is for Div II and III students who are engaged in significant creative projects in dance, performance, or other embodied/interdisciplinary practices. Students should enter with a project in mind or underway. We will meet weekly to discuss and share tools for multiple stages of the creative process: goal-setting, planning, research, development, revising, and production/presentation. Students will share elements of works-in-process at regular intervals, and they will activate co-working methods and other structures of support.

This course is for Div II and III students who are engaged in significant creative projects in dance, performance, or other embodied/interdisciplinary practices. Students should enter with a project in mind or underway. We will meet weekly to discuss and share tools for multiple stages of the creative process: goal-setting, planning, research, development, revising, and production/presentation. Students will share elements of works-in-process at regular intervals, and they will activate co-working methods and other structures of support.

This course offers a survey of Critical Indigenous studies- transnational and transdisciplinary theorizing from a new and emerging generation of Indigenous scholars. As a field, Critical Indigenous studies makes crucial interventions in our collective understanding of colonialism, empire, race, gender, sexuality, identity, democracy, personhood, migration, environmental justice, human rights, and multiculturalism.

This introductory laboratory-intensive course will explore the process of doing scientific research in a molecular biology lab (which is relevant to many fields of science including neuroscience and other types of biomedical research). Students will learn numerous techniques in the lab, including DNA isolation, PCR, gel electrophoresis, restriction enzyme digests, cloning, and basic microscopy. Students will engage in a semester-long laboratory research project within a cancer biology gene cloning context.

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.

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.