This class will explore issues of social justice through theatre and examine the intersection of art and activism. We will explore how to direct theatrical experiences that open up complex discussions on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, among other markers of identity and social location. Through multiple and varied dramatic structures, including but not exclusively narrative and traditional plays, we will create ways of engaging an audience into larger conversations that affect our world.

This course will focus on American presidential elections and try to understand not only their impact on people living at the time, but how our understanding of them continues to shape our present politics. We will look at contemporary and historical interpretations of elections in scholarship, journalism, film, fiction, and other media. We will pay special attention to the treatment of historically significant elections and to coverage of the 2016 elections. Students will be expected to produce a substantial portfolio of essays and journalism.

This course can be summed up as: everything you wanted to know about aliens but were afraid to ask (a scientist). The course will explore the topic of extraterrestrial intelligence from the perspective of several different fields. We will look at the history of UFO sighting claims and analyze the reliability of eye-witness testimonies, explore psychological & sociological reasons behind claims of alien abductions, and analyze the current state of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) from the perspective of astronomy and planetary research.

Photo I is an introduction to analogue B&W photography. In this class we will cover basic camera and darkroom skills, including the use of medium and large format cameras, exposing and developing film, and making traditional 8x10 silver gelatin prints. In addition to acquiring a working knowledge of analogue techniques, the class will concentrate on how to critically read and interpret photographs by engaging in frequent critiques of student's work.

This course teaches the basic skills of 16mm film production, including camera work, editing, animation, optical printing and preparation for a finished work in film and video. Students will submit weekly written responses to theoretical and historical readings and to screenings of films and dvd's that represent a variety of aesthetic approaches to the moving image. There will be a series of filmmaking assignments culminating in a final project. The bulk of the work will be produced in 16mm format including a variety of ways to self process film or create cameraless moving images.

A critique and discussion-based seminar for Division III Visual Art concentrators, this class will focus on the process and progress of art making. Students will be encouraged to think about their work in the larger context of their disciplines, society, place and history. Students will articulate their ars poetica orally through presentations and in writing artists statements, bios, art resumes and work documentation.

This seminar is designed for students pursuing a Division III project related to childhood, youth, or learning, and is appropriate for students whose primary work is in any of the five schools. We will begin the semester by considering assumptions, perspectives, and methodologies involved in different disciplinary approaches to work related to childhood, young people, and/or education. The remainder of the course will involve students' presentations of works in progress, peer editing and feedback, and sharing strategies for completing large independent projects.

In this advanced seminar we will use poetry as a site of thinking about children and childhood. We will consider questions of power, perspective, and experience regarding children and adults, examine works primarily in 20th century American poetry, and explore poetry-writing in relation to thinking about children and childhood. Our goal will be to balance attention to questions about ideas with questions about creative form.

This history and writing seminar will explore different forms of personal narratives - historical memoirs, fiction, flims, and oral histories - interpreting American immigrant and migrant lives to examine critical historiographical issues in U.S. immigration history. Through reading seminal historical narratives along with award-winning novels and memoirs, we will investigate on-going construction of major issues in U.S.

In this course we will explore psychosis as a structure of human experience that gives voice to the inaudible and vision to the imperceptible. We will study psychosis and its insights into the human through the artistic work of those who have left a trace of their experience in visual works and writing. We will consider historic art by psychotic patients, and also look at "outsider artists" in modern and contemporary time.