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.

This course will take an interdisciplinary approach (historical, cultural and geopolitical) to study the complex and contested reality of Cuba. Why does this small island nation fascinate, annoy, inspire and disturb so much of the rest of the world? Displacing images of Cuba circulating in US popular and official culture, we examine the constructions of race, gender, and sexuality that have uniquely defined the Cuban nation.

Built environments reflect prevailing social priorities. At times, they are also useful in challenging those priorities and demonstrating the possibility of new and more equitable social and economic relationships. This course examines historical and contemporary examples of urban planning and creative place-making that intentionally employ the built environment to help address social issues, educate, support new social relationships, or actively foster social imaginaries through experimentation with alternative ways of living and working.

Students often approach the field of psychology with a desire to both understand themselves and to help alleviate the suffering of others. Many are also motivated by a desire to work towards social justice. Yet psychology and the mental health disciplines, along with their myriad forms of inquiry and intervention, are inextricably entangled with current social and political arrangements.