Poverty action and alleviation are terms that have been used in relation to how we imagine engaging with the so-called "Third World." This course seeks to analytically engage with poverty practices utilizing different models and paradigms of poverty alleviation around the world. Furthermore, the investigation of poverty alleviation will be situated within a larger historical context of 20th and 21st century international development.

This course will explore the work of scholars, essayists, and creative writers in order to use their prose as models for our own. We'll analyze scholarly explication and argument, and we'll appreciate the artistry in our finest personal essays and short fiction. Students will complete a series of critical essays in the humanities and natural sciences and follow with a personal essay and a piece of short fiction. Students will have an opportunity to submit their work for peer review and discussion; students will also meet individually with the instructors.

This course is an upper level theory and research seminar geared towards students in the Division III/senior thesis process, or in the final semester of Division II. This course has two primary purposes: 1) to provide a supportive and stimulating intellectual community in which students will produce and refine their independent project, write a working outline, and understand the state of the research on their project. 2) to explore the turn to the archive in the humanities and the arts.

The focus of this course is the development of a semester-long photographic project. In this class students will acquire the skills needed to create and sustain long-term bodies of work. Students will learn to plan, research and edit, write artist statements, and through rigorous critiques, refine their ideas with the aim of effectively conveying complex narratives through images. Artist visits and presentations will further acquaint students with contemporary photographic practice and the possibilities of long-form photographic work.

In this seminar students will pursue advanced independent dance research and writing projects supported by a community of fellow student scholars. In class we will first consider contexts for this work by surveying in broad strokes the terrain of dance scholarship to register past and current interests, questions and debates. We'll note prominent and missing voices, and key professional organizations and journals. We'll also briefly review the history of dance's climb into higher education, and imagine the future of dance studies.

The Division II Projects class provides an opportunity for Division II students in film, photography, video, and related media who wish to pursue their own work to create at least one completed new project for inclusion in the Division II portfolio. Throughout the semester, each student is required to present his or her work in it's various stages of development to their small groups. The members of the class will provide critical, technical and production support for one another. Prior to joining the class, students must have some level of mastery over their medium.

In her 1924 essay "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown," Virginia Woolf observed, "On or about December 1910, human character changed." Drawing inspiration from Woolf's famous phrase, this course focuses on modes of redescribing personhood in the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, placing their writings in the larger context of British culture between the First and Second World Wars.

This course will foster the growth of independent voice and projects for Studio Arts concentrators in the late stages of Division II. As a preparation for sustained Division III work, students will cultivate methodologies and practices around consistently making, presenting, and honing work outside of the assignment paradigm. Select readings and discussions about what it means to be a studio artist in the 21st Century will complement regular group and partner critiques. Throughout the semester, students will develop work in whatever media, method, and approach they choose.

This is a composition course that will also survey the history, theory, and practice of electro-acoustic music. The course will introduce the musical, technical, and theoretical issues of electro-acoustic music, broadly construed to include the Classical avant-garde, Electronica, DJ culture, Re-mixes, Ambient, etc. Digital recording, editing, and mixing will be covered using the Audacity and ProTools programs. Students will also work with sampling techniques using Ableton Live and mixing skills with ProTools. Other topics to be covered include basic acoustics and synthesis techniques.

Countless scholars have discussed the ideologies communicated through media texts, but most persist in privileging their own analytical interpretations. In this course students will explore various theorizations of audiences, methodologies employed to study them, and results of how audiences interpret films, advertisements, television programs, and other cultural texts. We will also seek to better understand why people make radically different meanings of the same texts.