This course encourages students to explore potential career goals by understanding and bridging the gap between their own expectations, values, skills and interests and how employers will view students and their experience upon graduation. The course is designed to guide students through career self assessment, to solidify practical skills and knowledge concerning conducting a successful job search, and to incorporate social networking and informational interviewing skills. Resume and cover letter writing, interviewing and salary negation will be included.

This course will examine the role of the exotic in nineteenth-century French narrative works. We will explore various aesthetic and epistemological functions of exoticism and the problems and paradoxes it raises in its evolution as a romantic, realist and decadent topos. We will pay particular attention to the problems of representing difference and the unknown, the role of the exoticizing gaze with respect to subjectivity and nineteenth-century discourses of identity

This seminar aims to introduce and expand knowledge of the environmental social sciences. Students will be exposed to a wide range of theoretical and (inter-)disciplinary approaches to understanding and conducting research on humans and the environment through directed readings and seminar discussions.

The focus of this class is on the immediacy of the monotype, a crossover discipline combining skills of drawing, painting, and printmaking in independent projects involving a sustained inquiry into self selected themes.
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This course will focus on the immediacy of the art of the monotype, a cross over discipline that combines skills of Drawing and painting with printmaking.