The dramatic increase in transnational migrations has prompted new debates over globalization, diversity, and human rights. In these debates, the fate of migrants is defined by competing visions of them as pawns or pioneers, as passive victims or driven agents. This course explores the key role played by film in such representations, comparing and contrasting film to ethnography as a way to relate migrant experiences and understand migration.

This course provides students with conceptual, theoretical, technical, and historical information and experiences in sculpture at the advanced level. Materials, which may include clay, wood, steel, lightweight concrete, and found objects, will be incorporated within a series of compounding independent projects. The primary issues surrounding sculptural objects and installations in contemporary art will be addressed. Designed for upper Division II and Division III levels.

In this advanced course students will develop a portfolio of drawings in response to issues in abstract art. Through the completion of multiple drawings a week, students will produce a large, personal and informed investigation of abstract imagery. Readings, slide lectures, group critiques and a field trip to an area museum will provide a context for independent work. One session each week will be devoted to the production and discussion of the independent project.

Is it possible to completely eliminate negative environmental impact of the everyday things we buy with careful design? We will learn about where raw materials come from, how they are used in manufacture, and how they are disposed of. We will investigate alternative materials or design approaches that may result in less waste. Students will then choose one consumer product to investigate; how it was made, the source of its components and materials, and what typically happens typically upon disposal.

2015 saw an unprecedented movement of people migrating from wars and poverty into Europe. This course will explore media reports, personal narratives, novels and films to fertilise imaginative grasp of the conditions of disenfranchisement, marginalization and survival that make people leave home. Examining the arc of social realities impacting people from North Africa and the Middle East we will explore complexities of their migrations, asylum quest, experiencing of displacement - and challenges and uncertainties of striving to reach re-anchoring in unfamiliar places and foreign cultures.

In this class students will strive to develop affordable and effective equipment paired with business models with the goal of adding value to agricultural products in Asia and Africa, or more locally. Technologies may include grain threshing, seed harvesting, food drying and fermentation. Students will learn how invention and technology fits with economic development. Students will learn basic principles of design and prototyping innovations, as well as social enterprise models for sustainability and dissemination.

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 through 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, Latex rubber, Urethane rubber and thermoplastics. Prerequisite: Intro to Sculpture or Object & Environment.

This is a research course for intellectuals who are artists and artists who are intellectuals. The course has two goals. (First) To understand the Nineteen Twenties in America as an era whose excesses and preoccupations were nothing but a dance of death performed at the edge of a mass grave containing the bodies of seven million soldiers, and fifty million civilians, killed during the pandemic that followed the war.

This course will explore the creation and ethics of documentary drama. Concentrating on contemporary American repertory, students will read and analyze the works of Peter Weiss, Anna Deavere Smith, Eve Ensler, Ping Chong and The Tectonic Theater Project amongst others. Students will also have the opportunity to research, edit and perform oral histories and historical documents, learning first hand the responsibilities of representing a "real" story on stage.