This introductory social psychology course will explore foundational theories and empirical research. Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think, feel, and behave in social contexts. Thus, class readings will draw heavily from original research articles, research reviews, and some text book excerpts. Many readings will require some basic knowledge of scientific methods. The course will address classic research on topics such as conformity and persuasion but also include recent research on the role of emotion regulation, implicit attitudes, and other topics.

This course is open to film, photography and video concentrators in Division III and others by consent of the instructor. The class will integrate the procedural and formal concentration requirements of the College with the creative work produced by each student. It will offer a forum for meaningful criticism, exchange, and exposure to each other. In addition, various kinds of group experience will be offered, including lectures and critiques by guest artists.

This seminar is concerned with the peculiarities of narrative worlds that refuse to reveal their secrets. Our reading strategies and storehouse of rhetorical techniques for revealing meaning often fail us as we are outdone by a fictional world that will not allow for "interpretation." We are unmade when our narrative resources cannot keep pace with the project of textual interpretation. How do we cope with the refusal of the text to reveal itself - even to the most adequate of readers? What happens to the act of reading when a text overwhelms its readers with information?

Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions : We travelled the Space Way, is an Advanced Seminar in Africana Studies for students working across disciplines. During this course we will address the work of scholars, writers, artists, musicians and cultural critics who engage critically, consciously, and creatively with questions of race, temporality, space, technology imagination, sci fi aesthetics and content, outer space, black history/presence/future and to mark their vision for afro future contemplation.

This course will focus on a wide range of topics in sound synthesis and music composition using the MAX/MSP/JITTER program. Students will undertake projects in interactive MIDI composition, algorithmic composition, additive and subtractive synthesis, waveshaping, AM/FM synthesis, and sampling. Other topics to be covered include SYSEX programming, sound analysis, theories of timbre, and concepts of musical time.

Contemporary Musical Practices: This course will engage the important compositional practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Students will compose music using post-tonal pitch systems, new scalar and chordal constructions, and expanded formal and textural possibilities. We will focus on the creation of new, non-traditional hierarchies within musical systems with regard to intervals, notions of consonance and dissonance, asymmetrical meters, non-metrical rhythm, and tuning.

This is a highly focused seminar for Division II students concentrating in filmmaking, video, photography, performance and installation and/or creating independent projects across these media as part of their Division 2 portfolio. The class provides a forum for meaningful critique and exchange around students' works-in-progress. All participants will be exposed to the complex processes each engage as they shape and complete their projects.

How does one sustain a life in the arts? While this question looms large for lovers of the arts, a host of other questions lurk just beneath the surface: How is success defined and redefined? Where are the points of entry and who are the gatekeepers? How do performance, making, educational, community-engaged, curatorial, and scholarly practices relate to one another and to the organizational structures that support them? What is the role of place?

Wonder is the energy that motivates us in the world. It is the first passion, according to Rene Descartes, and it has no opposite. This art history course explores the manifestations and meanings of wonder in the Renaissance and in modern times. We will first look at the rainbow, the perfect sign of wonder that links nature, the human form, and the desire to make sense of the world. Themes will then include New World exploration and discovery; marvels of collecting and the wunderkammer; and finally the creation of artificial life.

This course is structured around the tropes of comedic aesthetics: stand-up, slapstick, situations, puns, pratfalls, and pity. Taking aesthetic and thematic cues from comedians and funny situations rather than from a specific artistic medium or technique, students will utilize video, audio, photographs, diagrams, performance, and sculptural props to create and document new artworks that are informed by the aesthetics and practices of humor.