This course is a behind-the-scenes introduction to the roles archives and archivists play in our understanding of the past. Taught in Smith's archives by our own archivists, this seven-week series includes topics such as processing and curating, preservation, oral history, archives in the digital age, legal issues and donor relations. Requirement include active participation in class, weekly readings, and short written assignments. This course serves as a gateway for students in the Archives Concentration. Graded S/U only.

This course explores a rotating selection of themes in the built environment, with strong emphasis on interdisciplinary work. Topics may include the role of technology within the built environment, vernacular architecture and landscapes, the role of context in its many forms, urban design and planning, architectural theory and practice, material culture methods or other themes. Prerequisites: ARS 283, ARS 285 (or equivalent LSS studio) and two art history courses, or permission of the instructor. This course may be repeated for credit with a different topic. Enrollment limited to 12.

Painting from models, still life and landscape using varied techniques and conceptual frameworks. A required fee of $25 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Prerequisites: ARS 266 and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of photography as an expressive medium. Prerequisite: ARS 162, 172 or permission of the instructor. Each section involves either traditional film and darkroom photography or a combination of darkroom and digital processes. A required fee of $75 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Enrollment limited to 15 per section.

This course introduces students to different installation strategies (e.g., working with multiples, found objects, light, site-specificity, among others). Coursework includes a series of projects, critiques, readings and a paper. A required fee of $25 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Prerequisite: ARS 164, 172 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

An introduction to intaglio printmaking, particularly etching and drypoint. A required fee of $75 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Prerequisite: ARS 161, 162, 163, 172, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

This course builds working knowledge of multimedia digital artwork through experience with a variety of software, focusing on video and time-based media. A required fee of $75 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Students may require additional supplies as well and are responsible for purchasing them directly. (No prerequisite required.)

An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of drawing. A required fee of $25 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Enrollment limited to 18.

Topics course. How does conquest by foreigners change the ways that images, civic spaces and objects are created and used? What kinds of hybrids does colonization produce? Is it possible to describe what is "colonial" about art or architecture? Focusing on recent scholarship, this seminar addresses these queries, highlighting the 16th?19th centuries.

A survey of photography, photographers and the literature of photography. Consideration of the formal, technical, historical and social factors in the development and practice of photography since 1839. Group B.