PROJECTS IN INSTALLATION I

This is a course that 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, 173, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

GREAT CITIES

Topics course. Urban and architectural history of London, from its founding as a garrison town in Roman antiquity to its growth into a megalopolis in the 19th and 20th centuries. Jealous of its jurisdictional independence from the crown and surrounding communities, the Corporation of London determined, for better and worse, the city's historical development and continues to play a role in its controversial present. The image of London in literature and works of art of all types is invoked and analyzed throughout. Group II

COLQ:MAKING/MODERN VISUAL CULT

Topics course. This course traces the historical origins of the image-saturated world of today, examining the evolution of philosophical and scientific ideas about visual perception and the development of visual technologies and practices that laid the foundations for modern spectacular society. As such, the course introduces students to a broad range of nonartistic imagery and vernacular visual practices, from postcards to people watching.

COLQ:MONSTERS/MARVELS/MED ART

Topics course. Dog-headed, chest-faced, one-footed, the "monstrous races" were believed to dwell at the edges of the known world. By lack, excess, or hybrid permutations, they unsettled the boundaries between the human, the animal, and the monstrous, opening up a creative space for the deployment of the marvelous, written as well as visual. Broad questions about cultural identity and alterity are examined through the prism of case studies that draw on a broad range of sources, from illuminated manuscripts, sculpted works, world maps to encyclopedias and travel accounts. (E)

INT/ART HST:WEST/TRAD/1500-PRE

This course examines the Western traditions in painting, sculpture and architecture from circa 1500, with an emphasis on Florence, Rome (the High Renaissance) and Venice, and in Northern Europe, through the 17th century (Baroque) in Southern and Northern Europe and the 18th century (Rococo) in Northern Europe, to the Age of the Enlightenment, Neo-classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism, etc., to the rise of Modernism and Modernity in the 20th century (Europe and the United States of America), and concluding with the contemporary period. Enrollment limit of 50 students.

ART AND ITS HISTORIES

This course explores how art and architecture have profoundly shaped visual experiences and shifting understandings of past and present. While featuring different case studies, each section includes work with original objects, site visits, and writings about art.

MODERN AMERICAN WRITING

Major writers of the 1909 to 1940 period, with emphasis on modernism and the desire to "make it new." Innovative fiction by Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald and Zora Neale Hurston. Modernist poetry by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Edna Millay, Robert Frost and others.

ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS

Modern civilization relies profoundly on efficient production, management and consumption of energy. Thermodynamics is the science of energy transformations involving work, heat and the properties of matter. Engineers rely on thermodynamics to assess the feasibility of their designs in a wide variety of fields including chemical processing, pollution control and abatement, power generation, materials science, engine design, construction, refrigeration and microchip processing.

CIRCUIT THEORY

Analog and digital circuits are the building blocks of computers, medical technologies and all things electrical. This course introduces both the fundamental principles necessary to understand how circuits work and mathematical tools that have widespread applications in areas throughout engineering and science. Topics include: Kirchhoff's laws, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, superposition, responses of first-order and second-order networks, time-domain and frequency-domain analyses, frequency-selective networks. Corequisites PHY 210. Required laboratory taken once a week.

DEV LANG SKILLS/DEAF CHILDREN

Principles and techniques used in development of language with deaf children. Consideration is given to traditional and modern approaches to language development as it applies to reading and writing as well as spoken language. Strategies for developing reading and written language skills, the use of expository text to develop language skills, as well as formal and informal assessment, and using information from evaluations to develop an Individual Education Program are discussed.
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