The intent of this course is to provide a supportive space for female students to acquire hands-on fabrication shop skills. Students will be introduced to the basic tools, equipment, machinery and resources available through the Lemelson Center. We will cover basic elements of design and project planning. Students will be expected to participate in discussions of their own and each other's work.

This course will familiarize the student with some of the basic creative applications of electronics. A central element in this process will be examining and modifying common electronic devices. This approach focuses on the physical and functional aspects of electronics and encourages an understanding of application through hands on experience rather than a study of theory. This also encourages the student to look to pre existing devices for artistic materials rather than building everything from scratch.

This introductory theatre course on directing uses material from students' personal and communal history as a starting point to learn the basic craft of story-telling. Through working from a deeply personal place, students will explore how to use space and time to engage with an audience. Major topics include: form, text, staging principles and composition, entrances and exits, the public and private space, and character development. Multidisciplinary work is encouraged.

Foundation Studio is a course designed to introduce students to the materials, techniques, language, concepts and process of making, using and thinking/talking about Art. Unlike many other art courses, Foundations is an experience where learning comes not only from the projects and their results but also from the interaction among the entire group of students. Your actions, opinions, and participation, and those of your fellow students, are an important part of your art experience and learning.

This course is designed to support graduate level students, who are preparing for the role of teacher at the elementary education level, in acquiring an understanding of principles and practices underlying the creation of an inclusive learning environment for all students in the regular classroom. Adaptations to the curriculum and in the delivery of instruction which will enable all children, regardless of their learning strengths and needs, to reach their potential and achieve the goals and objectives as outlined with the general education curriculum, will be presented and discussed.

A wide-ranging introduction to the ways people shape the world they live in. We will study the themes and concepts of human geography through the current issues and large questions which guide them. Lectures and reading will focus on the geographic aspects of cultural diversity, population issues, states vs. nations, the global economy, development, urbanization and the human transformation of the earth. We will cover major subdivisions of human geography including cultural geography, population geography, economic geography, social geography, urban geography and political geography.

This course is designed to teach students to utilize open educational and public domain resources to create, edit, and deliver content for learning and instruction.

Still Photography Workshop I: Black and White Analog-Medium/Large Format: This course emphasizes three objectives: first, the acquisition of basic photographic skills, including composition, exposure, processing, and printing in the black and white darkroom; second, familiarity with historical and contemporary movements in photography and the development of visual literacy; third, the deepening and expanding of a personal way of seeing. This course will be taught using medium and large format cameras. Cameras will be available through media services.

This course teaches the basic skills of film production, including camera work, sound recording, editing, and preparation and completion of a finished work in film and video. Students will submit weekly written responses to theoretical and historical readings and to screenings of films and videotapes that represent a variety of aesthetic approaches to the moving image. There will be a series of filmmaking assignments culminating in an individual final project for the class. The development of personal vision will be stressed.

This course will focus on live-ness in time-based media. The thematic focus of the seminar will critically engage issues of presence, process, technology, the body, and site. Of importance is the nature of video as an immediate, electronic technology as it engages with both performance and installation. This is a rigorous theory/practice workshop class designed specifically for upper division students.