Senior Practicum functions as a capstone course that prepares students to present their artwork formally in the professional world. The course emphasizes the development of presentation skills through group critiques. Students will also be acquainted with procedures for application and admission to residency, internship, and graduate programs. The practicum may include how to document artwork through photography, build a digital portfolio/website, give presentations, write artist's statements, and pursue professional opportunities in art.

Concentration on individual artistic development. Emphasis will be placed on experimentation, thematic development, and critical review. Students may elect to take this course more than once.

In class we will work from the figure, the landscape, and masterworks/appropriated imagery. Students will be asked to approach these subjects using relatively unfamiliar painterly methods, hopefully opening new avenues to explore within their work. Students will be asked to further elaborate upon discoveries made in class through independent work, while continuing to consider issues such as scale, surface, mark, space, and light.

This course is an investigation into the fundamentals of drawing for costume and set design, with illustration of visual ideas as the focus. Topics will include figure drawing, garment, fabric, and texture rendering for the purposes of costume design, and scale and perspective drawing of objects and environments for set design. Various media will be explored including pencil, paint, and mixed media collage.

This course will approach the study of violence through a variety of perspectives and mediums. We will set out understand the relationship and interaction between biology, culture and aggression. How do individuals, groups and institutions use and legitimize violence? How has violence been used throughout history to establish, maintain and subvert power? In the course we will examine many forms of violence including political, symbolic and everyday violence. We will also explore the costs and consequences of violence on health, community and culture.

Deep brain stimulation, genome sequencing, regenerative medicine...Exploring practices of 'participatory governance' of emerging technologies, we will examine the formal and informal involvement of citizens, patients, health professionals, scientists and policy makers. What initiatives exist at local, national and transnational levels to foster science literacy? How do lived experiences of nationality, ability, class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality become visible and/or disappear within constructed frameworks of participatory governance?

This seminar course in anthropology takes the body, understood as a social and cultural construction, as its central object of analysis. The course will draw on the literature on the anthropology of the body and on embodiment to provide a set of theoretical tools to apply in our exploration of relevant topics, issues, and ethnographic case studies.

Health is about bodies, selves and politics. We will explore a series of health topics from feminist perspectives. How do gender, sexuality, class, disability, and age influence the ways in which one perceives and experiences health and the access one has to health information and health care? Are heteronormativity, cissexism, or one's place of living related to one's health status or one's health risk?

This course provides an overview of the fundamental principles of physical chemistry with an emphasis on their application to the study of biological molecules and processes. Topics will include quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Discussion of applications will relate commonly used experimental techniques -- such as spectroscopy and calorimetry -- to the fundamental principles on which they are based. In addition, students will gain experience and confidence in the use of mathematical models to describe biochemical systems.