This seminar will examine expressions of power in art and architecture across cultures in pre-modern East Asia, including the manipulation of images by ruling classes for purposes of propaganda and political legacy.

This course will explore the history of East Asian religious visual and material culture from ancient times to the early twentieth century, with an emphasis on the human body, face and relics and their visual representations as major agents in liturgical settings. The class explores the following topics; Buddhist relics, holy objects, reliquaries, and self-immolation practice; Confucian burial practice, ancestral worshipping, ancestral portraits; Taoist body-and-spirit cultivation and the practice of alchemy; and the cult of Mao Zedong during the Mao era (1949-1976).

Moshe Feldenkrais believed that "rigidity, mental or physical, is contrary to the laws of life." His system of somatic education develops awareness, flexibility, and coordination as students are verbally guided through precisely structured movement explorations. The lessons are done lying on the floor, sitting, or standing and gradually increase in range and complexity. Students are required to bring their full attention to their experience in order to develop their capacity for spontaneous, effortless action.

Admission for majors by permission of the department.

We will approach film history in terms of the representation of Slavery in film, both the technological innovation and the development of film language. While the 19th century is widely viewed as the century of the novel the 20th has been dominated by the rise of film as the force in public storytelling. What is the significance of the fact that the most widely read novel of the 19th and, in some ways, the most important film of the 20th century are both about slavery?

This interactive seminar for students selected to work as peer mentors with Hampshire's Transformative Speaking Program will provide an opportunity to help shape the work of a new discipline immerging at the intersections of education, politics, communications, philosophy, and critical social thought: peer mentoring in speaking.

Topics course. This course explores the art, architecture, history and theory of the German art school, the Bauhaus. Beginning with the school's origins during WWI, this course concentrates on the controversial development of the Bauhaus during the 1920s and 30s, and conclude with the Nazi closure and the consequent exile of many Bauhaus artists.

An introduction to artificial intelligence including an introduction to artificial intelligence programming. Topics covered include: game playing and search strategies; machine learning; natural language understanding; neural networks; genetic algorithms; evolutionary programming; philosophical issues. Prerequisites for CSC major credit: CSC 212, MTH 111 or permission of the instructor; otherwise, CSC 111 or permission of the instructor.

Video I is an introductory video production course. Over the course of the semester students will gain experience in pre-production, production and post-production techniques as well as learn to think and look critically about the making of the moving image. We will engage with video as a specific visual medium employed for the purposes of art, activism, social justice, community organizing predominantly by those outside of power taking hold of the means of production to make their voices and concerns heard.

Not available at this time.