This course serves as an introduction to sound design and explores the many ways that sound can be utilized to tell a story. Students will gain familiarity with the principles of sound design and common terminology used to describe sound. In this course we will practice relating audio to image and text. Throughout the course we will explore the role of sound design in the theater and break down the process a sound designer uses to get a design from the page to the stage.

This course explores the history, theory and current practice of video design in performance, film and fine art. We will explore projection as a time based, ephemeral medium and interrogate how the unique properties of video can aid in storytelling, particularly in conjunction with three-dimensional space. Students will gain proficiency in various video creation tools and will produce their own video project by the end of the semester.

Connectomics is an emerging neuroscience subfield that aims to make detailed synaptic connectivity maps of the entire brain. This course will provide a comprehensive overview of this growing field, and allow students to actively engage with actual volumetric connectomic datasets. Students will be guided through active learning exercises that explore these datasets using cutting edge software and tools. We will engage with brain volumes from several species, and we will highlight the similarities and differences between synaptic connectivity across organisms.

How much do we currently know about the symptoms of major depressive disorder? This course will take a deep dive into the risk factors, onset, underlying mechanisms, known treatments, and predicted treatments of several symptoms of major depression via a review of the neuroscience literature. We will also examine the roles of age, sex, gender, culture, environment, and species. This course will involve student-led discussions and presentations, as well as written summaries on various symptoms of major depression.

This course submits the language of law and legality to consideration as a literary genre. We will endeavor to treat the production of legal literature as a choice of form and part of a broad cultural apparatus that legitimizes hierarchical forms of social organization. In particular, we will track the manner in which the law assembles its legitimacy alongside the strategic positioning of blackness and Black people as oftentimes beyond its boundaries, while at other times central to its ethical operation.

"Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough," Flaubert once wrote, and to this we might add anyone-as every individual holds a universe of complexity and context. In this class, we will read and discuss texts across genres closely following a single character or individual; writers will take on a semester-long challenge interviewing and profiling people they know, as well as individuals they don't know, investigating and building a portfolio of work about and around them. We will focus on technique and craft: How does one conduct an interview?

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the planet, and it is intimately connected to uneven and inequitable social, political, economic, and environmental geographies. In this seminar course we explore climate justice with a lens on both climate science and critical geographies. Topics include greenhouse gas emissions, ongoing and projected future impacts; differential experiences and narratives of climate change; the ways that suggested climate solutions interface with social and economic difference and marginalization; and more-than-human geographies of climate change.

Linear algebra is one of the foundational areas of mathematics. Research from facial recognition and compressed sensing in applied math to deep results in pure math require advanced linear algebra. In addition, computer graphics, large language models, and linear models in statistics rely heavily on linear algebra techniques. Students in this course will learn the abstract mathematical ideas behind these applications, as well as gain experience with computational techniques in the field.

This class is designed to both introduce students to working with horses and provide guidelines for correct horsemanship with those that have prior experience. It will be unmounted with a focus on interactions with horses from the ground. Topics and activities will provide comfort and familiarity around horses, physical exercise through handling horse and stable tasks, learned movements, mindfulness of one's actions, and contemplation of horse behavior. Students will learn how to engage with horses to hone leadership skills and safe handling.

Neuroscience addresses big questions about the mind by studying the structure and function of the brain -- questions like: How do we remember, learn, and make decisions? Why do we feel emotions and experience consciousness? What causes mental illness? This increasingly means analyzing datasets that are large, complex, high dimensional, and time varying. Neural data analysis employs a unique set of concepts and approaches drawing on statistics, mathematics, physics, and computer science.