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 development of individual artistic methods and goals. 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, editing, sound recording, 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, which 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.

How does language produce "meaning" and when does language "slip" and/or "fail"? Why do certain words and images affect, attract, or repel entire populations and leave others indifferent? When does language create difference and become an instrument of power? What ideological functions does it serve in colonial and neocolonial contexts?

This course will examine the life and teachings of influential Asian spiritual leaders in the West such as J. Krishnamurti, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh. In addition, our examination will also extend to well-known American spiritual teachers trained in Eastern traditions including Ken Wilber, and Tara Brach. The course will discuss a number of important issues pertaining to Asian spiritual traditions in the West such as the counterculture movement of 1960s, western therapy culture, spiritual materialism and the New Age movement. This is a reading-intensive course.

This is the second part of a year-long course in which we will continue to examine "world cinema" as a concept that is productive while studying film history but also one that needs to be critically examined. This course explores how cinema has been "global" from the very beginning, becoming a popular form of entertainment simultaneously in several countries, making worlds visible, and staging intercultural encounters.

Political Philosophy in the twentieth century features a reaction to the dominant liberalism of the 16th to the 19th centuries. At its heart, lie challenges to notions of subjectivity, borders, sovereignty, and membership. These challenges range from philosophers on the far left to the far right, and are core to the issues that we face today internationally as well as in the U.S. Is it the case, for example,that human rights should be restricted to those who are legalcitizens of a country?

SS 272 Global War on Terror The events following the attacks of September 11, 2001 were as shocking as the events of the actual day. The U.S. Attorney General's office created a new architecture for the way we treat suspected terrorists: Numerous anti-terrorism, surveillance, communications laws, material support statutes, and immigration restrictions, were passed. Various constitutional protections thought to be extended to all persons alike--citizens, legal residents, visitors, undocumented residents-were restricted.

This course focuses on the political, economic, ideological, social and cultural dimensions of South Asian migration to the United States as a case study for investigating processes of U.S. racial formation. In particular, we will unpack both the "exceptionality" of elite migration form South Asia (the "model minority") and the post-9/11 category of South Asian/Arab/Muslim within the larger context of South Asian diaspora (hi)stories.

This seminar will track the case of Boumediene v. Bush from the filing of the initial writ of habeas corpus to the Supreme Court's decision. The course will explore the anatomy of a constitutional/human rights litigation in uncharted legal waters, including the conflict over the correct legal frameworks to apply-law of war, international human rights law, U.S. criminal law. The course will also review the use of torture at Guantanamo and the practices that were then exported to Abu Ghraib.

This course is a combination of two distinct but related areas of study: studio art and mathematics. Students will be actively engaged in the design and fabrication of 3 dimensional models that deal directly with aspects of mathematics. The class will include an introduction to basic building techniques with a variety of tools and media. At the same time each student will pursue an intensive examination of a particular-individual-theme within studio art practice. The mathematical projects will be pursued in small groups. The studio artwork will be done individually.