This course will explore the creation and ethics of documentary drama. Concentrating on contemporary American repertory, students will read and analyze the works of Peter Weiss, Anna Deavere Smith, Eve Ensler and The Tectonic Theater Project amongst others. Students will also have the opportunity to research, edit and perform oral histories and historical documents, learning first hand the responsibilities of representing a 'real' story on stage.

Struggles for equity in education have always been central to African-American strategies for advancement. African-American ideas about how to make educational equity a reality, however, have varied greatly over time. This course seeks to examine how various issues in African-American education have evolved throughout the twentieth Century. The class will begin with pivotal struggles to create educational opportunities out of the turbulent political terrain of the reconstruction period. We will consider key themes in African-American educational history.

This seminar examines the different themes and issues related to Asian/Pacific/American (APA) Studies. Topics include racism, empire, gender, sexuality, and immigration. Additionally, students will learn about the rise of the APA Studies as a field of learning and the history of different APA communities. Textbook is required, as well as, attendance, discussions, and individual or group projects. A trip to either Boston's or New York's Chinatown is also scheduled. No previous knowledge of APA Studies is required.

Rather than just showing you how to take good photos, this course will challenge you to investigate, through practice, how photographic images "make" meaning. Project-based assignments allow for developing personal content while advancing technical skills. Lab sessions will introduce current digital workflow practices including image capture, color management, digital darkroom software techniques, asset management and archival inkjet printing.

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.

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 for expression, and we will apply black studies, queer theory and practice, feminism, and media activism as a lens and sounding board in relation to issues of representation, spectatorship, identification, production, and distribution.

This course is the second semester of Intermediate Spanish. Students enrolled should have taken IA/LS-201 or the equivalent and be able to use the present, future, preterit, imperfect tenses, command forms and present subjunctive with some fluency. This course will solidify grammatical structures of Spanish through activities that practice all four skill areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Attention will be given to more sophisticated use of the subjunctive and compound tenses.

This course is the first semester of Intermediate Spanish. Students enrolled in this course should have taken IA/LS-0102 or the equivalent and be able to use the present, future, preterit, imperfect tenses with some fluency and have a working knowledge of the present subjunctive. This course, taught entirely in Spanish, is designed to reinforce grammatical structures introduced in Elementary Spanish through activities that practice all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Attention is given to using command forms and the present subjunctive.

This course is the second semester of Elementary Spanish and students enrolled in this course should have taken IA/LS-0101 or the equivalent. This class is taught entirely in Spanish and focuses on speaking and using Spanish. Students entering this level should be able to use the present, future (ir+a+infinitive) and preterit with some fluency and accuracy.

This two-semester seminar discusses, theorizes, and illuminates the importance of oral history (the recording of life experiences) for silenced communities alienated from prevailing historical discourses. Oral history allows us to look at history from "below," to acquire "new ways of seeing," and to delineate new epistemologies. Some of the questions that guided the course include: Who makes history? Why have certain individuals been studied while others ignored?