This is an introductory level design class that will begin with a series of guided activities and culminate in a final independent project. Students will become familiar with a range of basic design tools and skills, such as drawing, model making and prototyping in materials such as cardboard, metal and plastic. We will also consider aesthetics, manufacturability and usability of the objects we create. Throughout the course students will work towards improving visual communication skills and the ability to convey ideas.

This course will explore methods of teaching art to children in grades K-12. In this class, students will plan lessons, units of study and hands-on activities while learning theoretical and practical approaches relevant to the teaching of visual art. Working in groups and individually, students will apply creative and critical thinking to explore structured as well as experimental approaches to teaching art. Students will observe and participate in art teaching situations.

The intent of this course is to provide a supportive space for female students to acquire hands-on fabrication shop skills. Students will be introduced to the basic tools, equipment, machinery and resources available through the Lemelson Center. We will cover basic elements of design and project planning. Students will be expected to participate in discussions of their own and each other's work.

What is presence on stage? And how does an actor manifest it? This course examines the work of the actor through a hands-on, experiential approach, focusing on the body, voice, and imagination. The course begins with an exploration of the body, and how one's physical form can be both a text and a jumping off point to create visual poetry on stage. We will then move to naturalistic scenes as a way to develop tools of text analysis, character development, and receiving and sending action.

In this course fundamental sculptural ideas will be introduced in relation to the development of fabrication skills in a range of media including clay, wood, plaster, steel, and concrete. Student generated imagery in sculpture will foster discussions around representation, abstraction, the body, technology, public art, and installation art. Readings, image lectures, visiting artists and group critiques will further establish a creative and critical environment for the development of independent work in three dimensions.

This course will familiarize the student with some of the basic creative applications of electronics. A central element in this process will be examining and modifying common electronic devices. This approach focuses on the physical and functional aspects of electronics and encourages an understanding of application through hands on experience rather than a study of theory. This also encourages the student to look to pre existing devices for artistic materials rather than building everything from scratch.

Designers, choreographers, and performers frequently face a traditional empty space or, as is often the case, face a nontraditional space and then question how to "fill" or design within it. What elements help create the functionality and appropriateness of a performance space? We will explore a variety of spaces, western, non-western, traditional, non-traditional, and the "performers" who use or have used them.

This course will explore the work of scholars, essayists, and creative writers in order to use their prose as models for our own. We'll analyze scholarly explication and argument, and we'll appreciate the artistry in our finest personal essays and short fiction. Students will complete a series of critical essays in the humanities and natural sciences and follow with a personal essay and a piece of short fiction. Students will have an opportunity to submit their work for peer review and discussion; students will also meet individually with instructor.

This class is intended to be about, to further, your own work, what it is, what you plan with and through it, what you want it to be, both as it relates to your beginning Division Three projects, as well as to your general orientations as image-makers and-thinkers. It will be primarily up to you, therefore, to generate your visual production for the class - the work for it, that is to say, should extend from your own motivations and inspirations.

This class calls into question genre specificity and thematic orientation and instead examines the constructs and the philosophical tenets of work. Through independent work in multiple media - including drawing, painting, and basic printmaking, as well as performance, sculpture, installation - students will call into question value structures and assumptions of work in an individual artistic practice.