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In this seminar, which is part of the Environments and Change Learning Collaborative, students will learn about the processes through which we seek out and acquire the resources needed for the infrastructure of our built environment. This course will provide students with analytical and representational tools from the earth sciences and the architectural discipline as a way to understand and communicate the climate, social, and economic imbalances and injustices intrinsic within our global resource chains.

Sculpture Mold Making and Cast

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This studio course introduces intermediate level sculpture and studio art concentrators to mold making and casting processes. Students will be exposed to a range of cast sculpture both historic and contemporary via books and slide lectures. Through assignments and independent work, students will explore the process of mold making and casting through a range of different materials including Plaster, concrete, silicone rubber and thermoplastics. Students will research historical and contemporary artists who utilize casting and present relevant work for class discussion.

Maxwellian Synthesis Lab

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Lab Section for PHYS 124

Maxwellian Synthesis

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In the mid-nineteenth century, completing nearly a century of work by others, Maxwell developed an elegant set of equations describing the dynamical behavior of electromagnetic fields. A remarkable consequence of Maxwell’s equations is that the wave theory of light is subsumed under electrodynamics. Moreover, we know from subsequent developments that the electromagnetic interaction largely determines the structure and properties of ordinary matter. This course will begin with Coulomb’s Law but will quickly introduce the concept of the electric field.