Climate change is currently causing sea levels to rise globally. How and why does sea level change over time? What is driving the current acceleration in sea level rise and what might happen in the future? How does earth structure and gravity impact regional sea level change? In this course we will discuss the science of how and why sea level changes, how sea level rise is impacting coastlines around the world, and what can be done to address it. This discussion-based seminar will cover peer-reviewed articles on sea level dynamics and interactive datasets.

Personal Cinema is an intermediate course in which students will study and make films/videos/writings in which the maker holds a distinct presence. They will study the history and form of essay film,personal documentary,diary and travelogue.Students will build up and make use of personal archives towards the development of their individual creative voices.They will engage with in-class screenings,discussions,individual projects and technical demos.Students will be polled at the start of the semester around what intermediate technical instruction they are most interested in this semester.

Film 1 is a hands-on introduction to 16mm filmmaking with an emphasis on experimental and exploratory film techniques. Through a series of class exercises and individual assignments, students explore 16mm non-synchronous production, basic lighting, analog film editing techniques and early film history. The emphasis of this class is on the student finding a personal means of expression using the film medium Keywords:Film,analogue,Experimental,Bolex

Our dreams are a place where the impossible can happen, opposites can collide and both reality and time can be subverted. In this class, students will keep an active dream journal which will serve as a source of creative inspiration for the development of different forms of time-based work. Our course content will include technical demos, readings, discussions, screenings and critiques as we also study the historical and contemporary impact that dreams have made on makers of time-based work. This course will provide students with an introduction to working with video in Adobe Premiere Pro.

This course introduces the role of political and sociocultural factors in appropriate, effective and ethical counseling, and in mental health more broadly. This is a theoretical, practical and experiential course that will focus on expanding awareness of your own values and biases; developing critical thinking and awareness of differing experiences and worldviews; and increasing your sensitivity to how sociocultural identities influence prospective clients and others.

What motivates students to challenge and rebel against their institutions? This course explores student organizing in US colleges and universities, with a focus on several recent movements (e.g., Black Lives Matter, Palestinian solidarity) as well as earlier foundational ones. While examining specific movements, we will also seek to understand the experience of student protest and some of the broader historical dynamics of these movements in the US.

When Joe Biden was asked in 2019, at a campaign stop in Iowa, how many genders there are, he stumbled on a compelling response: "There are at least three." Beginning from this premise-from the indeterminacy of the "at least" and its refusal of a certain taxonomy-we will read from various trajectories of trans literature and theory and engage whalct it means to read "difference" in literary accounts of trans.

What is the idea of the University and how did we materially find ourselves here? What, or who, is the University for? The University, as we now know it, is a place of immense contradiction: supposedly sites of nationalist or cultural cohesion, but also, as Bill Readings has shown, empty signifiers for "excellence." Places where we might theorize queer horizons, but, at the same time, institutions that have financial investments in anti-queer industries like weapons, prisons, and dispossessive technologies.

This course interrogates the "how" of qualitative social science research, as we explore the practical, theoretical, and ethical questions that shape the ways qualitative researchers gather information to make claims about the world. We will build a toolbox for both understanding and conducting major methods in qualitative research with keen critical perspective, engaging questions of power, identity, play, and de/coloniality.