Course taught in French. Practice with the four skills: reading, writing, understanding, and speaking. Readings of contemporary plays, short stories, journal articles. Frequent short written exercises. Review of grammar as questions arise. Suitable for students planning to continue beyond the 240 level. Prerequisite: FRENCHST 230 or equivalent. Note: Students in 246 need not take this course. This course completes the CHFA Language Requirement.

This studio course explores the creative possibilities of code-based art, from art games to interactivity. Students explore interactive narratives and games using both analog and digital processes. This course examines rules, structuring interactive narratives and digital play in general. Skills learned in this class can be applied to a variety of programming languages and softwares. Lectures, discussions, and demonstrations provide a conceptual, aesthetic and technical foundation in code-based art as a creative practice.

In this course, you will be introduced to a variety of techniques and forms of stop motion animation as used in fine art animation and experimental film/video. Through short exercises and longer projects, you will gain hands-on experience with frame-by-frame stop motion animation, set design, armature fabrication, lighting, basic cinematography, sound design, and audio & visual editing. Emphasis is placed on creativity, conceptual development, and dynamic movement.

In this course, you will be introduced to a variety of techniques and forms of stop motion animation as used in fine art animation and experimental film/video. Through short exercises and longer projects, you will gain hands-on experience with frame-by-frame stop motion animation, set design, armature fabrication, lighting, basic cinematography, sound design, and audio & visual editing. Emphasis is placed on creativity, conceptual development, and dynamic movement.

Climate change affects everyone, but Black, Indigenous, and low-income populations are especially vulnerable to its impact. These populations have also led the efforts to combat climate change by protesting capitalist extraction, building food sovereignty and leading ecological restoration projects. This course centers Indigenous and Black climate action, especially efforts to restore traditional, anti-capitalist and decolonial practices of land and water stewardship, fishing and farming.

A survey of plays written in the 21st century from a dramaturgical perspective – i.e., how the play is constructed – and a discussion of the cultural, political and artistic context in which they were written. Students learn the fundamentals and vocabulary of dramaturgical analysis. Playwrights studied may include: SuzanLori Parks, David Henry Hwang, Kristoffer Diaz, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Paula Vogel, Martyna Majok, Jackie Sibblies Drury and Sanaz Toossi. Enrollment limited to 18.

Epidemiology concerns the distribution and determinants of disease in human populations, while biostatistics focuses on the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology, medicine and public health. This course focuses on foundational concepts in epidemiology, including measures of association and common epidemiological study designs, and statistical methods for public health data.