This course will encourage students to push their photographs beyond the digital realm and have them exist as tangible objects. Drawing on the conceptual significance of intentionality when it comes to digital output, students will be introduced to adjustment layers in Adobe Photoshop where they will edit their images and gain an understanding of digital workflow. Students will use Epson printers to create high quality prints from their existing image files and will have the chance to experiment with different paper textures and sizing options.

This course will explore the many facets of zine making and look into the contemporary LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC zine scenes. Students will learn how to sequence photographs to better suit a book format and gain a comfortable understanding of Adobe InDesign to digitally lay out their images for printing. Using inkjet and laser printers, students will experiment with different output methods and will gain knowledge on various binding techniques. Class time will consist of lectures, group discussions from assigned readings, in-class weekly assignments, and group critiques.

In this course, students will engage with mathematical modeling in two important ways: by learning to use existing models as powerful problem-solving tools and by developing their skills in creating their own models. The kind of models we examine are known as discrete dynamical systems, which are just models that specify mathematically how a quantity changes from one time step to the next. We develop such models in a variety of important contexts including populations and sustainability, infectious diseases, blood alcohol concentration, and ranking systems for sports teams or web searches.

Is race biological? Does the gendered brain exist? How are our social and natural sciences structured by social norms? How do our institutions of medicine, agriculture, technology, psychology, etc. function through and as colonial practices? We often take for granted that race and gender are socially constructed in terms of political meaning. In this course, we will learn to think about the social role in the construction of science and scientific claims through exploring the intersections and interplay of gender, race, sexuality, science and medicine.

This course employs an intersectional philosophical approach to the study of human sexuality. Specific topics include ethical, epistemological (knowledge), and political questions related to sexual orientation, lust, casual sex, adultery, love, sexual orientation and practice, different types of relationships, and the intersectionality of sexual identity and orientation with other identities such as race, gender, and disability status.

Animation is an art of transformation, of metamorphosis, of amalgamation. Animation is subversive, magical, and expansive. Animation is both anti-technology and hyper digital. In this course, students will be introduced to an array of foundational animation ideas and techniques. Students will gain hands-on experience with stop motion animation, hand drawn animation, 2d digital animation, sound recording, and hybrid analog/digital techniques. In addition to technical demos and studio work, we will screen and discuss animation from pre-cinema to contemporary practices.

This course focuses on the hybrid and transdisciplinary possibilities of digital moving image production. In this digital studio, 2d animation, video, still images, and sound collide. Projects will be idea-driven, with prompts that encourage critical analysis and reflection. Technique and concept are inherently linked, and we will explore the layered meanings of moving image works with curiosity and a critical lens. Multiple digital techniques will be introduced, including video capture and editing, sound recording, compositing, 2d animation, and hybrid processes.

This course introduces students to foundational topics in probability through applications to games, puzzles, paradoxes, and problems. Included will be discussions of independence, discrete and continuous random variables, conditional probability, Bayes' Theorem, random walks, and the Law of Large Numbers. Along the way we will discover the important role that calculus plays in probability (though no knowledge of calculus is assumed), and we will see glimpses of more advanced topics such as the existence of different sizes of infinity and measure theory.

What are the crucial connections between the food we grow to eat and the ongoing challenges of climate change and declining biodiversity? What could it mean to "eat sustainably"? Starting from the basic ecological principles of food, we will explore novel approaches and alternatives to established agricultural practices, examining the promises and pitfalls of industrial agriculture, genetically-modified foods, supermarkets, traditional meat production, as well as the complexities of food waste.

How does our understanding of the wider, more-than-human world guide how we choose to live within it? In a time of shifting climates and ecologies, the ways in which we come to "know nature" can be pivotal. We will make use of observational and experiential exercises in class together with readings and films that span early European notions of an ordered cosmos, diverse scientific approaches like hypothesis testing and systems thinking, perspectives of Indigenous knowledge practices, and non-western points of view.