Beyond the building as we experience it firsthand, how we understand architecture is necessarily framed through the media by which we come to know it. This course introduces students to a history of architectural representation techniques (including orthographic drawing, model making, perspective drawing, photography, video, and text) and contextualizes these techniques within a broader framework of media theory with regards to how the built environment has been represented.

This course is an introduction to financial markets and the economic fundamentals of investment decisions, with the goal of increasing financial literacy and awareness of how investment decisions are made. Students will gain a perspective on how time, risk, return, and uncertainty are interconnected. Topics will include a general overview of the financial system and capital markets, the time value of money, risk and return analysis, and the essentials of investment portfolio management.

In this creative writing course, students will explore short literary forms including poetry, prose, prose poetry, micro-essays, flash fiction, fables, parables, and comix. We will study collections, series, and individual examples of short forms; authors studied may include Anne Carson, Lydia Davis, Diane di Prima, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Yasunari Kawabata, Michel de Montaigne, Harryette Mullen, Francis Ponge, Claudia Rankine, and Gertrude Stein. Everyone will make a short piece every week, with regular workshops.

This course will pair four writers with four painters to explore the relationship between the visual and the verbal arts through theories of representation. The pairs are John Constable and William Wordsworth, the sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, Peter Lanyon and W.S. Graham, and the unrelated Bridget Riley and Denise Riley. By so doing, we will consider the periodizing terms Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism and how they mediate between individual works of art and historical context.

This course is designed as an upper-level humanities seminar on writing as a technology with a long history (cuneiform, hieroglyphics, and runes) and an interesting future within film, social media, and generative artificial intelligence. We will wade through various historical media and cultures of writing as a communicative and representational technology, then spend time thinking about contemporary forms such as emoticons and AI.

This course is designed as an upper-level humanities seminar on writing as a technology with a long history (cuneiform, hieroglyphics, and runes) and an interesting future within film, social media, and generative artificial intelligence. We will wade through various historical media and cultures of writing as a communicative and representational technology, then spend time thinking about contemporary forms such as emoticons and AI.

Paleontological art brings ancient organisms back to life. In this course we will consider the role that PaleoArt itself plays as a mode of scientific discovery. Beginning with an analysis of the pioneering paleoart of Charles R. Knight, we will examine how paleoartists have uncovered key information about prehistoric life well in advance of its recognition by the scientific community. In a collaborative class project, we will identify the best and most representative of "paleort".

Why can't we solve the climate crisis? In this seminar about global environmental politics, students cultivate research, writing, and speaking skills for public policy, international affairs, and environmental studies careers. We review how the legacies of colonialism and neoliberalism have affected global poverty and environmental degradation; how artificial intelligence is shaping environmental governance; and how actors from corporations to Indigenous peoples influence state­ to-state negotiations.

Many problems such as calculating the area of a surface, volume of a geometric shape, expected return from an investment and even solutions to differential equations all essentially reduce to being able to "measure" various objects, in other words, integrate various functions. Students in math, statistics, and other fields like economics will often encounter measure-theoretic language in their post-graduate work in academia and in industry. We will primarily focus on the theory of Lebesgue measure on the real line.

At the end of WWII, a robust liberal-labor-left-civil rights coalition stood ready to pursue expansion of the New Deal toward realizing the ideals enunciated in FDR's Second Bill of Rights. This coalition came together around efforts to establish national economic policy on a primary commitment to maintain full employment, to create a national health care system, to expand unionization, to outlaw racial discrimination and ensure fair employment practices.