This course explores how popular culture shapes the spaces we inhabit, imagine, and remember. Through film, television, music, sports, social media, and built environments, we examine how place, identity, memory, and cultural landscapes are constructed and contested. Using key frameworks from cultural geography, including space and place, landscape interpretation, memory work, representation, and scale, students will analyze popular culture as spatial practice.

Creating the Series is a rigorous course that expands studio skills students have gathered prior to this semester. Students will strengthen and develop their own practice. The semester includes presentations, exhibitions, research, critiques, and discussions. Throughout history, artists have actively approached the iterative strategy of creating a series in order to transform, distill, unpack, and otherwise evolve an original idea. Students will do the same through creating multiple series of works that respond to initial prompts and research.

Advanced Studio is a rigorous course centered on self-directed studio research and the development of a cohesive Capstone body of work. Through experimentation, writing, critique, research, and professional practice workshops, students refine conceptual and technical strengths while preparing for their Capstone Exhibition. Coursework includes proposal writing, securing professional venues and dates, organizing Open Studio events, installation demonstrations, exhibition planning, artist talks, documentation, and more.

This course builds on introductory GIS courses GEOG-205 and GEOG-210 that are "vector-oriented". We cover more advanced topics of raster GIS and Remote Sensing. We will use the enhanced analytical capability of raster GIS to analyze landscape data and use satellite imagery to model the surface of the Earth. Some of the themes of raster GIS covered are environmental modeling, land suitability, land change modeling, multi criteria evaluation, cost distance analysis, terrain modeling, etc.

This course offers students the opportunity to conduct hands-on political science research by applying the tools of data science to critical questions concerning the processes, performance, and outcomes of U.S. elections. Working in a flipped classroom environment on a scaffolded set of research laboratory modules, students will collaborate under faculty guidance to learn about U.S. elections by developing their data analysis, visualization, and communication skills.

The course covers issues related to core principles of corporate financing and investing decision-making, with the goal of giving students a solid understanding of the main theories underlying a firm's investment decisions using open databases and a case-study approach.

This course examines how financial systems, institutions, and instruments can be leveraged to advance sustainable and inclusive development. Students explore the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of development finance while building the analytical skills needed to evaluate financial strategies in emerging and complex contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding how capital flows, risk structures, and governance frameworks shape development outcomes.

The relationship between colonizer and colonized is two-fold: on the one hand a visible, immediate (military, economic, and political) domination, and on the other, a more subtle, less visible (ideological) domination. These will be explored through texts (literature and films) representing both the metropolitan and the native, from the colonizer's point of view.

This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of line dancing in a high-energy, social environment. Students will learn a variety of choreographed dances-ranging from classic country western steps to contemporary urban and pop styles-set to diverse musical genres. The focus will be on mastering basic footwork patterns, improving cardiovascular endurance, and developing spatial awareness and coordination. No prior dance experience or partner is required.

Kathyrn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012), a thriller about the CIA's hunt to track down Osama bin Laden, was highly praised by critics, but it was also widely criticized for appearing to promote torture. Movies can be morally dangerous, seemingly endorsing immoral or discriminatory ideals, or romanticizing immoral characters and behavior. And of course movies seem to have the power to promote virtue and goodness as well.