As a form of expression, drawing can be intimate, weird, powerful, interesting, confusing, clarifying, and beautiful. As a vehicle for observation and self-study, drawing is a way to follow and encourage attention, to walk the brain-dog. This course is structured to foster familiarity with the languages of drawing, and to offer the discipline of drawing as a way to make (and find) meaning. In class, students will build foundational skills through targeted drawing exercises with an emphasis on observation. Subject matter will include still life, landscape, interior, and the figure.

In this class, students will acquire hands-on and/or applied experience in diverse aspects of the research process in any field of Chemistry under the direction and supervision of a faculty advisor. Typically, these projects are related to the research program of the advisor. Student experiences often include: familiarizing themselves with a research topic, generating interesting questions, designing experiments, acquiring technical and instrumentation skills, collecting and analyzing data, writing and/or presenting their results.