Intro Computing and Arts

This introductory course explores computation as an artistic medium, with creative approaches to computer programming as the central theme. Through readings, viewing, group discussion, labs, projects, critiques and guest artist/researcher presentations, we examine a range of computational art practices, while developing a solid foundation in basic computer programming approaches and techniques.

Limited to 20 students. Spring semester. Professor Malita.

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The ABCs of Publishing

A thorough, experiential course on the ins and outs of book publishing that includes a history of how books became our preferred channel for the dissemination of knowledge and entertainment and as a tool for political, economic, and cultural change. We will discuss the past, present, and future of the book, how it has mutated from Gutenberg to the digital age, and the challenges book publishing faces in the twenty-first century, not only in the United States but in the global scene.

Critical Sports Studies

Sports command a central role in American culture. The media intensively cover professional and amateur competitions and elevate star athletes to celebrity status. Municipalities offer generous financial incentives to attract professional sports franchises to their cities, and families devote significant resources to make their children into better athletes. American colleges and universities offer scholarships to prospective students based on athletic prowess, a practice uniquely widespread in the United States.

Listening Together

What does it mean to approach music and sound from the position of people listening together? Conventionally, research has centered on makers, performers, producers, and thinkers—the bodies, voices, instruments, and minds that make sound and shape discourse. When research does attend to listening, it is usually as an individual act of consumption, appreciation, spiritual encounter, or social exchange. But what about congregations, fandoms, juries, and networks of listeners?

Blackness in Asia

This research tutorial will explore a diverse archive of historical and contemporary texts that treat as a point of departure the ways that the idea of Blackness has been treated in Asia. The course’s framework, which will have an emphasis on the Philippines, will also significantly explore the theoretical intersections of Indigenous thought, Asian American studies, Black studies, and Latinx/American studies.

Researching the Dakota

Working with rare Dakota-language texts, like the newspaper “Iapi Oaye,” in the Kim-Wait/Eisenberg Native American Literature Collection as well as books by Dakota authors Charles Eastman and Ella Cara Deloria that were printed in English, this class enables students to do original research that uncovers the links between language (iapi), nation (oyate), and the strategies of survival Dakota people have used to resist colonial efforts to remove and erase them.

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