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Glaze-Redesigning the Ceramic Studio’s Glazes — CER4105.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 2
This class is designed to help the intermediate and advance ceramic student build a deeper understanding of glaze applications. We will test and redesign the ceramic studio’s glaze palette. Both high fire and low fire glazes will be investigated throughout the term. The class will also be developing testing systems to track new colors and surfaces with existing glazes and also
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Glitch Feminism — FV4326.01) (cancelled 10/11/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
This course borrows its name from Legacy Russell's essay, then book of the same name, but uses it as a container to consider the history of fembots in science fiction in the 20th century, then arrive in the 21st century with various takes on cyberfeminism and hybrid biobodies, with a particular interest in the global south and diasporic perspectives.  We will look at a
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

Global Activist Video Production — FV4226.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kate Purdie; Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
This course will involve real-time, interactive dialogue between artists and social activists in the classroom and across the globe. Students will interact with international filmmakers and advocates in both real and virtual spaces. They will also explore the boundaries of group and individual documentary production through the examination of story structure, interview
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Global History of Architecture — AH2127.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Razan Francis
Credits: 4
This introductory course examines major monuments and urban developments from the early modern period (roughly 1400 C.E.) to the present. Moving away from a Eurocentric focus, it examines architecture globally across time and space. For example, we will analyze the plan of Tenochtitlán (Mexico) and the Forbidden City (Beijing, China). We will explore, when discernible, regional
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Gothic Vision: Specters of Subversion, 1300 to Now — AH4108.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
The Gothic is a worldview equally at home in nostalgia and strangeness. It thirsts for arcane, even craven, knowledge and is frequently motivated by a fearful fascination with the foreign. In Gothic novels (the first of which appeared in 1764) psychic ‘interiority’ is revealed in dark spaces tainted by unthinkable crimes or haunted by spirits--and/or The Church. But if seeing
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Gothic Vision: Specters of Subversion, Medieval to Now — AH4108.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
The Gothic is a worldview equally at home in nostalgia and strangeness. It thirsts for arcane, even perverse, knowledge and is frequently motivated by a fearful fascination with the foreign. In Gothic novels (the first of which appeared in London in 1764) psychic ‘interiority’ is revealed in dark spaces tainted by unthinkable crimes or haunted by spirits. But if seeing is
Visual Arts Literature

Gothic Vision: Specters of Subversion, Medieval to Tomorrow — AH4108.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: J Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
The Gothic is a worldview equally at home in nostalgia and strangeness. It thirsts for arcane, even perverse, knowledge and is frequently motivated by a fearful fascination with the foreign. In Gothic novels (the first of which appeared in London in 1764) psychic ‘interiority’ is revealed in dark spaces tainted by unthinkable crimes or haunted by spirits. But if seeing is
Visual Arts

Grids and Layouts — DA2177.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This course is a basic introduction to analog and digital layouts for poster design, book-making, cutouts, fold-outs, stencils and other things that require the arrangement of information relative to how it will be presented. Students will begin by working on handmade projects (on regular and gridded paper) with the help of rulers and cutting mats, and eventually move to
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Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students skills will increase,
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Hand-drawn Animation — MA2217.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Crowe
Credits: 2
Fundamentals of 2-D animation principles will be explored through drawing, from basic motion cycles to more imaginative movement and expression. Students will primarily work with wet/dry mediums on paper, with additional instruction in After Effects compositing workflow. Weekly exercises will explore a variety of animation techniques, from highly structured processes to
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Hand-drawn Animation — MA2217.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: John Crowe
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

Fundamentals of 2-D animation principles will be explored through drawing, from basic motion cycles to straight-ahead animation. Students will primarily work with wet/dry mediums on paper, with additional instruction in After Effects compositing workflow, and digital drawing. Weekly exercises will explore a variety of animation techniques

Media Arts

Hand-drawn Animation — MA2217.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Crowe
Credits: 2
Fundamentals of 2-D animation principles will be explored through drawing, from basic motion cycles to more nuanced straight-ahead movement and emotion. Students will primarily work with wet/dry mediums on paper, with additional instruction in Dragonframe and After Effects compositing workflow. Weekly exercises will explore a variety of animation techniques to create short
Visual Arts

Hand-drawn Animation — MA2217.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: John Crowe
Credits: 2
Fundamentals of 2-D animation principles will be explored through drawing, from basic motion cycles to more imaginative movement and expression. Students will primarily work with wet/dry mediums on paper, with additional instruction in After Effects compositing workflow. Weekly exercises will explore a variety of animation techniques, from highly structured processes to
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Haptic Media — MS2110.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Teddy Pozo
Credits: 4
“Haptic” is a word that refers to the sense of touch, derived from a Greek root meaning to grasp, perceive, or fasten. Haptic technologies and haptic aesthetics may communicate through, or mediate this tactile sense between people. We often think of touch as doing things with our hands, but touch affects all parts of the body, playing a role in smell (particles entering the
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

Hardware and Fasteners — SCU2212.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
How many times have you been in a situation where you have one thing in one hand and something in the other and become puzzled about how to put them together? It exists in your mind how they need to exist, however there is a pause…In many ways it seems at first a riddle that doesn’t really have a solution because we are brilliant and imagine that only we, ourselves, have been
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Harlem the Northern Renaissance: New/Amsterg@ddam, 1450-now — AH4312.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
In this transcultural, transhistorical upper-level course, we will study the crucial phases and practitioners of early modern Netherlandish art—-from Jan Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden to Clara Peeters plus Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and de Hooch. Then—we’ll recalibrate and look at the ways in which modern and contemporary artists of color, particularly Black
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Harlem the Northern Renaissance: New/Amsterg@ddam, 1450-now — AH4312.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
In this transcultural, transhistorical upper-level course, we will study the crucial phases and practitioners of early modern Netherlandish art—-from Jan Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden to Clara Peeters plus Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and de Hooch. Then—we’ll recalibrate and look at the ways in which modern and contemporary artists of color, particularly Black
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Harvest: Quyurciq — VA4319.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
Harvest: Quyurciq examines the Alaska Native harvest of sea otters and, by extension, broader topics of environmental management, Native science, and Indigenous sovereignty. We will view and thoroughly discuss various topics and subjects of a documentary film, Harvest: Quyurciq. The course content is particularly suitable for students studying environmental science, marine
Environment Visual Arts

Hello World: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2122.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits: 4
The practice of drawing from observation brings us into direct contact with experiencing the visual world. Working from the human figure, landscape, plants and animals, or any other subject that inspires the imagination, this course introduces the fundamentals of seeing and translation with various drawing materials and approaches. The goals of the course include the
Visual Arts

Hello World: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2122.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits: 4
The practice of drawing from observation brings us into direct contact with experiencing the visual world. Working from the human figure, landscape, plants and animals, or any other subject that inspires the imagination, this course introduces the fundamentals of seeing and translation with various drawing materials and approaches. The goals of the course include the
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Higher Resolution — FV4102.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Credits: 2
In this 7-week video production workshop, students will collaborate to make a film that explores the double meaning of resolution –  video resolution and conflict resolution. After watching historical film precedents such as Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up, we will devise and fully realize a narrative short that centers around a conflict using both 16mm film and
CAPA Visual Arts

Historical and Natural Alternative Processes in Photography — PHO4132.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Eddy Aldana
Credits: 2
This 2-credit course will explore working with classical and natural alternative processes including Cyanotypes, Anthotypes, and Chlorophyll prints among others. Students will learn the histories of each process and see how artists are working with those processes in today’s day and age. The Cyanotypes will be produced on fine art paper and fabric, and the Anthotypes will be
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Historical and Natural Alternative Processes in Photography — PHO4132.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Eddy Aldana
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This 2-credit course will explore working with classical and natural alternative processes including Cyanotypes, Anthotypes, and Chlorophyll prints among others. Students will learn the histories of each process and see how artists are working with those processes in today’s day and age. The Cyanotypes will be produced on fine art paper

Photography

Historical Processes — PHO4321.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class investigates a variety of photographic processes that evolved in the second half of the nineteenth century and continue to be used by contemporary photographers today. We will explore the historical and chemical aspects of the following: light sensitive silver, iron, and palladium compounds; photogenic drawings; cyanotypes; collodion glass plate negatives; Van Dyke
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History and Practice of Analog Color Photography — PHO4117.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 4
This course will present color photography in a different light. Discovering one's color aesthetic will be the basis of the class. Students will work mainly with color negatives. Through assignments, presentations, and critiques students will learn to observe the color of light. Students will develop a better understanding of their own color vocabulary and how to achieve it
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