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Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 4
This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras, process raw files in Lightroom, properly scan negatives, and produce digital portfolios and high quality inkjet prints. In addition to technical instruction, a selection of images from historical and contemporary

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 4
This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras, process raw files in Lightroom, make local adjustments, retouch, and combine images in Photoshop, properly scan negatives, and produce digital portfolios and high quality inkjet prints. In addition to technical instruction,

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Instructor: Luiza Folegatti
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

This course will discuss practices and ethics around digital photography, and experiment with foundational tools and techniques, aiming to create space for students to develop their own interests within the possibilities of the medium. Classes will combine practical exercises, readings on the development of digital photography and its impact on society, discussions mostly on

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Instructor: Liz White
Days & Time: MO 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice and aims to help students find new sources of inspiration, deepen their creative work, and enhance their ability to present it. Students will learn to shoot with

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 4
This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice and aims to help students find new sources of inspiration, deepen their creative work, and enhance their ability to present it. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras using manual settings, manage, process, and manipulate digital image files, properly scan

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.02

Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 4
This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice and aims to help students find new sources of inspiration, deepen their creative work, and enhance their ability to present it. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras using manual settings, manage, process, and manipulate digital image files, produce digital

Foundations of Photography: Introduction to Digital Practice — PHO2368.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is designed to help students with fundamental tools and techniques of the basics of photography to develop and incubate their knowledge and technical skills such as usage of digital camera, lighting, composition, sense of moment, theme, use of color, storytelling and preparing for basic printing. In addition, this course intends to foster a creative and critical

Foundations; Metalshop — SCU2217.02

Instructor: Phoenix Malanga
Days & Time: FR 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 2

This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design/fabrication methods. It is open to anyone with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas, arc, electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques like cutting and grinding

Framing the World - Animating the World — MA4212.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The course will be for sustained work on an animation or projection design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and consistent endeavor. The first half of the semester will be concerned with conceptualizing and framing the world of the animations or projections, by research, drawings, investigation, imagining. The second half will be creating the

French Film Adaptations — FV2302.01

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students will examine a variety of adaptations, focusing on the strategies used to turn a book into a film. Issues of adaptation theory will be explored, as well as the underlying ideology behind the rediscovery of specific authors through cinema. Students will discuss notions such as “faithfulness” to a source text, but more importantly intermediality and intertextuality, the

French Through Films — FRE4154.01

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural

French Through Films: On connait la chanson and Vers la tendresse — FRE4153.02

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 2
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural

French Through Films: Rue Cases-Nègres and Au revoir les enfants — FRE4152.01

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 2
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural

From Digital Models to Technical Drawings — DA4250.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The historian Robin Evans thought of technical drawings as an “intervening medium” between object and thought. By protracting the distance between thoughts and the objects they produce, what alterations can be made in the process? What previously invisible things do we see? Do we also lose some control? This course is about understanding the technical drawing not only as an

Future Studio — VA4207.01

Instructor: Robert Ransick Charles Crowell
Credits: 4
Future Studio is a creative incubator designed for the development and articulation of new enterprises that value workers, local communities, sustainability, and the environment equally with profit. The course is designed to lay the foundation for building new enterprise of all types through the unique integration of creativity, arts culture, and sophisticated business

Future Studio — VA4207.01

Instructor: Robert Ransick; Charles Crowell
Credits: 4
Future Studio is a creative incubator designed for the development and articulation of new enterprises that value workers, local communities, sustainability, and the environment equally with profit. The course is designed to lay the foundation for building new enterprise of all types through the unique integration of creativity, arts culture, and sophisticated business

Future Studio — VA4207.01

Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
Future Studio is a creative incubator for the development and articulation of new non-profit or for-profit enterprises which can be launched with powerful economic potential and socially responsible missions. The studio emphasizes creativity, innovation, place-centered economies, worker-centered ownership, environmental sustainability, social justice and financial viability.

Future Studio: Design Incubator — DA4206.01

Instructor: Robert Ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
***TIME CHANGE*** This course is conceived and structured as a small incubator for product and business development.  Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries inquiry-based idea development, design, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. 

Future Studio: Idea to Prototype — DA4204.01

Instructor: robert ransick; andrew cencini
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This two-part (fall and spring) course is conceived and structured as a small start-up. Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries collaborative inquiry-based idea development, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. The course will progress over the

Future Studio: Production to Launch — DA4204.01

Instructor: Robert Ransick; Andrew Cencini
Credits: 4
This two-part (fall and spring) course is conceived and structured as a small start-up. Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries collaborative inquiry-based idea development, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. The course will progress over the

Games, Puzzles, and Modular Systems — PRI4119.01

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This upper-level printmaking course will explore games, puzzles, and modular building systems as inspiration for both two and three-dimensional work. The class is structured around a series of projects for which rigorous experimentation and play is encouraged. We will collaborate to teach each other techniques, engage with each other’s work, and explore the improvisational

Gender, Race, and Fashion in Western Portraiture: 1500-1950 — AH4106.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
 For elite early modern sitters, portraits were a valued means of constructing a public image, securing a spouse, memorializing the dead, and emphasizing political and dynastic relationships. Taking as our point of departure period notions of likeness, otherness, and verisimilitude, we will investigate the problems of portrayal through various thematic subgenres as they

Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change in Taiwan and China — CHI4515.01

Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course engages students with authentic texts, audio, and visual materials drawn from traditional and contemporary literature, film, and other art forms. Through these sources, students will critically explore issues of gender, gender inequality, and sexuality, including LGBTQ perspectives, in Chinese and Taiwanese cultural contexts.

Generative Art with Processing — DA2108.01

Instructor: Gene Kogan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will explore strategies for producing code-based generative art and computational design. Students will acquire methods for creating compelling artworks using algorithms and autonomous processes inspired from nature, statistics, biology, and computer science, with applications to interactive installation, digital fabrication, web apps, and others. The course will