Spring 2027

This seminar course will address and explore why there is no clear or singular path to becoming an artist and offer students tools to navigate shaping their artistic path from an empowered position. Investigating your own artistic practice via writing, discussion, and research is central to this course. As such, this course is geared towards 7th and 8th term Visual Arts

The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor.  Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments, projection or interactive project.  The expectation is that students will be fully

In this course, we will examine French culture's engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality in the 20th and 21st centuries. Authors and texts to be studied will include Virginie Despentes, Paul Preciado,

In this introductory course you will read a wide range of political philosophers and theorists who rethink and reimagine society. Beginning with Marx we will explore radical social visions from thinkers such as Rosa Luxumburg, Herbert Marcuse, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, Chantel Mouffe, and Kimberle Crenshaw, among others. This course is

By digging into the works of contemporary crime, spy, and thriller novelists, we will explore notions of narrative tension, good mystery versus bad mystery, red herrings, unreliable narrators, complex plots, anti-heroes, slick villains, the falsely accused and the downtrodden, not to mention the dark alleyways and the hidden compartments of fiction.

How do these

As poets, we’re often conducting little experiments on the page: What happens if I break the line here? Can I make this a sestina? How many rhymes is too many rhymes? In this advanced poetry workshop, we will dig into the experimental impulse and explore rigorous play<

With the practice of journalism undergoing its most profound changes since the invention of the television, this course will steep students in the traditions of criticism, literary non-fiction, reporting and cultural journalism that thrived during the golden age of print and have persisted in the Internet era. We’ll work our way through literary criticism from Robert Boswell

Everybody’s Protest Novel

“As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possible be,” James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and later rival Richard Wright. “We were linked together, really, because both of us were black.” But while

This course centers on the creation of scale models as a vital part of the scenic design process and an essential tool for communication. Students will explore how three-dimensional models communicate design ideas, test spatial relationships, and support collaboration throughout a production.

Working from scripts and design concepts, students will learn to translate

Scanning electron microscopes are a fundamental tool in the physical and life sciences. When equipped with an X-Ray spectrometer, a SEM can provide rapid physical and chemical data of specimens on extremely small scales. This class with cover the theory and practical applications of SEM imaging and analysis for advanced science students who have their own research interests.

This Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical

This course asks each student to work in a self-directed way among a community of critical thinkers. Finding one’s voice, as a maker, requires research sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. At this point in your Visual Arts Education

This spring semester course, taught each year by different members of the Music faculty, serves as a workshop and forum for seniors to develop, present, and receive feedback on their advanced work in Music. Senior projects may take many forms, reflecting the breadth of creative practice in Music; performances, installations, musical plays, recordings, research projects,

Sight-Singing Party! is a low-stakes, high-participation class built on one simple idea: the only way to learn how to sight-sing is to do it ... a lot. So we will. Expect to sing constantly, jump in before you feel ready, make glorious mistakes, laugh hard, recover, and keep going.

We’ll build the core skills of sight-singing—reading sheet music and singing it on

The buzz of a protest, the hushed anticipation of an audience, the euphoria of the festival - where do these feelings come from? And further, what do they generate? This course considers how we can study feelings which are located not only within an individual, but between us - that is, within the social.

In conjunction with APA 4316: A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop: Social Kitchen For Collective Wellness

Writers don’t just tell stories. They live them. In Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands, Stuart Hall describes his upbringing in 1930’s Jamaica, then a British colony. Eventually, Hall–– who is credited with being one of the founding figures of the field of Cultural Studies––made his way to the UK, where he went on to publish a number of seminal texts.

A class and a provocation: you can make stunningly beautiful, wildly theatrical work…with nothing except bodies, language, and the everyday objects that surround you. Drawing from plays with minimal production elements -- Martín Zimmerman’s On the Exhale, Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia, Diana Lynn Small’s Mad and a Goat, Suzan

Celtic history and music from Ireland, Scotland, Bretagne, Galatia, and Cape Breton will be experienced, studied, and performed using instruments and voices. We’ll find and cross the musical bridges between regions–from the ballads of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the Alalas of Spain, through the Scottish Gaelic speaking Highland and Islands to the dance tunes of Brittany.

Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we

This course will provide knowledge and skills to offer effective education to students with a range of learning and behavioral characteristics, in a variety of settings. Emphasis will be placed on building an equitable environment for all ages and grades, preK-12, to implement in the future. We will consider how to structure classrooms and plan teaching that is

In lieu of more conventional advanced Spanish classes, paralleling a series of often disparate tutorials, with tutees working in relative isolation, the proposal is to allow students free rein over an idea for a final, term-long project, while concurrently offering them an educated, exoteric audience to assist in fleshing out their work. Faculty will provide

This intermediate/advanced linear algebra class will focus mostly on two main topics: spectra, and tensors. The theory of matrix spectra, (eigenvalues and eigenvectors), is arguably one of the most useful ideas in all of mathematics. We will discuss some major applications, such as input-output models in economics, the Page Rank algorithm, JPEG compression, the Fast Fourier

In the last thirty years, the study of life beyond our own planet has gone from science fiction to legitimate science. The course will initially focus on how stars form and evolve, starting from the formation of the universe, and continuing to a discussion of stars as both the synthesizers of heavy elements and the central energy source for stellar systems. From there, we

In this course, we will focus on developing the statistical skills needed to answer questions by collecting data, designing experimental studies, and analyzing large publicly available datasets. The skills learned will also help students to be critical consumers of statistical results. We will use a variety of datasets to develop skills in data management, analysis, and