Undergraduate Courses

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Focus on particular techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Past topics include art on the Web & advanced techniques in digital art.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden skills & expression. Past topics have included the figure, the landscape, grisaille, pastels, & charcoal. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Studio course with emphasis on the student’s evolving art practices in painting, interspersed within the standard studio class environment are lectures, class readings, guest artists & class trips. Class projects are a combination of specific prompts & self directed approaches. Concerns with “context” and “problem solving” factor heavily into the class dialogue. Projects also leave room for experimental approaches to art making, painting and non painting alike.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Students work directly with internationally recognized figures in photography. Topics for workshops range from the techniques of established photographers to discussions of issues in photographic theory, history, & criticism.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Students work directly with internationally recognized figures in photography. Topics for workshops range from the techniques of established photographers to discussions of issues in photographic theory, history and criticism.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Focuses on specialized materials & techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of faculty & student interest.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Focuses on specialized materials & techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Explores the subject of desire in modern media and culture. Freud's ideas have had a profound influence on everything from the earliest manuals on public relations to the struggles of modern feminism. We will read a range of psychoanalytic theorists while studying how their insights have been put to work by both the culture industry and its critics.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Overview of major areas in psychology that are critical to education; discussion of concepts & principles fundamental to the learning process & their application to teaching.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Overview of psychological theoretical frameworks, concepts, strategies & tactics of intervention & social change at different levels of analysis. Emphasis is placed on designing & implementing social change interventions in the domains of environmental behavior, poverty, inequality, health, education, conflict & peace, collective action & social movements.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course focuses on techniques of communication in public relations including creation of press releases, press packets and kits, and developing public relations campaigns.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Analysis of the problems of speaking to groups and practice in preparing and presenting speeches for various purposes and occasions. Hours are arranged for student evaluation and practice.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course examines the political movement of queer and transgender artists and programmers who are creating games and computational media. Throughout the semester, we read work by queer, trans, and feminist scholars and designers and play the games they created in order to situate today’s queer and trans games movement within the histories, contributions, and politics of queer and trans people and people of color. How might we re-imagine the radical potentiality of video games and software by centering game studies on queer and trans life, history, and politics?

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course approaches media from queer, trans, and intersectional lenses to examine how LGBTQIA+ identities, cultures, and relations of power are shaped through media, technology, and communication. Students are introduced to foundational and emerging texts at the intersection of media studies and queer and trans studies, equipping them to understand the impact of media and communication on queer and trans histories, lives, and futures.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course examines queer and transgender cultures through a range of visual forms. Students explore how sexuality and gender have been represented, contested, and imagined across a range of media, including film, television, photography, games, and digital and online practices, in American and transnational contexts. Through readings, screenings, and analysis, the course investigates how media shape understandings of identity, community, desire, and power, while attending to the historical and cultural conditions under which queer and trans lives become visible.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication