The 1960s were a turbulent but stimulating time for the world of jazz. The R&B-based soul jazz movement was at its peak and often at odds with the still-developing avant-garde aesthetic.... more

This studio class will focus on the practice of drawing portraits. Portraiture is about relationships: artist to sitter, sitter to viewer, and in the case of self-portraiture, artist to him/herself.... more

The photographic series is a course designed to forego assignments or adherence to genre in favor of developing a body of work over the course of a semester exploring the student's individual... more

This writing course begins with relatively playful writing exercises that help you generate new material, along with strategies for shaping, re-shaping, and editing your work. The course assignments... more

How much are we shaped by our historical times and places? How much power do we have to make our historical conditions respond to our needs and desires? These are the questions at the foundation of... more

Special Weekend Immersion Schedule: Class will meet September 21, 22, 28, 29 and October 5. This course will serve both as an introduction to the Arthurian legend and to its cinematographic... more

From its earliest exemplars to its most recent reinventions, the novel has always been a variegated literary form, its boundaries under constant revision by way of constant encroachments from and... more

The course begins with an overview of the planets, moons, comets and asteroids that comprise our Solar System. Modern issues such as why Pluto is no longer designated as a planet will be discussed.... more

This course will focus on the intersecting fields of psychology, education, and assessment. In particular, the course will focus on best practices and innovations in the design and implementation of... more

This course examines the historical origins, philosophical foundations, and case law of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. As the text of the Constitution states, freedom of... more

This course is an introduction to debates about the state of political life around the world in the post-cold war era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, capitalism and democracy seem to have... more

Foundational course option: Students taking the course with this option will receive more extensive and detailed feedback on their work through more frequent writing assignments and individual... more

This course will focus on the intersecting fields of psychology, education, and assessment. In particular, the course will focus on best practices and innovations in the design and implementation of... more

Since the early 20th century, downtown New York has been one of the most artistically vital and creative geographic areas in America, known for its avant-garde, counter, and alternative cultural... more

This traditional art form, more than 1,000 years old, relies on hand-pressing techniques, watercolors, and rice paste. Quite distinct from Western printmaking traditions, it uses no oil-based inks... more

This class is for students who wish to work on independent projects with the goal of creating a cohesive and technically strong body of work. The course will address one's understanding of... more

"we are only alive to the degree we can let ourselves be moved." Lewis Hyde In this course we will steep ourselves in the craft and art of the short story. More specifically we will be focusing on... more

This writing course considers traditional fiction and creative nonfiction as well as newly popular genres such as writing about science and medicine, writing about food and travel, young adult... more

How are "Third World" women, both in the First World and in the Third, represented and understood by others? How do they represent and understand themselves? Analyzing images such as the... more

This class will be an introduction to complex analysis and (a portion of) its history. The subject lies at the intersection of the fields of geometry (the study of size), topology (the study of... more

In this field course, we focus on ecological relationships and life history events characteristic of early spring, a time when winter quiescence gives way to a period of intense growth and activity... more

The evolution of humankind is marked by the appearance of a number of traits that are unique--bipedal locomotion, the largest brain to body size ratio, language and symbolizing behavior, the... more

We will chart the changes in the U.S. economic policy and state-economy relations over the course of the past century, providing a broad overview of fiscal, monetary, regulatory and trade policies.... more

Using both a theoretical and a historical focus, we will analyze the principal movements and processes that have led to the rise of the modern nation-state. The theoretical focus will be oriented... more