An introductory design studio course exploring theories, techniques, and foundational skills essential for diverse design disciplines and creative applications.

Exploring emerging technologies, the course investigates hardware, software, algorithms, cultivating skills in visual communication, entrepreneurship, branding, and ethical design.

Learn how the invasion of the Americas and the transatlantic slave trade steered art and visual culture.

This course examines the concept of "representation" in Japanese visual culture, engaging with subject matter from contemporary times, as well as from Japan's modern and pre-modern periods (12th through the early 20th centuries). We will proceed along thematic lines. Balancing theoretical readings with scholarly articles and a sprinkling of translated primary sources, the class will address issues relating to the representation (or re-presentation) of landscape and the environment, the body and gender roles, canonical narratives as performance, and national identity at three crucial periods in Japan's history. At times we will reference Japanese monuments and works of art produced prior to the early modern era, as well as the Chinese sources that influenced some of the Japanese topics at the locus of our investigation. What lies at the heart of representation--subjectivity, political aims, societal concerns, emotional responses--and the complexity this question reveals are the central concerns of this course.

A studio-based course to discover theories, techniques and skills to carry over into other visual practices.

Study computer science topics such as computer graphics, graphical user interfaces, modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence and information management systems.

Investigate contemporary museum practices that will help you understand the ethics of representation and exhibition of cultural artifacts.

Explore how American women narrate and represent their lives across media, including literature, the graphic novel and fine art.