Course	ART 100 Cybergraphics I
Professor	Hap Tivey
CRN	17177
Schedule	Wed 9:30 - 12:30 pm HDR 106
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

An introduction to graphic creation using the computer as a compositional tool; basic computer skills are required and minimal ability in Photoshop or a comparable application is recommended. The imaging potential of a variety of graphic applications will be discussed and demonstrated during the first half of the class. The second half will focus on individual projects with an emphasis on printing. On-line registration

Course	ART 200 Cybergraphics II
Professor	Hap Tivey
CRN	17178
Schedule	Th 1:30 -4:30 pm HDR 106
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

This class will explore advanced techniques for using basic graphics applications found in the Adobe Suite, such as Photoshop, Illustator, Image Ready, etc., in concert with other software packages. We will begin by exploring in depth what Photoshop can do with strategies of matte control and tool design, and continue by examining how those techniques can be applied to video programs such as Final Cut, After Effects or Shake, as well as 3D programs such as Poser and Maya. We will explore book construction concepts and animation strategies and conclude with methods of displaying these products on the web. Good computer skills and basic Photoshop at an introductory level (Cybergraphics I or equivalent) is required. Video compositing skills are recommended. On-line registration

Course	FILM 203 Electronic Media: Digital Animation
Professor	Jacqueline Goss
CRN	17194
Schedule	Tu 9:30 - 12:30 pm AVERY 333
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

In this course we will make video and web-based projects using digital animation and compositing programs (Macromedia Flash and Adobe After Effects). The course is designed to help students develop a facility with these tools and to find personal animating styles that surpass the tools at hand. We will work to reveal techniques and aesthetics associated with digital animation that challenge conventions of storytelling, editing, figure/ground relationship, and portrayal of the human form. To this end, we will refer to diverse examples of animating and collage from film, music, writing, photography, and painting.

Prerequisite: familiarity with a nonlinear video-editing program.

Course	LIT 3224 Investigative Poetics
Professor	Joan Retallack
CRN	17414
Schedule	Tu 1:30-4:30 pm Olin 306
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Literature in English

Among the many poetic practices identified by schools and genres is one that I like to call “Investigative.” This is a poetry of extended projects and procedures designed to explore a range of forms, media, questions, logics, constraints….as well as our situation in today’s world. Underlying assumptions are a) there are things one can know only in the form of poetry, b) a complex world must be engaged—at least some of the time—with complex forms of art. Though some of the projects for this course can involve visual and electronic media, as well as performance dimensions, the emphasis throughout will be on working with language. To bring students into a high level of consciousness about the forms and questions we’re addressing, there will be in-class writing and periodic short papers. You will complete four extended poetic projects, each accompanied by a 3-5 page essay discussing your points of departure, your thinking along the way as you composed the piece, it’s relation to the investigations of the class, the material processes you engaged in. There will be a number of poet visitors in conjunction with reading assignments. (Four volumes of poetry are required reading, along with several other collections and a variety of handouts.) Students are required to attend poetry readings in the Thursday Ashbery series and other events related to the course during the semester. Admission by permission of professor; submission of portfolio required. Candidates must submit samples of their work before registration, with cover letter to Prof. Retallack via campus mail by 4:00 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2006.

Course	LIT 390 Contemporary Critical Theory
Professor	Nancy Leonard
CRN	17507
Schedule	Wed 1:30-3:50 pm Olin 310
Distribution	OLD: A/B	NEW: Literature in English

During the last century major changes in the ways works of art and culture were conceived took place under the influence of modernism and poststructuralism. This course engages key texts in this transformation of our knowledge of language and representation, either classic texts still influential today or contemporary ones. Reading full-length studies or significant excerpts of major theorists, the seminar will introduce students to the aesthetics and ethics of modernist and postmodern debates about representation, and about the links between ethics, politics and language. Perspectives to be introduced include semiotics, deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, Foucauldian history, and postfeminist film theory, to name a few. Students will be working collaboratively as theorists, independently as writers, and collectively as members of the whole seminar. Theorists to be read include Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Mary Ann Doane, Slavoj Zizek, and Judith Butler. Admission by interview prior to registration; Upper College standing is assumed. A college course in philosophy, literary, cultural, political or arts theory is a prerequisite.

On-line registration