Advanced, Arts, Humanities, Assignments

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry

eight guest lectures on video (explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, of investigating landscapes and expressing ideas, Readings, observations, and photographs form the basis of discussions on landscape, light, significant detail, place, poetics, narrative and how photography can inform design and planning, among other issues): readings, projects, course download

Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Self-Knowledge

"self-knowledge" (knowledge of one's own mental states), classic papers on self-knowledge, recent work: Readings, Related Resources, Course Download

Introduction to Syntax

concepts & principles of central significance in recent development of syntactic theory, special focus on the Government & Binding (GB) / Principles and Parameters (P&P) / Minimalist Program (MP) approach: readings, course download

Theories and Methods in the Study of History

variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century, modern classics, or potential classics, in social and economic history, how these historians conceive of their object of study, use primary sources as basis for their accounts, structure the narrative and analytic discussion of their topic, advantages and drawbacks of their approaches: readings, projects, course download

Design Fabrication

introductory course in advanced computing, prototyping & building fabrication, focused on relationship between design, various forms of computer modeling both explicit & generative & physical representation of information using rapid prototyping devices

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