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This course prepares you for independent study in MSA by focusing on stylistic devices, vocabulary refinement and communicative skills. It is ideal for those who wish to hone their ability to comprehend Arabic university lectures and to express themselves on technical subjects in speech and in writing. This course also makes use of additional texts in order to reinforce your ability to read and comprehend complex writings.

This course prepares you for independent study in both MSA and Classical Arabic focusing on stylistic devices, grammar and reading and writing skills. Ideal for those wishing to hone their ability to comprehend Arabic university lectures and to express themselves on technical subjects in speech and writing. This course also makes use of additional texts and short stories from various sources in order to reinforce your ability to read and comprehend complex writings.

In this program we will explore the archaeology of Curaçao and other Pre-Columbian settlements in the Caribbean islands. With a focus toward examining migration theories, settlement patterns, subsistence strategies and the development of cultural complexity through time, we will examine the rich archaeological and historical record of a region that often receives little attention from introductory textbooks and discussions of world prehistory.

Three credits.This course looks at data making and urban sensing robotics. New data collection and computation techniques provide the opportunity for open, experiential and systematic understanding of site. The use of handheld mobile technology and new inexpensive microprocessors and sensors provides opportunity to bring the power of information to the lowest user level without the influence of larger economic and political forces. These research methods have been published with the Journal of Urban Design, ACADIA, and several book chapters and tested in professional urban design projects.

For Architecture majors, this course fulfills the ARCH 4/523 Advanced Media or subject area elective. For Art History majors, this course fulfills the undergraduate Studio Art requirement and graduate elective.In the field, students will practice ways to capture and interpret environments using a variety of art and design media. Capturing a place means recording unique impressions, perceptions and memories along with physical characteristics.

This class will examine the artistic and architectural monuments of Ancient Rome, including the rise of the Roman Republic, the age of Augustus and the Roman Empire, and the origins of Christianity within the late-antique period.  Students will learn about the social, cultural and artistic foundations of Roman culture, combining classroom sessions with visits to many of the city’s most important and impactful monuments (the Roman Forum, the Pantheon, and the Colosseum, to name only a few).  This course will help students see the city around them in a new light, revealing the lasting

This course is a survey of High Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque painting, focusing on the examples that are visible in the churches and museums of Rome. Key figures will include Raphael, Michelangelo, Vasari, the Carracci, Caravaggio, Guercino, Guido Reni, Peitro da Cortona and Giovanni Battista Gaulli. Key themes include the development of the illusionistic frescoed ceiling, the projection of religious and political messages in the age of the counterreformation, classicism and its opposites, and the stylistic revolution of the baroque.

This course will use the magnificent architecture of Rome and its environs to help students understand the broad historical trajectory of western culture.

Six credits - Pass/No Pass only.This course fits into the ongoing redevelopment context, and you will be designing a large (25,000 – 50,000 s.f.), multi-story, mixed-use public building for one of several real sites on less-active areas of the island, with particular attention paid to how the building would help realize specific planning goals as articulated in published Granville Island planning documents.  Part of the problem will include defining and programming the uses of the building.