* ART 0513a, Temperamental Spaces  Lachell Workman

Spaces can sometimes appear as idiosyncratic as the people within them, taking on characteristics we usually ascribe to ourselves. They can appear erratic, comforting, uncanny–even threatening. Working like a therapy session for architecture, the body, and the objects around us, this seminar analyzes a diverse collection of readings and works, ranging from Renaissance mysticism to conceptual art and film, to explore how the visual arts have utilized a productive, but skeptical, relationship with space. Enrollment limited to first-year students.  Enrollment limited to first-year students.  HU
MW 9am-10:15am

* ART 0514a, Research in the Making  A.L. Steiner

Artistic research expands the research form to focus on haptic and tactile study of physical and historical objects. Through field trips to various special collections and libraries, including the Beinecke, the Yale Art Gallery, and the Map Collection, students respond to specific objects in the vast resources of Yale University. Group discussions, lectures, and critiques throughout the term help foster individual projects. Each student conducts research through the artistic mediums of drawing, photography, video, and audio, to slowly build an interconnected collection of research that is also an artwork.   Enrollment limited to first-year students.   HU
W 1:30pm-3:25pm

* ART 0610a, Interdisciplinary Exploration For Making Fictional Worlds, Flying Machines, and Shaking Things Up  Nathan Carter

Whether you aspire to be an engineer, doctor, or astronaut, it can still be vital to dream and invent–by drawing and sculpting in order to generate ideas and develop strategies for learning how to make something out of nothing. In this course, students consider how artists and inventors have used seemingly unrelated materials and content in order to activate creative thinking and generative activity. Students engage in a wide variety of interdisciplinary activities such as drawing, sculpting, painting, printing, photography, reprographics, instrument-building and sound broadcasting. This course emphasizes experimenting with strategies for generating ideas, images and objects, and employs broad modes of creating, including elements of chance, spontaneity, collaborating communally, and synthesizing disparate elements into the process of making. Enrollment limited to first-year students.   HU
MW 9am-10:15am

* ART 0627b, Creature, Form, Artifact  Aki Sasamoto

This course explores the forms that humans and other animals make and asks what motivates the creation of objects. Through monthly hands-on projects, students investigate how choices of material, tool, and gesture shape both process and outcome, discovering how each decision transforms the development of a sculptural form. Emphasis is placed on experimentation, creative play, and “sculptural thinking” as a way of working across disciplines. Lectures and field trips to Yale institutions, including the Peabody Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery, introduce students to the wide range of formal expressions produced by artists and by the natural world. By studying existing natural and manmade forms, students are invited to develop or reconsider their own habits of making and material handling. As an introduction to sculpture for first-year students, this course fosters close attention to the specific qualities and meanings of different materials and methods. Students are encouraged to embrace process, welcome unexpected results, and generate new questions about how form can become a mode of inquiry and expression.  HU  RP
TTh 9am-10:15am

* ART 0740b / ENGL 0440b, Writer as Designer, Designer as Writer  Rachel Kauder Nalebuff and Andrew Walsh-Lister

This seminar invites us to explore the boundaries between written and visual expression. Students with a background or interest in visual art learn to harness their voices as writers, and writers learn tools for how words take on new meaning through visual compositions. The course investigates the relationship between form and content through the creation of three projects—an interview, a manual, and an essay—each of which is written, designed, and physically produced using a variety of tools at our disposal. Through readings, in-class discussion and exercises, as well as workshops, we consider the ways language and ideas can be communicated to others through different media, and how that media in itself also carries meaning. The aim of the course is to playfully blur the categories of “writer” and “designer” so that we can be both at once: messengers. Previously ENGL 041. Enrollment limited to first-year students. This course does not count toward the Creative Writing Concentration for English majors.  HU
TTh 11:35am-12:50pm

* ART 0907b, Art of the Game  Sarah Stevens-Morling and Elena Bertozzi

Introduction to interactive narrative through video game programming, computer animation, and virtual filmmaking. Topics include interactive storytelling, video game development and modification, animation, and virtual film production. Students produce a variety of works including web-based interactive narratives, collaboratively built video games, and short game-animated film production (machinima). Enrollment limited to first-year students. 
MW 11:35am-12:50pm