American photography of the 1920s through 1940s was strongly influenced by women who experimented aesthetically with the camera. Photographers such as Imogen Cunningham, Laura Gilpin, Consuelo Kanaga, and Tina Modotti, among others, contributed to the social and political transformations of the era, helping to define the photographic medium as an art form. Documenting people, place, environment, and objects, each created a visual record of the visible and the marginalized human. These visual records today prevail as aesthetic standards of form and subject studied by historians, academics, and photographers, and revered by the public as exemplary fine art. This course studies how women photographers contributed to the development of modern documentation and art through their preferred artistic medium.

American photography of the 1920s through 1940s was strongly influenced by women who experimented aesthetically with the camera. Photographers such as Imogen Cunningham, Laura Gilpin, Consuelo Kanaga, and Tina Modotti, among others, contributed to the social and political transformations of the era, helping to define the photographic medium as an art form. Documenting people, place, environment, and objects, each created a visual record of the visible and the marginalized human. These visual records today prevail as aesthetic standards of form and subject studied by historians, academics, and photographers, and revered by the public as exemplary fine art. This course studies how women photographers contributed to the development of modern documentation and art through their preferred artistic medium.

Let's celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the film To Kill a Mockingbird, winner of 3 Academy Awards and nominee for a total of 16 more! Join us to watch and discuss this groundbreaking film, learn more about the director, Robert Mulligan; screenwriter, Horton Foote; and leading man, Gregory Peck. Author Harper Lee's instantly successful novel became a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer that same year. Two years later the bidding began with Universal coming out on top. The book is read in high schools and colleges across the country and is one of the titles most often listed on the American Library Association's annual "Banned Book List". Currently, the stage version of Mockingbird is being performed on Broadway.

This film course will take us on an exploration of perceived human difference. Whether Inuit, Japanese, French, Italian, or Dutch, respective nationalities, languages, and social positions create socio-cultural barriers broken by circumstance. We will view: "Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny" (2007), "Hospitalité" (2010), "Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon dieu?" (2014), "Io Sono Li" (2011), and "Antonia's Line" (1995). Themes present in each film will be discussed and applied to contemporary perceptions of difference.

This film course will take us on an exploration of perceived human difference. Whether Inuit, Japanese, French, Italian, or Dutch, respective nationalities, languages, and social positions create socio-cultural barriers broken by circumstance. We will view: "Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny" (2007), "Hospitalité" (2010), "Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon dieu?" (2014), "Io Sono Li" (2011), and "Antonia's Line" (1995). Themes present in each film will be discussed and applied to contemporary perceptions of difference.

Beginning in 1879, African-Americans migrated from the southern and border states to the Plains. Community building and black self government were important tenets of the Exoduster Movement that established African-American communities, influenced political economy and the arts, and contributed to the foundation of the Civil Rights movement. The identity and contributions of Exodusters will be examined using historical documents and film.