Drew University Moodle

Explores digital video as a creative tool and provides a technical understanding of the video camera and non-linear editing. Students will have an opportunity to learn to manipulate the relationship between time, space and sound to create narrative, performance-based and experimental works. Projects allow students to investigate both formal and conceptual issues integral to the history, and contemporary practice, of video art and filmmaking. Select course projects will explore movement through collaboration with students in DANC 322 Choreography & Performance Studies. Video-related participation in the end-of-semester Dance Show may be expected.

Explores cross-disciplinary uses for digital 3D modeling using the open-source software Blender, including 3D-printing original sculptures, recreating cultural artifacts, designing assets for film and gaming, and proposing new relationships between physical and virtual worlds. Technical instruction begins with the basics of polygonal modeling while readings, screenings, forum discussions and guest speakers provide a critical framework. Students from diverse disciplines are welcome and are encouraged to apply concepts from their field(s) of study to develop unique syntheses between practical and theoretical pursuits.

This course addresses both the historical and contemporary aspects of biblical interpretation and hermeneutics related to or directly addressing ecology and the environment. Particular attention is paid to those passages in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Scriptures that are evoked in relation to global climate change, “creation care,” and humanity's role in relation to the more-than-human world. We will look at a variety of passages with sensitivity to how they can be read and interpreted in relation to the present ecological crisis. We will cover foundational works within biblical ecocriticism such as the Earth Bible Project, the Exeter Project, as well as the basic principles of each and the forms of reading and interpretation presented by biblical ecocritics. We will also address more recent intersectional work being completed within biblical ecocriticism such as the Bible and queer ecology, environmental justice and the Bible, and the Bible and animal studies. Particular attention will be paid to the pragmatic aspects of these readings and approaches, namely how these readings can be incorporated into practice in our lives, in our theology, and in our ministry.