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THE255-01: Introduction to Sound Design

Welcome! "Introduction to Sound Design" introduces students to the theory and practice of theatrical sound design, with additional relevance to sound design for dance and for film and television. The course cultivates sensitivity towards the expressiveness of sound, and the relationship between time, sound, actors, visuals, and narrative. Through script analysis and design projects, students learn the power of sound and music in enhancing stage presentations, acquire skills in creating sound worlds, and apply those skills to collaboration with the production team. Through hands-on exercises in the lab and in the theaters, students also become familiar with recording, editing, organizing, and playback of sound.


Category: 2024 Fall Semester

Web Development with WordPress

This self-paced online course is designed for individuals who want to learn how to build a website using WordPress. This course is for beginners and does not require any prior design or coding knowledge.

In this course, you will learn how to create and manage website content such as pages, posts, and media, and if you're a site administrator, how to set up your own WordPress website, and customize the appearance of your website using themes and plugins. By the end of this course, you will have a fully functional WordPress website that you can use for your personal blog, research project, or portfolio.

Category: Self-Paced

WLT177dp-01: Colloquium: Journeys in World Literature-Dwelling Poetically

Journeys in World Literature

From the earliest Chinese poetry to the latest Arabic Internet novels, comparative literature makes available new worlds, and "newly visible" old worlds. To become "world-forming," one must realize one’s belonging to a given world or worlds, as well as one’s finitude. To rethink the relationship between literature and world, each section of this course focuses on a given genre, movement, or theme. Through topics such as “Epic Worlds,” “The Short Story” and “Literature and Medicine,” we consider the creation of worlds through words. (83 words) 

Dwelling Poetically

To introduce the pleasures of poetry, this course travels through poems on themes of journeying and dwelling, voyage and return, travel and home, wandering, war and immigration. Reading ancient Chinese songs and Greek epic to contemporary docupoetry and rap, we explore key elements of poetic art (voice, metre, tropes, image and suggestion). Students encounter less concrete effects too as they confront ambiguity, develop interpretive imagination, and surmise poetry’s powers and stakes. What is a poem? How and when does poetry affect our worlds? We also consider the art, ethics and politics of translation, and students compose and translate short poems. Credits: 4 {L}

Category: 2021 Fall Semester

WRT118lf-01: Colloquium in Writing: Liberating the Future

In the era of climate change, global migration, income disparities driven by capitalism, and a pandemic that has disproportionately affected Black, Brown, and low-income people, the future has become an urgent concern. Although media reports can feel apocalyptic, this concern has also inspired new visions of a world liberated from capitalism, police, and injustice. Our course delves into innovative responses to this moment of crisis. Our readings foreground the voices of Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ writers in a wide range of nonfiction genres, including personal essays, manifestos, magazine articles, and academic scholarship.

These readings will serve as a departure point for your own writing. You will write a lot, both formally and informally, working toward greater clarity, confidence, and nuance. 


Category: 2023 Fall Semester

WRT119rp-01: Colloquium: Writing Roundtable Topics-Restoring the Planet

Our class will introduce you to restorative responses to climate change. Although climate change affects everyone, it especially harms Black, Indigenous, and low-income people. These groups have also led the efforts to combat climate change by protesting capitalist extraction of resources, building food sovereignty, and leading ecological restoration projects.

Our class centers Indigenous and Black perspectives on climate justice, especially ideas and practices that restore traditional, anticapitalist land and water stewardship, fishing, and farming. In addition to readings, you will gain interdisciplinary experiences through visits to the Smith College Museum of Art, the Botanic Garden, the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center, the Neilson Library’s Special Collections, and the MacLeish Field Station. We will sometimes have class outside, sitting on the grass, standing, and walking. Our course materials and discussions will help you generate ideas to write about.

Category: 2025 Fall Semester
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