Courses We’d Love To Take

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Water's Hand

Inside Art 350, where studying art history reveals insights about our changing climate.

By Cara Nixon

Looking Versus Seeing

A glimpse into Art 551: Theories of Visuality, taught by Prof. Dana Katz.

By Robin Tovey ’97

Campus Dig

Students excavate on Reed's campus in search of its lost history.

In the Zebrafish Tank

Rapidly developing eggs and eyes offer unique insight into cell behaviors.

By Prof. Kara Cerveny [Biology]

January 20, 2023

Spiritual Ecstasy

Spanish 344 uses sculpture to explore paradoxes between religion and aesthetics.

November 7, 2022

The Western

English 261 investigates a history of US film culture through the lens of the cinematic Western.

October 24, 2022

Black Freedom Struggle

MUS 360/CRES 359/HIS 390 with Prof. Mark Burford explores how music has articulated the struggle for Black Freedom from Reconstruction to World War II.

October 28, 2022

Body Politics

POL 382 with Prof. Lexi Neame explores how we and our bodies are being politicized based on race, sexuality, and gender.

October 19, 2022

The Botany of Poetry

What does a 19th-century herbarium have to teach us about plants and politics?

March 30, 2022

Autonomy and Authority

Revolutions in early modern technology and scientific thought animated discussions about power—Hum 211/212 explores how.

March 30, 2022

Cultural Encounters

Looking beyond East-meets-West, students in Hum 211/212 set out to understand how early modern cultures changed one another.

March 30, 2022

Gendered Dialogues

Hum 211/212 reframes the Renaissance through the study of women.

March 28, 2022

Dragonglass, They Call It

In Anthropology 308, obsidian offers a glimpse into ancient human lives and cultures.

March 23, 2022

The Birth of the Modern

In a series of essays, Reed's Humanities 211/212 faculty offer a glimpse into an unforgettable course.