The Department of Integrative Sciences and Biological Arts plays a fundamental role in formal and informal science learning, science literacy, and science engagement across the college and in the community and includes the study of social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics.
The Biological Arts and Science Engagement course explores the objective and subjective study of life and nature and examines historical and contemporary approaches to the fusion of biology and art and science-focused public engagement. This course takes an integrative and comparative approach to examine various symbiotic relationships between Science, Technology, … Read more
Start Date
05/28
Meeting Day
Tue-Sat, & Mon-Wed
End Date
06/06
Faculty
Dr. Saul Nava
Time
10am–1pm
Credits
3
Have you ever noticed that when you look at the night sky and gaze at all those mesmerizing stars, you’re actually looking back in time? Did you know that Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to Milky Way, is 2.5 million light years away from us? This means that when you look … Read more
Start Date
06/06
Meeting Day
End Date
07/19
Faculty
Dr. Hossein Alizadeh
Time
–
Credits
3
What is placemaking? If you’ve ever worked on a community art project, thought about how to make your streets safer, or wondered about how cities can be improved by better design, you’ve been involved in placemaking. This course will use the city of Boston, past, present, future, as a case … Read more
Start Date
06/17
Meeting Day
Monday thru Friday
End Date
06/28
Faculty
Max Grinnell
Time
10am–3pm
Credits
3
This Summative Elective course seeks to build a bridge between the artistic aesthetics in Cinema and the scientific rigor of naturally plausible phenomena. In doing so, and through analyses of scientific foundations of scenarios portrayed in different genres of cinema, including but not limited to sci-fi and superhero, students will … Read more
Start Date
07/08
Meeting Day
End Date
08/05
Faculty
Dr. Hossein Alizadeh
Time
First mtg, July 8, 5-8pm, ZOOM–
Credits
3
