These three featured FIGS are part of the broader FIG offerings for fall of 2017. To see the full list please visit the Finding the FIG For You page.

How do we use art to tell stories and to make sense of the world around us? The two courses of this FIG will together explore the role of the visual arts in the construction of both fictional and biographical narratives, with specific focus on our ideas about gender and self-hood. Many of our primary materials will be drawn from the world of comic-strips, comic books, and graphic novels - modern story-telling forms that combine the verbal with the visual arts in a unique way.

This FIG answers the question, “Where does my food come from?” through history and participation in harvesting, processing and cooking, all culminating in baking homemade pumpkin pie.

This FIG brings together computer science and geography by training you how to build maps and apps for a good cause. You will learn how to be a humanitarian mapper and how to create web apps that inform people of problems around the world. No previous mapping or programming skills required, just a love for maps and a passion for solving real world problems.