First-Year Seminars 110ID - Shapeshifting and the Idea of Change

How do we change? What happens when we cannot change and want to, or change when we would rather not? How can we induce changes, individually, collectively, environmentally to occur? This seminar examines the figure of shapeshifting -- bodies and beings that change their shapes- -- to think about how we alter our material reality and language, or how it alters us. Special attention will be given to fiction and creative nonfiction narratives of transition, illness/disability, environmental disaster, and afro-futurism.

Mount Holyoke first-year students only, by placement.