Humanities and Fine Arts 191HFA22 - FYS- We Are the We

What does it mean to be a part of a community? There are over 30,000 students at UMass-Amherst and you are one of them: you are one vibrant part of a campus community of thinkers, researchers, makers, inventors, activists, change-makers, organizers, designers and seekers. How do you see yourself in this landscape? What are your strengths, curiosities, agencies and passions? How do you want to contribute? Who do you want to learn from and why? What are the future worlds you want to see? Let's find some answers, together. Each week we will map the campus in a different fashion both physically and digitally, finding sites for thinking, making, action, organizing and engagement. Our course focuses on cooperation and collaboration, solidarity economy networks, asset mapping, coalition making, grassroots organizing and more to situate ourselves within UMass and beyond.

Open to first-year Humanities and Fine Arts Exploratory Track students and first-year HFA Majors.