Students interested in independent study in dance (Dance 295) must provide convincing reasons for pursuing independent work and be self motivated and directed in their work. Students are responsible for choosing and receiving approval from a faculty advisor, with whom workload expectations, meeting times, and outcomes will be mutually negotiated and set for the semester. Credit load (1-4) will reflect the workload level and outcomes of the proposed study (e.g., a 2-credit independent study requires a minimum of 2-4 hours of outside work each week.

Hampshire's Professor Emerita of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology, Annie G. Rogers asserts, "Every sentence we speak is continually surrounded by what is not said and may in fact be unsayable...

In this course, students will learn to create dynamic worlds with diverse populations, mythology, and characters for games, animation and other media. Students will use a variety of techniques and processes to develop and design worlds for their concept. World building gives a rich and dynamic canvas on which to develop characters, obstacles, motivations, macro and micro issues, and conflicts and resolutions. Such practice allows for more robust and consistent worlds in which to set singular or serial events in linear and non-linear ways.

In this course, students will focus on workflow and techniques for creating polygonal surface models for game assets, character models and 3D environments for animation and video games, as well as 3D prototyping for physical game assets. This class will focus on poly resource management, modeling workflow and the creation of 3D assets from conception/reference art through modeling, basic materials, lighting and rendering.

(Cannot be used for a Division I requirement.) The Five College Collegium is the flagship ensemble of the Five College Early Music program. The Collegium is an ensemble of singers and instrumentalists that rehearses and performs four projects per academic year, one each per half-semester, drawing on the vast and varied repertory of European-style polyphony of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.