S- New to UMass Seminar

This seminar is a welcoming, community-based course designed for all students beginning their UMass Amherst journey in the spring semester. Whether you are returning from your first semester abroad, at the Mt. Ida campus, starting your first semester of college, or transferring from another institution, this course provides an engaging space to connect, reflect, and thrive as you transition to life at UMass Amherst. Together, we will explore campus resources, academic strategies, and wellness practices while building meaningful connections with peers and campus partners.

S-Sem/Diversity & Peer Educ

This course is designed to provide a basic introduction to leadership by focusing on what it means to be a good leader. Emphasis in the course is on the practice of leadership. The course will examine topics such as: understanding leadership; recognizing leadership traits; engaging people?s strengths; understanding philosophy and styles; attending to tasks and relationships; developing leadership skills; establishing a constructive climate; listening to out?group members; educating peers; handling conflict; addressing and overcoming obstacles.

Psych of Addiction

This course explores the complex etiology of addiction through an ecosystems lens, emphasizing the interplay of biological, psychological, social, and structural factors. Students will critically examine addiction within contexts of power, oppression, and systemic inequality, focusing on how race, class, gender, and other social determinants shape addictive behaviors and recovery pathways. The course integrates foundational theories with anti-oppressive frameworks to address assessment and evidence-based treatment approaches.

Senior Honors

Admission with consent of the instructor. Spring semester. The Department.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Emphasis on independent research and writing.

Writing Poetry I

An introductory course in the writing of poetry. The most basic elements of a poem are voice and breath. How can these simple elements surprise, move, illuminate, delight and shake us, as a poem must? In this course, we will take up this question by exploring a wide range of contemporary poetic voices. Using the techniques we discover, we will work toward developing our own powerful, persuasive voices on the page.

Joshua Stumpf

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Baker
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UMASS Amherst
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UMass Dining - Bakery
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Julie E Maxwell

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Undergraduate Student Success
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Ashley R Derr

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Dalton DeForest

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Fire and Safety Officer
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UMASS Amherst
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Environmental Health & Safety
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Duncan Graham

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Athletic Department
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