This course will give students background knowledge and first-hand experience in static & dynamic stretching, body-weight exercises, and natural-terrain-based movement. Each class session will include exercises to improve one's physical strength, power, flexibility, balance and coordination. The class is appropriate for those interested in improving functional strength and mobility for sports. Participants who have never been involved in a fitness program are especially welcome. This class will meet outdoors. MEETS UNTIL Nov. 18th, 2021

Students in this course will practice and learn the basics of using weighted and unweighted exercise to train flexibility/mobility, strength, speed, endurance and coordination. Students will design and receive feedback on an individualized weight training program. Each class session will include cardio warmup, stretching, and weight lifting. Participants who have never been involved in a fitness program are especially welcome, along with experienced students of weight training methods.

In this course, students will further develop their 3D modeling skills, with a focus on character modeling for games and animation. Students are expected to have at least one course, or equivalent experience in 3D Poly Modeling for games and animation using an industry standard software, preferably Autodesk Maya. The course work will include practical examples and project-based work, ideally providing useful material for student portfolios. By the end of the course, successful students will be able to model characters that can reasonably be used in games and animation.

How have broadsides, newspapers, magazines, zines, and comic books helped build political organizations, social movements, and countercultures? What does it mean to talk about culture (radical culture, cultures of resistance, or even cultural revolution) in relation to print? What is the relationship between print media and the changing technologies that have created it, from the printing press to the photocopier? And, from our vantage point in a largely digital culture (which, nevertheless, has not left print behind), what does print culture mean today?

This course will examine questions of race and representation through contemporary art, literature, and visual and cultural theory. Students will consider the complex and intertwined histories of race and representation across a range of media and genres (painting, photography, film, video and new media art, performance, short fiction, spoken word, and poetry), periods, and cultural spaces.

In this course, we will learn how to produce music pieces for public radio and podcasts. We will first learn the basics of radio journalism, including reporting, recording, scriptwriting, production, and the effective use of music and ambient sound. Students will then produce three music-related pieces -- a vox pop, a recording or song review, and a short documentary feature -- in a style consistent with public radio. Students will gain a working knowledge of sound editing techniques using Adobe Audition.

This course will explore the work of scholars, essayists, and creative writers in order to use their prose as models for our own. We will analyze scholarly explication and argument, and we'll appreciate the artistry in our finest personal essays and short fiction. Students will complete a series of critical essays across the curriculum and for varied audiences and purposes. Students will have an opportunity to submit their work for peer review and discussion. Students will also meet individually with the instructors. Frequent, enthusiastic revision is an expectation.

To register for an Independent Study with Hampshire College faculty you need to communicate the faculty member's name to your Registrar's office along with your Course Request and Instructor Permission form.

To register for an Independent Study with Hampshire College faculty you need to communicate the faculty member's name to your Registrar's office along with your Course Request and Instructor Permission form.