Latinx, USA

This course examines the long history of Latin American and Caribbean immigration to the United States. As a result of the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, Mexican nationals who resided on the newly occupied territories of Texas and much of the West became US citizens. The US intervened in the 1895 Cuban War for Independence and at the end of the war in 1898 acquired the overseas colonial territories of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam. Thereafter, Puerto Ricans, who became US citizens in 1917, migrated to the United States.

Lucy Montgomery

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Primary Title:  
Bodnar Post‐Baccalaureate Curatorial Assistant
Institution:  
Smith College
Department:  
Museum of Art
Email Address:  
lmontgomery@smith.edu

Forrest Hudes

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Prototyping Studio Manager
Institution:  
Smith College
Department:  
Interdisciplinary Studies
Email Address:  
fhudes@smith.edu
Telephone:  
+1 (413) 5854976

Learning/Play, Games & Sport

Sport matters to individuals, teams, communities, universities, countries and beyond. Sport sociologists have stated that contemporary sport is a microcosm of society; in fact it is difficult to understand contemporary society and culture without recognizing the position of games and sport (Jarvie, 2012).

Public Health and the Arts

This course considers the use of creative works in advancing public health. Inspired by the concepts of arts-focused public health, arts-based research (ABR), and narrative medicine/medical humanities, we will encounter a range of creative arts being used in health contexts. We will examine scholarly research about how qualitative ABR can create and support effective public health efforts, and community-based experience with arts-focused approaches. We will study arts-based research (ABR) as it is used across the social sciences.

S- Interior Design Studio

This is a project-based course focusing on exposing students to the nuts and bolts of interior design. This course will give students an in-depth understanding of the history and function of the design fields and the relationship between interior designers and consumer culture. We will confront the ethical challenges faced by designers in the field, including environmental and socio-cultural responsibility and the uncomfortable truth of class differences in the field. This is a hands-on course with multiple required field trips to local design showrooms.

Five College Collegium

The Five College Collegium is the flagship ensemble of the Five College Early Music Program. The ensemble is made up of experienced singers and instrumentalists from the Five College Consortium, and prepares four large scale projects in the course of the academic year for public performance. The Collegium rotates its rehearsal residency among the schools in the Five College system, and focuses on repertoire from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.

Good Speech

In Plato’s "Gorgias," Socrates argues with three sophists who practice and teach the art of rhetoric in democratic ancient Athens. To Socrates’ mind, rhetoric is a dangerous tool that aims at mere persuasion, indifferent to questions of truth or falsity. Philosophy, in contrast, aims at truth and knowledge. In this class, we will examine and participate in the ancient battle between philosophy and rhetoric. What makes for good speech?

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