Whether you are starting your Smith journey, embarking on or returning from an immersive experience abroad, weaving your interests through a Concentration or self-designed major, or wrestling with expressing what a Smith education has prepared you to do, this is the class for you. Test different integrative paths of your own design, tell your own story, and create a digital portfolio to showcase

Whether you are starting your Smith journey, embarking on or returning from an immersive experience abroad, weaving your interests through a Concentration or self-designed major, or wrestling with expressing what a Smith education has prepared you to do, this is the class for you. Test different integrative paths of your own design, tell your own story, and create a digital portfolio to showcase

Whether you are starting your Smith journey, embarking on or returning from an immersive experience abroad, weaving your interests through a Concentration or self-designed major, or wrestling with expressing what a Smith education has prepared you to do, this is the class for you. Test different integrative paths of your own design, tell your own story, and create a digital portfolio to showcase

Topics course. Limited to AMS majors: This AMS seminar investigates genealogies of feminist / queer of color theorizing, focusing on queer of color critique. This critical methodology provides; incisive analysis of American systems of racism, sexism, heterosexism (including binary gender), ableism, settler-colonialism, classism; and creative interventions towards justice. Readings include both the latest scholarship (e.g. Gossett, Gumbs) and key foundational texts (Ferguson, Hong, Reddy, Davis).

This course engages the world of popular Indian cinema, Bollywood and beyond. We integrate scholarly articles on the subject, lectures, in-depth discussions, and of course, film screenings to explore the history and political economy of India and South Asia. Students analyze how this vital cultural form deals with the politics of gender, class, caste, religion and Indian nationalism.

This course engages the world of popular Indian cinema, Bollywood and beyond. We integrate scholarly articles on the subject, lectures, in-depth discussions, and of course, film screenings to explore the history and political economy of India and South Asia. Students analyze how this vital cultural form deals with the politics of gender, class, caste, religion and Indian nationalism.

What does it mean to de-colonize a museum? How does such work happen, and who actually does the “decolonizing”? With these questions as guide, this class considers Latin American museums—of art, natural history, local and other histories—through comparative lenses. Decolonizing conversations are taking place in many parts of the world, and so this course addresses Latin American and Latinx projects in relation to those taking place in Africa and the Pacific Islands, in western Europe and North America.

This seminar introduces students to the fundamentals of science communication for a range of public audiences through written, oral, and visual media. Students will become effective science communicators and learn the skills needed to translate and articulate complex information. Students will select a research topic of their own choosing to focus on throughout the semester.

When it comes to sex and gender, how do power dynamics promote or thwart freedom, belonging and love? As #MeToo and other movements challenge cultures of oppression, how do such struggles relate to the ecological, capitalist, and humanitarian crises that threaten life as we know it? Learning from feminisms and post-colonial theories, this course questions persistent structural binaries: mind/body, human/animal, man/woman, culture/nature.