ST-Soils Lab

This class is specifically for those students who have already taken STOCKSCH 106, and who now wish to complete the lab component of the STOCKSCH 105 class that is required for all students completing the major or minor in this program.

Puzzles and Paradoxes

Puzzles can be used to discover mathematics, and to illuminate, motivate, and teach it. Paradoxes perplex and sometimes force foundational philosophical changes. In those contexts we'll consider Zeno's paradoxes of motion, the Tower of Hanoi (its "legend" is fraud); SET, Sudoku, the Bridges of Konigsburg, the Banach-Tarski paradox, Arrow's Theorem, Godel's Theorem, and puzzles created by Zeno, Archimedes, Fibonacci, Lewis Carroll, Sam Loyd, E. Rubik, Martin Gardner, Raymond Smullyan, Stewart Coffin, and John H. Conway.

Puzzles and Paradoxes

Puzzles can be used to discover mathematics, and to illuminate, motivate, and teach it. Paradoxes perplex and sometimes force foundational philosophical changes. In those contexts we'll consider Zeno's paradoxes of motion, the Tower of Hanoi (its "legend" is fraud); SET, Sudoku, the Bridges of Konigsburg, the Banach-Tarski paradox, Arrow's Theorem, Godel's Theorem, and puzzles created by Zeno, Archimedes, Fibonacci, Lewis Carroll, Sam Loyd, E. Rubik, Martin Gardner, Raymond Smullyan, Stewart Coffin, and John H. Conway.

Local Ecology and Agriculture

This course is primarily for a relatively small group of more advanced students to pursue field studies in local agriculture and ecology. Our nearby area is actually quite diverse and interesting in its variety of ecological habitats and farming systems, and well worth knowing and studying. We will be outside a lot as weather permits and visit several nearby habitats and sites (e.g., mountaintops, flood plains, and bogs), farms, and research sites and institutes. We will also make use of our own Hampshire College farm, forests and fields, including the forest canopy walkway.

Dance Studies Research Seminar

"Dance Studies Research Seminar" offers structured support for Division III students for whom dance prominently intersects with their area(s) of concentration. Working collectively with other participating Division III students, and facilitated by two members of the dance faculty, students will set and track goals, read about and discuss research methods, share emerging work-in-progress (both art-making and written research projects), and manage project logistics.

Thru Hiking

Students are required to attend 2 of the 3 weekend overnight trips: 5 PM Friday 9/28 to 1 PM Sunday 9/29. 5 PM Friday 11/1 to 1 PM Sunday 11/3. 5 PM Friday 11/22 to 1 PM Sunday 11/24. Thru-hiking is the activity of long distance overnight travel on foot, typically using carrying a backpack and following an established trail or route. Have you ever dreamed of hiking or backpacking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, or another long distance trail?
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