Students will design, develop, and publish a digital game in a single semester under the leadership and guidance of Professors Fay and Kurdali. Though the professors will provide team leadership and game direction, the students will be the ones creating the game, including game design, concept art, storyboards, modeling, rigging, animation, shading, lighting, compositing, game programming, tool programming, project management, audio design, marketing, and publishing.

The goal of this course is to develop a community of researchers/writers in the field of animal behavior. Together we will read proposals and drafts of the students in the group, along with related academic literature in their areas of study. Discussions will cover methodological issues of study design along with conceptual issues underlying the research questions, informed by the scientific literature.

Many people have opinions about how to improve education, yet few know about education change research. Improving education requires evidence gathered systematically through research. Students will learn methods for conducting research on learning and teaching, methods that yield evidence leading to educational change. This course is for Div II/III students; prior education coursework is necessary. Methodologies learned will include field notetaking, interviewing, surveying, pre-post assessments, and overall design-based approaches.

This course explores central questions in the philosophy of education: What is education, and what is it for? What is the meaning and value of education to individuals and society? What should the aims of education be? Are there things that everyone should know or be able to do? Should education promote moral virtue? What are alternative methods of education? How should educational opportunities and resources be distributed? What roles should the individual, family, community, and state have in education? What should the role of education be in democratic societies?

Millions of people worldwide have been inspired to pursue science by shows written and hosted by Carl Sagan, David Attenborough, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and others. What makes their videos appealing? How do they communicate complex scientific ideas in a simple language? In this course, students will learn how to develop ideas for science videos, write a script, and produce a final product for YouTube. The class will focus on a single theme, such as life on Mars, and then coordinate in the production of videos related to the topic.

This course will explore how language and space can lead to an intensely private experience that can overflow our efforts to compass it in rational systems of thought. This is sometimes called "absurdism". We will explore this notion by first considering the literary dark magician, Daniil Kharms, whose work was censored due to it being absurd. We will analyze his work through Discourse Coherence Theory, which provides a framework for analyzing the commonsense reasoning that humans engage in when attempting to interpret language. We will then extend this framework to space.

In recent years, as a result of interactions between cognitive psychology and education, we now have many ideas about learning, and approaches to teaching and assessment in formal and informal settings. We also have strong evidence that implementing these ideas could really improve learning for all children and youth, including those who from under- resourced communities.

The goal of this class is to build a long-term database of animal diversity on Hampshire property. Our environment, both local and global, is dramatically changing, and it is of utmost importance to document biodiversity now before we lose species we may not have realized were here. Students in this exploratory class will work together to learn to identify and document our local fauna. We will spend a good deal of time exploring our woods to learn together about what is there.

In this introductory course, students will explore the history, practices, career options, and problems of environmental education - educational efforts promoting an understanding of nature, environmentally responsible behavior, and protection of natural resources. Shifts in environmental education research foci, relationships to current and past environmental challenges (e.g., air pollution, species loss, climate change), and differences between U.S. and international efforts will be discussed.

This course is designed to give students a strong introduction to computer programming, with an emphasis on programming games. No prior programming experience is necessary. As the title reveals, this course particularly invites self-identified women, though all interested students are of course welcome! We will consider (and hopefully impact) the current gender imbalances in the professional world of game development. The course will include guest interviews with notable women in game programming.