This course will prepare students to deliver STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) curriculum to female youth in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Students will learn about the history of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican culture, diaspora and migration, post-hurricane Maria life, curriculum development, and group dynamics and norms. Weekly Rosetta Stone quizzes, lesson and unit plan development, and journaling, are course requirements.

Doing experiments and gathering data are important but far from the entirety of the scientific process. Understanding and communicating experimental outcomes are very often reliant on the ability to visually represent them. In this weekly seminar, we will explore how the choices we make in representing data influence the message they communicate. We will also develop a set of good design principles for scientific figures, and learn to prepare high quality plots and graphics for use in presentations, posters, reports, theses, and papers.

The goal of this senior seminar is to introduce advanced majors to important philosophical works that lay outside the Western philosophical canon. That canon mostly includes European and American philosophy. All course readings will be from traditions outside that canon (including, for example, African philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy, and Native American philosophy) or be written by members from underrepresented groups. Students who enroll in this course will work collaboratively with the professor to help shape the course, refining together the course syllabus.

In this course we analyze the determinants and patterns of economic flows between countries (trade in goods and services, capital flows, foreign direct investment, labor) and their impact on economic growth, inequality and poverty in today's industrialized countries and developing countries. We study the theories behind different development strategies and their outcomes for structural transformation and well-being in the developing world.

The informal economy is an alternative economic model with its own logic of organizing production and exchange, accumulating wealth and realizing well-being. What happens to our understanding of development when we center the informal economy? The course will define the informal economy, analyze its strengths and weaknesses and attempt to differentiate the informal economy from the formal economy.

Mount Holyoke has recognized our role in global resource use and has a strong sustainability mission, with the goal to become carbon neutral by 2037. This course is a project-based experiential learning course that will use the Mount Holyoke campus as a case study to find solutions. Entrepreneurial teams will identify environmental hotspots on campus through use of existing datasets as well as collect additional needed data.

This course prepares students for learning and engagement in community-based settings locally and abroad -- through international internships, Community-Based Learning and/or the Global/Local Fellowship. Effective and ethical work with communities requires students to better understand the contexts of, and possible modes for, collaborative action.

This combined lecture series/seminar will expose students to a wide range of career options available in music and music-related fields. Guest speakers will present broad and varied approaches to creating a meaningful career in music, as well as sharing specific strategies, resources, and advice. This seminar will also include course readings and discussion, as well as skill building in entrepreneurial thinking and professional aspects of career development.

This course prepares students to pursue curated internships in Ghana. It provides the historical, social, economic, political and cultural context crucial for powerful student learning experiences and ethical engagement with Ghanaian organizations and communities. Guest lectures, readings, and class discussion will provide an intellectual orientation to the country, as well as contextualize student work in curated internships across a range of fields and sites.