This course invites students to dive into choreographic thinking, movement generation, experimentation, and dance-making research. The word choreography originally meant fixing movement onto the page through notation. Today, choreography refers to a wide variety of activities including improvisation, articulating ideas through movement, instigating public interventions, creating problems to be solved in motion, and exploring stillness.

The American understanding of Buddhist ideas and acceptance of Buddhist practices, which has been growing slowly for some time, has quickened significantly in the last few decades. In this course we examine this process, from its early phases in the 19th century, through the impact of population displacement and increasing spiritual diversity in the 20th century, to the virtual explosion in the current century of creative engagement between Buddhist ideas and a wide range of fields. The first part of the course is historical, reviewing the diverse ways Buddhism entered American culture.

Animation Workshop is a hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of frame by frame filmmaking and handcrafted cinema. Camera-less techniques, stop motion, cut-out and alternative approaches to image design and acquisition are introduced as well as 16mm camera work, hand-processing, and non-linear editing. The development of personal vision is stressed.

Video I is an introductory video production course. Over the course of the semester students will gain experience in pre-production, production and post-production techniques as well as learn to think and look critically about the making of the moving image. We will engage with video as a specific visual medium for expression with a specific focus on live-ness in time-based media in direct action, installation, and performance. The thematic focus of this course will critically engage issues of presence, process, technology, the body, and site.

How does one sustain a life in the arts? While this question looms large for lovers of the arts, a host of other questions lurk just beneath the surface: How is success defined and redefined? Where are the points of entry and who are the gatekeepers? How do performance, making, educational, community-engaged, curatorial, and scholarly practices relate to one another and to the organizational structures that support them? What is the role of place?

Modern-Contemporary Dance Technique 2 is an advanced-beginning level class, which will deepen foundational experience with modern and contemporary dance techniques. The studio will be our laboratory as we explore of a wide range of modern dance concepts with a focus on sensation, initiation, expansive use of space, efficiency, safety, connectivity and embodiment of phrase work.

This course examines the often contradictory impacts of economic development on gender relations in developing countries. The course begins with an introduction to alternative approaches to economics and to economic development, focusing on the differences between neoclassical and feminist economics. We will then go on to examine and critique the theoretical frameworks that have shaped the gender perspective in economic development.

This course will investigate the social production of space and place within urban settings and its relationship to human health and wellbeing. We will consider historical conceptualizations and contemporary conversations regarding urban space and city design and its connection to broader political, economic and sociocultural processes.

To register for an Independent Study with Hampshire College faculty you need to communicate the faculty member's name to your Registrar's office along with your Course Request and Instructor Permission form.

To register for an Independent Study with Hampshire College faculty you need to communicate the faculty member's name to your Registrar's office along with your Course Request and Instructor Permission form.