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.

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.

The Politics of Gender, Class and Sexuality is investigated through the deconstruction of mainstream Hindi Language Films, popularly known as Bollywood Films. The intersection-alities of these social tropes are analyzed by tracing them through key time-periods of South Asia. These socio-cultural tropes will further be explored to chart the extent to which constructions and representations of gender, class and sexuality has transformed to reflect and co-construct culture and society.

This course will give an overview of two major psychological theories, attachment and psychoanalytic theories. These theories emphasize the development and derailment of relationships, self and other-wise. We will use these theoretical perspectives to explore the interpersonal, intersubjective, and intrapsychic dimensions of our relational worlds. Historical and cross-cultural aspects of these psychological approaches will be integrated throughout our discussions.

This class will study the "Domestic Slave Trade" in the modern era in the American Republic, with particular focus on the development and growth of the "Domestic Slave Trade (Interstate Slave Trade)" in the United States.

This class critically engage with the history and contemporary politics of comparative higher educational structures and reform movements across Asia. We will explore and analyze the present issues currently being discussed as reform initiatives in Asian countries. The course will look at the multitude of ways in which Asian higher educational structures are controlled by neoliberal economic policies and more specifically being influenced by educational privatization models that are increasingly the trend in the US.

All the great jazz composers/improvisers have found an individualized voice within the collective ethos of the blues form, language, and sensibility. The range of innovative and expressive work within this form is one of the glories of the music. This semester we will perform repertoire from the whole lineage, traditional and re-constructed, looking backwards and forward. Students will be challenged to heighten their skills as improvisers and as ensemble musicians. Our goal is a final ensemble concert.

This seminar will be organized around CSI students' Division III projects. The primary purpose of the seminar is to provide a supportive and stimulating intellectual community during the Division III process. Many activities will be directed towards students in their final semester of Division III, but students in their first semester are also welcome to participate. Students will present their Division III research and writing in progress several times during the semester and offer serious, thoughtful oral and written feedback on peer's work.

In this course, we will explore the relationship between methods of critical social inquiry and creative forms of writing and representation. While discipline has traditionally bound method to form in the social sciences, we ask: what forms are necessary for conveying what kinds of truths? We will consider the possibilities and limits of our research tools-the archive, the interview, ethnography-while working the borders of creative non/fiction for the kinds of knowledge to which different forms give us access.