This course is a methods-course for all students interested in historical inquiry that introduces students to primary research and various theoretical frameworks. We will start out by reading Gayatri Spivak's essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" that problematizes the difficulties of writing the history of disenfranchised peoples, then trace the after-life of her famous essay in South-Asian post-colonial and Latin American de-colonial historiography, and finally engage with Laura Ann Stoler's work on Dutch colonial archives and the politics of imperial intimacy.

In this course students will learn Lacanian psychoanalysis through several different experiences with reading theory and formulating their responses: through plays, an exegesis of poetry, and the construction of a fictive analytic case. Students will read primary literature on psychoanalysis, including selected texts by Freud and Lacan, as well as a gloss on these texts in the secondary literature. Because this reading is dense and difficult, students will also learn a method of reading closely that involves the use of a Lacanian dictionary to investigate key terms.

According to a famous and revealing anecdote, antisemitism means hating the Jews more than necessary. Among the most perplexing things about antisemitism is its persistence. It has flourished for over two millennia in a wide variety of settings, and, despite the rise of modern multiculturalism, seems to be on the rise again. It is no wonder that it has been called the longest hatred. Among the questions we will ask: How does it relate to other forms of prejudice? What are its origins? What forms does it take, and how do they change over time?

The U.S.-Mexico border was described by Anzaldua as the "thin edge of barbwire...where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds." Nowhere else in the world is there such physical proximity of a post-industrial nation and a developing one. While NAFTA called for the free movement of capital, goods and managerial personnel across the border, its basic assumptions are under assault by the new US administration. The Mexican body has been criminalized, stripped of rights and targeted for detention and expulsion by various forms of policing by state and non-state actors.

This course will explore the history of Harlem through a woman's lens. It will trace the historical, social, and political narrative of this historic New York neighborhood. Within this narrative, students will particularly consider the intersecting roles of women and culture in Harlem's substantial legacy. Life narratives we will interrogate include Zora Neale Hurston, Billie Holiday, Sonia Sanchez, Yuri Kochiyama, and Rosie Perez. We will conduct an interdisciplinary deep dive into the construction of all that makes Harlem a landmark space in all of its historical constructions.

Black and brown bodies have been weighed down for centuries with racial stereotypes and ideologies. These stereotypes and ideologies have constructed centuries-long narratives that construct black and brown bodies as "things" to be feared, used, killed, and forcibly contained. In essence, negative narratives around black and brown bodies have rendered black and brown people outside of humanity. In this interdisciplinary course, students will examine the history of racialization that black and brown bodies have experienced in American culture from the nineteenth century to present.

African American dance and music traditions have played a critical role in the African-American struggle to sustain its humanity and to express joy and pain corporeally and through a particular relationship to rhythm. This class will explore the forms, contents and contexts of black traditions that played a crucial role in shaping American dance; looking to how expressive cultural forms from the African diaspora have been transferred from the social space to the concert stage.

The Hampshire College Chorus is a performing ensemble that teaches vocal and musical skills. It presents a wide variety of accompanied and a cappella choral literature in several performances throughout the year. Class covers vocal technique, musicianship and music literacy, sight-singing through movable do solfege, ensemble skills, and pronunciation in various languages. All students will be expected to spend 6 outside hours per week learning and preparing their music, creating simple voice recordings, writing a few 1-2 page papers, and participating in two or more performances.

The Hampshire College Chorus is a performing ensemble that teaches vocal and musical skills. It presents a wide variety of accompanied and a cappella choral literature in several performances throughout the year. Class covers vocal technique, musicianship and music literacy, sight-singing through movable do solfege, ensemble skills, and pronunciation in various languages. All students will be expected to spend 6 outside hours per week learning and preparing their music, creating simple voice recordings, writing a few 1-2 page papers, and participating in two or more performances.

The mental health professions offer a range of methods for the treatment of mental illness and human suffering but there is often little explanation as to what the various treatments are and how it is they are thought to work. A central question this class will pursue is on what basis should one choose a psychotherapist and type of psychotherapy? We will examine what psychotherapy is from a range of perspectives with the intention of developing a moral and ethical framework through which psychotherapeutic practice can be critically understood.