Literary Journalism encompasses a variety of genres, including portrait/biography, memoir, and investigation of the social landscape. Literary journalism uses such devices as plot, character, and spoken language to tell true stories about a variety of real worlds. By combining evocation with analysis, immersion with investigation, literary journalism tries to reproduce the complex surfaces and depths of people, places, and events. Books to be read may include: Macdonald's H IS FOR HAWK, Filkins' THE FOREVER WAR, Sack's AWAKENINGS, and Wilkerson's THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS.

In this course students will explore the sculptural object as a self contained form and as an element within a found or created environment. Traditional materials such as steel, wood, plaster and concrete will be taught concurrently with more ephemeral materials including paper, wire mesh and found materials. Ideas originating within the traditions of modernism, postmodernism, minimalism, post minimalism, installation art and public art will be introduced through slide lectures, readings and independent research. The course will culminate in an independent project.

Storytelling is an oral art form whose practice provides a means of preserving and transmitting images, ideas, motivations, and emotions. The practice of oral literature is storytelling. A central, unique aspect of storytelling is its reliance on the audience to develop specific visual imagery and detail to complete and co-create the story. The primary emphasis of this course is in developing storytelling skills through preparation, performance, and evaluation.

This course will appeal to fiction writers with a passion for exploring transitions, both chosen and unchosen, as an engine for beautiful expressions of art. It will also appeal to those with a passion for understanding how movement is controlled, and who controls it. We will look at writers who embrace these themes in many different contexts. For instance, in the context of those who move to escape being profiled for their race, religion, or sexual orientation. Those who are refugees dislocated by wars, colonialism, climate change, and poverty.

Food is about subsistence but is also so much more - the food system impacts our health, environment, economics, and cultural expression. In this class students will learn about the good, bad, and ugly of the current food system, and develop ideas to make a positive difference, on campus and beyond. Students will practice social entrepreneurship principles and skills by developing systems change ideas all the way to presenting their enterprise ideas.

This course focuses on strategies and techniques for teaching creative drama and theatre with young people in primary and secondary school settings including afterschool programming. Throughout the semester we will answer questions such as - What tools and skills are required to design and implement theatre curriculum? How is youth theatre implemented in schools? How can reader's theatre and oral interpretation of literature be utilized in classrooms? In addition, students in this course will focus on building their facilitation skills and establishing their teaching philosophy.

This studio art course offers foundational skills for those artists who wish to explore the possibilities of technology in their work. With an eye on cybernetics, students will study and produce works of interactive art that examine the relationship between humans and their computers, whether that vision is utopian, dystopian or somewhere in between. Topics to be covered include programming, interfacing with microcontrollers, and DIY electronics; no prior experience is assumed.

From anti-Apartheid protest theater to D'Lo; from Teatro Campesino to students creating work at Hampshire and beyond, theater makers have often played a key role in envisioning and embodying social change. What sparks their passion? How do they balance theatrical craft with activist vision? And how can we learn from both their successes and from the places in their work that are inconsistent, incomplete, and contradictory?

The intent of this course is to provide a supportive space for female students to acquire hands-on fabrication shop skills. Students will be introduced to the basic tools, equipment, machinery and resources available through the Lemelson Center. We will cover basic elements of design and project planning. Students will be expected to participate in discussions of their own and each other's work.

Worried about climate change and how we will live sustainably in the future? Join us to brainstorm and assess solutions together. This will be a course for first and second year students interested in learning how to evaluate potential solutions to current local and global environmental and related social problems. The course will be co-taught by faculty across the curriculum at Hampshire and will include both large lectures and breakout working groups.