The Connecticut Valley region is rich with geologic features that can be reached by a short van ride from Smith. This is a field-based course that explores geology through weekly trips and associated assignments during which we examine evidence for volcanoes, dinosaurs, glaciers, rifting continents and Himalayan-size mountains in Western Massachusetts. Students who have taken FYS 103 Geology in the Field are not eligible to take GEO 102. This class, when taken in conjunction with any other 100-level course, can serve as a pathway to the Geoscience major.

We study key texts in the diverse tradition of 20th- and 21st-century South Asian literature in English, from the early poet Sarojini Naidu to internationally acclaimed contemporary global and diasporic writers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal. Topics include: the postcolonial fashioning of identities; Independence and Partition; women's interventions in nationalist discourses; the crafting of new English idioms; choices of genre and form; the challenges of historiography, trauma, memory; diaspora and the (re)making of "home;" life post-9/11 Islamophobia.

Topics course. This comparative and interdisciplinary seminar focuses on writings by women in Italy, France, England and Spain, examining drama, narrative fiction, autobiography and political thought. How do the different genres of writing register their conceptions of the relationship between the sexes in the political and social order and envision the possibilities of crossing gender boundaries? In all cases we will be interested in exploring the historically specific workings of patriarchy in the different national cultures of early modern Europe.

Consideration of a number of contemporary women writers, mostly British, some well-established, some not, who represent a variety of concerns and techniques. Emphasis on the pleasures of the text and significant ideas-political, spiritual, human and esthetic. Efforts directed at appreciation of individuality and diversity as well as contributions to the development of fiction.

Whether in fantasy or more mainstream narratives, storylines evolve in a carefully constructed world space. Imaginary settings-whether they be Narnia or New York - involve the creation of spatially coherent locations, a backstory and a world that is peopled. It's now recognized that "setting" is a limited concept, one that cannot be separated from the intricate rules that govern the fictional world. Students examine fictional worlds and learn to build those worlds themselves, brick by brick or stone by stone.

During a time of rapid professionalization, medicine and law profoundly influenced New World ideas about what it means to be a human, a person, and a citizen, and how such definitions determined the rights of people of African descent. This course surveys 19th-century African diasporic authors' and orators' engagements with medical and legal theories on issues of slavery, emigration, crime and revolution.

(Formerly BIO 151) Laboratory sessions in this course combine observational and experimental protocols. Students examine cellular molecules, monitor enzymatic reactions, photosynthesis and respiration to study cellular function. Students also examine embryology and the process of differentiation, the structure and function of plant systems, and the physiology of certain animal systems. Prerequisite: BIO 132 (150), (normally taken concurrently)

(Formerly BIO 151) Laboratory sessions in this course combine observational and experimental protocols. Students examine cellular molecules, monitor enzymatic reactions, photosynthesis and respiration to study cellular function. Students also examine embryology and the process of differentiation, the structure and function of plant systems, and the physiology of certain animal systems. Prerequisite: BIO 132 (150), (normally taken concurrently)

(Formerly BIO 151) Laboratory sessions in this course combine observational and experimental protocols. Students examine cellular molecules, monitor enzymatic reactions, photosynthesis and respiration to study cellular function. Students also examine embryology and the process of differentiation, the structure and function of plant systems, and the physiology of certain animal systems. Prerequisite: BIO 132 (150), (normally taken concurrently)

(Formerly BIO 151) Laboratory sessions in this course combine observational and experimental protocols. Students examine cellular molecules, monitor enzymatic reactions, photosynthesis and respiration to study cellular function. Students also examine embryology and the process of differentiation, the structure and function of plant systems, and the physiology of certain animal systems. Prerequisite: BIO 132 (150), (normally taken concurrently)