This course replicates the fast-paced, collaborative spirit of a theater ensemble at the beginning of a rehearsal process. Over the course of the semester, we'll begin work on many plays - both classical texts and plays by visionary playwrights from diverse backgrounds and identities who are illuminating and redefining contemporary theater (Plays will be selected by both the instructor and by students).

The use of the tablet for creative visual investigation is rapidly becoming a studio tool. This experimental course will focus on the exploratory use of the digital tablet as a means of art making. Students will be encouraged to be inventive and self-directed as they work collaboratively and individually on projects that will reveal their own potential vocabulary using a digital tablet. Students are expected to provide their own digital tablet of their choosing for drawing.

The age-old search for the Divine, the Sacred, the Great Spirit, the Source, the Goddess, the Ancestors, among other names, has been the subject of countless literary texts, whether it is the Buddhist-inspired poetry of the Beats, the gothic Catholicism of Flannery O'Connor's short stories, the visions of Black Elk, the confessions of Augustine. In this analytical and creative writing course we'll examine varieties of spiritual experience as they are represented in both past and present literature, including poetry, fiction, memoir, and biography.

This course will explore the work of scholars, essayists, and creative writers in order to use their prose as models for our own. We'll analyze scholarly explication and argument, and we'll appreciate the artistry in our finest personal essays and short fiction. Students will complete a series of critical essays in the humanities and natural sciences and follow with a personal essay and a piece of short fiction. Students will have an opportunity to submit their work for peer review and discussion; students will also meet individually with the instructors.

This course is intended for Div III and advanced Div II students who are committed to proposing, developing, or carrying-through research projects involving techniques commonly used in a molecular biology lab. Students will integrate advanced approaches, protocols, and strategies for molecular biology.

This course is primarily for a relatively small group of more advanced students to do field studies in terrestrial ecology, field trips, and readings from primary literature. We will use the Hampshire College forests and fields, the canopy walkway, farm center, and off-campus sites as our study areas. We'll be outside as much as possible early on, and visit several habitats and locations of interest.

This hands-on course provides an overview of the statistics and data analyses commonly used in epidemiologic and medical research. The primary goals are to learn to develop a testable hypothesis, identify appropriate analyses and correctly interpret and communicate the results, orally and in writing. Students will spend the first half of the semester analyzing health datasets of various sizes and structures, and gaining practice with basic statistical tests (t-test, ANOVA, chi-square, regression) and measures of effect (relative risk, odds ratio).

Ecological genetics lies at the interface of ecology, evolution, and genetics. This discipline concerns the genetics of ecologically important traits (those traits that relate to fitness and adaptation) and primarily focuses on phenotypic variation and evolution. This course will provide a foundation for how and why traits such as cryptic coloration in butterflies persist and what variations in mice populations allow some individuals to survive the winter.

This fermentation science course is designed to familiarize students with the current topics and procedures in brewing science. This upper-level course requires previous course and laboratory work in chemistry and microbiology. The course will focus on the study of the fundamental and applied sciences related to the use of microorganisms as production and processing agents. Specifically, we will examine the technological and biochemical aspects of the brewing process, including raw materials, malting, mashing, fermentation and maturation.

Calculus provides the language and some powerful tools for the study of change. As such, it is an essential subject for those interested in growth and decay processes, motion, and the determination of functional relationships in general. Using student-selected models from primary literature, we will investigate dynamical systems from economics, ecology, epidemiology and physics. Computers are essential tools in the exploration of such processes and will be integral to the course. No previous programming experience is required.