Sectioned course. This course is designed for students to understand technologies used by both prehistoric cultures as well as present-day native cultures throughout the world.  Through a hands-on approach the class will provide authentic lessons in wilderness living and survival. Students build competence in ancient fire making, natural shelter building, wildlife tracking, stone tool making, woodcraft, wild edible and medicinal plant identification, primitive pottery making, basketry and other hunter gatherer strategies of living.  There is one overnight trip.

The explosion of information in the 21st century has centralized the role of curiosity and research in our everyday lives. Never have the production mills of detail been more active. But how should we research and is curiosity a good place to start? Here, we investigate the basic contours of research ethics, focusing on research subjects, cultural differences, funding, and technology. We then place these issues within the larger context of philosophies of curiosity, from ancient times to the present.

This interactive seminar for students selected to work as peer mentors with Hampshire's Transformative Speaking Program will provide an opportunity to help shape the work of a new discipline immerging at the intersections of education, politics, communications, philosophy, anthropology, and critical social thought: peer mentoring in speaking.

In the last decade, queer scholars have turned away from the study of identity and textuality to consider the role of affect and emotion in the production, circulation, and regulation of sexuality, race, and gender. This course examines a new body of work in queer studies, feminist studies, and sexuality studies that explores emotion and affect as central to operation of social, political, and economic power. Topics will include, mental illness, hormones, happiness, sex, trauma, labor, identity, and social movements, among others.

This Division III seminar will be organized around students' Division III Independent Study Projects. Students will be responsible for presenting their Division IIIs in progress several times during the semester and for providing serious, thoughtful written feedback on one another's work. We will also address general and shared issues of conducting research, formulating clear and persuasive analysis, and presenting results both orally and in writing. The primary purpose of the seminar is to provide a supportive and stimulating intellectual community during the Division III process.

This Division III seminar will be organized around students' Division III Independent Study Projects. The primary reading for the course will be one another's chapters. Students will be responsible for presenting their Division III's in progress four times during the semester and for providing serious, thoughtful written feedback on one another's work. Three students will present each week, and an hour will be devoted to each. The purpose of the seminar is to provide a supportive and stimulating intellectual community while writing your Division III's.