Description of course and expectations can be found in the dance department graduate book.

What does it mean to be a successful child or have a successful childhood in modern society today? This interdisciplinary course helps students develop a theoretically, historically and culturally informed perspective on childhood and child development and use this knowledge to think about and address the dilemmas that confront children and families in modern societies. Students examine how the experience of childhood is shaped by the interplay of family, schooling and wider culture by drawing on directed field observations and experiences. Prerequisite: 235 or permission of the instructor.

Topics course. This course explores a range of critical and activist perspectives that rethink Latin American feminist theories and praxis in light of new cultural and social identities that have emerged from indigenous, autonomous and transnational social movements under neoliberal conditions. The course will use a case study approach, focusing on specific feminist nodes in distinct cultural regions that will provide the opportunity to study how particular feminist concerns are defined, critiqued, revised, appropriated and/or rejected from within these contemporary social locations.

This two-semester course leverages students? previous coursework to address an engineering design problem. Students work on a design project sponsored by an individual member of the engineering faculty. Regular design meetings, progress reports, interim and final reports, and presentations are required. Prerequisites: EGR 220, 270, 290 and at least one 300-level engineering course, plus a clear demonstration of intent and a faculty sponsor. Corequisite EGR 410D.

This seminar applies fundamental principles of thermodynamics, electrochemistry and semi-conductor physics to the design, modeling and analysis of renewable energy power systems. Concepts to be covered in this course include extraterrestrial radiation, solar geometry, atmospheric effects, polarization curve characteristics, system components and configurations, stand-alone and hybrid system design and load interactions. This course applies these theoretical concepts in a laboratory setting involving the design and testing of fuel cell and photovoltaic systems.

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 that geology through weekly trips and associated assignments during which we will 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.

This interdisciplinary colloquial course will explore the historical and theoretical perspectives of African American women from the time of slavery to the post-civil rights era. A central concern of the course will be the examination of how Black women shaped, and were shaped by the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality in American culture. Not open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 25.

An introduction to some of the major perspectives, themes, and issues in the field of Afro-American studies. Our focus will be on the economic, social and political aspects of cultural production, and how these inform what it means to read, write about, view and listen to Black culture.

An advanced research and writing workshop in U.S. women's history. Students develop historical research methods as they work with archival materials from the Sophia Smith Collection (letters, diaries, oral histories, newspaper articles, government documents, photographs, etc.) as well as historical scholarship, to research, analyze and write a 20-25 page research paper on a topic of their own choosing.

Survey of women's and gender history with focus on race, class, and sexuality. Draws on feminist methodologies to consider how study of women's lives changes our understanding of history, knowledge, culture, and the politics of resistance. Topics include labor, racial formation, empire, im/migration, popular culture, citizenship, education, religion, medicine, war, consumerism, feminism, queer cultures, and globalizing capitalism. Emphasis on class discussion and analysis of original documents with short lectures.