Reproductive Justice

This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of reproductive health, rights and justice in the United States, examining history, activism, law, policy and public discourses related to reproduction. A central framework for analysis is how gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability and nationality intersect to shape people’s experiences of reproductive oppression and their resistance strategies. Topics include eugenics and the birth control movement; the reproductive rights and justice movements; U.S.

Modeling for Machine Learning

In the era of “big data,” statistical models are becoming increasingly sophisticated. This course begins with linear regression models and introduces students to a variety of techniques for learning from data, as well as principled methods for assessing and comparing models. Topics include bias-variance trade-off, resampling and cross-validation, linear model selection and regularization, classification and regression trees, bagging, boosting, random forests, support vector machines, generalized additive models, principal component analysis, unsupervised learning and k-means clustering.

Culture, Power & Politics

This course is a general introduction to anthropological analysis of politics and the political. Through a broad survey of anthropological texts and theories, this course explores what an ethnographic perspective can offer to the understandings of power and government. Special emphasis is placed on the role of culture, symbols and social networks in the political life of local communities.

Oh Canada!

An interdisciplinary introduction to Canada taught by Canadian Smith College faculty. Canada was the United States' best friend with the longest undefended border in the world until it was recently taunted to become the 51st state and threatened with a trade war. What, if anything, distinguishes Canadian identities from American? In each weekly session, faculty present a short lecture and then engage in dialogue with the course moderator and students. S/U only. (E)

Image, Icon, Object, Fetish

What do pictures want? Do they want to be looked at, loved, analyzed, comprehended, worshipped,reproduced, and weaponized or simply acknowledged as life forms that live in the minds of their beholders?What if they harbor a divine or satanic presence? What is the meaning constituted by their media andmaterialities? What is their power over the beholder? Do images ever die? How do objects become fetishes?How do colonization and racism destroy and change the meanings of images and objects?

Food Preservation

This course is a group independent study on methods in food preservation. We will work collaboratively to learn methods of water bath canning of vegetables, lacto-fermentation, and dehydration. Topics concerning food safety will be emphasized. Instructor permission is required, please reach out to Prof VanWyk in advance. Keywords:Agriculture, Microbiology, Nutrition

Bees

Bees originated approximately 120 million years ago, evolving alongside flowering plants and diversifying today into more than 20,000 species worldwide. This course uses bees (both managed and wild species) as a model to synthesize core concepts in biology. Through discussions on advanced topics in ecology and evolution, we will analyze the factors influencing bee population distributions, abundance, adaptations, and evolutionary relationships.

Tim Luce

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Gallery Assistant
Institution:  
Smith College
Department:  
Museum of Art
Email Address:  
tluce@smith.edu

Christopher Harris

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Lead Cook
Institution:  
Mount Holyoke College
Department:  
Dining Services
Email Address:  
christopherh@mtholyoke.edu

Luc Mukeha

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Kitchen Assistant
Institution:  
Mount Holyoke College
Department:  
Dining Services
Email Address:  
lmukeha@mtholyoke.edu
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