This course provides students with a practical and theoretical understanding of the relationship between the strength, flexibility and mobility of the body. Through experiential methods students learn how the connective tissues of the body function both as an interconnected web which facilitates movement, alignment and coordination, as well as proprioception. Students develop an individualized practice throughout the semester drawing from various movement systems and dance training methods. Students examine the relationship between strength, flexibility and agility as applied to dancing.

Fundamentals of Tennis: This class covers basic tennis techniques. Our focus will be on developing smooth confident strokes. Students will also spend time learning the rules of the game and playing. 5-College students will be graded pass/fail

Audre Lorde argues that all knowledge is mediated through the body. We all have bodies, but what does it actually mean to exist in a body? Is the body a vessel, a discursive construction, our essential self? And how can we capture this complexity in our writing? This course will explore writing about the body as a means of critical reflection on the self and the world.

This course will explore the work of scholars, essayists, and creative writers in order to use their prose as models for our own. We will 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 across the curriculum and for varied audiences and purposes. Students will have an opportunity to submit their work for peer review and discussion. Students will also meet individually with the instructors. Frequent, enthusiastic revision is an expectation.

In this course, students will enter dance and dance making as vehicles for embodied research and interdisciplinary dialogue. Over the semester, we will make dances that move alongside other disciplines. We will develop choreography while studying narrative and poetic forms, utilize visual arts tools and musical structures, explore intersections with architecture and environmental studies and more. Visits with guest artists, scholars, and students in other courses will help us launch these inquiries.

This beginning-level course invites students to develop dance, choreography, and performance practices as vehicles for thinking about and supporting new beginnings. The course will function as dance class, rehearsal, and research seminar where we will examine assumptions about whose bodies are afforded the opportunity to be expressive, and learn to trust what our bodies already know.

This course will examine how the novel has shaped-and contested-the notion of the United States as an empire from the late 19th century to the early 21st, while also complicating the notion of a nationally bound American literary canon. Most of the course will focus on three novels, each of which represents (and to some extent critiques) U.S. economic and military imperialism in the 20th century: Rachel Kushner's Telex from Cuba (2008), Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt (1984), and Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer (2015).

The Hampshire College Zine Collection (HCZC) is a non-circulating library of over 1,000 zines. It was created by student zinemakers in the 1990s. In the late 2000s, the Zine Collective, a student group, reorganized and enlarged the collection, moving it to the Harold F. Johnson Library. Now, in the 2020s, the collection has been recategorized and expanded by a new generation of students, librarians, archivists, and professors.

Choreographies of Protest: African American Social and Performance History: African American dance and music traditions have played a critical role in how African-Americans chose to convey and sustain their humanity and express joy and pain corporeally and through a particular relationship to rhythm. This class will explore the forms, contents and contexts of black dance traditions that played a crucial role in shaping American dance; focusing on how expressive cultural forms from the African diaspora have been transferred from the religious and social spaces to the concert stage.