This course will explore methods of teaching art to children in grades K-6. We will focus on visual arts teaching by exploring art materials and techniques appropriate for a K-6 art program. Students will prepare themselves for behavior, academic and circumstantial situations which might arise in an elementary school classroom. The first half of the semester will include discussions and exploration of contemporary theory, issues and methods within the field of Art Education.

This workshop is designed to provide assistance to students who are already engaged in large writing projects and research papers and who would like a structured meeting time in which to write and to discuss strategies for research, writing, and revision. Special attention will be paid to the writing process: conceptualization, organization, and pacing oneself through work blocks and writing anxieties. Brief reading and writing assignments will be given and, in addition to attending class meetings, participants will be expected to meet in tutorial with the instructor.

From anti-Apartheid protest theater to Teatro Campesino; from playwright Jo Carson to students creating work at Hampshire and beyond, theater makers have often played a key role in envisioning and embodying social change. What sparks their passion? How do they balance theatrical craft with an activist vision? And how can we learn both from their successes and from the places in their work that are inconsistent, incomplete, and contradictory?

The intent of this course is to provide a supportive space for female students to acquire hands-on fabrication shop skills. Students will be introduced to the basic tools, equipment, machinery and resources available through the Lemelson Center. We will cover basic elements of design and project planning. Students will be expected to participate in discussions of their own and each other's work.

Though the use of slide projections has a long history in the theatre, it is only within the last ten years that projection design has become a significant design element in many theatre productions. With the advent of easily accessible and user-friendly digital equipment and software, as well as the brighter and more intense luminosity of projection devices, projection design (video, HD, still frame, etc.) has established its place in live performance. Certainly many choreographers and small theatre groups have made video an integral part of their work for years.

When used as an educational tool, puppetry works like magic. Many cultures have relied upon puppets for centuries to bring a story to life for educational purposes. In this class, we will explore two aspects of puppetry in education-- performance and construction-- and how to teach them. Our first project will be to create puppets for a play, Jose Cruz Gonzalez's "Lily Plants a Garden" which will be produced by the concurrent class, Take the Show on the Road. Puppetry students will go on to take the roles of artist and art teacher, actor and director, designer and educator.

In this course, contemporary ideas in sculpture will be introduced in relation to work in a range of media including clay, wood, plastic, steel, concrete, and found materials. Student generated imagery will foster discussions around representation, abstraction, the body, technology, public art, and installation art. Readings, slide lectures, visiting artists and group critiques will inform the development of independent work in three dimensions.

This course will offer a basic knowledge of machine shop practices and procedures from basic hand tools to machine tool set up and operation. The curriculum will cover proper hand tool use, measurement and layout, blue print reading, and operation or lathe and milling machine, through practical projects. An emphasis will be put on the making of prototype parts for basic product design.

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 instructor.

This course is the second semester of second-year Spanish. Students enrolled should have taken IA/LS 201 or the equivalent and be able to use the present, future, preterit, imperfect tenses, command forms and present subjunctive with some fluency. This course will solidify grammatical structures of Spanish through activities that practice all four skill areas: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Attention will be given to more sophisticated use of the subjunctive and compound tenses.