Combining ideas, principles, and practices from horticulture, ecology and landscape design, we will develop and implement a sustainable landscape plan for part of the Hampshire College campus. We will first visit and come to understand several different natural plant communities in the Pioneer Valley and learn about native plants in the landscape from experts at Nasami Farm. We will learn how to identify herbs, vines, perennials, shrubs and trees, and how to place them with regard to soil, water, nutrients and canopy structure.

Students in this course will learn about the biological function of selected human organs and systems through the study of actual medical cases. Not all human systems will be covered, but students will gain a good understanding of how diseases affect the body and how they are diagnosed. Working in small teams, students will develop diagnoses for medical cases through reviewing descriptions of patient histories, physical exams, and laboratory findings.

It has been argued that puzzling is as intrinsic to human nature as humor, language, music, and mathematics. Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the liar and heap paradoxes ("This sentence is false," "Does one grain of sand change a non-heap into a heap?) have challenged thinkers for centuries; and other paradoxes have forced changes in philosophy, scientific thinking, logic, and mathematics.

This course is an introduction to fundamental principles of optics as applied to image formation and holography. Each student will have a chance to produce two white-light visible holograms in our lab, as well as to undertake an individual project dealing with three dimensional image reproduction, holography, or more broadly defined optical phenomena. Topics will include geometric and physical optics, the nature and propagation of light, vision and color, photography, digital imaging, the Fourier transform and holography. Aesthetic considerations will be part of the course as well.

This course introduces the third mostly widely used language in the United States and Canada. It is intended to give an overview of both the language and the culture of the deaf community. Emphasis will be focused on learning basic grammatical structure as well as developing receptive and expressive signing skills used in everyday conversation, and also being able to give a skit in American Sign Language. Cultural aspects of the Deaf community will be shared through readings, videotapes/DVDs, and class discussion.

A yearlong course that introduces the basics of Modern Standard Arabic, this course concentrates on all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Beginning with the study of Arabic script and sound, students will complete the Georgetown text Alif Baa and finish Chapter 13 in Al Kitaab Book I by the end of the academic year. Students will acquire vocabulary and usage for everyday interactions as well as skills that will allow them to read and analyze a range of texts.

This course is designed for students with no background in Spanish. Students are introduced to basic grammatical structures (including present, preterit and future (ir + a + infinitive tenses) and by the end of the semester should be able to communicate in verbal and written forms about personal information, daily activities, future plans and past experiences. This class focuses on speaking and using the Spanish language. Topics of study are based on assignments from the course textbook, Vistas, current and global events and the students' experiences.

This course provides students with conceptual, theoretical, technical, and historical information and experiences in sculpture at the advanced level. Materials may include clay, wood, steel, lightweight concrete, and found objects will be incorporated within a series of compounding independent projects. The primary issues surrounding sculptural objects and installations in contemporary art will be addressed. Designed for upper Division II and Division III levels.

This critique-based seminar will provide a forum for the discussion of independent visual art production at the upper Division III level. Weekly rotating group critiques and presentations will provide an ongoing forum for the discussion of Division III work. Essays written by artists and art critics will inform class discussions. Information regarding graduate school, grants, documentation, artist statements, resumes and employment in the arts will be introduced. Several visiting artists will present their work and conduct individual critiques.

This is an intermediate creative writing course that explores Defamiliarization, what David Lodge in The Art of Fiction describes as "Overcoming the deadening effects of habit by representing familiar things in unfamiliar ways." We will go about re-perceiving the ordinary through reading international novels and short stories; offering in-class presentations; writing critical response papers on the readings; writing original works of fiction; and keeping regular "sensory journal" entries in which individual, cultural, and/or universal habits are re-examined (e.g., on dress,