This course will cover the material needed for certification by the American Red Cross is First Aid. Lecture and video instruction combined with skills practice and testing will prepare each student to cope with various injury and illness situations. This course wil meet only on the advising day, February 14. This class is not intended to fulfill any academic requirements. Students must also register at the teamsport web site http://new.teamsportsinfo.com/customers/hc-opra/2012-2013/ to pay the $30 lab fee.

This course covers the second semester of beginning Chinese (LS 111). The course will continue to use the Integrated Chinese textbook series and will cover speaking, reading, and writing Chinese characters. Required books are: Integrated Chinese Textbook Level 1, Part 2; Integrated Chinese Workbook Level 1, Part 2; Integrated Chinese Character Workbook, Level 1, Part 2. Students who complete this class will be able to continue studying Chinese at the intermediate level at any of the other Five Colleges or on the Hampshire Summer program in Hefei.

Students entering this class will be expected to have completed Integrated Chinese Level 2 or its equivalent (approximately two and a half years of college level Chinese). The main text for the semester will be Reading into a New China. Emphasis will be placed equally on speaking, reading, and writing. Pre-requisite: completion of Integrated Chinese Level 2 or equivalent.

Rather than just showing you how to "take good photos," this course will challenge you to investigate, through practice, how photographic images "make" meaning. Project-based assignments allow for developing personal content while advancing technical skills. Lab sessions will introduce current digital workflow practices including image capture, color management, digital darkroom software techniques, asset management and archival inkjet printing.

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.

Spoken by the largest number of Jews for the longest period of time in the most countries all over the world of all Jewish languages, Yiddish is the key to understanding Eastern European Jewish life. This course is a continuation of Beginning Yiddish I, and it enables students to acquire further proficiency with Yiddish language and culture. Students will continue developing speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in Yiddish, using textbook materials, original texts, audio-visual sources, and group work emphasizing student participation.

Only one percent of the earth's water is available for human consumption, and one single flush toilet can contaminate thousands of gallons in just one year of operation. Is there an alternative? Students in this object-based studio explore existing alternatives to flush toilet technologies, and develop their own in plans and a 3D model, with a prototype in mind as the ultimate goal. This is a "real-life" design studio. At the end of the semester students will be enabled to build an alternative toilet that is operational.

Students will participate in various outdoor activities and learn about the seven principles of Leave No Trace and techniques for disseminating low impact skills during backpacking, rock climbing, and canoeing. Trainer courses are designed for students who are educators, outdoor professionals and is a great skill to have if you work at a school, camp, park or wilderness area. Successful graduates of this course learn the concepts of Leave No Trace and gain the skills to teach these techniques and ethics to their clients, friends and family.

This course will familiarize the student with some of the basic principles and techniques of mechanical, electrical, chemical, civil, aerospace, and improvisational engineering. Emphasis on general problem-solving skills, brainstorming, and creativity in rapidly designing and testing prototypes; in addition, students are encouraged to find connections between disparate engineering disciplines. This will be a project-based course; the majority of class time will be spent experimenting and building.

This class will blend practices of both applied design and social entrepreneurship using human centered design processes. We will research, conceive, design and build testable prototypes and/or systems that have the potential to create economic, social and/or environmental value. We will collaborate with local community partners, observing and listening carefully to what they want and need.Our intention is to set a tone of innovation and creativity, combining techniques of design thinking with an entrepreneurial mindset and the fabrication resources of the Center for Design.