This course teaches students to apply appropriate learning strategies to extend and refine their academic capacities with an emphasis on science, engineering and mathematics. Course content includes research on learning styles, motivation and memory as well as application in critical thinking, problem solving, active reading, and study skills. The format consists of readings and discussion, as well as weekly study groups for science, engineering and mathematics courses. Enrollment limited to 20 AEMES scholars. Grading S/U.

Arranged individually with graduate students.

By permission of the department.

A consideration of how the study of history, broadly conceived, gets translated into curriculum for middle and secondary schools. Addressing a range of topics in American history, students develop lesson and unit plans using primary and secondary resources, films, videos and internet materials. Discussions focus on both the historical content and the pedagogy used to teach it. Open to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. Does not count for seminar credit in the History major.

An advanced research and writing workshop in U.S. women's history. Students develop historical research methods as they work with archival materials from the Sophia Smith Collection (letters, diaries, oral histories, newspaper articles, government documents, photographs, etc.) as well as historical scholarship, to research, analyze and write a 25-30 page research paper on a topic of their own choosing.

Topics course. This course considers methodologies and debates in modern historical writing about gender and sexuality, with a primary focus on European history. Students will develop an understanding of significant, contemporary historiographic trends and research topics in the history of women and gender

Topics course. What did college education mean to the first generations of Smithies? This course covers the history of Smith College in a broader American and European context, surveying early modern women's education and then focusing on the period from Smith's founding in 1871 to the 1930's. Themes include debates about women's education; sexuality, sports and social life on campus; academic and faculty life; co-education vs. women's colleges; and outreach to underprivileged women.

Survey of women's and gender history with focus on race, class, and sexuality. Informed by feminist methodologies to consider how the study of women's lives changes our understanding of history, knowledge, culture, and the politics of resistance. Topics include emancipation from slavery, race and racism, labor, colonialism, imperialism, im/migration, nationalism, popular culture, citizenship, education, religion, war, consumerism, civil rights and the modern freedom movement, feminism, queer cultures, and globalizing capitalism.

This course provides a general, introductory survey of African history to 1800. The goal of the course is to provide students with a framework for understanding the political, social and economic history of Africa prior to colonial rule and for appreciating the strategies African peoples employed as they made sense of, accommodated themselves to, and confronted their changing landscapes.

A survey of European women's experiences and constructions of gender from the French Revolution through World War I, focusing on Western Europe. Gendered relationships to work, family, politics, society, religion, and the body, as well as shifting conceptions of femininity and masculinity, as revealed in novels, films, treatises, letters, paintings, plays, and various secondary sources.