In this course students undertake semester-long projects in theatre related subjects. Students are expected to propose, initiate, plan, manage, and complete work that may be associated with a Hampshire Theatre Program production, a Division III production, or the 2025 Division III Theatre Festival. Students may also propose projects that fall within the theatre parameters of the course. Each project will be framed by scope, planning, background research/context/information gathering, drafts or iterations, communication, reflection, and revision.

Light Art encourages us to slow down, observe, absorb, perceive, and feel. Light art is immersive, it alters our mental and emotional state. Light art truly invites us into it, not in the figurative manner that all art can, but literally. You pass through it, and it devours you. Whether it's calming, agitating, or whimsical, light can provoke thought or initiate a chuckle. Within a studio format the class will manipulate light and explore light as sculpture and environment. We will tell stories and create acts of guerilla lighting.

In this course, we will consider and study how Black feminist writing, specifically prose, operates as a mode of "living and feeling, dreaming and being," as Jennifer Nash calls it. Examining and theorizing Black life in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, Black feminism today questions theories that would reduce Black life to Black death. In refusing this reduction, Black women offer alternatives through their aesthetic choices to center "beauty, intimacy, and care . . . as fierce and rigorous practice[s] of Black survival" and thriving, as Tina Campt argues.

This course is geared toward Division III students and Five College seniors completing or anticipating advanced architectural or other design studio projects. The Advanced Architecture + Design Lab course provides a structured and critical creative environment for students to explore, experimen,t and design in both an individual and collaborative studio setting. In this course, students will develop their own individual design projects, identify their own approach, scope and thesis, then execute their creative solutions throughout the semester.

Are you critical of the limits of white feminism? Eager to analyze the imperial feminism of a novel, film, or game? Perhaps, produce a script for a podcast series or a YouTube video essay from a postcolonial feminist perspective? This course provides a supportive, structured, and collaborative environment for students to pursue their own intersectional feminist research project. We will read scholarly works that offer historical and contemporary perspectives on feminism. Students will learn the research skills needed to design, refine, and complete a substantial non-fiction writing project.

Historically, settler states and imperial regimes have disenfranchised and dispossessed racialized Others by constructing ideological frameworks that justify and obscure the ongoing violence of the colonial process. Through a close examination of film, television, music, and digital media, this course will explore how contemporary US popular culture fabricates and disseminates imperialist fantasies and settler mythologies.

In this course, we will learn how to produce music pieces for public radio and podcasts. We will learn the basics of radio journalism, including reporting, recording, scriptwriting, production, and the effective use of music and ambient sound. Students will produce two music-related pieces - a vox pop and a final project in a style consistent with public radio. Students will gain a working knowledge of sound editing techniques using Adobe Audition.

In this course, students will learn to play by ear and develop a repertoire of traditional Appalachian dance music (old time) and old time country song. Prior experience with old time music is not necessary, but a basic working knowledge of one of the following instruments is required: fiddle (violin), banjo, guitar, upright bass, mandolin, cello, harmonica, ukelele, and other appropriate instruments in consultation with instructor. While this is primarily a performance course, students will also complete regular reading/written and listening assignments.

We live in a world of randomness-not a world of chaos, but a world in which very few things can be predicted with certainty. We also live in a world of connections where random events in one part of a system propagate into other parts of the system and influence the probability of events there. Bayesian modeling places a rigorous mathematical framework around the world of randomness and connections, a framework that can be shaped by data and used to increase our ability to make predictions and test hypotheses.

Although early internet theorists imagined the World Wide Web as a wild frontier where only minds mattered, social media testifies to the lasting force of bodily inscriptions like race, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, and class. In this course, we will consider how identity shapes how we communicate, debate, collaborate, and mobilize online.