Environmental Earth Science: In this course we will investigate how the natural world operates and examine how society interacts with Earth. Class discussions and weekly projects will introduce the major concepts and techniques of earth science, environmental sciences, and resource management, providing grounding in the geosciences and forming a basis for the interdisciplinary study of environmental topics.

Wherever one looks, one finds an association between wealth and health. The greater an individual, family or large social group's access to resources and political power, the better their health and nutrition. As well, how, how well, and why this connection applies also varies. In this course we will start with the data showing the connections between inequalities and measures of health such as life expectancy and infant mortality, exploring the US over time and with more equitable countries.

An introduction to chemistry, including macroscopic properties of matter, composition and stoichiometry, atomic and molecular structure, bonding, and the behavior of gases. We will emphasize the understanding and prediction of chemical behavior, as well as the manifestation of chemistry in the world around us in biological, environmental, and practical contexts. Laboratory work will include quantitative, qualitative, and instrumental analysis and will culminate in a project of students' own design.

The 20th century was a period of great upheaval for Jews in all parts of Europe, as they faced transformative pressures of modernization, nationalism, revolution, war, and exile; the literature written by Jews in western, eastern, and central Europe is amazingly rich and diverse. The Jewishness of their writings will not be the central theme, but will serve as the thread to connect a stunning variety of imaginative texts written in a plethora of languages (French, German, Yiddish, Polish, Hungarian, Russian).

The content of this course deals with issues of race and power. This seminar will examine the history of US immigration from the founding of the American nation to the great waves of European, Asian, and Mexican immigration during the 19th and early 20th centuries, to the more recent flows from Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. In addition to investigating how these groups were defined and treated in relation to each other by the media, we will consider the following questions: Who is "American"? How does the American Dream obscure US settler colonialism and slavery?

An independent study is a semester-long academic endeavor planned in conversation between a student (sometimes a group of students) and a faculty member. Faculty permission is required. In some cases there may be an additional person(s) from the Hampshire community participating in the independent study as a mentor. Hampshire recommends four credits for a successfully completed independent study. It is equivalent to taking a course in terms of academic rigor and time commitment (generally 180 hours of academic engagement) and counts towards full-time enrollment for Hampshire students.

An independent study is a semester-long academic endeavor planned in conversation between a student (sometimes a group of students) and a faculty member. Faculty permission is required. In some cases there may be an additional person(s) from the Hampshire community participating in the independent study as a mentor. Hampshire recommends four credits for a successfully completed independent study. It is equivalent to taking a course in terms of academic rigor and time commitment (generally 180 hours of academic engagement) and counts towards full-time enrollment for Hampshire students.

An independent study is a semester-long academic endeavor planned in conversation between a student (sometimes a group of students) and a faculty member. Faculty permission is required. In some cases there may be an additional person(s) from the Hampshire community participating in the independent study as a mentor. Hampshire recommends four credits for a successfully completed independent study. It is equivalent to taking a course in terms of academic rigor and time commitment (generally 180 hours of academic engagement) and counts towards full-time enrollment for Hampshire students.

We will lavish our attention on the photograph: what it is, what it has been, what it is in the process of becoming, but also what people all over the world have hoped or dreamed it could be or become.

We will begin this media studies project-based course with discussion, reading, and short writing assignments about three key concepts in media studies--representation, affect, and ideology--before moving into the project-based component of the course. Students can use a variety of sources and expressive modes to engage with the social, political, and cultural power of media, broadly defined. Who is represented, by whom, where, how, and with what effects? What dominant ideologies do media promote, facilitate, and cultivate?