This course examines the wave of trans fiction and film created following the so-called "transgender tipping point" of 2014, from authors such as Akwaeke Emezi, Camila Sosa Villada, Imogen Binnie, Torrey Peters, and others.

This intro-level workshop is for students interested in pursuing all types of narrative/prose fiction, whether literary fiction or genre fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, etc). We'll spend some time as a community critically examining short fiction from authors such as Carmen Maria Machado, Octavia Butler, Lauren Groff, Anita Desai, Angela Carter, Jorge Luis Borges, and others, in order to understand how they make use of character, form, structure, place, voice, and other fundamental tools of fiction-writing.

Learn the basics of environmental microbiology and how tiny single cell organisms dominate the Earth! This course will explore the physiology and metabolism of individual organisms before expanding to how microbial communities interact and control biogeochemical cycling. Towards the end of the course, we will explore applications of environmental microbiology from bioremediation of wastewater to fermentation byproducts in foods. We will occasionally have hands-on demonstrations and fundamental lab work.

Overview of topics within environmental engineering and how humans have built infrastructure around us. Learn how to leverage chemical, biological, and physical processes to clean the environment. Course topics will span from drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, solid waste management, hazardous waste management and more. There will be several opportunities for field trips to visit local infrastructure. Throughout the course, we will explore how our approaches to environmental engineering infrastructure intersect with equality and social justice in the community.

Disease ecology is the ecological study of host-pathogen interactions within the context of their environment and evolution The effects of emerging wildlife diseases are global and profound. They can result in economic and agricultural impacts, declines in wildlife populations, ecological disturbance and even the loss of human lives. Disease dynamics are governed by species interactions and the abiotic environment. We will consider the synergistic effects of globalization, climate change, and agriculture on the spread of pathogens, and rely framework of One Health.

The plant kingdom is vastly diverse, and this diversity structures ecosystem function and ecological interactions within communities. How do scientists study plants, and how does society influence the interpretation and communication of these scientific findings? We will cover topics in plant structure and function, ecology, and consider the intersection of sexism and pollen, xenophobia and invasion ecology, and sentience and botany.

The Hampshire College Zine Collection (HCZC) is a non-circulating library of over 1,000 zines. It was created by student zinemakers in the 1990s. In the late 2000s, the Zine Collective, a student group, reorganized and enlarged the collection, moving it to the Harold F. Johnson Library. Now, in the 2020s, the collection has been recategorized and expanded by a new generation of students, librarians, archivists, and professors.

Due to the growing availability of "big data" and the high computational speeds and storage capacity of modern computers, data science has become a highly influential field that impacts every aspect of our lives. Endeavors as disparate as facial recognition, climate modeling, and training computers to write poetry are linked by the fact that in each case researchers are using computers to find and exploit patterns in data. These patterns can be used to make predictions, test hypotheses, and to simulate real-world phenomena to an eerily accurate degree.

Agent-based modeling is a powerful, flexible modeling technique with applications in many fields including the social, biological, and physical sciences as well as the visual arts. This course will introduce students to the theory of complex systems and empower them to utilize the software NetLogo to create their own simulation models. Students will learn basic modeling and simulation principles and skills including how to use data to fit and validate models. Students will also learn fundamental coding skills and will code multiple models motivated by real-world problems.