This course will explore the critical, often hidden, struggles for autonomy and equitable labor practices among household (domestic) workers, and workers in home health care, hospitals, day care centers and the broader service economy. Care workers have developed some of the most creative and transformative labor organizing strategies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This course is an exploration into the ways that Black artists from around the diaspora have used the stage and the art of storytelling as a vehicle for liberation and self-determination. We'll be looking at Black playwrights and storytellers from different time periods and investigating how they each explored themes of race, gender, sexuality, politics, joy, love, and liberation.

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?

The Art Barn Studio Colloquium will address and ask participants to critically negotiate the importance of curatorial thinking. The colloquium is mandatory for students who were granted individual studio space in the Arts Barn;, students who maintain an independent studio practice may apply to the colloquium for a limited number of additional spaces.* Students will learn through readings, reviews of exhibitions/sites, and studio visits, how to best take advantage of their studio spaces and also apply gained knowledge to their projected final thesis exhibitions.

In this edition of Photo I, the Fall 2024 semester will be broken up into two thematic explorations. In the first, we will explore the potential of the medium to act as a mirror in reflecting our thoughts, feelings, and related states of our subjective experience. Building off this experience, the second half of the semester will focus on the world in which we find ourselves. This is primarily an analog-based course with work produced for it using a 35mm film camera and images printed in a darkroom setting.

If you have the desire to learn to swim, here is the perfect opportunity! This class will focus on helping the adult swimmer better understand and adapt to the water environment. Students will work on keeping the "fun in fundamentals" as they learn floats, glides, propulsive movements, breath control, and personal safety techniques. Swimming strokes will include: breast, freestyle and elementary backstroke. Adults with little to no experience will find this to be an excellent introduction. 5-College students will be graded pass/fail.

Outdoor rock climbing is designed to give students experience outdoors on natural rock faces with an emphasis on risk management, outdoor climbing technique, and outdoor-specific rope systems. Students will walk away from this course with the skills to be a confident "second" in outdoor climbing spaces. We will climb at local, outdoor locations. will spend time at the Hampshire rock wall and local rock climbing gyms with the goal of becoming more efficient climbers.

This class helps students become effective peer writing tutors. They explore the theoretical and practical relationships among writing, learning and thinking by reading in the fields of composition studies, rhetoric, literacy studies, cognitive psychology and education.

Offered as WRT 136 and ENG 136. In this intellectually rigorous writing class, students learn how to craft compelling "true stories" using the journalist’s tools. They research, report, write, revise, source and share their work—and, through interviewing subjects firsthand, understand how other people see the world. The course considers multiple styles and mediums of journalism, including digital storytelling. Prerequisite: One WI course. Enrollment limited to 16.