In this class, students will acquire hands-on experience in diverse aspects of the research process in any field of Biology, from familiarizing themselves with a research topic, generating interesting questions, designing experiments, acquiring technical skills, collecting and analyzing data, to writing and/or presenting their results. To inquire about enrollment, students should fill out the application survey available on the departmental website or on my.mtholyoke.

In this class, students will acquire hands-on experience in diverse aspects of the research process in any field of Biology, from familiarizing themselves with a research topic, generating interesting questions, designing experiments, acquiring technical skills, collecting and analyzing data, to writing and/or presenting their results. To inquire about enrollment, students should fill out the application survey available on the departmental website or on my.mtholyoke.

In this class, students will acquire hands-on and/or applied experience in diverse aspects of the research process in any field of Biochemistry under the direction and supervision of a faculty advisor. Typically, these projects are related to the research program of the advisor. Student experiences often include: familiarizing themselves with a research topic, generating interesting questions, designing experiments, acquiring technical and instrumentation skills, collecting and analyzing data, writing and/or presenting their results.

In this class, students will acquire hands-on and/or applied experience in diverse aspects of the research process in any field of Biochemistry under the direction and supervision of a faculty advisor. Typically, these projects are related to the research program of the advisor. Student experiences often include: familiarizing themselves with a research topic, generating interesting questions, designing experiments, acquiring technical and instrumentation skills, collecting and analyzing data, writing and/or presenting their results.

Daily Life in Palestine: a HALF COURSE engaging essays, history, ethnography and film: This experimental half-course will focus on accounts of community life in Gaza and the West Bank, engaging work about specific communities and individuals at specific moments in time with an alertness to materiality, memory, affect, and the politics of representation. We will also reflect together on the effects of different kinds of narratives.

This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of visual art in general and drawing in particular. While focusing on perception, composition, line and materiality, students will draw from objects, the human figure, interior/exterior spaces, and from imagined sources. We will work with a variety of materials and challenge the limits of scale, by investigating the navigation of landscapes as accumulative drawn lines. We will develop strategies to visualize histories, topographies, individual perspectives and inner worlds embedded in landscape.

The writer must explore the world to write about the world accurately and honestly. This course is designed to incorporate creative writing field trips around campus and the areas immediately outside of campus. These explorative trips will provide writers with creatively immersive experiences designed to help writers generate new material for prose, CNF, and/or poetry. Activities may include hiking, journaling, image gathering, sensory scrutiny, collaborative notekeeping, plein-air drafting, field guide development, and improvisational readings.

Hybrid creative writing and literature course examining the etymology and creative practice of Magical Realism in fiction. Our topics of discussion may include cultural perspectives on the preternatural, artistic dissemination, pathways to cultural production, ethnic commodification, as well as questions on race and power related the literary arts. We will read short stories, one or more novellas, and a single novel written by a recent practitioner of the form.