Personal Academic Tactical Help (PATH) is a course designed to help students nd information and strategies to help them achieve their academic goals. The PATH curriculum explores strategies for success and ways to understand the underlying psychology (how we think) and biology (how our brain works) that can contribute to, or distract from, success. In this course, students will learn strategies for effective learning while planning weekly applications of these strategies to their other courses. S/U only. Enrollment limited to 20.

This course focuses on the transition from high school to college-level learning by facilitating processes of exploration, awareness, empowerment, communication and community. These are strengthening qualities--necessary for academic success at Smith. The seminar offers opportunities to continue to develop these strengths. The work of cultivating these strengths within the seminar take place when given opportunities to explore and share thought processes, biases and "real" and "false" beliefs, especially as they relate to ascribed social identities as well as chosen ones.

The goal of this course is to teach emergency medical care that enables the student to (1) recognize symptoms of illness and injuries; (2) implement proper procedures; (3) administer appropriate care; (4) achieve and maintain proficiency in all caregiving skills; (5) be responsible and behave in a professional manner; and (6) become certified in Community First Aid/AED and CPR for the Professional Rescuer. Enrollment limited to 10.

This course introduces students to the field of comparative and international education. Students survey general features of educational systems and examine key educational policies and practices in select countries. They also explore a variety of theoretical approaches and research methods for understanding educational policy and practice in comparative perspective. Focus areas include: educational access, quality and equity; teacher quality and professionalism; and educational reform in a globalized context. Enrollment limited to 35.

Outdoor rock climbing is designed to give students experience climbing technical rock faces outdoors. Our semester will focus on technical rock climbing movement, safety systems including belaying, anchor cleaning, anchor set up (bolts/natural), and rappelling. The goal of this class is for students to walk away in December feeling like they can confidently approach outdoor climbing scenarios from a place of safety and risk management. This class is appropriate for both folks who have never climbed before and for more experienced climbers.

Participants in this course will inspect, assess and document trail conditions on publicly accessible lands near campus and in the Hampshire woods. We will work in conjunction with local land stewards to move toward living out land acknowledgements. Participants will clear trails of blowdown debris, maintain accessible trail widths, and address wet, damaged or eroded areas through trail relocations, dirtwork, stonework or woodwork. Participants will use saws, loppers and other hand tools. 5-College students will be graded pass/fail.

This course examines the European New Waves of the 1960s and 1970s, a pivotal era of artistic innovation and revisionism in narrative filmmaking. Focusing on the cinema of this period as a cultural text and formal experiment, we will begin by exploring the importance of Italian Neorealism and continue with a close examination of modernism in European cinema focusing on key works from France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. We conclude with a foray into the Japanese New Wave and Cinema Novo in Brazil.

This course examines agriculture as a set of ecological systems and related social aspects, focusing on organic and/or sustainable production methods, and agroecology. It refers to ecology in the sense of interactions between organisms (e.g., pests and predators; wildlife) and the larger sense of environmental impacts (e.g., pollution; climate change), along with key related social issues and solutions (e.g., power relationships; government subsidies).

This course examines agriculture as a set of ecological systems and related social aspects, focusing on organic and/or sustainable production methods, and agroecology. It refers to ecology in the sense of interactions between organisms (e.g., pests and predators; wildlife) and the larger sense of environmental impacts (e.g., pollution; climate change), along with key related social issues and solutions (e.g., power relationships; government subsidies).

This course examines agriculture as a set of ecological systems and related social aspects, focusing on organic and/or sustainable production methods, and agroecology. It refers to ecology in the sense of interactions between organisms (e.g., pests and predators; wildlife) and the larger sense of environmental impacts (e.g., pollution; climate change), along with key related social issues and solutions (e.g., power relationships; government subsidies).