The peoples, philosophies, arts, and cultural resources of Africa have made and continue to make fundamental contributions to every society on earth - particularly to visionings of humanity, justice, liberation, and community. Yet, from the imperial United States, Africa is often the least considered continent, its diverse peoples and realities obscured by racist stereotypes rooted in the long and ongoing history of European colonialisms and empire.

Across the world, humans have viewed animals as: ancestors, teachers, friends, members of the family, meat, workers, pests, and threats. Everywhere, the 'human' is defined in relation to the 'animal.' Yet this relation is construed in diverse and contradictory ways. Ideas about what it means to 'be (an) animal' have long structured visions of belonging and otherness, as well as violence, racism, and oppression. As animals vanish or recede from human settlements, their images proliferate around us.

This studio course will be a digital design investigation into design objects, architecture and the built environment. In this course, students will develop and apply contemporary digital design and architecture skills, including sketches, plans, elevations, models, computer diagramming, and various modes of digital representation [TBD] to inter-disciplinary design problems. Students will explore a broad range of spatial concepts using digital mediums, including iterative, algorithmic and emergent design philosophies.

This course is geared toward Division III students and Five College seniors completing or anticipating advanced architectural or other design studio projects. The Advanced Architecture + Design Lab course provides a structured and critical creative environment for students to explore, experiment and design in both an individual and collaborative studio setting. In this course, students will develop their own individual design projects, identifying their own approach, scope and thesis, then executing their creative acts throughout the semester.

While many revolutionary movements attempt to seize State power, there have always been those who resist through withdrawal, creating their own communities, organized around a utopian vision of a more just social order. Experimenting in communalizing property, income, and resources, they aim to create the social conditions for moving away from reliance on the State, wage labor, and nuclear family, creating a prefigurative society.

Almost all political theory, despite extreme variations across cultures and time, seeks to justify submission to authority. By contrast, anarchism explicitly rejects forms of domination claimed to be central to so-called civilization, especially the State, capitalism, and religion, expanding in recent decades to include patriarchy, racism, coloniality, sexual and gender hierarchies, eurocentricism, technology, aesthetic norms, and western epistemological methods.

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.

Hampshire College has been transforming its curriculum over the last 5 years. We have created learning collaboratives (LC's), articulated important college goals and values as throughlines in our Divisional System, and shifted from paper to e-Portfolios. We anticipate that there are aspects of the program that need more explanation and resources. In this course, you will be working in teams to gather and interpret data on how the new program is working so far. What do students and faculty understand and value in this new curriculum? What makes it work?

Design Fundamentals: This is an introductory level design class focusing on understanding problems, generating ideas and developing practical elegant solutions. We will begin with a series of guided activities and projects, with the course culminating in a final independent project. Students will become familiar with a range of basic design tools and skills, such as drawing, computer aided design, model making, and prototyping in materials such as cardboard, metal and plastic.

Home is where we live in every sense, but "Home" is more than the physical structure we reside in: it is also the psychological, societal, emotional, and even the mythical. In this course we will read a variety of fiction and non-fiction and explore the importance of these spaces, be they physical or metaphysical, to the construction of "home" and more importantly, how these terms, whether we accept them wholly, shun them entirely, or experience via travel and immigration, dictate to us and others a sense of self and identity via our own writing.