Dance "Community Crossover"

Education 205f  Race, Class, Culture, and Gender in the Classroom

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(Writing course) Offers a forum for the critical study of controversial issues confronting education today; the political, social, cultural, and economic factors that underlie those issues; and how those issues relate to contemporary society. Focuses on the interplay of race, class, culture, and gender in the schools and how that interplay influences the lives of students, teachers, and the quality of the educational experience for all. Topics include racism in the educational system; gender inequities in schools; homophobia in educational settings; the
effects of poverty on educational opportunity; and education that is multicultural. Requires a field component in a school or community-based setting.

Ms. Lawrence
Prereq. Psychology 100 or 110 and permission of instructor; 2 meetings (75 minutes) and prepracticum (3 hours per week); 4 credits; enrollment limited to 25

Education 220fs Foundations of Multicultural Education

This course offers a study of the historical, theoretical, and philosophical perspectives that are the underpinnings of multiculturalism in education. Through selected readings, class discussion, and oral presentations, the course will examine the epistemological elements of race, class, culture, and gender in the classroom. Requires a field component in a school or community-based setting.

Ms. Green
Prereq. Psychology 100 or 110; 2 meetings (75 minutes) and prepracticum (3 hours per week); 4 credits

Environmental Science 101f Introduction to Environmental Studies

This course introduces students to the complexity of selected environmental problems, attempts to foster an understanding of their origins, and discusses potential solutions. In addition, it introduces basic ecological principles; economic, political, and cultural concepts; and their importance to understanding and solving environmental problems.

This course does not satisfy a distribution requirement.

2 meetings (75 minutes); 4 credits

Environmental Studies 220 Environmental Science

Environmental Studies 390 Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies

Fall 1999 semester meeting times: TU 1-3:50

This is the capstone course of the environmental studies major. The course explores linkages among the diversity of disciplines that contribute to the environmental studies major; illustrates how these disciplines are used in environmental decision making; enables students to inform one another's roles as environmentalists; and provides students with opportunities to develop individual and cooperative projects that can be developed into senior theses in environmental studies. See the annual spring supplement for topics, which change from year to year.

This course does not satisfy a distribution requirement.

Prereq. sr major, or sr, jr with permission of instructor; 1 meeting (3 hours); 4 credits

Geology 321 Palentology

Fall 1999:  Tuesday-Thursday 8:35-9:50, Lab Thursday 1-3:50

Mark McMenamin

The interpretation of fossil organisms is the main way we get reliable information about the past inhabitants of this planet. The science of past life is beginning to tell us fascinating things about where life has been, where it is now, and where it might be going in the future. Join us as we explore fossil creatures in the field and in the laboratory, and use the past as a key to the present! This course will include a community based learning component in the form of a joint MHC-public school field excursion.

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Course Catalog Description:   This course focuses on the fossil record, emphasizing the history and evolution of the marine biosphere; the recognition, distribution, and significance of faunas and their environments through geologic time; and the paleoecologic significance, evolutionary relationships, and biostratigraphic importance of major groups of fossil-forming organisms. Several local field trips, including one weekend excursion.

Prereq. Geology 102, Biological Sciences 213, or permission of instructor; 2 meetings (75 minutes), 1 lab (3 hours); 4 credits

Geology 341 "Northern Appalachian Geology"

History 102 Justice: Ideals and Practices in History

A full-year course which uses several episodes in western history from the Middle Ages to the present, to ask what "justice" has meant to women and men, how people have tried to achieve and institutionalize their aspirations toward a just world, and how and why both goals and practices have changed over time. Among the most important goals of the first semester is an understanding of how "the rule of law" became a central feature of modern Western notions of justice. During the second semester, students will spend part of their time for the course off campus.

Mr. Garrett-Goodyear
2 meetings (75 minutes); 4 credits; enrollment limited to 20

Philosophy 248 Philosophy of Race and Racism

Philosophy 272 Philosophy of Art

Physical Education 261 Women in Sport

Physical Education 307 Red Cross Water Safety Instructor

Includes required test, reading assignments, and final examinations.

Prereq. current Red Cross Lifeguard Training Certification or Emergency Water Safety, minimum 17 years of age, screening test; 2 meetings (75 minutes); 3 physical education credits with certification, 2 physical education credits without; fee course

Politics 348 Community Development

(Speaking course) The purpose of this course is to expose students to the various ideas, debates, and strategies regarding the development of inner-city communities. We discuss competing notions of development that range from community-based organizations to private developers. We also determine whether nonprofit, community-based organizations (the "third sector") are more successful at community development than the public or private sectors. Features speakers from related fields of community development. Ethnographic studies will
enable students to examine residents' perceptions of their neighborhoods and their strategies to improve them. Students will participate in research projects which have been generated by community-based organizations in Holyoke and Springfield. Students will get the opportunity to test ideas and approaches discussed in class through researching topics that have practical relevance to urban social agencies. This is a community-based learning
course.

Fall 1999 semester meeting times: TU 1-3:50

Mr. Smith
Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in politics including 4 credits in Politics 244, 250, or 347, and permission of instructor; 1 meeting (2 hours, 50 minutes); 4 credits

Russian 245 Coming to America: Russian Evangelical Christians in Western Massachusetts

Recent Russian Baptist and Evangelical Christian immigrants to Western Massachusetts will be the focus of this course. Each student will meet regularly with immigrant families and, working together, select an aspect of their experience to study as a semester project. Possible topics for projects include: religious persecution in the former Soviet Union, the Russian immigrant experience in America, personal histories, problems of bilingual education in
local schools. Knowledge of Russian helpful but not required. This course does not satisfy a distribution requirement.

Ms. Scotto
1 meeting (3 hours); 4 credits

Theatre 285 Theatre and Community

Women's Studies 333 Emily Dickinson in her Times

This course will examine the writing of Emily Dickinson, both her poetry and her letters. We will consider the cultural, historical, and familial environment in which she wrote, with special attention paid to Dickinson's place as a woman artist in the nineteenth century. Students will be asked to complete a community-based learning project in which some aspect of Dickinson's life and work is interpreted for the general public and incorporated into an ongoing display at the Dickinson Homestead. The class will meet at the Dickinson Homestead in Amherst.

This course satisfies a distribution requirement in humanities-arts, language, and literature.

Ms. Ackmann
Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in women's studies beyond 101, and some background in literature; 1 meeting (3 hours); 4 credits; enrollment limited to 15

Women's Studies 390 Field Work and Internships

This course, required for the major, presents an opportunity for students to apply feminist theory and to synthesize their work in women's studies. The connections between the academy and the community, and between scholarship and social action, are emphasized. Students either design their own field project or arrange for a placement at an agency, institution, or place of work that deals with the concerns of women. A weekly seminar with other students engaged in 390 work provides a structured setting in which to analyze these experiences and share works in progress. Frequent writing assignments are required.

This course does not satisfy a distribution requirement.

Ms. Ackmann
Prereq. Women's Studies 101, 250, 251, and permission of instructor; 1 meeting (3 hours); 4 credits