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INTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS AGRICULTURAL STUDIES/FARM CENTER The Hampshire College Farm Center provides learning opportunities in agriculture, environmental studies, and sustainable living for students, faculty, and staff through independent projects or participation in ongoing research and farm enterprises. The Farm Center operations include a working farm that serves as a living laboratory, the livestock guard dog project, and the School-to-Farm Program, an agriculture education program for children. Ongoing research projects include composting, soil nitrogen, pest management, tomato breeding. sheep nucrition studies, and more. The Farm Center offices are in a farm house (Thorpe House) and an Animal Research Facility (ARF), which are located on Route 116 just north of admissions. Farm Center buildings include the farm house, three barns, the ARF, and a greenhouse. The Farm Center is steward to the 650 acres of farmland, forest, and orchard that surround and weave through the 150 acre-campus core. Sheep graze in pastures and hay is cut in open fields. Vegetables. herbs, and flowers are grown for the campus-based Community Supported Agriculture project. the dining commons, and Mixed Nuts Food Co-op. Campus leaves. manures, paper. cardboard, vegetable trimmi ngs and food scraps ate mixed to make compost. eliminating waste and maintaining soil fertility. Native medicinal and edible wild planes are grown in cultivated forest gardens. Wetland plants are propagated through a cooperative project with a nursery. New England Wetland Plants, Inc. Farm Center bees provide honey. chickens provide eggs, and sheep provide wool for weavers. Farm Center-sponsored workshops, courses, lectures, and festivals enhance student life and an awareness of the agriculture and environmental issues facing society today. AMERICAN STUDIES American Studies is the study of American culture through its many manifestations: economics. the creative arts, sociology and social structure, history. and material artifacts. American Studies thrives at Hampshire because it shares with the college a commitment to interdisciplinary fields. As a result of Hampshire's commitment to multidisciplinary ways of knowing. American Studies faculty and courses in all four Schools offer students unusually rich and diverse opportunities to make connections across fields, in combinations as diverse as literature and urban studies, scientific method and economic history. anthropology and the history of technology. This inclusivity extends to the definition of what constitutes "America" as well. Hampshire students are encouraged to look beyond the traditional focus on the Eurocemric culture of the United States and to explore the many cultures coexisting within the nation's boundaries. They are also encouraged to study the cultures of the Americas, via connection with Hampshire's programs in Third World Studies, Feminist Studies, and Cultural Studies. Hampshire currently has 25 faculty, from all four Schools, affiliated with American Studies, and offers numerous courses at all levels, with emphasis on team-taught, cross School courses. For more information, contact Susan Tracy at ext. 5518. 66 CIVIL LIBERTIES AND PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAM The Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program is a resource for, and a connecting link be£ween, the academic community and the reproductive rights movemem. The goals of the program are to study and analyze legal, philosophical. and political issues about abortion, contraception, and related concerns; to increase understanding and awareness on college campuses about reproductive rights and contemporary and historical challenges to them; to support and coordinate student participation in activist campaigns where appropriate. The program offers courses and develops curriculum. places students in internships, sponsors conferences, lectures and workshops, and works with local and national groups on behalf of reproductive rights. There are many course offerings and learning activities within the Five College community that are available to students interested in reproductive rights issues. Especially relevant are the Population and Development program and the Feminist Studies Program, both at Hampshire. Students interested in the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program should contact the director. Marlene Gerber Fried. ext. 5645. Franklin Parterson Hall. G5. THE COMMUNITY SERVICE SCHOLARS PROJECT The Community Service Scholars Project (CSSP) is a program developed in conjunction with the Public Service and Social Change Program. Funded by the Corporation for National Service: Learn and Serve America. CSSP is designed for students who wish to combine their academic studies and their divisional projects with work in the community. CSSP participants progress through three levels of coordinated academic and service work, from gaining an introduction to issues and problems faced by local communities to involvement in a sustained internship or special project to meet community needs. In the CSSP curriculum, students include, as part of their overall course work, courses in all four Schools of the college that have been especially designed to focus on and integrate community issues with course content. Several of these courses provide background on specific issues. familiarize students with local institutions dealing with these issues. invite speakers from community organizations. and include assignments germane to specific community needs. While Community Scholars are not limited to CSSP courses in their curricular choices. all CSSP participants are urged to take at least one CSSP course that enables them to gain knowledge about the larger social contexts of the issues they are dealing with in the community andlor to enhance skills they can utilize in their community service work (such as teachingltutoring. projects involving use of video or computers, preventive health-care approaches, etc.). Throughout their progression in the CSSP. students are encouraged to increase their time commitment and level of responsibility in choosing community internship placement. These placements can range from work in settings such as a literacy program, a child-care
center, a battered women's shelter, or a preventive health project to assisting a youth group with a drama or video project, or designing a computer program to meet the needs of a community organization. Students who have these aspects of the CSSP in their divisional work receive a certificate of completion that can be included in their transcript. COMPUTER STUDIES Computer systems are now important parts of most of our lives. From machines that keep records and do calculations to others which play movies and control missiles, computers play an enormous social and economic role in modern society. Advances in the science of computation also make it possible to ask questions in new ways. and thus open up a variety of fascinating and important areas whose very nature is transformed by computational techniques and insights. At Hampshire, faculty and student work in computer studies is centered in two areas: artificial intelligence and digital multimedia production. Foundational course work in computer science and mathematics enable Hampshire students to undertake upper-division work in a variety of computer-related areas at Hampshire and in the Five Colleges. Faculty and students also address issues related to the use of computing and related technology in this country and in the Third World. Students interested in Computer Studies should contact Richard Muller at extension 5687. Computing facilities at Hampshire include a variety of centrally located systems and w.idely dispersed workstations and personal computers. Public computing laboratories are located in Cole Science Center, the Library, and Simmons Hall. These are linked by data networks to each other, and to other campuses in the area. Campus systems are accessible by data link from student rooms and by modem at off-campus locations. Members of the Hampshire community have access to campus, Five College, and worldwide information sources. The college uses equipment from a variety of manufacturers. Students at Hampshire can purchase personal computers through the college at deeply discounted prices; for compatibility with existing college facilities, those bringing their own machines to campus are advised to bring either an Apple Macintosh or an IBM MS-DOS/Windows system. CULTURAL STUDIES Cultural Studies is an inter-School program focusing on the definition, production. and interpretation of culture. Breaking with the traditional dichotomies of high and low culture, art and criticism. history and textuality, technology and culture, theory and practice, Cultural Studies takes cultural processes, practices and artifacts as its objects of study. This program is committed to an understanding of culture as a broad and radically diverse process, a constitutive human activity involving the various modes or representations within which meaning is constructed and historically transformed. By attending to variable dimensions of culture, Cultural Studies emphasizes the increasingly international and cross-cultural character of knowledge and cultural production. Faculty members of the program from the disciplines of art history, theatre, philosophy, history, video, music, literature, media studies, and politics offer core courses, seminars. and public colloquia. For more information contact Walid Ra'ad at ext. 5618. 67 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM The Environmental Studies Program encourages students to probe the workings of ecological systems and the relationship between nature and human culture. This undertaking is inherently multidisciplinary. Students work with more than fifteen faculty. based in the natural and social sciences, communications, and the humanides, to shape individual concentrations. The resources available within the Five College consortium provide a remarkable array of learning opportunities, expertise, and specialized knowledge in both the scientific and social dimensions of environmental studies. Faculty research and students' studies lead to work in such areas as natural resource conservation, biodiversity, marine ecology, population dynamics, the humanly built environment, First and Third World development impacts, appropriate technology, sustainable agriculture, political activism, land· USe policy, nature writing, and environmental history, ethics, and law. Methods of inquiry are grounded in a commitment [0 critical questioning and hands-on problem solving. In the Hampshire College spirit that "to know is not enough," both students and faculty are engaged in a variety of projects and organizations addressing a wide spectrum of local, national, and global environmental concerns. The Environmental Studies Program aids students in coordinating on-site field research. international internships, and team approaches to problem solving. Students take a central role in forming the program's yearly agenda of seminars, presentations of individual research, guest speakers. films, and newsletter communications. For more information contact Steven Roof in the School of Natural Science or Robert Rakoff in the School of Social Science, or visit the program's web site from the Hampshire College home page. FEMINIST STUDIES The Feminist Studies Program aims to raise critical feminist questions about established traditions and to open new areas of research and speculation. With its roots in the feminist movement. feminist studies seeks not only to interpret women's experience but to change women's condition. We are committed to acknowledging the diversity of women's lives and to incorporating challenges based on race, class, and sexuality into our program. Faculty in all four Schools of the college contribute to planning and teaching courses in economics, psychology. history, law. science, theatre. literature. visual arts, and communications. Through programmatic ties and shared perspectives, we strive to dissolve the disciplinary boundaries that separate us and to pose questions that reach beyond these boundaries. The Feminist Studies Program encourages women students to think and plan for their distinctive needs during their undergraduate careers, and for the special challenges they will confront as women after graduation. We emphasize future possibilities in women's public and private lives. Students can concentrate in feminist studies or they can incorporate feminist studies into concentrations in any of the four Schools. Feminist Studies courses are available at all three divisional levels. A core group of interested students and faculty sponsor lectures, workshops. and performances by feminist scholars,
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