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Other Courses. Spring Term 2014 Courses Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/www/htdocs/scripts/get_courses.php on line 174 Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/www/htdocs/scripts/get_courses.php on line 174 LS-0101: Elementary Spanish(LS-0101) This course is designed for students with no background in Spanish.

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This class is taught almost entirely in Spanish. Students are introduced to basic grammatical structures (including past, present, and future tenses) and by the end of the semester are able to communicate in verbal and written forms about personal information, daily activities, future plans, and past experiences. Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies. Spring Term 2014 Courses HACU-0101: Chorus The Chorus is a performing ensemble in which students will learn skills of choral singing and sight-singing.

Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies

They will be exposed to a wide variety of choral literature through rehearsal and performance, including a cappella and accompanied music, medieval through 20th century, ethnic, world music and folk. Several performances are given throughout the year. While this course is open to all and the ability to read music is not required, students are expected to have reasonable proficiency in aural learning (e.g. ability to sing on pitch). Cognitive Science. Spring Term 2014 Courses CS-0110: Web Development I: Developing Websites and Web-based Software Want to impact the world?

Cognitive Science

Learn to code. We use the web all the time. Most college students describe themselves as "computer literate. " CS-0134: Brain and Cognition The problem of explaining how the brain enables human conscious experience remains a great mystery of human knowledge. Go to the course website. Interdisciplinary Arts. Spring Term 2014 Courses CSI/IA-0253: Disturbing Desire: Proust, Woolf, Lacan In this course we will read writers who disturb experiences of memory, perception, the body and desire itself, rupturing a familiar, stable 'reality', and offering in its stead the elusive workings of the unconscious.

Interdisciplinary Arts

Critical Social Inquiry. Reflecting the critical, engaged approach to scholarship practiced by faculty and students, the School of Social Science has changed its name to the School of Critical Social Inquiry.

Critical Social Inquiry

Spring Term 2014 Courses CSI-0114: Politics of Health Insurance The U.S. is alone among the wealthy capitalist nations in not providing health insurance to all its citizens. In this course we will examine the reasons for this dubious distinction, focusing on Americans' historic distrust of government, the power of important stakeholders in medicine and insurance, the dominance of individualism in American political life and thought, and the bias toward incremental change that is built into our political institutions.

We will examine the history of major health insurance programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Veterans Affairs, the increasing problems with employment-based insurance, and the conservative push for programs based on personal responsibility. CSI-0116: Cultures of the African Diaspora. Your First Year at Hampshire. Div1_roadmap. Div I requirements. RequirementsDuring their first two semesters of enrollment, first-year students must complete satisfactorily at least seven faculty-evaluated courses (which may include independent study), four of which must meet areas of distribution in four of the five areas listed below, and a Campus-Engaged Learning Activity (CEL-1, described below).

Div I requirements

The five distribution areas, which faculty have identified as characteristic of and fundamental to Hampshire’s distinctive academic program, are: Role of the Advisor. Division I AdvisorDuring Division I, the faculty member teaching the student’s tutorial will serve as the student’s advisor and write the portfolio assessment the student receives upon completion of Division I.

Role of the Advisor

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