FIVE COLLEGE FACULTY COURSE OFFERINGS
FIVE COLLEGE FACULTY COURSE OFFERINGS
Languages through the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages
The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages offers courses in less-commonly taught languages not available through regular Five College classroom courses. The Center also offers courses in Spoken Arabic dialects for students who have learned Modern Standard Arabic in the classroom. The Center encourages students to embark on language study during their first year of college so that they can achieve the fluency needed to use the language for work in their major field.
Each language offered by the Center is available in one of two course formats depending upon the resources available for that language. Mentored courses provide the highest level of structured support for learning and cover all four primary language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing). Supervised Independent courses focus only on oral skills and rely on more independently organized learning than the other course formats.
All courses emphasize development of oral proficiency through weekly conversation practice sessions. Conversation sessions focus on using the language in the types of situations one might encounter in everyday life. Students commonly engage in role plays, question and answer activities, description, narration, and problem-solving exercises. More advanced students practice expressing opinions, giving reasons in arguments, and discussing current events and cultural issues.
Students in Mentored courses also have one-on-one tutorials with a professional language mentor trained in language pedagogy. The individual sessions allow each student to get help with his/her particular questions and concerns. The language mentor goes over written homework, explains grammatical concepts, and engages the student in skill-building activities. Language mentors also work with students who are already fluent speakers of a language but who need to learn to read and write in the language.
Supervised Independent courses offer students with excellent language skills an opportunity to study a variety of less commonly taught languages independently. Students approved for Supervised Independent language study are highly motivated, have a record of past success in language learning, and demonstrate readiness to undertake independent work. Courses emphasize development of oral skills.
A standard course through the Center is a half course. Half courses require one hour a day (seven hours per week) of individual study plus weekly conversation and/or tutorial sessions. It takes four half courses (levels I, II, III, and IV) to complete the equivalent of one year of study in a traditional elementary-level classroom course. Some languages offered in the Mentored format are also available as full courses allowing students to progress at the same rate as in traditional classroom courses. Full courses require two hours per day (14 hours per week) of individual study plus conversation and tutorial sessions.
Students interested in studying a language through the Center should read the informational websites thoroughly and follow the application instructions. While the application process is handled by the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, the tutorial and conversation sessions are held on all five campuses.
For program information and application forms, go to http://fivecolleges.edu/fclang
For language resources produced by the Center, see http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu
Language offerings change depending upon available resources. Not all languages are available every semester. Please see the Center’s website for current information or contact the Center to find out about a language not listed here.
Currently Offered in Mentored Format: American Sign Language (upper-level courses), Hindi, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu
Currently Offered in Supervised Independent Format:
African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Twi, Wolof, Yoruba, Zulu
European languages: Albanian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Georgian, Modern Greek, Hungarian, Modern Irish, Norwegian, Romanian, Ukrainian
Asian languages: Bangla/Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese for Mandarin Speakers, Dari, Filipino, Indonesian, Khmer, Lao, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Sinhala, Thai, Tibetan, Vietnamese
Languages of the Americas: Haitian Creole
Spoken Arabic dialects: Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Moroccan Arabic
Anthropology
FELICITY AULINO, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Five College program).
NS 0239 CARE: Doing, Knowing, Being. What counts as care? For whom? In what contexts? To what effects? In this course, we will draw on a range of ethnographic work, including cultural and linguistic anthropology, as well as feminist and indigenous theory, film, media, and activist literature to explore contemporary issues of care. In the three units of the class - doing, knowing, being - we will examine care as a concrete everyday practice, one that is rooted in and shapes ways of understanding the world, and which has far-reaching implications that both reproduce and resist multiple intersecting inequalities. We will explore methodology. We will ask political questions. We will encourage a deeper consideration of care, not only in research and scholarship, but also in the interdependent ways in which we live our lives. Keywords: Medicine, healthcare, decolonizing, embodiment.
Fall semester. Hampshire College.
ANTHRO 497DK / 697DK: ST-CARE: Doing, Knowing Being. What counts as care? For whom? In what contexts? To what effects? In this course, we will draw on a range of ethnographic work, including cultural and linguistic anthropology, as well as feminist and indigenous theory, film, media, and activist literature to explore contemporary issues of care. In the three units of the class - doing, knowing, being - we examine care as a concrete everyday practice, one that is rooted in and shapes ways of understanding the world, and which has far-reaching implications that both reproduce and resist multiple intersecting inequalities. We will explore methodology. We will ask political questions. We will encourage a deeper consideration of care, not only research and scholarship, but also in the interdependent ways in which we live our lives.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
ANTHRO 696-03: Independent Study.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
ANTHRO 696C-01: Independent Study - Colloquium Planning.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Arabic
AHMAD ALSWAID, Five College Lecturer in Arabic.
ARAB 201: Second-Year Arabic I.
Fall Semester. Amherst College.
ARAB 301: Third Year Arabic I
Fall Semester. Amherst College.
Asian 130-01. First Year Arabic I. The first half of a yearlong course that introduces the basics of Modern Standard Arabic, this course concentrates on all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Beginning with a study of Arabic script and sound, students will complete the Georgetown text Alif Baa and finish Al Kitaab Book 1 by the end of the academic year. Students will acquire vocabulary and usage for everyday interactions as well as skills that will allow them to read and analyze a range of texts. In addition to the traditional textbook exercises, students will write short essays and participate in role plays, debates, and conversations throughout the year.
Fall semester. Mount Holyoke College.
MAY GEORGE, Five College Lecturer in Arabic.
ARA 200-01: Intermediate Arabic I. This is a communication-oriented course in Arabic at the intermediate level, incorporating both Modern Standard and colloquial Arabic and providing students with an opportunity to hone their skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students will expand their ability to create with the language while reinforcing fundamentals and expanding their knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, and culture. In addition to in-class teamwork, students will produce a variety of essays, presentations and skits throughout the semester. Prerequisite: ARA 101 or its equivalent
Fall semester. Smith College.
ARA 402-01: Fourth Year Arabic.This course aims to enable students to further develop their advanced level of proficiency across the four skills of speaking, writing, reading, and listening. Precise vocabulary will be used to engage in complicated arguments and study abstract topics that will include rich cultural components. Gaining proficiency in writing and in reading original sources in Arabic will receive particular emphasis. The goal of the course is to equip students to make active use of Arabic in a variety of social, educational, and professional contexts. Prerequisite: ARA 301. Enrollment limited to 15.
Fall semester. Smith College.
NAHLA KHALIL, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
ARABIC 101-01: Elementary Four-Skilled Arabic I. This first semester of a year-long course introduces the basics of Modern Standard Arabic, also known as Classical Arabic. It begins with a coverage of the alphabet, vocabulary for everyday use, and essential communicative skills relating to real-life and task-oriented situations (queries about personal well-being, family, work, and telling the time). Students will concentrate on speaking and listening skills, as well as on learning the various forms of regular verbs, and on how to use an Arabic dictionary.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
ARABIC 201-01: Intermediate Four-Skilled Arabic I. Students in this course will continue perfecting their knowledge of Arabic focusing on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Emphasis will be on the development of all language skills using a communicative-oriented, proficiency-based approach. By the end of the academic year, students will acquire vocabulary and usage for everyday interactions as well as skills that will allow them to communicate in a variety of situations. Students should expect text assignments as well as work with DVDs, audio and websites. Exercises include writing, social interactions, role plays, and the interplay of language and culture.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
ARABIC 398-01: Practicum.
Instructor Consent Required.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
MOHAMED HASSAN, Five College Senior Lecturer in Arabic.
Arabic 101. First-Year Arabic I. See ARAB 101.
Fall semester. Amherst College.
JOHN WEINERT, Five College Lecturer in Arabic.
ARA 100-01: Elementary Arabic I. An introduction to Modern Standard and colloquial Arabic, using a proficiency-based approach to develop communicative skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The course begins with a focus on reading, pronouncing and recognizing Arabic alphabet, and progresses quickly toward developing basic reading, writing, speaking and listening proficiencies and cultural competence using the Al-Kitaab series and a variety of authentic materials. Students will acquire these skills through a combination of interactive classroom activities, take-home assignments and group work. Students should be at the Novice-Mid level by the end of this course. No prerequisites. Enrollment limited to18.
Fall semester. Smith College.
ARA 100-02: Elementary Arabic I. An introduction to Modern Standard and colloquial Arabic, using a proficiency-based approach to develop communicative skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The course begins with a focus on reading, pronouncing and recognizing Arabic alphabet, and progresses quickly toward developing basic reading, writing, speaking and listening proficiencies and cultural competence using the Al-Kitaab series and a variety of authentic materials. Students will acquire these skills through a combination of interactive classroom activities, take-home assignments and group work. Students should be at the Novice-Mid level by the end of this course. No prerequisites. Enrollment limited to18.
See ARA 100-01.
Fall Semester. Smith College.
ARA 300-01. Advanced Arabic I. This helps students achieve an advanced level of proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic with an exposure to one Arabic colloquial variety using the four-skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) approach. Students read within a normal range of speed, listen to, discuss and respond in writing to authentic texts by writers from across the Arab world. Text types address a range of political, social, religious and literary themes and represent a range of genres, styles and periods. All of these texts may include hypothesis, argumentation and supported opinions that covers both linguistic and cultural knowledge. This course covers Al-Kitaab, Book 3, units 1–5 in addition to extra instructional materials. Prerequisite: ARA 202, or the completion of Al-Kitaab, Book 2, or its equivalent. Students must be able to use formal spoken Arabic as the medium of communication in the classroom.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
Fall semester. Smith College.
Art and Technology
JOHN SLEPIAN, Associate Professor of Art and Technology (at Hampshire [home campus] and Smith Colleges in the Five College Program) and Dean of Interdisciplinary Arts, Hampshire College.
IA 0149: Digital Art. This course proceeds from the premise that the ideas behind a successful artwork should be intimately related to its media, conventions, and platforms-and that those in turn shape which ideas we even think. We will investigate the underlying assumptions of digital media, through the process of making. Students will work with a wide variety of tools that allow for the creation and manipulation of various media, including bitmap and vector images, 2D animation, and sound. In each case, we will look at the history of the medium and the technologies we use to manipulate it (digital photographs and Adobe Photoshop, for example) and make work that explores and critiques their social and cultural context. Students will create a series of conceptually based digital artworks, culminating in a multimedia final project. Art making, in general, is largely a matter of critical thinking: thinking about one's work, the world in which it exists, and what one hopes to achieve with it. To quote conceptual artist, Sol Le Witt, "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art." In this course, we will explore the machines that make the art-and our ideas.
Fall Semester. Hampshire College.
ARS 385-01: Senior Studio I. This capstone course is required for all senior ARS majors. Students will use the framework of the course to focus, challenge and re-conceptualize their studio work in media of their choice. Critiques, readings, written assignments, presentations and discussions will support the development of an inventive and rigorous independent art practice. The semester will culminate in a group exhibition. Core studio materials are provided. Students are responsible for the purchase of additional supplies required for individual projects. Enrollment limited to Smith College Senior ARS majors.
Fall Semester. Smith College.
American Sign Language (ASL)
DANA HOOVER, Five College Lecturer
COMM-DIS 110-01/02/05: American Sign Language I. This course is an introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) for non-signers. Students will be exposed to linguistic principles for ASL, including signed vocabulary for basic communication, grammar, and cultural norms in the American Deaf Community. This includes introduction to non-manual behaviors and manual signs in conversation, including building communicative skills and developing cultural competence. The class is taught primarily in ASL. This course is offered in conjunction with the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
COMM-DIS 110-03/04/06: American Sign Language I. **
COMM-DIS 290B-01/02: American Sign Language III. This is an intermediate-level course in American Sign Language. The course expands students' skills to communicate in a wider array of situations, to further develop their language fluency and to advance their level of comprehension of ASL in culturally appropriate ways.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
FORLANGC 197SF-01: Advanced ASL A. Advanced American Sign Language A will introduce students to ASL literature, including ASL poetry. The course format follows a standard format for Five College Mentored Language courses. Department Consent Required. Students must apply to add this course. See more information at https://www.fivecolleges.edu/fclang or contact fclang@fivecolleges.edu.
Fall Semester. Five College Center for World Languages.
Astronomy
CONNOR ROBINSON, Five College Astronomy Department Education and Research Postdoctoral Fellow.
ASTR 337: Observational Techniques.
Fall Semester. Amherst College.
Education
SARAH FRENETTE, Five College Teacher Licensure Coordinator
EDUC 295-01: Independent Study.
Fall Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
EDUC 320-01: Observing and Assisting in Inclusive Classrooms. Students are expected to complete a supervised field experience full-time every day during January Intersession in an inclusive classroom in a school setting. Placements can be located within or outside of the Five College area. In addition to the field experience component, students attend three course meetings (detailed below). Reading and writing assignments focus on a survey of learning disabilities, descriptions of special education programs, understanding Individuals with Disabilities Education Act policies and placement options, interpreting Individualized Education Program plans, and planning curriculum for inclusive classrooms.This course is variable credit: This course is required of all students pursuing teacher licensure. Graded on a credit/no credit basis. Three mandatory meetings (2 hours each): one in November, one in December, and one in February. Prepracticum: five days a week for three weeks in January.This course requires instructor permission.
Fall/Winter Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
EDUC 324-01: Observing and Assisting in Early Childhood and Elementary Settings. Discussions and fieldwork provide the student with an opportunity to understand the classroom as a learning community. The tutorial includes several meetings focusing on the student's participant observations and assigned readings. Fieldwork includes a minimum of 20 hours on site, individually scheduled in early childhood (pre K-2) or elementary (1-6) settings. Assessment includes in-progress reports and a final project related to fieldwork. Course graded on a credit/no credit basis. This course is variable credit: 1.00-2.00 credits. 1 credit (20 hours of prepracticum); 2 credits (40 hours or more of prepracticum). Credit/no credit grading. This course requires instructor permission
Fall Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
Geosciences
STEPHEN TURNER, Five College Lecturer.
GEO-SCI 821-01: Petrology Seminar. Literature of igneous and metamorphic petrology and related aspects of mineralogy.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
GEOLOGY 311-01: Materials and Their Environments. In this course you will learn about the structure, material properties, and formation of the materials that comprise the solid Earth and other planetary bodies. For the most part, these solid materials are composed of crystalline minerals. This course covers the physical properties and chemistry of minerals, the fields of optical mineralogy and crystallography, and the identification of minerals as individual crystals and components of rocks. You will also learn about how minerals play a critical role in large-scale systems in the Earth. For example, minerals play a key role in regulating Earth's climate. Complex Earth systems are also responsible for the creation of the ore bodies that provide humanity with an increasingly important variety of materials that are critical to the advancement of technology and sustainable development. Additional laboratory section required. An optional honors colloquium is available for this course.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
GEOLOGY H311-01: Mineralogy (Honors Colloquium). The honors colloquium that accompanies Geosciences 311 is a once-a-week meeting during which a paper about a timely topic in the field of mineralogy is discussed informally. Previous topics discussed during the honors colloquium include medical mineralogy, forensic mineralogy, supervolcano eruptions, mineral toxicity, mass extinction theories, and the illegal diamond trade.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Hebrew
JOANNA CARAVITA, Five College Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Language.
JUD 101. Elementary Modern Hebrew I. The first half of a two-semester sequence introducing modern Hebrew language and culture, with a focus on equal development of the four language skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Learning is amplified by use of online resources (YouTube, Facebook, newspapers) and examples from Hebrew song and television/film. No previous knowledge of modern Hebrew is necessary. Enrollment limited to 18.
Fall semester. Smith College.
HEBREW 110. Elementary Modern Hebrew I. Preparation for basic proficiency in speaking, writing, listening to, and reading Modern Hebrew. Emphasis on speaking. Language lab.
Fall semester. University of Massachusetts.
HEBREW. Intermediate Modern Hebrew I. To improve third year students' grammar, vocabulary, and fluency through graded readings to advanced level of reading, listening, oral, and written proficiency. A structured approach to literature.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
Requisite: Hebrew 120 or Instructor Consent.
Fall semester. University of Massachusetts.
History
RICHARD CHU, Five College Professor of History
AMST 114/ASLC 114/HIST 114: Chinese Diaspora History.
Fall Semester. Amherst College.
FFYS 191/HIST15: Chinese American History. Chinese Americans make up the largest Asian American community in the US. However, little is taught about their history in higher education. This seminar introduces students to not only the history of Chinese Americans but also the issues and challenges they have been facing since the mid-19th century. Central themes include ethnicity, race, gender, and empire.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
HISTORY 253H: Asian Pacific American History Honors. Ever wonder what groups constitute the Asian American communities in the state of Massachusetts, especially in Western Massachusetts, and what they are doing to empower and help themselves? This course combines the methods of historical inquiry and civic engagement, and is designed for students who are willing to learn more about Asian Americans both inside and outside the classroom. In the first half of the course, students will learn about the general history of specific Asian subgroups (e.g. Chinese, Korean, Indian, Japanese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, etc). In the second half of the course, students will be introduced to concepts of community engagement, and apply these in their interactions with different community organizations around Western Massachusetts.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Japanese
KENTARO FUKUBE, Five College Lecturer in Japanese.
JAP 301: Introduction to Different Genres of Japanese Writing and Film.
Fall Semester. Amherst College.
JAP 302: Moving from “Learning to Read” to “Reading to Learn” in Japanese.
Fall Semester. Amherst College.
JAP 401: Introduction to Thematic Reading and Writing.
Fall Semester. Amherst College.
Korean
SUK MASSEY, Five College Lecturer in Korean.
Korean 101 (Sections 2 & 3). Korean I. Beginning Korean I is the first half of a two-semester introductory course in spoken and written Korean for students who do not have any previous knowledge of Korean. This course is designed to improve students’ communicative competence in daily life, focusing on the four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Some of the activities include oral dialogue journals (ODJ), expanding knowledge of vocabulary, conversation in authentic contexts, in-depth study of grammar, listening comprehension, pronunciation practice, mini-presentations, Korean film reviews and Korean film making.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
Fall semester. Smith College.
Korean 301. Korean III. This course helps students become proficient in reading, writing and speaking at an advanced level of Korean. This course is particularly appropriate for Korean heritage language learners, that is, those who have some listening and speaking proficiency but lack solid reading and writing skills in Korean. In addition, this course would fortify and greatly expand the skills of those who have studied Korean through the intermediate level or who have equivalent language competence in Korean. Class activities include (1) reading of Korean literature and current news sources; (2) writing assignments such as Korean-film responses, journal entries and letters; (3) expanding vocabulary knowledge; (4) practicing translation skills; (5) understanding Korean idioms; (6) learning basic Chinese characters.
Requisite: KOR 202 or permission of the instructor.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
Fall semester. Smith College.
CHAN YOUNG PARK, Five College Senior Lecturer in Korean.
Korean 115 (Sections 1, 2 & 3). Beginning Korean I. This is an introductory Korean course, which is designed to help students acquire fundamental skills to read, write, listen and speak in elementary level Korean. Students will learn Korean writing system, Hangul, simple sentence patterns, and basic everyday conversations. By the end of the class, students will be able to carry a short conversation about people's backgrounds, likes and dislikes, attributes, as well as locations, numbers and counters. Students will also be able to talk about present, past and future events. In addition to the classroom instruction, there will be a conversation session with the tutors, which students have to attend every week to practice speaking. In accordance with the national standards in foreign language education, all Five Cs (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities) will be emphasized in the course.
Fall semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Korean 235. Intermediate Korean I. This course aims at the acquisition of language skills to read, write, listen and speak in intermediate-level Korean. It is designed for students who have taken Elementary Korean courses with a passing grade or have the equivalent training in basic-level language ability of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In addition to the classroom instruction, there will be an hour of conversation session with the tutors, which students have to attend every week to practice speaking. In accordance with the national standards in foreign language education, all Five Cs (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities) will be emphasized in the course. Students need to complete level 245 to satisfy the intermediate language level required by HFA.
Fall semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Korean 498P-01: Korean Practicum and Tutorial. This course is a practicum where non-native advanced students or native speakers of Korean are assigned to work with one of the faculty/graduate students and assist in teaching beginning or intermediate Korean by hosting conversation tables outside of class. This course is variable credit: Varies from 1 to 18 credits.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
KYAE-SUNG PARK, Five College Lecturer in Korean.
Asian Studies 160. First Year Korean I (Sections 1 & 2). First Year Korean I is the first half of an introductory two-semester course. It is designed to provide students who have little or no knowledge of Korean with basic proficiency in Korean speaking, listening, reading, writing, and culture. The course will cover the foundations of Korean vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation and how these can be used in context.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
Fall semester. Mount Holyoke College.
Asian 262-01. Second Year Korean I. Second Year Korean I is the first half of a two-semester intermediate Korean course. It is designed to provide students with intermediate proficiency in Korean speaking, listening, reading, writing, and culture. The course will strengthen students' communicative;skills on familiar topics related to everyday events and situations. Students will also develop discourse/pragmatic competence in various social contexts of communication.
Prereq: ASIAN-161 or equivalent.
Fall semester. Mount Holyoke College.
Music
EVAN MACCARTHY, Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History
MUSIC 100-01: Music Appreciation-Intro. Survey of music of the European classical tradition. Music fundamentals, forms, and styles from the Medieval period to the 20th century. Listening to representative recordings of various stylistic periods. Concert attendance outside class time required.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
MUSIC 350-01: Writing About Music. The Junior Year Writing requirement for music majors. Prerequisites: upper-division standing and ENGLWP 112 or equivalent.This course is open to BMUS-Music & BA-Music majors only.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
MUSIC 690N-01: Art Song. This seminar examines several art song traditions, primarily nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century musical settings of texts by German, French, English, and American poets and writers. Despite a broad chronological framework, this course is expressly not intended to function as a survey of the wide-ranging repertories of art song literature. Instead, we will approach the loosely defined musical genre of art from several critical perspectives, including themes of word-music relations, nature, travel, memory, subjectivity, gender, sexuality, politics, performance, and reception. Regular visits by vocalists, pianists, musicologists, and poets will amplify our discussion of issues about interpreting these texts and songs.This course is open to Music Graduate students in any concentration. Undergraduate Music majors may enroll with instructor permission only.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
BODE OMOJOLA, Professor of Music (at Mount Holyoke College in the Five College Program).
BLST 204/MUSI 105: African Popular Music.
Fall Semester. Amherst College.
MUSIC 226-01: World Music. This course is a survey of selected musical traditions from different parts of the world, including Africa, Indonesia, Indian, the Caribbean, and the United States. The course adopts an ethnomusicological approach that explains music as a cultural phenomenon, and explores the social and aesthetic significance of musical traditions within their respective historical and cultural contexts. It examines how musical traditions change over time, and how such changes reflect and relate to social and political changes within a given society. Weekly reading and listening assignments provide the basis for class discussions.
Physics
DAVID HAMILTON, Five College Lecturer of Physics
PHYSICS 151-01, 151-02: General Physics I (Sections 1& 2). Kinematics, vectors and scalars, Newton's laws of motion, work and energy, impulse and momentum. Conservation laws. Collisions, oscillations, rotational dynamics, waves and sound, fluids, with Lab. Use of calculus in physics; problem-solving methods. Students who have taken Physics 152 cannot enroll in this course. Co-requisite: MATH 131.
Psychology
KARIN CHELLEW, Five College Visiting Associate Professor in Psychology and Education
PSYCH 229PD-01, 229PD-02 (Sections 1 & 2): Topics in Personality and Abnormal Psychology: ‘Personality and Individual Differences.’ The aim of personality psychology is to study why people perceive, respond and recover differently from similar situations. When we are facing a particular stressful situation we tend to respond in different ways according to our personality characteristics, independently of the specificity of the situation. Therefore, individual differences play a relevant role that need to be considered when we study behavior in different contexts. The objective of this course is to shed light on the main dimensions associated with individual differences, as well as knowing the models that explain personality from different perspectives (factorial, social, and biological theories). Prerequisite: PSYCH-100 or AP Psychology.
Fall Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
PSYCH 329SN-01: Seminar in Personality and Abnormal Psychology: ‘Stress and Neuroticism.’ This course will explore the relationship between personality and the stress response, in particular, the role of neuroticism in this relationship and its association with health. In particular, we will explore the personality dimensions that play a role in the stress response, the types of stressors and its implication on health, and the techniques to reduce both psychological and physiological stress. Prerequisite: PSYCH-204.
Fall Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
PSYCH 395-06: Independent Study. Permission of the Instructor is required of all students who wish to register.
Fall Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
Russian, East European, Eurasian Studies
DANIEL BROOKS, Five College Visiting Lecturer in Russian
RES 101: Elementary Russian. The four-skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) introduction to the Russian Language with the focus on communicative skills development. Major structural topics include pronunciation and intonation, all six cases, basic conjugation patterns, and verbal aspect. By the end of the course the students will be able to initiate and sustain conversation on basic topics, write short compositions, read short authentic texts and comprehend their meaning, develop an understanding of the Russian culture through watching films and listening to songs. Corequisite of RES-101L.
Fall Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
RES 201: Intermediate Russian. In-depth review of grammar topics and expansion of vocabulary with the goal of developing communicative proficiency. Readings include short stories, poetry, and newspaper articles. Students watch Russian films and discuss them orally and in writing. Classes are conducted mostly in Russian. Prerequisite of RES-101 and RES-102. Corequisite of RES-201L.
Fall Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
SERGEY GLEBOV, Associate Professor of History (at the Smith [Home Campus] and Amherst colleges in the Five College Program).
EUST 240/HIST 240/RUSS 240: Last Russian Revolution.
Fall semester. Amherst College.
Sustainable Architecture
NAOMI DARLING, Five College Associate Professor of Architecture
ARCH 225ED-01: Intermediate Studies in Architecture: ‘Environmental Principles.’ This hybrid studio addresses human comfort with lectures and problem work sessions integrated with design projects. We start with an in-depth study of the world's climate regions, the sun, and the earth's tilt and spin. Primary methods of heat transfer are investigated as students research two architectural solutions (vernacular and contemporary) within each climate. Using daylight, the sun's movement, and sun-path diagrams students will design, draw and build a functioning solar clock. Issues in day-lighting and thermal comfort will then drive an extended design problem. Students will be asked to solve numerical problems and present design solutions using both drawings and models. Prerequisite: ARCH-205 or equivalent.
Fall Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
ARCH 395-01: Independent Study. Permission of the Instructor is required of all students who wish to register.
Fall Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
ARCH 403-02: Design V Studio. Projects developed to explore the principles and process of architectural design and the development of structure and enclosure. Design projects, sketch problems. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BFA-Arch majors. Open to BS-ARCH students only with testing agreement. Prerequisite: ARCH 401
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Women’s Studies
ANGELA WILLEY, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies (at the University of Massachusetts in the Five College program).
CST 349ER-01/GNDRST 333ER-01: Theorizing Eros. The erotic is a rich site of queer feminist thinking about the costs of the imposition of sexuality as an interpretive grid. The course begins with the study of sexuality as a knowledge system, with a focus on racial and colonial histories of sexuality, then moves on to considerations of the erotic. In both Lordean and Foucauldian genealogies, eros operates as a set of possibilities, or capacities -- for pleasure, joy, fulfilment, satisfaction -- that exceed "sexuality" and can inspire ways of rethinking nature, need, and relationality. Lynne Huffer, L.H. Stallings, Adrienne Marie Brown, Sharon Holland, and Ela Przybylo, among others, help us think capaciously about what the erotic can do. Prerequisite: Eight credits in Gender Studies or Critical Social Thought.
Fall Semester. Mount Holyoke College.
WGSS 296-09: Independent Study.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
WGSS 391V-01: Problem of Sexual Violence: A Research and Resistance Workshop. This class will serve as a collaborative workshop on the problem of sexual violence, informed by transformative justice. We will start with a recap of how the problem of sexual violence on campus has been understood and framed by various constituents here at UMass. We will then explore the problem from a variety of academic and activist angles, gathering insight through individual and collective research. Questions we will explore include: What are we talking about when we talk about "sexual violence"? Who is impacted by sexual violence and how? How are racism, classism, transphobia, ablism, xenophobia, and other factors that contribute to vulnerability thematized (or ignored) in conversations about the problem of sexual violence? Why doesn't the carceral model for understanding and ending sexual violence work? What sorts of strategies have activists on and off college campuses used to raise awareness, challenge dominant carceral models, and create community safety? Final projects can take a variety of forms and may be collaborative. Students who enroll should be invested in deepening their understanding of sexual violence, have respect for its individual and collective impacts, and possess a desire to work collectively towards transformation.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
WGSS 396-09: Independent Study.
Fall Semester. University of Massachusetts Amherst.