DIVISION II PORTFOLIO

Table of Contents

Div II Contract

Div II Retrospective Community Service

Third World Perspective

Rainforest Challenge Curriculum

A description of Hampshire's academic approach

(explains why these are evaluation and not grades)

Psychology

SS 138: Attitude Change

-professor evaluation
-Personal evaluation
-class syllabus
-Analysis of "Resistance to Persuasive Communications: An Examination of the Distraction Hypothesis"

-"Plastic Makes it Possible"

 

SS 275: Personality, Moral Development and Social Change

-Professor evaluation
-personal evaluation
-class syllabus
"Femininity and Child Development"
"The Connection Between Mutual Recognition and Domination/Submission"
"The Wild Child: An Analysis"
-"Freudian Analysis of The Question of Silence"
-Notes for oral presentation on Jessica Benjamin

 

Social Psychology

Smith 37OB: Seminar in Social Psychology: Psychology of Political Activism

-professor evaluation
-class syllabus
response to Stuart & Healy
"Youth Involvement in Social Movements"
"Racial Identification and Relative Deprivation"
"The Power Structure and Feminism"
"Popularity Due to Social Atmosphere"
-final paper proposal
"A Definition of Feminism"
"The Forgotten Youth"
"Childhood Sources of Racism"
"The Impact of Moral Backgrounds on Political Activism"
"Lesbian Invisibility and Social Protest"
"In Memory of Bella"
-peer evaluation of final presentation

SS 269: Children & Their Environments: Messages From Space

-professor evaluation
-personal evaluation
-class syllabus
-environmental autobiography
- "Understanding the External Through Self-Reflection"
- "Children in Northampton- Demographics"
- "4-H and Its Approach to Youth Education From 1900 to the Present'

Perspectives on Historical Attitudes

SS 223: The Politics of Third World Development

-professor evaluation
-personal evaluation
-class syllabus
"The Discourse Behind Developmental Policies: A Critique of Encountering Development"
"Cambodia-. The Political Events and Social Conditions that led to the Khmer Rouge's Plans of Genocide"

 

SS 138: Attitude Change

"Book Critique: The Roots of Evil"
"How Can They Kill? A Discussion of the Nazi's Efforts of Moral Justification"

SS 256: Conflict Resolution & Historical Analysis

-Professor evaluation
-personal evaluation
-class syllabus
"Good Communication is the Key"
"The Impact of Foreign and Domestic Forces on the Conflict in Bison- Herzegovinia"
"The Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovinia, and the World's Ignorance"

-biographies from oral report on Bosnia-Herzegovinia "Bosnia: Can They Live Together Again?"

 

CCS    128: Dateline: Washington D.C

-Professor evaluation
-personal evaluation
"The New Clinton and the New Democratic Agenda"
"Is Clinton Following the Lead of the Great Communicator?"

CCS    126: Cruising the Net

-Professor evaluation
"The Perfect On-Line Community"

SS 132. Religious Movements & Social Change

-Professor evaluation
-personal evaluation
-class syllabus
"Religious Movements: Cults or New Religions?"
"Revitalization Movements and Their Characteristics"
"Response to Worsley"
"Critique of Robertson's Analysis of the Religionization of Central America"
-Final paper proposal
"Politics and The New Spirituality Movement"

 

'Philosophy

CCS 322:    Contemporary Epistemology -class syllabus

-Professor evaluation
-personal evaluation
"Save Me I'm Being Boiled Alive!"
:'Causal Connections for Casual People"
"Knowledge is in the Eyes of the Beholder"
"-Just Sweep the Assumed Truths Under the Rug-"
"Are Basic Beliefs Usable in a Theory of Justification?"
"How Do We Deal with Perceptual Experiences?"
"Clairvoyance as a Reliable Source of Justification"
"Flawed Epistemic Accounts of Justification, or Just Misguided Arguments?'
"A Little Foundationalism, a Little Coherentism ... Maybe Some Reliablism"
"Feminist Epistemology?"
"Human Innate Beliefs"

MA 287: The Seventeenth Century in England: Shakespeare, Donne and Milton

-professor evaluation
-personal evaluation
-class syllabus
'Caliban: The Ruler of None'

"Paradise Lost'. Critique of Books VII and VIII"

"Donne's View of Ecstasy"

Dance

Off Campus Grades

Mount Holyoke (Jazz V)
UMass (Ballet 11)

MA 151: Elementary Dance Composition

-professor evaluation
-personal evaluation
-class syllabus
-dance journal
-dance critique
"Final Composition Study Process Paper"