环境与变化
How should we act on our responsibilities in the face of changing climate?
我们的学术计划
A curriculum relevant to the world we live in... And the one we want to live in.
Graduates encounter opportunities and problems that don’t fit neatly into fixed majors or departments. Their education shouldn’t either. Employers overwhelmingly agree that broad learning and skills that cut across disciplines are the best preparation for long-term career success.
We launched a bold new curriculum and student experience, fundamentally reshaping a liberal arts education to match the needs of today’s students and the world. Hampshire’s model educates students for the challenges of jobs, 研究生院, 创业, 和生活.
分部门制度
At Hampshire, there are no freshmen, sophomores, juniors, or seniors. Rather, Hampshire students advance through three divisions. Academic pursuits move students from course-based projects in Div我 through semester-long collaborative projects in Div二世 toward a year-long, self-designed independent project in Div三世.
Each division concludes with a portfolio review, including narrative feedback from all courses, 最后的论文, 或项目, as well as Community-Engaged Learning and a retrospective. This divisional framework guides students in building their academic concentration or focus of study and supports them through more 和更多的 ambitious projects.
Div我
The first year emphasizes learning across a wide range of critical, 科学, and creative approaches through our multidisciplinary curriculum, gaining skills for learning in community with others, and engaging in project-based learning in supported contexts. Students are mentored by an advisor and supported through our advising networks of students, 工作人员, 和老师.
Div二世
The second and third years are all about students' deep inquiry into their own interests. Guided by a team of advisors, they design a unique academic path, strengthen connections in communities of learners, and grow toward independent project-based learning. Advisors help students select classes, 实习, 出国留学, and other opportunities to pursue their 激情.
Div三世
The fourth year is a student's opportunity to push their learning further, 承担风险, and tackle a meaningful challenge they’ve envisioned from concept to completion. Often as rigorous as graduate-level thesis projects, Div三世s include 科学 research no one has ever done, innovative technological developments, daring artistic exhibitions, 哲学写作, original documentary films, and anything else our students can imagine.
At Hampshire, students will:
- Actively grapple with pressing 问题 and issues starting in their first semester.
- Explore and innovate freely across multiple methods and practices and all fields of knowledge: the arts, 科学, 技术, 社会/政治调查, 和人文.
- Develop lifelong skills central to a liberal arts education: creative problem-solving, 应用批判性思维, 创业精神, and agility for dealing with complexity and uncertainty.
- Integrate learning in and out of the classroom through courses, 研讨会, 独立学习, 野外研究, 社区学习, 出国留学, 实习, 课余活动, 和更多的.
一个更好的学习方式.
叙述评价
Instead of letter grades, written evaluations are delivered to students. These parallel professional performance reviews, helping students identify their areas of growth potential along with their areas of strength.
Student-Designed Curriculum
Instead of asking our students to conform to inflexible majors, they are tasked with building a program that aligns with their interests, 激情, 问题, 和目标.
Community-Engaged Learning
The study of theory is combined with direct "real-world" experience like an internship, project with community organizations or peers, field research involving community agencies, 和更多的.