Bachelor Degree Amherst - MA

The Hampshire Dance Program curriculum includes a range of studio and theory courses. We regularly invite professional guest artists to offer master classes, January Term courses, and performances. Hampshire students also have access to a wide diversity of other dance classes through...

The Hampshire College system of inquiry-based learning helps develop the independence of thought and the analytical skills necessary to become a good journalist. Students learn to do the immersive field work that is the basis of all reporting.Courses in literary journalism use workshops...

Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of the mind, the brain, and computing technology. Hampshire’s diverse program serves students with interests in many areas, including psychology, philosophy, linguistics, biology, animal behavior, computer science,...

Students of linguistics study the cognitive acquisition, formation, and structure of language. The ways in which language interacts with psychology, sociology, biology, and neuroscience are key elements to a concentration in linguistics.Emphasis is placed on the development and...

Globalization has become the focus of extensive debate and scholarship regarding the “Third World” that emerged in the context of half a millennium of European expansion. Although the Third World is increasingly differentiated internally, it has suffered the multiple impacts of...

The Environmental Studies & Sustainability Program (ESSP) brings together a rich grouping of courses, ongoing projects, campus programs, and speaker series that allows students to develop their own ways of combining the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to study and work on...

Global trade, communication, travel, and governmental coalitions are reinventing the concept of “the nation,” leaving national borders increasingly unstable and amorphous. In keeping with Hampshire’s interdisciplinary structure and focus on contemporary questions, our faculty encourages...

The Five College Coastal and Marine Sciences (FCCMS) program draws on a rich array of courses and faculty specialists at the five college campuses, affording a range of study rarely available at the undergraduate level. As the world’s great oceans become increasingly threatened by human...

Gender and sexuality are increasingly crucial lenses through which to view the world. While heavily incorporated into women’s studies, gender, being neither stable nor absolute, also lends itself to the study of queer identity. Issues such as straight masculinity, queer femininities,...

The artist at Hampshire is in a unique position to create work that expresses not only his or her personal vision in relation to a multidisciplinary education. Rather than limiting themselves to one or another medium, studio arts concentrators are exposed early to a variety of different...

Art history is the analysis of visual data in a historical context. Hampshire students concentrating in this field learn not only how to analyze works of art as objects or monuments in their own right, but also to understand and interpret them in relation to the historical circumstances,...

Studying philosophy at Hampshire allows students to complete substantial groundwork within the history of Western philosophy, while at the same time engaging in dialogue with other traditions and perspectives.Through Hampshire’s classes, students become versed in the work of philosophers...