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African Studies
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The Africana Studies Department focuses on the historical transformation of African peoples as they spread throughout the Atlantic World and beyond. Central to the department is the exploration of the experiences of African peoples with subjugation and liberation...
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Archeology
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Courses in Archaeology 106F,S Principles of Archaeology. An introduction to the fundamentals of archaeology, with emphasis on evolutionary principles. Topics include a review of archaeological field methods such as sampling, survey and excavation, and analytic...
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Art
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A SOCIETY'S ARTISTS MAY BE ITS HISTORIANS, its philosophers, its priests and confessors, its outlaws or its visionaries. Art may document the artist's world, it may imagine the past or future, or it may express an inner landscape that cannot otherwise be shared....
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Art History
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A concentration in art history consists of nine art history courses
and at least one course in studio art. The nine art history courses
must include 245, 254 or 258; 282; 285; 292 or 293; one 300-level
course; three electives and a seminar taken during either...
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Art History
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The departments of Biology and Chemistry offer an interdisciplinary concentration in biochemistry/molecular biology (BMB). Prospective concentrators should elect both chemistry and biology in their first year. The concentration consists of 11 courses (and Math...
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Biology
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PERHAPS NOTHING IS AS BASIC TO HUMAN KNOWLEDGE as the examination of life itself. The study of biology gives us a deeper understanding of ourselves and our world – the structure and function of plants and animals, the evolution and diversity of living organisms...
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Chemistry
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CHEMICAL PHYSICS EXPLORES THE RAPIDLY EVOLVING RESEARCH at the intersection where chemistry, the study of the composition of matter, meets physics, the study of the behavior of matter and energy. One of Hamilton's newest academic concentrations, the chemical...
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Chemistry
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CHEMISTRY IS CALLED THE CENTRAL SCIENCE, AND FOR GOOD REASON. The inquiry into how matter is composed and combined is a foundation of all fields of scientific knowledge. The chemist's laboratory stretches from the interior of living cells to the most distant...
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Communications
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COMMUNICATION IS A FOUNDATIONAL PRACTICE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE. Every day, we talk, send text messages, update our Facebook profiles, watch a movie or TV program, read the news on the Internet or play a video game. The communication environment seems so natural,...
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Comparative Literature
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A WORK OF LITERATURE ALWAYS MAKES CONNECTIONS. It not only reaches individual readers; it can invoke other literary works and traditions, it can challenge or embrace scientific or historical knowledge, it can be translated into another language or transformed...
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European Studies
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CLASSICS HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGES and societies of ancient Greece and Rome. At Hamilton, the Classics Department reflects this tradition, while offering a broader view of the ancient world and its relation to our own time. The study of classics...
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Liberal Studies
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AMERICAN STUDIES IS THE EXPLORATION OF CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE in the United States. It uses the methods and perspectives of several disciplines — particularly history and literature — as lenses through which the nation and its cultural heritage may be examined....
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Liberal Studies
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ANTHROPOLOGY — THE STUDY OF THE RICH CULTURAL, SOCIAL, LINGUISTIC AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF HUMANITY — is a hands-on learning experience at Hamilton. Small liberal arts colleges rarely offer all four areas of study (cultural and social, linguistic, and biological...
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Media Studies
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IN TODAY'S DIGITAL WORLD, moving images extend far beyond the traditional movie screen. Cinema and New Media Studies explores film as an “intellectual nexus” — a way of thinking about the world across boundaries. And because film studies at Hamilton is combined...
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