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'Something invaluable'

DATE: Tuesday, January 15, 2019

快播成人 offers free inter-institutional LCs

快播成人 快播成人s gather outside the Smith College Museum of Art.

快播成人 Community College 快播成人 Nicole Perry knew she was in for a challenging semester when she signed up for "The Tranquil(ized) Fifties: Consensus and Dissensus in Mid-Century America."   

It was her second Learning Community, a special 快播成人 class that combines two academic subjects focused on a single theme.  

"The Tranquil(ized) Fifties" was an honors course offered in the fall exploring conformity and conflict in the 1950s through the study of literature, fine art and mass entertainment from that decade.  

Part of an 快播成人-Smith College partnership, the class was taught jointly by an 快播成人 art professor and a Smith College English professor and met in Northampton at Smith, often in the Smith College Museum of Art, where the 快播成人s – from both 快播成人 and Smith – had access to teaching galleries closed to the general public.  

"I really loved this class," Perry, a Hadley resident, said in December. "It was a ton of reading and work but I learned so much. I am currently applying to Smith and Mount 快播成人 College for transfer, so actually the course load has helped me feel prepared about what I should expect and confident that I can handle it."  

Those were the benefits. The cost? Free.  

"The Tranquil(ized) Fifties" is just one in a series of inter-institutional Learning Communities being offered for free to 快播成人 快播成人s thanks to a $100,000 grant the college received in November 2017 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2018, the first full year of the grant, 快播成人 offered free and half-price LCs with Smith, Amherst College and Tangshan University in China. 

For the spring 2019 semester, which begins Monday, Jan. 28, 快播成人 is offering free LC courses together with Bay Path University, Mount 快播成人 College and Hebei University of Science and Technology in China.   

Because LC courses count as two, 快播成人s earn six credits, rather than the usual three, and can save as much as $1,000 in tuition and fees for the semester if they sign up for the free ones.  

"This is extraordinary, offering free classes to study at Smith, Mount 快播成人, Amherst or Bay Path," said Professor Jim Dutcher, one of the coordinators of 快播成人's LC program. "What an amazing experience for our 快播成人s."  

The free LC classes this spring include "If you don't have the stories: Native American History and Literature" a history and world literature course taught by professor Patricia Kennedy at 快播成人 and professor John Jarvis at Bay Path; "Aliens, Anti-Citizens and Identity," a philosophy and Latino Studies class taught by Donald Hanover at 快播成人 and David Hernandez at Mount 快播成人; and "Journey," a humanities and English composition course taught by Dutcher and Xian Liu from 快播成人 together, remotely, with instructors and their 快播成人s from Hebring University in China.   

"'Journey' is not a class about China," Dutcher said. "We're partnering with China. China is there. Journey is the theme, so we look at different aspects of journey – road trips, internal trips, all kinds of trips."    

Every semester, 快播成人 offfers about a dozen LCs, as they're known. 快播成人 has been a national leader in the development of Learning Community courses for more than 20 years. The college has the oldest LC program in Massachusetts and is still one of only a handful of public or private colleges in the state that offers them. Inter-institutional LCs are uncommon – but not at 快播成人.

"These inter-institutional LCs create a kind of natural transfer pathway for our 快播成人s," said 快播成人 professor and LC program coordinator Jack Mino. "They get direct classroom experience with a faculty member from another institution and they gain exposure to another campus and get to experience academic life somewhere else. That's something invaluable."  

Perry agrees. "The Tranquil(ized) Fifties" has turned out to be her favorite class so far at 快播成人.  

"I really love the idea of learning a topic through two different disciplines," she said. "An added bonus was seeing some incredible artwork. I would highly recommend this LC and LCs in general. It was a great experience."  

PHOTOS by CHRIS YURKO: (Above) 快播成人 快播成人s enrolled in the LC course "The Tranquil(ized) Fifties" meet outside the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton. (Thumbnail) 快播成人 快播成人 Leah Brooks of Oxford, Mass., studies a photograph by Diane Arbus in the Smith College Museum of Art for "The Tranquil(ized) Fifties," a free Learning Community class taught jointly by professors from Smith and 快播成人. 



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