Hampshire College www.hampshire.edu

Hampshire College is a private liberal arts institution with approximately 1250 students.  It is located in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, two hours west of Boston.  Hampshire is a member of the Five-College Consortium, which includes Amherst College , Smith College , Mt. Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.  Cooperation among the five institutions provides students at Hampshire with an unusually rich set of academic resources as well as a rich variety of cultural and social opportunities as well. Hampshire students complete three divisions of study, which correspond to basic studies, the concentration and finally advanced independent study.

Hampshire College is characterized by a multidisciplinary, multicultural curriculum; self-initiated, individual programs of study negotiated with faculty mentors; students' active participation in original research; and the diverse communities on campus, in which learning takes place.

Hampshire is especially strong in cognitive science, political economy, media and communications, natural science, arts and social change, and third world and border studies.

Living Now is a website developed to showcase student work. This work is supervised by Prof. Michael Lesy and Prof. Jackie Hayden of Hampshire College.

CIEL Campus Coordinator:
Steve Weisler, Dean of Academic Development
sewCCS@hampshire.edu