This is a four credit honors course. Enrollment is limited to 25 students. This restriction will be enforced . The course readings are extremely diverse. Enrollment is limited to 20 students.
All seminars are four credit honors courses.
Enrollment for each seminar is limited to 20 students. As local case studies of at least some of the question above, we will examine current battles over land use in the Pioneer Valley. We also will try our hand at diagnosing the ills, and suggesting cures for those ills, of landscape and architectural design at the UMass campus. Joan Cocks is a Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College. In Latin America, we will examine models ranging from web-casting in Costa Rica, to the development of a young feminist soap opera in Nicaragua.