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1 Hamilton College Clinton, NY, USA For Clients University Profile November 21, 2012 KENT CONSULTANCY GROUP 1

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3 Executive Summary Hamilton College is a private institution that was foune in It has a total unergrauate enrollment of 1,864, its setting is rural, an the campus size is 1,300 acres. It utilizes a semester-base acaemic calenar. Hamilton College's ranking in the 2013 eition of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 16. Its tuition an fees are $44,350 ( ). Hamilton College is locate in Clinton, N.Y., 45 minutes east of Syracuse an 90 minutes west of Albany. The college offers a wie variety of unique stuent clubs on campus, from the cooking club Love n Spoonful to the comey troupe Urban Outwitters. Hamilton also has an active Greek life, with 18 fraternities an sororities on campus. The school fiels NCAA Division III varsity sports teams an is a member of the New Englan Small College Athletic Conference. All unerclassmen are require to live on campus, an about 98 percent of stuents live in the 27 resience halls. Hamilton is the thir-olest college in New York an was name after its former boar of trustee an U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexaner Hamilton. Hamilton College was originally a men s college until 1978 when it became coeucational after uniting with its sister institution, Kirklan College. Nearly half of stuents stuy abroa uring their time at Hamilton through 180 programs aroun the worl or the school s consortium programs in Spain, Inia, France, an China, as well as U.S. locations in New York, Boston, an Washington. Annual traitions on campus inclue FebFest, a winter carnival; an May Day, a spring outoor concert festival. Notable alumni inclue poet Ezra Poun, actor an writer for The Office Paul Lieberstein, an psychologist B.F. Skinner. 3

4 Hamilton College About Hamilton College Hamilton College (or Vany) is a private research university locate in Nashville, Tennessee, Unite States. Foune in 1873, the university is name for shipping an rail magnate "Commoore" Cornelius Vanerbilt, who provie Vanerbilt its initial $1 million enowment espite having never been to the South. The Commoore hope that his gift an the greater work of the university woul help to heal the sectional wouns inflicte by the Civil War. Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, New York, Unite States. Foune as a boys' school in 1793, it was chartere as Hamilton College in It has been coeucational since 1978, when it merge with its sister school of Kirklan College. Hamilton is sometimes referre to as the "College on the Hill," owing to its location on top of College Hill, just outsie of owntown Clinton. One of the "Little Ivies," Hamilton was ranke 16th in the nation among National Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2013 U.S. News an Worl Report. Mission an Uniqueness A national leaer in teaching stuents to write effectively, learn from each other an think for themselves. Ten Things You Shoul Know About Hamilton: 1. Uncommon Curriculum Hamilton's rigorous yet flexible open curriculum means you will choose courses because they interest you an fit your iniviual acaemic plan, not because you nee to fulfill some requirement. We provie this freeom because we think highly motivate stuents learn more an learn better when they are enrolle in courses that genuinely interest them. 2. Fin Your Voice You will learn to efen your opinions an to get your ieas across clearly an compellingly. After all, what goo is eveloping a great iea if you can't communicate it effectively? At Hamilton, wors matter. 3. This is Not a Spectator Campus Learning at Hamilton is active an hans-on, an we expect you to participate. Whether it's in the classroom or the lab, on the stage or behin the poium, with a stuent-run club or service organization, on the playing fiel or court stuents get involve. 4. It's Goo to be Different A stuent at Hamilton can be grungy, geeky, athletic, gay, tall, short, black, white, fashionable, artsy, nery, preppy, liberal, conservative... it oesn't really matter. Be yourself at Hamilton an be respecte for who you are. 5. Our Campus is Historic an State-of-the-Art Hamilton was foune 200 years ago, an we're prou of our rich history. We've investe more than $150 million to renovate an expan our acaemic, resiential an recreational facilities in the past ecae, but all of our spaces both ol 4

5 an new are just the means that enable you to o great things. 6. Our Backyar: We Work, Play an Stuy in a Beautiful Part of the Worl Sure we get our share of snow in the winter (OK, more than our share), but Hamiltonians embrace their surrounings. Our hilltop campus is gorgeous, the Village of Clinton is picturesque, an there are plenty of things to o in our backyar from hiking in the Aironacks an ining at ethnic restaurants, to movies, shopping an more. 7. Love It Here... Now Go Away Nearly half of our stuents participate in Hamilton's off-campus stuy programs in France, Spain, China, Inia, Washington, D.C., an New York City, or choose from among hunres of other approve programs on every continent (yes, even Antarctica). 8. Career Planning: Four Years Go Fast While you're busy thinking about where to go to college, we're alreay thinking about what you will o when you grauate. Career planning is a priority at Hamilton. Our Career Center has more experience counselors an resources than most of our peer colleges. That means we can provie you with personalize training an career-relate experiences so you can conuct an eucate, targete job or grauate school search that meets your goals. 9. Our Amission an Financial Ai Promise Fewer than 50 U.S. colleges an universities are nee-blin in amission an meet 100% of stuents' emonstrate nee for four years; Hamilton is among them. If you are accepte at Hamilton but cannot affor our price, we will provie a financial ai package equal to your emonstrate nee so that you can atten. 10. The Hamilton Network Alumni love this place, an they give generously of their resources an time. The Hamilton gra who helpe fun a new scholarship or summer internship may be the same Hamilton College Chapel person speaking in your public policy class, helping you get a job interview or meeting with you to iscuss career options. An, speaking of careers, we think you'll be impresse with what our grauates are oing with their Hamilton egree. History Hamilton began in 1793 as the Hamilton-Oneia Acaemy, a seminary foune by Samuel Kirklan as part of his missionary work with the Oneia tribe. The seminary amitte both European-American an Oneia boys. Kirklan name it in honor of Treasury Secretary Alexaner Hamilton, who was a member of the first Boar of Trustees of the Hamilton-Oneia Acaemy. The institution was chartere as Hamilton College in 1812, making it the thir olest college establishe in New York after Columbia an Union. It ha expane to a four-year college curriculum. In 1978, the all-male Hamilton College merge with the women's Kirklan College, foune by Hamilton in the 1960s an locate ajacent to it. The primary public reason for the merger was Kirklan's imminent insolvency, as women's colleges ha become less popular after the rise of the 11

6 women's movement an other social changes. It took nearly 7 years to complete the merger; women stuents were given the option of receiving a Kirklan iploma instea of a Hamilton iploma until The original Hamilton campus is referre to by stuents an some school literature as the "light sie" or "north sie" of the campus. Formerly, the original sie of campus was referre to as the "Stryker Campus" after its former presient, Melancthon Woolsey Stryker (or incorrectly "Striker Campus"). On the other sie of College Hill Roa, the original Kirklan campus is referre to as the "ark sie" or as the "south sie." Since the 1970s, Hamilton has been a member of the New Englan Small College Athletic Painting of the Campus Conference (or the NESCAC) (espite technically being locate outsie of New Englan). This conference also inclues Amherst, Bates, Bowoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Milebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, an Williams. Rivalries with many of these schools, Milebury in particular, preate the establishment of the conference. Campus During the summer of 2006, the school complete a $56 million science builing. The art epartment has separate stuios for each of the stuio arts taught, most of which are in the mist a $37.5 million renovation project. Hamilton's athletic facilities inclue an ice rink, swimming pool, several athletics fiels, a golf course, a three-story climbing wall, an a 10 Court Squash Center. Carol Woohouse Wellin Performance Hall The 700-seat hall hosts the College Orchestra conucte by Heather Buchman, Choir, Jazz Ban, Oratorio Society, an Faculty Dance Concerts as well as guest artists from aroun the globe. The Sage Rink Hamilton College s Sage Rink is America's secon olest inoor collegiate hockey rink after Northeastern University's Matthews Arena. It was finance by the wiow of inustrialist Russell Sage, whose name graces a number of Central New York college eifices, incluing Russell Sage College. In aition to Continental men's an women's teams, youth hockey, high school teams, ault amateur efforts an the famous Clinton Comets, who ominate the semi-professional Eastern Hockey League in the 1960s an early 1970s, have playe at the Sage Rink. It was renovate in 1993, when it receive better lighting, ice-making equipment, an structural enhancements. The rink houses the college's Men's an Women's varsity hockey teams, intramural ice hockey, physical eucation classes, an local youth hockey games. Bristol Swimming Pool Complete in 1988, the pool was christene by a Guinness Book of Worl Recors setting event in 12

7 April 1989 when the worl's longest swim relay was complete in the Bristol pool. Steuben Fiel Home to the Hamilton College football team, Steuben Fiel was foune in 1897, an is one of the ten olest collegiate football fiels in the Unite States. In summer 2009, the fiel receive a renovation that inclue the installation of FielTurf an a new scoreboar. The fiel is now home to Men's an Women's Lacrosse as recently as the 2010 spring season. Litchfiel Observatory IAU coe 789, from which C. H. F. Peters iscovere some 48 asterois. The observatory burne own but is currently marke on campus by its telescope mount outsie of the Suia Amissions an Financial Ai House. Minor Theatre The current observatory, a quarter of a mile from campus, is powere by solar energy an is open for stuent use. The existing observatory, locate 100 feet from College Hill Roa, was built with rock from the same quarry as the original builing. Hamilton College Chapel The college's chapel is a historically protecte lanmark an is the only three-story chapel still staning in America. The chapel is toppe by a signature quill pen weather vane, which represents Hamilton College's long staning commitment to proucing grauates with exceptional writing an communication abilities. Kirklan Cottage The cottage was the original resience of Samuel Kirklan when he began his missionary work to the Oneia. The cottage is completely original, although it was move from its original location on Kirklan's property (known toay as Haring Farm) to its current place on the main quarangle of the Hamilton Sie. The cottage is currently use for matriculation ceremonies. Birthplace of Elihu Root At one time serving as the resience of the Oren Root family, the house was the birthplace of Elihu Root, who serve as Secretary of State an won the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize. Built in 1812, the house serve as the stuent ining hall for Hamilton College. In 1834 it was aapte as a resience for Horatio Buttrick, superintenent of the Builings an Grouns Department an college registrar. After his aughter marrie Oren Root, he allowe the young couple to take over the house. Their son Elihu Root was born there. The house has since been rename Buttrick Hall. It serves provies office space for the Presient of the College an the Dean of Faculty. Elihu Root House The Elihu Root House originally belonge to Elihu Root, who use it as his summer house. It was next use by the Office of Amission. As of September 2009, it houses the Dean of Stuents Office, the Registrar, an the epartment of Resiential Life. 13

8 Acaemics Hamilton currently offers the Bachelor of Arts egree in any of over 50 areas of concentration. Aitionally, Hamilton stuents may stuy abroa. The College runs programs in China, France, an Spain, as well as omestic programs in New York City an Washington, DC. Hamilton is well known for its "open" curriculum, for which there are no istributional requirements; stuents have nearly total freeom over their course selection. Hamilton College, Brown University an Smith College are institutions with such a policy. The college has long ahere to an acaemic honor coe. Every stuent matriculating at Hamilton must sign a plege to observe the Honor Coe, an many examinations are not proctore. Hamilton expects stuents to take responsibility for their eucational choices. They will be counsele an supporte by teachers an avisors, but the ultimate responsibility, just as the ultimate growth, will be the stuent's. For this reason, Hamilton oes not have istribution requirements, which are foun at nearly every other American college an university. We trust stuents with the freeom to select courses that make sense for their own intellectual evelopment. As a result, Hamilton stuents atten classes because they are genuinely intereste in the subject, not because they are fulfilling a requirement. Africana Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Africana Stuies Department is to explore the ynamics of African-base cultures in their many imensions an across many borers an eras. American an European scholars long viewe Africa not only as a primitive continent, but as a cultural space outsie the Western principles of meaning an progress a place where "history is out of the question," as the German philosopher Hegel claime two centuries ago. But Africa an its escenants are no longer invisible. African-base cultures an peoples are a crucial part of our collective experience, from art an literature to women's stuies, from geopolitics to jazz an hip-hop. In truth, they always have been. Africana Stuies is an interisciplinary program that offers both a major an a minor in the history, culture an politics of people of African escent. It focuses on four geographic areas: Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America an the Unite States. Stuents may focus on one or more of those areas as they pursue courses in Africana stuies as well as anthropology, classics, comparative literature, English, French, government, history an many other isciplines. Stuents who choose to major in Africana stuies esign an iniviual plan of stuy with the help of a faculty member. Research Opportunities Africana stuies majors are encourage to spen at least one semester abroa, an the program accepts stuy abroa an/or coursework in overseas programs towar the major with the approval of the program irector. 14

9 The Senior Program The Senior Program in Africana stuies is a culminating intellectual experience in which stuents focus an integrate the knowlege an skills they have acquire in the first three years. At its center is the senior project, an interisciplinary project that leas to a thesis, performance or exhibition. The project is carrie out uner the close supervision of two faculty members. Resources Stuents in the Africana Stuies Department have access to a substantial collection of works on Africana in Burke Library, incluing a number of rare texts. Most notable is the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, regare as one of the worl's most important research collections of historical ocuments from an about this Caribbean region. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Africana Stuies are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Financial Analyst, Lazar Capital Markets Volunteer, U.S. Peace Corps A Sales Analyst, Weather Channel Assistant Project Coorinator, Democracy Program, The Carter Center Architectural Designer, Coyle & Associates Teacher, Bronx Acaemy of Letters American Stuies The goal of Hamilton's American Stuies Program is to impart a eep unerstaning of the uniqueness of U.S. culture through interisciplinary stuy that provies stuents with the tools to uncover the philosophical an creative connections linking American political institutions, social structures an artistic practices, both in the past an toay. American Stuies is the exploration of civilization an culture in the Unite States. It uses the methos an perspectives of several isciplines particularly history an literature as lenses through which the nation an its cultural heritage may be examine. In this way, the American Stuies Program at Hamilton is representative of the most enuring liberal arts traitions an principles, yet American stuies program is highly innovative as well. Our interisciplinary approach fosters creativity an originality by encouraging stuents to work closely with faculty members as they evelop an pursue iniviual plans of stuy. 15

10 Research Opportunities American stuies courses stress the evelopment of rigorous, critical reaing an research skills. Majors can buil on these skills by receiving funing to work in collaboration with faculty mentors uring the summer as Emerson Fellows. Stuents' knowlege of the worl an habits of critical thinking are enhance by closely working with their professors, who are themselves active in their own specialties. Conucting research is crucial to helping you frame an integrate what you have learne in the classroom. Senior Program Coursework in American stuies culminates in a unique interisciplinary seminar, often team taught by professors in two ifferent iscplines, on a special topic in American cultural life. Honors stuents in American stuies complete a final project usually a thesis, but creative work an fiel research projects are also possible complete uner the supervision of the program irector. Resources As an interisciplinary program, American stuies at Hamilton raws on the extensive resources an rich traitions of many isciplines an epartments: English, history, government, anthropology, economics, sociology, Hispanic stuies, even religious stuies an art history. Writing skills are also a critical part of the American stuies major, an the College's Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center is regare as one of the nation's best a moel for other colleges an universities. Here stuents learn the fine points of researching, eveloping an organizing essays. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in American Stuies are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Controller, Washington National Opera Pastry Chef Instructor, Culinary Institute of America Writer/Eitor, Businessweek Assistant Professor, New York University Deputy Assistant General Counsel, U.S. Department of HUD Presient, Learning Connection Business Analyst, Northern Trust Bank Architectural Historian, New York City Lanmarks Preservation Commission Acting Presient & CEO, National Constitution Center History Teacher, Hingham Public Schools Anthropology The goal of Hamilton's Anthropology Department is to offer stuents two istinct tracts cultural 16

11 anthropology an archaeology through which to explore the iverse culture, beliefs an practices of human beings throughout time. Anthropology The stuy of the rich cultural, social, linguistic an biological iversity of humanity is a hans-on learning experience at Hamilton. Small liberal arts colleges rarely offer all four areas of stuy (cultural an social, linguistic, an biological anthropology an archaeology), but Hamilton oes. Stuents take introuctory an theory courses an choose between two tracks: cultural anthropology an archaeology. This curriculum familiarizes you with all sub-areas, teaches you to write an think critically, an prepares you for a fiel that contributes to a wie range of areas: international business, epiemiology, social impact stuies, organizational analysis an market research, just to name a few. Research Opportunities Every other summer, the epartment offers an archaeology fiel course. Stuents spen two months in the esert of Nevaa implementing methos learne in the classroom. Excavation takes place at one of the earliest archaeological sites in North America, ating to more than 10,000 years ago. Stuents explore a variety of fiel methos an gain the experience living an interacting in a fiel camp. The Senior Program The senior project in anthropology provies stuents the opportunity to conuct inepenent research uner the irection of two epartmental avisers. Stuents having an average of 88 in anthropology may become caniates for epartmental honors by continuing their projects uring the secon semester of the senior year. Resources The Anthropology Department offers lab facilities use most frequently by concentrators in archaeology. In aition, Hamilton boasts a collection of rare artifacts, pertinent to stuy in anthropology an archaeology, to which stuents have access. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Anthropology are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Assistant Attorney General, State of Connecticut Physician, Jefferson General Meical & Peiatric Group Vice Presient, Creit Suisse First Boston Deputy Copy Desk Chief, Plain Dealer Juge, U.S. Immigration Court 17

12 Vice Presient of Sales, Bayer Corporation National Meical Director, Travelers Insurance Company Professor, Braneis University Architecture Specialist, Unisys Corporation Exhibition Assistant, Philaelphia Museum of Art Art The goal of Hamilton's Art Department is to raise stuents to a level of self-sufficiency, inepenent critical thinking an proficiency in the creation an iscussion of works of art in orer that they might sustain a lively, generative an relevant practice outsie of the College environment. A society's artists may be its historians, its philosophers, its priests an confessors, its outlaws or its visionaries. Art may ocument the artist's worl, it may imagine the past or future, or it may express an inner lanscape that cannot otherwise be share. At Hamilton, stuent an faculty artists explore this rich ynamic by both creating an critiquing works of visual art. Research Opportunities Hamilton's art program introuces stuents to funamental skills an concepts across multiple meiums an histories. Through intensive interaction with peers an faculty, stuents are encourage to buil a methoical stuio practice. Discussions, critiques an reaings teach uses of oral an written language that are both precise an escriptive. Through experimentation with various genres, styles an materials, stuents evelop an increasingly avance visual language. A generative stuio practice refines our young artist s ability to properly evaluate their own work an the work of others, an helps them to situate their work within its proper historic an contemporary contexts. Many art majors take avantage of Hamilton's extensive stuy-abroa programs to spen their junior year in Italy, France, Spain, Great Britain or elsewhere. The aventure of stuying great art in its own cultural setting, an of eveloping one's own skills an vision at the same time, can be a transforming experience for young artists. The Senior Program All senior art majors embark on an intensive two-semester senior project. The culmination of the year s work is the annual spring stuent exhibition in Hamilton s Emerson Gallery. As an entering senior concentrator stuents are assigne a semi-private stuio space. The success of this program epens on rigorous pursuit of inepenent prouction of works of art, both object base an visual incients. Faculty an peers provie stuents with strategies for getting starte an for maintaining stamina, but 18

13 the responsibility for prouction rests with the stuent artists. Iniviual group critiques provie opportunities for stuents to iscuss works-in-progress with their peers an faculty members. Stuio work is further supplemente with lectures, technical emonstrations, iscussions, research an engagement with visiting artists an those artists stuio practices. Resources The College's List Art Center an neighboring facilities house stuios for ceramics, rawing, printmaking, sculpture, painting, photography an vieo. Senior art concentrators have private stuio space. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Art are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Owner, Sarah Fritchey Gallery Technical Director, Pixar Animation Stuios General Partner/Managing Director, Golman Sachs Director, High Museum of Art Professor of Art, University of California, Davis Photographer, Unite Nations Associate Art Director, Reaer s Digest Owner/Founer, Vermont Glass Workshop Vice Presient, Creit Suisse Development Coorinator, Nashville Chilren's Theatre 4th-Grae Teacher, Dubai American Acaemy Art History The goal of Hamilton's Art History Department is to introuce stuents to the rich cultural an historical contexts in which art is create an experience through courses that cover a range of perios, cultures an critical approaches. Throughout history, societies have efine an transforme themselves through their art. When we experience a work of art toay, we can see not only the work itself, but also the worl that prouce it. We see something of ourselves, too. Research Opportunities Art history stuents at Hamilton have an exciting range of opportunities to o inepenent research an stuy on an off campus. Their creative, engage efforts go far beyon passive "art appreciation." 19

14 Stuents work with professors both uring the acaemic year an over the summer. These collaborations can lea to publication an stuent-curate exhibitions at the Emerson Gallery. A recent Emerson exhibition, for example, contraste male an female artists iffering epictions of war. Many art history majors also serve internships at galleries an museums in New York City, in Boston an across the country. An the epartment encourages its stuents to stuy abroa uring their junior year in orer to explore the iversity an richness of artistic traitions an styles. The Senior Program Senior art history majors prepare an extensive research project in connection with a seminar that is taken in the fall or spring. The program culminates in an oral presentation before an auience of art history majors, faculty members an intereste members of the College community. Resources The epartment raws on a range of artistic an cultural resources on campus an off. Hamilton s Emerson Gallery hosts a vibrant program of exhibitions, lectures, performances an films. Many courses make use of the gallery s offerings as well as the College s permanent collection. The permanent collection is available for stuent research an inclues the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, recognize as the finest gathering of rare books, maps, manuscripts an art on the Eastern Caribbean in the worl. The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, minutes away in Utica, houses one of the most important collections of American art in the country. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Art History are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Prouction Manager, ABC News, Goo Morning America Vice Presient, Saatchi & Saatchi Avertising Contemporary Art Specialist, Sotheby's Presient, McGraw-Hill Companies Senior Vice Presient, William Doyle Galleries Professor of Art History, University of Tennessee Gemologist, Lang Antiques Development Associate, American Museum of Natural History Vice Presient an Real Estate Counsel, Lehman Brothers Curator, Decorative Arts an Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Asian Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Asian Stuies Program is to combine the stuy of cultural traitions an ientity, language an contemporary social an political transformations. 20

15 With 30 percent of the worl's lan more than all the Americas combine an seven of the worl's 10 most populous nations, Asia is the planet's largest, most people an arguably most iverse continent. It sprawls nearly halfway across the globe, merging with Europe in the West, borering Africa in the Southwest, an stretching a finger nearly to Alaska in the East. It is boun in some quarters by the worl's most eeply roote traitions an riven in others by the most futuristic technology. Hamilton's Asian Stuies Program begins with the conviction that a real unerstaning of this immense human tapestry requires an interisciplinary approach to the continent's cultures, languages an society. Research Opportunities The Associate Colleges in China Program, sponsore by Hamilton an several other prestigious institutions, is hoste by the Capital University of Economics an Business in Beijing. There stuents are immerse in Chinese language instruction an Chinese culture. One-semester programs are offere, but stuents are strongly encourage to plan for a two-semester stay. In aition to the China program, stuents have a number of opportunities to work closely with faculty members in esigning projects an conucting research abroa an at the College. Some stuents receive summer research grants through Hamilton. The Senior Program The Senior Program is the culminating intellectual experience at Hamilton, in which the knowlege, language skills an insights gaine in the first three years are combine an integrate. The centerpiece of the Senior Program is the senior project; majors work inepenently, with the close guiance of at least two faculty members, to prouce an present a final, focuse work of scholarship. Resources The Asian Stuies program sponsors a number of important cultural, eucational an social events each year, many of them in conjunction with the stuent-run Asian Cultural Society an other epartments. Recently these have inclue a performance of the Beijing Opera, the celebration of the Lunar New Year, an a range of talks an other presentations. Stuents typically have an opportunity to meet an talk with istinguishe visitors. They also share views an experiences at the College's monthly Asia Forum. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Asian Stuies are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Research Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong Marketing Coorinator, MTV Networks Director, Japanese Equities, Merrill Lynch, International Attorney, State of New York 21

16 Assistant to the Director of Eucation Programs, National Committee on US-China Relations Investment Representative, Deutsche Bank Americas Manager, School an Family Programs, Museum of Television & Raio Astronomy The goal of Hamilton's Astronomy Program is to offer stuents a clearer unerstaning of the universe through selecte physics courses an hans-on research opportunities. In a sense, astronomy is the ultimate scientific eneavor the attempt to know the unknowable, the entirety of the universe. Astronomers are only beginning to peer into the istant past, at least 10 billion years, to explore the origins of the cosmos. Even the eepest explorations into space have barely taken us beyon our terrestrial oorstep. An while centuries of ever-more-sophisticate observations an measurements from Earth have reveale a great eal, they have also raise min-boggling new questions. But the stuy of astronomy also has critical long-term implications for practical science an our own well being, from space flight to environmental an health issues. In aition, a basic knowlege of the universe helps us to live with imagination an insight in our own technological worl. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES The close stuent-faculty collaboration that is at the heart of Hamilton's physics program means that every astronomy minor completes an extene inepenent-stuy research project with close faculty supervision. Hamilton regularly offers research options in such fiels as general astronomy, theoretical quantum gravity, general relativity, nuclear physics, laser spectroscopy an nonlinear ynamics. Stuent projects often lea to papers that are presente at professional conferences an/or publishe in scholarly journals. RESOURCES Hamilton is home to the solar-heate C.H.F. Peters Astronomical Observatory, which houses an 11 1/4" Maksutov telescope an several smaller telescopes. The observatory has been recently upgrae an now features computer control of the telescope mount an CCD reaout for collecting images. In aition, state-of-the-art facilities, avance technology an small classes at the Science Center mean that Hamilton unergrauates have the opportunity to work closely with instruments available only to grauate stuents at many schools. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology The goal of Hamilton's Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Program is to encourage stuents to explore biochemical concepts through extensive research opportunities an close collaboration between stuents an instructors. 22

17 The stuy of biology gives us an unerstaning of the structure, the evolution an the iversity of living organisms. The stuy of chemistry reveals the composition an behavior of matter itself. These two funamental forms of scientific inquiry meet in biochemistry the stuy of living organisms at the molecular level. At Hamilton, the biochemistry/molecular biology program combines the strengths an resources of the two isciplines to create a thir istinct research-base major. Research Opportunities Hamilton's emphasis on iscovery-base laboratory work an research means that courses provie practical, hans-on training, with many opportunities to learn outsie the classroom: The Merck/American Association for the Avancement of Science program at Hamilton offers summer research stipens each year for projects in biology, chemistry an biochemistry. Aitional funs for summer research are offere by the College's Summer Research Program as well as by grants from the National Science Founation, the National Institutes of Health an the Dreyfus Founation. Exceptional biochemistry stuents may also arrange to spen a semester at the National Institutes of Health. Inepenent stuy projects an the senior project offer further opportunities to o research uring the acaemic year. Biochemistry stuents are encourage to pursue inepenent research, an they regularly collaborate with faculty members on projects that lea to publication in top research journals an presentations at scholarly conferences. The Senior Program The centerpiece of the Senior Program in biochemistry/molecular biology is the senior project. Uner the guiance of a professor, stuents conuct inepenent laboratory research an experimentation. For most stuents, the project involves one semester of lab work, followe by part of a secon semester eicate to writing a thesis an preparing for an oral presentation to epartmental faculty an stuent peers. The senior thesis is a culmination of each stuent s unergrauate experience; it synthesizes coursework, research an iscussion into a focuse statement of intellectual growth an insight. RESOURCES State-of-the-art facilities, avance technology an small classes at the Science Center mean that Hamilton unergrauates have the opportunity to work closely with instruments available only to grauate stuents at many schools. The Taylor Science Center is fully wireless an houses more than 100 teaching an research laboratories as well as offices an classrooms, stuent areas an a coffee shop. Science Center instrumentation inclues a 500 MHz variable-temperature multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, several Fourier-transform infrare spectrophotometers, a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, an a ual pump, high-pressure mixing high-performance liqui chromatography. Also available are versatile ultraviolet/visible spectrometers, a high-performance 23

18 glove box, a refrigerate centrifuge an several vacuum lines. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Director, U.S. Regulatory Affairs, Pfizer Founation Clinical Fellow, National Cancer Institute Plastic Surgeon, New York University Meical Center Neurosurgery Resient, Mount Sinai Hospital Senior Operations Analyst, Baxter Healthcare Peiatric Cariologist, Hasbro Chilren's Hospital Biology The goal of Hamilton's Biology Department is to introuce a broa range of stuents to the life sciences, while proviing a strong scientific grouning with practical, hans-on training for those who plan to pursue grauate stuy or a career in the health professions. Perhaps nothing is as basic to human knowlege as the examination of life itself. The stuy of biology gives us a eeper unerstaning of ourselves an our worl the structure an function of plants an animals, the evolution an iversity of living organisms an the cellular processes of life. Biological concepts an processes also are central to many of the most crucial issues of our time, from AIDS to genetics, environmental amage an the threat of bioterrorism. Research Opportunities Biology stuents at Hamilton have ongoing opportunities to collaborate an perform research with faculty members both on an off campus. The energy an engagement create by these collaborative efforts gives the biology program its istinctive ientity an sense of community. Each year, ozens of stuents work in the lab alongsie their professors on special projects. Others pursue pai summer internships at Hamilton an such prestigious institutions as Yale University's School of Meicine, The Johns Hopkins University, the National Institutes of Health an the National Zoological Park. The biology program extens far beyon the conventional lab. Biology majors have opportunities to o fielwork in such varie settings as the Aironack High Peaks, Costa Rica an Antarctica. Stuent researchers share their finings with others in the scientific community. In recent years, Hamilton stuents presente research papers at national meetings of the American Malacological Union, the Feeration of American Societies of Experimental Biology, the National Council of Unergrauate Research, the New York Natural History Conference an SUNY-Binghamton's Annual Biological Sciences Research Symposium. 24

19 The Senior Program At the core of the Senior Program in biology is the senior project, an intensive two-semester fiel or laboratory research project carrie out in association with a faculty member. The project conclues with a written project an an oral presentation given in the secon semester of the senior year. The senior project is an opportunity to synthesize an focus previous coursework. It culminates in an original work of scholarship that provies an in-epth examination of a particular empirical or theoretical issue. Resources Hamilton's Biology Department an laboratories are house in the Taylor Science Center. This state-of-the-art facility gives unergrauates access to many of the same instruments that are available only to grauate stuents at many schools, incluing both transmission an scanning electron microscopes, imaging workstations, a raioisotope laboratory, scintillation an gamma counters, two environmental chambers, an inoor stream, a greenhouse, an a bioinformatics computing facility. Hamilton is also well situate to take avantage of a variety of habitats for fiel stuies. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who majore in Biology are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Conservation Biologist, Willife Conservation Society Teacher/Naturalist, Massachusetts Auubon Society Chemist, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Hea/Section of Cariovascular Imaging, Clevelan Clinic Founation Zoology Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University Executive Eitor, Horticulture Magazine Science Department Chair, New York City Department of Eucation Director, Financial Planning, The Gillette Company Executive Director/CEO, Ohio Historical Society VP Investments, Smith Barney Inc. Supervisory Special Agent, Feeral Bureau of Investigation Cinematographer/ Microbiologist, Wilerness Film & Vieo Prouctions Chemical Physics The goal of Hamilton's Chemical Physics Program is to encourage stuents to make connections across the chemistry an physics isciplines through extensive research opportunities an close collaboration between stuents an instructors. 25

20 Chemical physics explores the rapily evolving research at the intersection where chemistry, the stuy of the composition of matter, meets physics, the stuy of the behavior of matter an energy. One of Hamilton's newest acaemic concentrations, the chemical physics major offers science stuents an opportunity to buil their knowlege an laboratory skills in both fiels. As an interisciplinary program, chemical physics raws on the share resources of two strong epartments an exemplifies the College's innovative approach to making connections across ifferent fiels an perspectives. Research Opportunities Stuents are among Hamilton's most important researchers in chemical physics, working closely with professors in a variety of fiels uring the acaemic year as well as the summer. In aition Hamilton stuents pursue summer research at other colleges, government laboratories an in inustry. In recent years, stuents have presente research at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society an at an international symposium of the Quantum Theory Project, an won the outstaning poster awar at an international symposium. Stuents also have co-authore papers publishe in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Journal of Organic Chemistry, the Journal of Physical Chemistry, the Journal of Chemical Physics, the Journal of Luminescence, Tetraheron Letters an Biochemistry. THE SENIOR PROGRAM All senior chemical physics stuents work collaboratively with faculty members on research projects as part of the Senior Program in either chemistry or physics. This intensive one- or two-semester project combines original scientific research with reaing an unerstaning the scientific literature. It culminates in a senior thesis that is efene in a public presentation to epartmental faculty an stuent peers. Resources State-of-the-art facilities, avance technology an small classes at the Science Center mean that Hamilton unergrauates have the opportunity to work closely with instruments available only to grauate stuents at many schools. The Science Center is fully wireless an houses more than 100 teaching an research laboratories as well as offices an classrooms, stuent areas an a coffee shop. Science Center instrumentation inclues a 500 MHz variable-temperature multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, several Fourier-transform infrare spectrophotometers, a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, an a ual pump, high-pressure mixing high-performance liqui chromatography. Also available are versatile ultraviolet/visible spectrometers, a high-performance glove box, a refrigerate centrifuge an several vacuum lines. Chemistry The goal of Hamilton's Chemistry Department is to introuce a broa range of stuents to the principles of scientific inquiry, while proviing those who plan to pursue graute stuy or careers in the health professions practical, hans-on training. 26

21 Chemistry is call the central science, an for goo reason. The inquiry into how matter is compose an combine is a founation of all fiels of scientific knowlege. The chemist's laboratory stretches from the interior of living cells to the most istant reaches of the universe. Between the extremes, chemistry is a key to many of our most crucial issues: environmental safety, global warming, renewable energy, bio- an chemical terrorism, meicine an fertility. At Hamilton, stuents on't just stuy chemistry; they help break new groun as members of a scientific community. Research Opportunities Stuents are among Hamilton's most important researchers in chemistry, working closely with professors in a variety of fiels. In connection with their senior projects or as senior fellows, senior stuents o research with faculty members. Some juniors, sophomores an even first-year stuents work in the laboratory uring the acaemic year an summer. In aition to the 30 or so stuents who participate in campus chemistry research each summer, Hamilton stuents pursue summer research at other colleges, at government laboratories an in inustry. In recent years, stuents have presente research at the National Organic Symposium, at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society an at an international symposium of the Quantum Theory Project. Hamilton stuents won the outstaning poster awar at an international symposium for two consecutive years. Stuents also have co-authore papers publishe in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Journal of Organic Chemistry, the Journal of Physical Chemistry, the Journal of Chemical Physics, the Journal of Luminescence, Tetraheron Letters an Biochemistry. The Senior Program All senior chemistry stuents work collaboratively with faculty members on research projects as part of the Senior Program. This intensive two-semester project combines original scientific research with reaing an unerstaning the scientific literature. It culminates in a Senior Thesis that is efene in a public presentation to epartmental faculty an stuent chemistry majors. Resources State-of-the-art facilities, avance technology an small classes at Taylor Science Center mean that Hamilton unergrauates have the opportunity to work closely with instruments available only to grauate stuents at many schools. The Science Center is fully wireless an houses more than 100 teaching an research laboratories as well as offices an classrooms, stuent areas an a coffee shop. Instrumentation inclues a 500 MHz variable-temperature multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, several Fourier-transform infrare spectrophotometers, a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, an a ual pump, high-pressure mixing high-performance liqui chromatography. Also available are versatile ultraviolet/visible spectrometers, a high-performance glove box, a refrigerate centrifuge an several vacuum lines. 27

22 After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Chemistry are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Engineer, Lockhee Martin Corporation Researcher, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Public Relations Director, AT&T Corporation Professor of Neurology, UCLA School of Meicine Meical Oncologist, Yale Cancer Center/Yale University School of Meicine Senior Toxicologist/ Pharmacologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Senior Vice Presient, Bank of America Surgeon in Charge, Division of Dentistry, Cornell Meical College Vice Presient, Pruential Equity Group Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Dow Chemical Company East Asian Languages an Literatures The goal of Hamilton's East Asian Languages an Literatures Department is to introuce stuents to the region's changing ientity while emphasizing language proficiency in Chinese an Japanese. The rapi growth of the Pacific Rim as an economic an technological giant in worl affairs has spurre a parallel interest in the region's languages an people. Chinese an Japanese have become two of the most wiely taught foreign languages in the Unite States, critical to a wie range of professions an interests from politics an iplomacy to business, eucation an cutting-ege technology. But the interest extens beyon purely practical concerns to a growing fascination with the unique play of traition an innovation, ritual an creativity in the cultures of Taiwan, Hong Kong, China an Japan. Balancing past an future, they have emerge as both partners an competitors in a shifting global orer. Stuy Abroa Opportunities The Associate Colleges in China (ACC) Program, a consortium of several prestigious liberal arts colleges aministere by the East Asian Languages an Literatures Department, provies summer, fall an spring stuies in Beijing (hoste by the Capital University of Economics an Business) with intensive coursework through iniviualize instructions with a high level of participation an 28

23 interaction. The courses are taught entirely in Chinese an encompass topics incluing avance language, Chinese politics, society, economics, religion, art, folklore an literature. Unique features an activities of the program inclue the language plege (speaking Chinese only), language practicum (iniviual projects conucte with local citizens), Chinese host families, Chinese language table, fiel trips outsie of Beijing an extracurricular activities such as Taichi, Chinese foo cooking, Chinese calligraphy, etc. Stuents of Chinese are eligible for the ACC program. Stuents of Japanese have the opportunity to stuy abroa through such programs as Kyoto Center for Japanese Language (Kyoto), CIEE-Sophia University (Tokyo) an Nanzan University (Nagoya). The Senior Program The Senior Program in Chinese is the culminating intellectual experience at Hamilton, in which the cultural experience in China, the language proficiency an insights gaine in the first three years are combine an integrate. The centerpiece of the Chinese concentration is the senior project. The one semester project requires the concentrators to finish an present a work of scholarship completely in Chinese an/or using substantial materials in the original language. Chinese majors work closely with a faculty member(s) each week an uring two group presentations uring the semester, incluing a final efense. RESOURCES While Hamilton stuents have full access to a moern language laboratory, an auiovisual center, a recoring stuio an Hamilton on-line system, the East Asian Languages an Literature Department provies complete multimeia, interactive, igital versions of the Chinese language courses for all levels in the language laboratory. Further, professors, instructors an teaching fellows in the epartment are native speakers of the Chinese an Japanese languages. The epartment sponsors weekly Chinese an Japanese language tables, invite talks an lectures in Chinese an Japanese literatures an cultures, Chinese an Japanese movie series, an Asian New Year celebration an annual stuy tour to China. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in East Asian Languages an Literatures are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Associate, New Asia Partners Investment Holings Limite Director of International Outreach, Mount Holyoke College Owner, Council on International Eucational Exchange Vice Presient, Capital Intro-Americas, Merrill Lynch Global Markets & Investment Banking Legal Assistant, International Trae Group, Skaen Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Llp Interactive Meia Planner, Draftfcb Equity Researcher, BMO Capital Markets 29

24 Business Systems Analyst, Liberty Mutual Insurance Program Management Assistant, STG International, Inc. Cinema an New Meia Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Cinema an New Meia Stuies Program is to blen stuy in film history an theory while proviing stuents opportunities to pursue their own artistic visions through the uses of new technology. In toay's igital worl, moving images exten far beyon the traitional movie screen. Cinema an New Meia Stuies explores film as an intellectual nexus a way of thinking about the worl across bounaries. An because film stuies at Hamilton is combine with new meia, stuents have opportunities to see the broaer context of imagery an text in the prouction of knowlege an culture. Courses from throughout the curriculum examine the ways religion, race, ethnicity, gener, nationality, class, the natural environment an other social an physical forces are represente an explore in cinema an new meia as artistic expression. OPPORTUNITIES Integrating classroom learning with experiences an skills necessary in the non-acaemic worl is one of the goals of Hamilton s liberal arts program. Stuents have hans-on opportunities to work with a variety of meia. Examples inclue courses in which film or Web-base assignments are require, such as Virtual Worls, Women Filmmakers an Seminar in e-black Stuies: Race an Cyberculture. A special opportunity came recently when stuents participate in a recent film treatment challenge presente by Thomas Tull, a Hamilton alumnus an founer/ceo of Legenary Pictures. Tull invite stuents to present an iea for a film for review by Legenary s prouction company professionals, who came to campus to hear pitches. One stuent writer was selecte to visit Legenary s heaquarters in California to continue iscussions with the firm s creative team. Hamilton brings to campus film writers an irectors who len insight into their work. Recent guests inclue worl-class irector Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala, Salaam Bombay, Vanity Fair) who iscusse her film Monsoon Weing, in which a family travels from aroun the worl to reunite in New Delhi for a last-minute arrange marriage; Tracy Fullerton, who presente a lecture on online vieo game esign; critically acclaime Devil Music Ensemble, who provie musical accompaniment uring the screening of the silent martial arts film Re Heroine; Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat (Passage, Women Without Men); an Acaemy Awar-winner an master of montage Chuck Workman (Precious Images). RESOURCES Research an technical support at Hamilton goes beyon mere access to materials an equipment. Our library, auio/visual an information technology staffs contribute to the learning experience by helping stuents think about the possibilities an limitations of the meia they use. 30

25 Stuents an faculty members utilize Hamilton's Meia Library, which has a fine collection of DVDs an VHS for stuy an research. Stuents have access to igital cameras an various computer programs such as Secon Life an Final Cut Pro. Classics The goal of Hamilton's Classics Department is to offer stuents an inclusive view of the ancient worl an its relation to contemporary society through a focus on classical languages or classical stuies. Classics has traitionally been the stuy of languages an societies of ancient Greece an Rome. At Hamilton, the Classics Department reflects this traition, while offering a broaer view of the ancient worl an its relation to our own time. The stuy of classics in this wier sense offers a variety of benefits: It enables stuents to perceive the continuing influence of Greek an Roman literature an culture on the art, literature an thought of our own time; it improves stuents' communication skills by giving them a eeper unerstaning of how language works; it provies a founation for learning other languages, in particular romance languages; an it leas to an increase mastery of English. Stuy Abroa Opportunities Hamilton is affiliate with the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Stuies in Rome an the American School of Classical Stuies in Athens, an stuents are encourage to spen a semester or two in one of those programs. Hamilton Stuents intereste in stuy in Greece are also encourage to spen a semester or two in the program run by Arcaia University. The Senior Program During their senior year, all classics concentrators work closely with a faculty member on one-semester inepenent research projects of their choosing. Resources Stuents of classics have access to the interactive resources such as the Perseus an VRoma Web sites, as well as to the epartment's Perseus an Panora computer systems, invaluable tools for the stuy of the ancient Greek an Roman worl. In aition, Hamilton's Burke Library has an especially strong collection in classics. Each year, the epartment's Winslow Lectureship brings a number of visiting speakers to campus for lectures an workshops. Past visitors inclue Anne Carson, Anrew Szegey-Maszak, Stanley Lombaro an Helen North. In aition, Aquila Prouctions, a well-known performance group from Lonon, Englan, has visite Hamilton to stage classical rama an to work with classics stuents. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Classics are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Physician/Gastroenterology, Temple University Hospital 31

26 Principal Dancer, Kansas City Ballet District Court Juge, Nassau County, New York Presient, Breckinrige Capital Avisors School Psychologist, Westport Public Schools Marketing Program Manager, Dell Computer Corporation Business Analyst, Fielity Investments Associate Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Presient/CEO, The Teagle Founation Communication The goal of Hamilton's Communication Department is to explore the principles of communication across contexts interpersonal, social, political, economic, cultural an beyon place an time an by means of various forms of technology. There is nothing more mysterious than the reciprocal interplay of two people sharing their thoughts. The beauty of speech an gesture captures the imagination of poets, philosophers an artists. Our human nature epens on our ability to use language. In that process there are moments when communication between people results in greater unerstaning an a new vision. Research Opportunities The interisciplinary nature of communication stuy means that research opportunities are plentiful an take many forms, from quantitative an statistical stuies, to historical analyses, to interpretive an theoretical essays. Classes are small, an stuents engage in rigorous iscussion. Many courses are writing-intensive, multiplying the occasions for in-epth, scholarly research. A number of stuents have presente their work at national an international conferences. Recent communication majors gave presentations at the International Workshop on Presence at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain; at the annual convention of the New York State Communication Association; an at the National Unergrauate Honors Conference, hoste by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. The Senior Program Senior majors in communication participate in an intensive Senior Program, uring which they work closely with a faculty member on a one-semester senior project. The project represents a culmination of each stuent s unergrauate experience; it synthesizes coursework, research an iscussion into a focuse statement of intellectual growth an insight. In communication, the project consists of both 32

27 written an oral components, culminating in a final raft of original research an an oral presentation to stuents an faculty at the en of the course. Resources The Communication Department hosts several guest speakers each year who are istinguishe in scholarly an professional fiels. Among the recent speakers are Davi Gunkel, an awar-winning eucator an scholar in the fiel of information an communication technology, an author of Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology; an Jim Kenney, vice presient an irector of strategic planning for the Associate Press. Stuents have a variety of opportunities to engage istinguishe guests in conversation. The College hosts an annual public speaking competition. The six speaking awars are among the most prestigious stuent honors on campus an inclue $6,000 in prizes. Topics an formats vary persuasive speeches, informative speeches an essays may be consiere. Aitionally, Hamilton is a member of Lamba Pi Eta, a national honor society eicate to encouraging an recognizing excellence in communication stuies. Membership is base on scholastic performance an commitment to the fiel. There are also many resources available to help stuents across isciplines improve their communication skills an prepare for life acaemic or professional after Hamilton. Hamilton's Oral Communication Center offers support services, workshops an tutoring options esigne to help stuents improve their public-speaking skills an classroom performance. The Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center offers peer writing conferences to help stuents clarify, organize an strengthen their ieas. Many communication stuents earn working internships in such professional fiels as meia prouction, public relations, marketing an avertising. The College's Maurice Horowich Career Center helps fin an arrange internships in New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., an other locales. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Communication are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Associate Proucer, ESPN Script Assistant, Goo Morning America Ice Hockey Coach, New York University Homelan Security, The White House Senior Regulatory Analyst, Lockhee Martin Corporation Executive Assistant to Katie Couric, ABC News Investment Analyst, Octagon Creit Investors Assistant Account Executive, Saatchi & Saatchi 33

28 Teacher an Coach, Hebron Acaemy Senior Counselor, Brooklyn Arts Exchange Comparative Literature The goal of Hamilton's Comparative Literature Department is to expose stuents to traitional literary analysis while they learn to question familiar assumptions an recognize the complex ways in which literature interacts with culture an politics. A work of literature always makes connections. It not only reaches iniviual reaers; it can invoke other literary works an traitions, it can challenge or embrace scientific or historical knowlege, it can be translate into another language or transforme by film. Comparative literature explores this rich tapestry of relationships. At Hamilton, comparative literature is the stuy of literary an cultural texts from aroun the globe. Research Opportunities Stuents of comparative literature often have the opportunity to work as research assistants with faculty members, both uring the summer an uring the acaemic year. In aition, many stuents take avantage of the rich opportunities for stuy abroa provie by Hamilton. In recent years, stuents of comparative literature have stuie in such places as France, Chile, Spain, Inia, Irelan, China, Nepal, Scotlan, Englan an Kenya. The Senior Program All majors in comparative literature participate in an intensive senior seminar, uring which they work closely with faculty members on topics involving translation of literary works an communication between cultures. In aition seniors are encourage to pursue an those seniors intereste in epartmental honors are require to complete a senior project, which leas to the writing of a senior thesis. Carrie out uner the close supervision of a faculty member, the senior thesis represents a culmination of each stuent's unergrauate experience; it synthesizes coursework, iscussion an personal reflection into a focuse statement of intellectual growth an insight. Resources The College's Burke Library offers a strong collection of texts an perioicals on various facets of comparative literature an the literary an cinematic traitions of other cultures. Also house at the library is the College's Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, regare as the worl s finest collection of 16th- to 19th-century materials on this region of the West Inies, with more than 1,800 print volumes an 1,000 manuscripts. The Comparative Literature Department has strong interisciplinary ties to a number of other programs on campus: Asian stuies, Russian stuies, American stuies, women s stuies, Africana stuies, Latin American stuies an the Diversity an Social Justice Project. All of these provie 34

29 personal an scholarly resources of interest to many comparative literature stuents. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Comparative Literature are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Fashion Eitor, Marie Claire Senior Marketing Director, L Oreal USA Senior Publicist, The Museum of Moern Art (MOMA) Professor of Peiatrics, Seattle Chilren s Hospital Proucer, Fresh Air Weeken, WHYY-FM, Philaelphia Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice Chilren s Book Eitor, Little Brown & Co. Teacher, Action for Boston Community Development Associate Bran Manager, Hasbro, Inc. Psychotherapist, California Grauate Institute Counseling Center Computer Science The goal of Hamilton's Computer Science Department is to prepare stuents to aapt an excel in an ever-changing fiel by combining a strong founation in mathematics, logic an language with exposure to the latest innovations in technology. The funamental question at the root of computer science is: What can be automate? Hamilton's computer science stuents explore that question through hans-on courses an research that are like the fiel itself constantly evolving. Stuents focus on both the experimental an theoretical sies of computer science, but they also consier the growing place computing has in the moern worl. What are the ethical an social risks an benefits of such technology, an how o we manage them? Research Opportunities Computer science majors are regularly hire as research assistants uring the school year an over the summer. In this role they collaborate with faculty members on a range of projects fune by such sources as the National Science Founation. Many of these projects lea to publication an presentations at professional conferences. Computer science majors also frequently serve as teaching an laboratory assistants uring the school year. Further, the lab-base computer science curriculum at Hamilton makes virtually every course a research experience. 35

30 The Senior Program As seniors, computer science majors frame an conclue their stuy by participating in a senior seminar. There they provie computer expertise an support for faculty research an other projects. Majors who are seeking epartmental honors unertake an aitional semester-long project in collaboration with a faculty member. Recent senior projects have focuse on topics such as steganography (embee information), cryptography, Kolmogorov complexity, algorithm visualization an automatic erivation of instruction scheuling. Resources Computer science majors have access to the epartment s own laboratories, as well as to a campus-wie range of computing resources typically foun only at large universities or in grauate epartments. Hamilton's Multimeia Presentation Center offers cutting-ege harware an software as well as support services for authoring multimeia-enhance presentations. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Computer Science are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Financial Analyst, Golman, Sachs & Co. Information Technology Project Manager, General Electric Aviator, U.S. Navy Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corp. Senior Engineer, Google Orthoontist/Oral Surgeon, West En Orthoontics Computer Scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory Digital Prouction Center Manager, Ikon Office Solutions Senior IT Systems Engineer, Motorola Senior Prouct Manager, Apple Computer, Inc English an Creative Writing The goals of the English Department for stuents engage in mastering the arts of creative writing an the stuy of literary texts are to evelop a sophisticate unerstaning of the role literature plays in human experience, both historically an in contemporary life; to strengthen an refine skills in literary analysis an interpretation; an to become compelling, elegant writers. One single wor can't begin to capture the possibilities offere by English stuy at Hamilton. English is not so much a subject as an ensemble of 36

31 interrelate isciplines. It explores the cultural place an vitality of language. It consiers the artistic pleasure an social role of literature. It surveys the historical sweep of prose, poetry, theatre an film in their many forms. An it illuminates the creative spark at the very center of all meaningful human activity. Stuy Abroa Opportunities Many English majors spen a semester or a year stuying abroa, typically in Englan, Irelan or Australia. Hamilton-affiliate programs offer a chance to explore first-han the historical roots an cultural settings of many of our most important authors an works. While stuy abroa is an integral part of the liberal arts curriculum, it has special resonance for stuents of English as they learn to analyze not only traitional texts but the larger cultural an creative interactions that prouce them. The Senior Program English majors at Hamilton progress towar a unique senior seminar, a culminating experience in which stuents work with a professor to efine an articulate the critical approach to literary stuy they have evelope over previous semesters. Honors stuents in English participate in a two-semester project that conclues with a public presentation an a written thesis. Senior creative writing stuents seeking honors unertake a one-semester work or collection that is presente in a public reaing. Resources Hamilton's Burke Library has among its substantial literary holings an important collection relate to the American moernist poet an Hamilton alumnus Ezra Poun. It also offers a wie selection of Caribbean literature an a remarkable hanwritten, han-ecorate manuscript from 1465 that stuents in meieval courses may examine an hanle. While nearly every campus has a writing center, Hamilton s Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center is regare as one of the nation s best a moel for other colleges an universities. Here stuents learn the fine points of researching, eveloping an organizing essays. All stuents have access to an most make use of the center s stuent tutors, who are rawn from the best writers in every iscipline across campus. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who majore in English are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Communications Manager, IBM Corp. English Professor, Smith College Physician, Senior Deputy Eitor, Annals of Internal Meicine Director, National Aquarium in Baltimore Presient, Scholastic Meia Attorney, Internal Revenue Service 37

32 Reaing Specialist, Poughkeepsie City School District Executive Eitor, ESPN, Inc. Vice Presient, Wachovia Bank N.A. Eitor, Newark (N.J.) Star-Leger Articles Eitor, Gourmet Magazine Director, Electronic Publishing, Scientific American Dance an Movement Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Dance Department is to help stuents fin an evelop their own voices an ientities through classes, workshops, projects an prouctions that consier ance from creative, technical, historical an scientific contexts. The program in ance at Hamilton has both an eucational an an artistic mission. It explores the power of human movement to express an communicate. It stuies the rich cultural context in which ance takes place. An it celebrates the creation of performance art an the growth of the performer. Stuents in ance evelop the tools with which to approach other isciplines with creativity an rigor. The emans an rewars of artistic performance encourage personal responsibility an empowerment, an they buil a sense of community both within the creative ensemble an between performer an auience. Performance an Research Opportunities At Hamilton, stuents of ance an theatre have iverse performance, choreography, irecting an esign opportunities. Auitions for main stage theatre prouctions are open to all stuents. Each year, faculty members an stuents prouce two ance concerts choreographe by faculty members, two or three plays irecte by faculty members, an as many as 10 prouctions irecte, choreographe, esigne, performe an prouce by stuents. Stuents an faculty also participate in the national American College Dance Festival. Stuent ance majors have taught an performe at local schools an art centers as well as with regional ance companies an summer theatres. Stuents intereste in arts aministration gain experience in the epartment box office an as house managers. Many theatre majors secure internships with summer theatres after their junior year. Theatre an ance stuents also participate in many outstaning programs abroa an have stuie in such places as Sri Lanka, Nepal, Inia, Bali, Germany, Lonon an Paris. The Senior Program The Senior Program is a focuse project, carrie out uner the close supervision of a faculty member. It raws together coursework an creativity, theory an practice. Each ance stuent choreographs 38

33 an performs in an original work. RESOURCES Hamilton offers a variety of classroom an performance facilities: Wellin Hall, Minor Theater, Bloo Fitness an Dance Center, List Dance Stuio an Beinecke Events Barn. In aition, the theatre an ance programs provie a range of specialize staging an esign equipment as well as stock an computerize lighting systems in various prouction shops. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Dance are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Assistant Professor, Ohio University Assistant to the Director, Dance Division, The Boston Conservatory Operations Officer, People s Prouction House Peiatric Resiency Program Director, Chilren s Hospital at Sinai Psychotherapist, (private practice) Senior Project Associate, Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Eucation Economics Do you want to engage in iscussions about health care, financial markets or Social Security reform? Or perhaps you' like to investigate why working women earn a fraction of what men earn, or the effectiveness of policies aime at improving the environment, or even the impact of our economy's growing globalization. If you are intereste in eveloping a coherent framework to answer questions like these, then you shoul consier stuying economics at Hamilton. Research Opportunities Economics stuents at Hamilton have opportunities to conuct original research either over the summer as part of the Levitt Fellows or Emerson Grant programs or uring their senior year as part of the Senior Program Examples of past topics inclue climate finance, the labor market an the "Great Recession", an entrepreneurship among immigrants. In aition some concentrators work uring the acaemic year an in the summer as research assistants with faculty members, an the results of their collaborations have appeare in co-authore papers in professional journals. The Senior Program The Senior Project in economics can be satisfie either by a project in a esignate 500 level course or by a Senior Thesis. Projects require a paper or a series of papers emonstrating a mastery of 39

34 avance methos, an unerstaning of the scholarly literature on a topic or an unerstaning of the evolution of important issues in the iscipline. The Senior Thesis is a written report of an original research project unertaken in the epartment's Research Seminar (Economics 560). Stuents participating in this seminar make a number of presentations of their work in progress uring the semester an usually submit their theses to the epartment for consieration for epartment honors. On several occasions, these theses have become the basis for collaborative work with faculty supervisors that has resulte in publications in professional journals. Resources The Economics Department is heaquartere in the newly renovate Kirner-Johnson Builing. Classrooms are "technology-enhance," incluing either a projection screen an ata projector or a LCD screen on the wall, an are equippe with large flat-screen computer monitors that allow stuents to collaborate. "Annotation screens" allow stuents an professors to a comments to computer isplays. Four tiere "case stuy" classrooms have two rows of seats in a horseshoe configuration to further encourage stuent-teacher an stuent-stuent interaction. The Economics Department regularly sponsors guest lecturers an hols a joint seminar series with the Economics Department at Colgate University for faculty an stuents. The epartment also regularly receives funs from Procter & Gamble for acaemic nees. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who majore in Economics are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Agricultural Economist, U.S. Department of State Biostatistician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Reporter, The New York Times Actuarial Analyst, Liberty Mutual Insurance Offensive Quality Control Coach, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Professor of Economics & Public Policy, College of William an Mary Math Teacher/Golf Coach, Fayetteville-Manlius High School Chief Financial Officer, Vermont Tey Bear Co. Vice Presient an Financial Strategist, Golman, Sachs & Co. Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives Director of Prouct Managment, The Gap, Inc. Vice Chair GE, Presient an CEO GE Infrastructure, General Electric/GE Commercial Finance Eucation Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Eucation Stuies Program is to allow stuents to focus on a particular major while receiving intensive hans-on training an guiance in the eucational imensions of that 40

35 iscipline. One of the most revealing inicators of eucational quality at a college is the number of eucators that the institution itself prouces. It's no coincience that eucation consistently ranks No. 1 or No. 2 as the fiel in which Hamilton grauates begin their careers. Many teach in private schools or work in volunteer teaching corps; others avance to grauate stuy in eucation. The minor in eucation stuies is a valuable option for stuents who inten to pursue careers in teaching or relate fiels. Research Opportunities Stuents in eucation stuies often pursue summer internships by working as tutors, teacher assistants an counselors in a variety of settings: private an public schools, nonprofit eucational programs, urban summer eucation programs an summer camps. Internships are a form of work-relate experience highly value by eucation employers, an Hamilton's Career Center provies guiance an assistance to stuents seeking internships. In aition, all stuents in eucation stuies gain crucial fiel experience as well as college creits through their extene work in local schools. The Senior Program Seniors who minor in eucation stuies pursue a full Senior Program as part of their major. This typically involves the completion an oral presentation of an extensive senior project uner the guiance of at least one faculty member. In aition, senior eucation stuents prouce a final exhibition or portfolio presentation of their work that is evaluate by the Eucation Stuies Program Committee. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who minore in Eucation Stuies are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: 6th Grae Teacher, Rensselaer City School District Eucational Consultant, Abington Friens School Learning Disabilities Teacher, Lincoln-Subury High School Presient/CEO, Planne Parenthoo School Social Worker, Bloomfiel School District Teacher, Temple Israel Hebrew School Environmental Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Environmental Stuies Program is to encourage stuents to explore the impact of human interaction with our environment through an interisciplinary approach that balances broa, practical grounwork with focuse, iniviual stuy. 41

36 Environmental stuies as an acaemic fiel is only a few ecaes ol, but the concept is ancient. We interact continuously with our surrounings, an we benefit eeply from unerstaning that interaction. But while the environment has always shape human life an culture, we also shape the environment an never more so than toay, in an era of rapi technological change an population growth. Research Opportunities At Hamilton, stuent research is an essential part of the acaemic experience. It enables you to integrate what you have learne in the classroom into a broa, authoritative unerstaning of your fiel an its applications to real-worl problems an issues. Environmental stuies offers a broa range of research options, incluing fiel work an laboratory work, carrie out inepenently or in collaboration with a faculty member. Those majors who choose the natural sciences track have opportunities to join a fascinating variety of research outings. In recent years, stuents an professors in the geosciences have conucte expeitions not only to Antarctica but to Hawaii, Icelan, the Floria Keys, Colorao, the Pacific Northwest an the European Alps. They also o regular fiel work in Central New York an the nearby Aironack mountains. The College also provies substantial financial support for stuents who are intereste in pursuing summer research. Many stuents present the results of their work at regional, national an international conferences. Some co-author scholarly papers an journal articles in collaboration with faculty partners an mentors. The Senior Program The Senior Program is an integrating, culminating experience that raws on the knowlege an research skills you have evelope in the first three years. At its heart is the senior project. The project is a etaile exploration of an environmental topic that culminates in a research paper an oral presentation. The Senior Project shoul emonstrate competent application of methos an concepts from within the stuent's selecte iscipline but may also incorporate methos an concepts of other acaemic fiels reflecting the interisciplinary nature of environmental issues. Majors plan an pursue this inepenent project uner the close supervision of a faculty member an the program's avisory committee. RESOURCES As an interisciplinary fiel, the environmental stuies program raws on the rich an iverse resources of the many isciplines an facilities at Hamilton that contribute to it. The College maintains extensive fossil an mineral collections that inclue the Oren Root Mineral Collection, one of the finest in the country. The geosciences, biology an chemistry programs that provie the natural sciences curriculum are house in Hamilton's Science Center, which offers an array of tools that rival those of 42

37 top grauate-level research institutions. Among them: a seimentology lab with particle size analyzer (laser optics) an magnetic susceptibility system; oceanographic instrumentation incluing a conuctivity, temperature an transmissivity recorer; geochemistry facilities incluing X-ray iffraction an fluorescence instrumentation an total organic carbon analyzer; rock cutting an thin-section equipment; a complement of petrographic microscopes with photographic capabilities; hyrogeology equipment incluing a igital current meter, flow cells, grounwater sampling equipment, fiel chemical analysis system, well-testing equipment an a grounwater flow meter; an a computer array incluing Macintosh an IBM/NEC machines with a host of software an a igitizing table. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Environmental Stuies are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Energy Markets Data Analyst, Nuenergen Environmental Director, Scenic Huson, Inc. Policy Coorinator, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Aministration Senior Associate, Investment Solutions, UBS Vice Chairman, Training Program, Clevelan Clinic Founation Foreign Languages The goal of Hamilton's Foreign Languages Program is to offer stuents opportunities to evelop proficiency in multiple languages a skill that will serve them well in a wie range of eneavors. Hamilton stuents may major not only in iniviual languages, but also in a foreign languages program that emphasizes multilingual skills, a broa familiarity with other cultures an histories, an stuy abroa. There is a growing professional eman for grauates able to lea an communicate in a multilingual, multicultural worl. An beyon career consierations, the foreign languages program exemplifies Hamilton's most enuring liberal arts traition to reach beyon the limits of one's own experience an make connections with others. Stuy Abroa Opportunities The College offers a remarkable variety of stuy-abroa programs that are particularly well suite to language stuents, incluing highly regare programs in France, Spain an China. Hamilton also belongs to the American Collegiate Consortium Exchange Program for stuy in Russia an elsewhere in the former Soviet Union; an to the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Stuies in Rome an the American School of Classical Stuies in Athens. 43

38 The Senior Program The senior program is the culminating intellectual experience at Hamilton. In it, stuents integrate an focus the skills an knowlege they have gaine in the first three years. Majors in the foreign languages program must pass two language proficiency tests in orer to complete the program. Majors also may pursue epartmental honors by meeting requirements specifie by iniviual language programs. RESOURCES Foreign language majors raw on the extensive resources of iniviual language programs, incluing films, presentations, lectures, an up-to-ate language an computer labs. Outings an activities aboun as well, from La Mesa e Español an Club Español in the Hispanic stuies program to regular trips to Montreal in the French Department. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Foreign Languages are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Vice Chairman, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Senior Manager, Worlwie Market Intelligence, IBM Corporation Senior Marketing Manager, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. Regional General Manager, Fragrance, Chanel Asia Pacific Pte Limite Professor of French, Allegheny College Professor of Dermatology, Tulane Meical Center Lieutenant, New York City Police Department Chairman, Department of Neurology, University of Utah Attorney, Nixon Peaboy LLP French The goal of Hamilton's French Department is to encourage an appreciation of the heritage an culture of French-speaking peoples an help stuents evelop language proficiency necessary for a mature unerstaning of France an Francophone countries, past an present. The wor "language" itself is of french orgin, a fact that suggests the ramatic reach an importance of French throughout history an in the moern worl. French is the language of much of the worl's greatest literature an philosophy. It is wiely spoken in such regions as Africa, the Mile East an Southeast Asia, a legacy of the colonial era. It precee English as the international language an so 44

39 remains eeply woven into the iscourse of history an iplomacy. English itself bears the centuries-ol imprint of Norman French, an Canaa's history an culture, from the colonial era to contemporary politics, is in part a story of the clash an interplay between French an English. Stuy Abroa Opportunities The French program encourages a range of research skills an activities: laboratory work in language proficiency, outings to nearby Quebec, an literary scholarship in Hamilton's extensive Burke Library holings. At the center of the program, though, is the Junior Year in France. Stuents stuy for a full acaemic year at the Université e Paris III an other more specialize institutions; the curriculum is known for its acaemic rigor an attention to iniviual learners' nees. Stuents are immerse in the language, culture an history of the French as they enjoy the intellectual an social experience of a lifetime. The Senior Program The Senior Program serves as Hamilton's integrating an culminating intellectual experience. At its center is the senior project, an extene research effort in which stuents use the knowlege an methos gaine in their first three years of stuy. Each senior French major works closely with at least one faculty member while completing the project, which inclues a senior research course an major paper. Seniors also emonstrate language proficiency in French with an interview. Resources The epartment sponsors the French Club; a newsletter, La Gazette; a weeken cultural excursion to Montreal; weekly raio shows; an a series of lectures, films an presentations revolving aroun French culture, history an language. Up-to-ate computer facilities, language laboratories, an auiovisual center an a recoring stuio are available for stuent use. Qualifie Hamilton seniors are invite to join the College's chapter of Phi Sigma Iota, the foreign language honor society. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who majore in French are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Director of International Programs, Union College Publicity Manager, Harpercollins Publishers Chairman an CEO, Procter & Gamble Executive Director, Estee Lauer Asia Pacific Win Energy Analyst, Emerging Energy Research Clinical Research Coorinator, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Professor of French, Wesleyan University Senior Vice Presient, International Licensing, Tommy Hilfiger USA Managing Director/Partner, Golman, Sachs & Co. 45

40 General Manager, Minnesota Twins Meical Writer, Provience Journal Photojournalist, Time Warner, Inc. Geoarchaeology The goal of Hamilton's Geoarchaeology Program is to encourage connections between geological concepts an methos to ai in the interpretation of the archaeological recor of past societies. Geoarchaeology at Hamilton represents a new generation of innovative, interisciplinary stuy in the earth sciences. Using geologic methos an principles to enhance our ability to interpret an unerstan the archaeologic recor, geoarchaeology is a major fiel that has unergone tremenous growth in recent ecaes. The Hamilton program is a research-oriente brige between the Geosciences Department an the Archaeology Program operate within the Anthropology Department. It combines the extensive resources of these two isciplines to provie specialize training to unergrauates that is typically available only to grauate stuents in large, research-oriente institutions. Research Opportunities Fiel stuies through the College's summer programs in geosciences an archaeology offer stuents a remarkable range of opportunities to evelop research skills an integrate classroom learning. In recent work, stuents have trace stone tools to their geologic sources, explore how an when sites were occupie in light of lanform evolution, an etermine how processes of isturbance affect archaeological eposits. Such stuies often lea to collaborative papers an presentations in which stuents an faculty members publish their research in scholarly journals an speak at conferences. The Senior Program The Senior Program serves as an integrating an culminating experience for geoarchaeology majors in which they employ the knowlege an methos gaine in the first three years of stuy. At the center of the program is the senior project, a two-semester inepenent-stuy effort carrie out uner the close guiance of the faculty an concluing with a public presentation. Resources The program's home in the state-of-the-art Science Center offers an array of tools an facilities that rival those of top grauate-level research institutions. Among them: a seimentology lab with particle size analyzer (laser optics) an magnetic susceptibility system; oceanographic instrumentation incluing a conuctivity, temperature an transmissivity recorer; geochemistry facilities incluing X-ray iffraction an fluorescence instrumentation an total organic carbon analyzer; rock cutting an thin-section equipment; a complement of petrographic microscopes with photographic capabilities; hyrogeology equipment incluing a igital current meter, flow cells, grounwater sampling 46

41 equipment, fiel chemical analysis system, well-testing equipment an a grounwater flow meter; an a computer array incluing Macintosh an IBM/NEC machines with a host of software an a igitizing table. Geosciences The goal of Hamilton's Geoscience Department is to provie stuents with a founation from which to pursue stuy of the physical structure of the Earth an planets to unerstan how natural systems work an evolve over time. There is perhaps no more ramatic example of the remarkable evolution of the geosciences than a recent Antarctic expeition involving a Hamilton professor an his stuents. While stuying the collapse of a major ice shelf near the bottom of the worl, they iscovere a vast unerwater ecosystem the first of its kin foun in the Antarctic that itself may yiel previously unknown species of marine life. Working at the intersection of geology, marine biology an environmental stuies, the Hamilton team exemplifies the College's geosciences program an approach to the liberal arts: interisciplinary, innovative an riven by stuent research. Research Opportunities Fiel work is a vital part of stuy in the geosciences. At Hamilton it has been integrate into nearly all courses at every level. In recent years, stuents an professors have conucte expeitions not only to Antarctica but to Hawaii, Icelan, the Floria Keys, Colorao, the Pacific Northwest an the European Alps. They also regularly o fiel work in the Central New York region surrouning the College. The epartment encourages stuent-faculty collaboration on a range of projects, an it provies substantial financial support for stuents who are intereste in pursuing summer research. Many stuents present the results of their work at regional, national an international conferences; some co-author scholarly papers an journal articles in collaboration with faculty partners an mentors. The Senior Program The Senior Program in geosciences is a two-semester course in which majors plan an pursue an inepenent senior project uner the close supervision of at least one faculty member. The senior project is an integrating, culminating experience that raws on the skills an knowlege acquire in the first three years; for many stuents, it represents grauate-level work. Resources The College maintains extensive fossil an mineral collections that inclue the Oren Root Mineral Collection, one of the finest in the country. The epartment's home at the state-of-the-art Science Center offers an array of tools an facilities that rival those of top grauate-level research institutions. 47

42 Among them: a seimentology lab with particle size analyzer (laser optics) an magnetic susceptibility system; oceanographic instrumentation incluing a conuctivity, temperature an transmissivity recorer; geochemistry facilities incluing X-ray iffraction an fluorescence instrumentation an total organic carbon analyzer; rock cutting an thin-section equipment; a complement of petrographic microscopes with photographic capabilities; hyrogeology equipment incluing a igital current meter, flow cells, grounwater sampling equipment, fiel chemical analysis system, well-testing equipment an a grounwater flow meter; an a computer array incluing Macintosh an IBM/NEC machines with a host of software an a igitizing table. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who majore in Geosciences are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Geophysical Technician, Alaska Volcano Observatory Earth Science Teacher, Pinecrest High School Project Manager, NASA Professor, University of Arizona Outreach Eucator, Chilren's Museum At Saratoga Commissioner of Planning, Orange County New York Exploration Geologist, Pioneer Natural Resources Research Hyrologist, U.S. Geological Survey Senior Environmental Scientist, Ambient Engineering, Inc. Financial Analyst, IBM Corporation Engineering Geologist, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Science Coorinator, Chicago Public Schools German Stuies The goal of Hamilton's German Stuies Department is to examine from an interisciplinary perspective the language, literature, culture, historical evelopment an politics of German-speaking countries. When east an west Germany were reunite in 1990, much more than political symbolism was involve. Reunification create Europe's most populous nation by far, an economic an geopolitical force capable of countering the ominant powers in Asia an the Americas. Germany's important contemporary position, its rich cultural legacy an its turbulent history at the center of European affairs makes it an important topic of stuy for a wie range of interests: language an literature, government an iplomacy, international trae, an science an technology. 48

43 Stuy Abroa Opportunities Semester or year-long stuy abroa in a German-speaking country is strongly encourage. Stuents may choose to enhance their language skills an knowlege of German culture by participating in the College's ongoing exchange program with the University of Dortmun. In the past, stuents have also attene programs in Vienna, Munich, Freiburg, Tübingen, Berlin an Hamburg. While abroa, stuents are enrolle irectly in the German or Austrian university an live with German/Austrian stuents. Often, the senior project grows out of an acaemic or personal interest evelope while abroa. The Senior Program The Senior Program is a culminating intellectual experience in which stuents raw on an integrate the knowlege, research an language skills gaine in the first three years. The core of the program is the senior project, a research paper of approximately 30 page that can be written in either German or English, but must incorporate German language sources. The project is inepenent work that is closely supervise by a faculty member in the German program in consultation with colleagues from other epartments. Majors may also seek epartmental honors through istinguishe achievement in the classroom an on the senior project. Resources Stuents of German an Russian have full access to a moern language laboratory, an auiovisual center an a recoring stuio on campus. Our stuent exchange programs with the University of Dortmun assures close interaction with young German natives in the epartment an on campus.the weekly German tables an German Club activities help keep the German language an culture alive. Avance stuents in German may apply to be teaching assistants in introuctory language courses or to work in Hamilton's peer tutoring program. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in German Stuies are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: William H. Lair Professor of German, Carleton College Webmaster, IBM Corp. Vice Presient, Deutsche Bank Americas Senior Vice Presient, Coca-Cola Company Presient, Worl Emergency Relief Hea of Languages, St. Paul's School General Counsel, Westeutsche Lanesbank Girozentsale Director, International Technology Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director, Copyright, Public Broacasting Service 49

44 Designer, EuroEast Tours Bureau Chief, Financial Times Government The goal of Hamilton's Government Department is to engage stuents in iscussion pertaining to the political ynamics of human life through research an intensive writing. Stuents emerge prepare to shape, analyze an fully participate in civic life. Societies are not just groups of iniviuals. Each has a political imension a collective ientity, a structure of power an a system of public values. This imension is the focus of the stuy of government at Hamilton. How o societies organize collective effort? Do they achieve the public goo? Are iniviual citizens inclue in the ecision-making process? Research Opportunities The Hamilton Washington, D.C. Program offers a combination of rigorous acaemic stuy an real-worl experience in national government to the 16 juniors an seniors who participate each fall. Stuents o research an atten seminars le by a resient member of Hamilton's Government Department while working full time in a Washington, D.C., office. In recent years, stuents have worke in the White House Communications Office, the Senate Juiciary Committee, the State Department an the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Create in 1969, the program provies a combination of acaemic stuy an experience in national government to the 16 juniors an seniors who participate in the program each fall. Stuents conuct research an atten seminars le by a resient member of the epartment while working full time in Congressional an/or executive offices. In recent years, stuents have worke in the White House Communications Office, the Senate Juiciary Committee, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, an in the State Department. The Senior Program Senior majors in government complete a senior thesis an a research paper, working closely with a faculty member in the epartment. In the Senior Program, stuents raw on their accumulate skills an knowlege to prouce focuse, high-level scholarship on a specific topic or problem. Resources Hamilton's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center is one of the College's most active an important resources. Government majors an other stuents engage in the civic life of the region through the center's Community Outreach Office, service learning projects, an numerous fiel trips an conferences. Stuents an faculty members collaborate on community-base research irecte by the 50

45 Levitt Center, while the Levitt Scholars Program sens Hamilton stuents to high schools to speak on a variety of civic topics. An the center's Think Tank, a stuent-le iscussion group, provies an informal forum for stuents an faculty members to iscuss current issues. The epartment's Linowitz Professorship in International Affairs name for the late Sol Linowitz, a Hamilton alumnus, presiential avisor an ambassaor brings a series of eminent iplomats to Hamilton as visiting professors. Recent Linowitz Professors inclue Ewar S. "Ne" Walker Jr., former ambassaor to Israel, former assistant secretary of state an a Hamilton alumnus; Branon H. Grove, former ambassaor to Zaire an 35-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service; an Bernar Kalb, former assistant secretary of state an a veteran iplomatic journalist for The New York Times, CNN, NBC an CBS. The Levitt Center Lecture Series also brings well-known civic servants an public-affairs scholars to Hamilton each semester. Recent visitors inclue Alice Rivlin, founing irector of the Congressional Buget Office an former vice chair of the Feeral Reserve Boar; Nobel Prize recipient in economics Joseph E. Stiglitz; Lawrence J. Korb, former assistant secretary of efense; Catholic an feminist scholar Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; former Planne Parenthoo Presient Gloria Felt; an former presiential avisor, author an conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who majore in Government are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Global Network Consultant, AT&T Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of Justice CEO/Vice Chairman/COO, Saks Fifth Avenue Assistant Director of Corporate Communications, New Englan Patriots Senior Investment Manager, General Electric Company/GE Commercial Finance Attorney, MGM Chairman/CEO, Legenary Pictures Maynar-Knox Professor of Government, Hamilton College Publisher, TV Guie Bon Traer, Creit Suisse First Boston Senior Vice Presient, Pruential Securities Avertising Director, Self Magazine Hispanic Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Hispanic Stuies Department is to foster an appreciation for the heritage an culture of Spanish-speaking peoples, an to help stuents reach a proficiency in the Spanish language crucial to a mature unerstaning of Spain an Latin America, past an present. 51

46 Do you think of Spanish as a "foreign" language? Reconsier. It was the first spoken European language in the Americas, preceing English across most of the South, Miwest an West of the Unite States. Hunres of cities an many states bear the imprint of Hispanic culture in their very names as well as their populations, from Floria to Montana an Colorao, from Miami to Los Angeles an San Francisco. Spanish is the first language of more than 30 million U.S. resients making the Unite States the worl s thir most populous Hispanic nation after Mexico an Spain. Stuy Abroa Opportunities Research takes a variety of forms in Hispanic stuies, from laboratory work in language proficiency to literary scholarship in Hamilton's extensive Burke Library holings to fiel work in Latino communities. Certainly one of the most important research fronts, however, is the Hamilton's Acaemic Year in Spain program. Establishe in 1974 to provie the highest acaemic stanars small classes, istinguishe professors an total immersion in Spanish life an language the Mari-base program provies an intellectual, cultural an social experience that cannot be uplicate in any classroom. The Senior Program The Senior Program serves as an integrating, culminating experience in which Hispanic stuies majors bring the knowlege, skills an research experience of the first three college years to an in-epth research project. Each stuent works closely with at least one faculty member uring the project. RESOURCES The Hispanic Stuies Department offers an ongoing series of lectures, films an presentations. It also supports La Mesa e Español, where stuents an faculty members meet weekly for lunch an conversation in Spanish. Stuents in the program irect Club Español, which organizes cultural activities relate to Spanish an Latin American cultures, an La Vanguaria, for stuents of Latino backgroun. The epartment an the College provie computer facilities, a moern language laboratory, an auiovisual center an a recoring stuio for stuent use. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Hispanic Stuies are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: 7th-8th Grae Spanish Teacher, Norwich City Schools Anethesiologist, Parish Anesthesia of Baton Rouge Assistant Eitor, Newsay Chair, Department of Language, Literacy an Technology, Nazareth College Director of Ticket Sales, Seattle Mariners Baseball Club 52

47 Director, Spain & Portugal, Cambrige University Press Finance Manager, Ameriprise Financial Public Information Officer, U.S. Immigration an Customs Enforcement Vice Presient/Senior Projects Manager, The Nature Conservancy Teacher of Intervention Reaing, ESL, New York City Department of Eucation History The goal of Hamilton's History Department is to introuce a broa range of stuents to the histories of various cultures, peoples, places an times while honing their skills in writing, speaking an research. Do you think of history as a list of names an ates, battles an treaties, inventors an emperors? Be reay for a revelation. At Hamilton, history is a living, vibrant iscipline. Whether you are tracing the sprea of Buhism from Inia to Japan or exploring the African iaspora in the U.S. toay, the stuy of history is about builing a perspective on other cultures, times an places. History stuents evelop sophisticate writing an speaking skills, they learn to conuct research, an they hone the ability to think critically about complex issues an events of other times, an gain a historically informe unerstaning of the present. Research Opportunities The Department of History encourages its stuents to seriously consier stuy abroa for a semester or a year uring their stay at Hamilton. Typical estinations for history majors inclue Spain, France, Italy, Englan, China, Austria an Japan. Many of these can be visite through Hamilton-affiliate programs. While stuy abroa is an integral part of the liberal arts curriculum, it has special resonance for stuents of history as they stuy events an issues at their source an in their larger cultural context. All Hamilton history courses stress the evelopment of rigorous, critical reaing an research skills. A number of history majors buil on these skills by receiving funing to work in collaboration with faculty mentors uring the summer as Emerson Fellows. History stuents' knowlege of the worl an habits of critical thinking are enhance by closely working with their professors, who are themselves active in their own specialties. The Senior Program The senior seminar paper or honors thesis is the culminating experience for history majors at Hamilton. It is a semester-long research project in which stuents raw on their accumulate skills an knowlege to prouce focuse, high-level scholarship on a specific topic or problem. 53

48 Resources Hamilton has a fully accreite chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national honor society in history an one of the olest an most respecte honor societies in the nation. Hamilton history majors eliver papers at regional an national meetings of Phi Alpha Theta an publish papers in the society s journal. The epartment also regularly invites a spectrum of istinguishe historians an scholars to campus for talks, panel iscussions an workshops. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in History are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Coorinator Corporate Litigation, Exxon Mobil Corp. Senior Policy Analyst, U.S. Department of Commerce Henry J. Baker Professor of Law, Tufts University Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Embassy - Dakar Director, Department of Eucation an Interpretation, National Museum of American History Eitor, New York Post Proucer, ABC News - Goo Morning America Social Stuies Teacher/Coach, New Hartfor High School Chief Psychologist, Beth Israel Meical Center Manager of Forecasting & Analysis, Dow Jones & Company Inc. Environmental Policy Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Interisciplinary Concentration The goal of Hamilton's Interisciplinary Concentration is to allow stuents the flexibility to craft a program of stuy that matches their interests an goals. Hamilton's innovative liberal arts curriculum ispenses with core courses an encourages acaemic freeom of choice. That allows most stuents to pursue their interests in a traitional major or concentration, where they can focus on a particular topic while exploring many other fiels. Occasionally, however, stuents have interests an nees that are ifferent or highly specialize. In such instances, they may work with members of the faculty to create their own concentration. Research Opportunities Conucting research, typically with the assistance of a faculty member, is a key to helping you integrate what you have learne in the classroom. Research can 54

49 take many forms, epening on your acaemic interests: laboratory work, computer-assiste research, traitional scholarship, fiel work in settings ranging from Antarctica to archaeological igs to urban neighborhoos. In aition to the many research opportunities Hamilton provies uring the school year, the College offers a range of summer research grants to stuents for work on campus. Other stuents pursue summer internships off campus. Internships are a form of work-relate experience highly value by employers, an Hamilton's Career Center provies guiance an assistance to stuents seeking internships. The Senior Program The Senior Program serves as an integrating an culminating experience for all Hamilton stuents. At the center of the Senior Program is the senior project, in which you focus an apply the knowlege an skills you have evelope in your first three years of stuy. The senior project takes ifferent forms in ifferent isciplines. But each stuent works closely with at least one faculty member, an the project typically conclues with a public presentation or efense. As a stuent with an interisciplinary concentration, you will esign your own Senior Program as part of your overall plan of stuy; the Committee on Acaemic Staning must approve it. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Interisciplinary Concentration are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Founer & CEO, Inepenent Comey Network Urologist, Clevelan Clinic Architect, Stuios Architecture Finance Director, Beth Israel Meical Center Professor, University of Georgia Japanese The goal of Hamilton's Japanese Program is to emphasize language proficiency while introucing stuents to Japanese literature, film, culture an society. Japenese has become one of the most wiely taught foreign languages in the Unite States. It has assume critical importance in a wie range of professions an interests, from politics an iplomacy to business, eucation an cutting-ege technology. But the recent growth of the Pacific Rim as an economic an technological giant in worl affairs has spurre a fascination with the region's cultures as well as a practical interest in its languages. Hamilton serves both these nees through a minor in Japanese, offere through the East Asian Languages an Literatures Department. 55

50 Research Opportunities Conucting research, either through collaboration with a faculty member or inepenently, is key to helping you integrate what you have learne in the classroom. The Senior Program The Senior Program serves as an integrating an culminating experience for Japanese by requiring stuents to use the methoology an knowlege gaine in their first three years of stuy. Each stuent works closely with at least one faculty member uring the course of the program. RESOURCES The Asian Stuies Program sponsors a number of important cultural, eucational an social events each year, many of them in conjunction with the stuent-run Asian Cultural Society an other epartments. Recently these have inclue a performance of the Beijing Opera, the celebration of the Lunar New Year an a range of talks an other presentations. Stuents typically have an opportunity to meet an talk with istinguishe visitors. They also share views an experiences at the College's monthly Asia Forum. Stuents of Japanese have full access to a moern language laboratory, an auiovisual center an a recoring stuio on campus. Jurispruence, Law an Justice Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Jurispruence, Law an Justice Stuies Program is to provie stuents with the analytical an empirical founation to unerstan how the theory, practice an meaning of law stimulates civic engagement. Although their prominence in the curriculum has varie throughout the years, courses engaging jurispruence, justice an the examination of law in social life have ha a place at Hamilton since the 1830s. The minor concentration in Jurispruence, Law an Justice Stuies (JLJS) establishes a curricular home for such courses, in keeping with the College s liberal arts mission an with the goal of avancing a number of peagogic aims. Research Opportunities Conucting research, either through collaboration with a faculty member or inepenently, is key to helping you integrate what you have learne in the classroom. Latin American Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Latin American Stuies Program is to blen Hispanic stuies, history, government, sociology, women's stuies an anthropology to present the Latin American mosaic in all its iverse imensions. 56

51 The Unite States has a population approaching 300 million people an covers roughly 3.5 million square miles. Latin America has a population approaching 600 million people an covers roughly 8 million square miles. Yet we habitually think of Latin America, with its rich tapestry of cultures so eeply interwoven with our own, as the "other" America. The Latin American Stuies program at Hamilton challenges such mental borers by allowing stuents to see this emerging, energetic an often contraictory region through new eyes. Stuy Abroa Opportunities Stuents in the Latin American stuies program have a number of opportunities to stuy abroa with the assistance of the program faculty, an Hamilton College encourages all stuents particularly those stuying other cultures an traitions to experience life beyon campus an borers. On campus, Burke Library houses the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection. It is one of the worl's most important research collections of historical ocuments from an about this Caribbean region that was the birthplace of Alexaner Hamilton, who gave the College his name. RESOURCES Stuents in Latin American stuies can raw on the resources of the many epartments an programs that contribute to the minor, particularly the Hispanic stuies program. These inclue an ongoing series of lectures, films an presentations. La Mesa e Español provies an opportunity for stuents an faculty members to meet weekly for lunch an conversation in Spanish. Stuents in the program irect Club Español, which organizes cultural activities relate to Spanish an Latin American cultures, an La Vanguaria, for stuents of Latino backgroun. The epartment an the College provie computer facilities, a moern language laboratory, an auiovisual center an a recoring stuio for stuent use. Mathematics The goal of Hamilton's Mathematics Department is to provie all stuents with opportunities to hone logical thinking an statistical reasoning skills, while offering concentrators an unerstaning of funamental areas of pure an applie mathematics an what constitutes legitimate, rigorous argument through the analysis an construction of written proofs. Ancient thinkers recognize that mathematics was the language of the natural worl. Toay we recognize that it is also the language of science an social science, of business, commerce an inustry, even of art an esign. Doing math can be as simple as executing a computer search an as momentous as planning a mass evacuation or tracing a isease epiemic, but it assumes ever-greater importance in our lives. At Hamilton, mathematics is both a popular major an a crucial part of the College's broaer liberal arts curriculum. 57

52 Research Opportunities Research is crucial to mathematics an all the sciences. At Hamilton it is also one of the keys to the liberal arts curriculum. It begins with Hamilton's small, interactive classes an continues through the Senior Program. The Mathematics Department also has a number of stuents return to campus each summer for professional research. Conucting research, either through collaboration with a faculty member or inepenently, is the means by which stuents integrate an apply what they have learne in the classroom. Each summer, Hamilton an the Mathematics Department offer exciting opportunities for unergrauates to conuct hans-on collaborative research in math, computer science an other fiels. The Summer Science Collaborative Research Program provies grants for ozens of stuents to work with faculty members on a variety of cutting-ege projects. Many of these projects lea to scholarly papers an presentations co-authore by stuents. The Senior Program Mathematics majors begin the senior year with a senior seminar. These small seminars focus on ifferent areas of mathematics an are evote largely to presentations by stuents an intensive iscussion. Then, in the spring semester, stuents may elect to write a thesis, working inepenently but uner close faculty supervision. The senior thesis is a culmination of each stuent's unergrauate experience; it synthesizes coursework, research an iscussion into a focuse statement of intellectual growth an insight. Strong stuent papers sometimes are publishe in scholarly journals a remarkable accomplishment at the unergrauate level. Resources The Quantitative Literacy Center offers peer tutoring in courses that inclue a mathematics/quantitative component. Stuents may rop in to review topics as neee or to use the resources of the computer an vieo library. Other programs offere by the center inclue a review for the mathematics portion of Grauate Recor Exam an workshops esigne to accompany specific courses. Tutors at the center are top stuents who have been recommene by the epartments for which they tutor. They have taken the courses they tutor an have been traine in tutoring techniques an interpersonal relations. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who majore in Mathematics are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Senior Vice Presient, The Rogers & Hammerstein Organization Principal Research Physicist, Princeton University Fellow, Robert Woo Johnson Scholar, Yale University Actuarial Senior Analyst, CIGNA Corp. Computer Engineer, National Institutes of Health Partner, CPA firm of Johnson O'Connor Feron & Carucci LLP 58

53 Manager of Finance, General Electric Company/GE Commercial Finance Vice Presient an Technology Fellow, Golman, Sachs & Co. Senior Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline Engineer, Xerox Corp. Presient/Chairman, Unite Nations Association of U.S.A. Preparatory School Math Teacher, Choate Rosemary Hall Meieval an Renaissance Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Meieval an Renaissance Stuies Program is to give stuents opportunities to explore these crucial perios in our evelopment from a variety of perspectives by focusing on their similarities, their ifferences an their implications for what has followe. When an how i the moern worl emerge? It is a question that has attracte generations of thinkers as they seek to illuminate the past an, with it, the present. The conventional answer has been to mark an imaginary line through the 14th century. On the far sie lies the "arkness" of the Mile Ages. On the near sie lies the "light" of the Renaissance empirical science, the printing press, the growth of cities an trae, an the revival of classical moels of thought, art an architecture. Scholars now challenge that view, however. They point out that the past is far too complex to fit such a simple pattern. An that has le them to explore the very ways in which history is tol an recore. Research Opportunities Research is at the center of the Hamilton liberal arts philosophy a way of encouraging each stuent to integrate classroom learning with a larger iniviual vision an intellectual journey. Stuent projects are carrie out with the close supervision of faculty members, an often with their collaboration. Many stuents have the opportunity to o grauate-level research an co-author scholarly papers for publication in scholarly journals or presentation at professional conferences. The Senior Program The Senior Program serves as an integrating an culminating experience for Meieval an Renaissance Stuies by requiring stuents to use the methoology an knowlege gaine in their first three years of stuy. Each stuent works closely with at least one faculty member uring the course of the program. RESOURCES The College's Burke Library offers a strong collection of texts an perioicals on many aspects of the meieval an Renaissance epochs. The library also houses a rare copy of The Nuremburg Chronicle, one of the monumental works of early European book publishing. Printe in 1493 in Germany an illustrate with 1,600 woocuts, this remarkable precursor of the encyclopeia epicts a meieval 59

54 worl on the threshol of the Renaissance. It is joine in the Burke collection by several other important early German volumes as well as the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, regare as the worl s finest collection of 16th- to 19th- century materials on this region of the West Inies. Music The goal of Hamilton's Music Department is to help stuents explore an buil proficiency in the many imensions of musical experience through performance an/or stuying historical an theoretical concepts behin a variety of styles an forms. Music is a funamental form of human art, communication an pleasure celebratory, sacre, exploratory an communal. Music is typically one of our earliest an simplest chilhoo experiences, yet it also can achieve the izzying complexity of a great symphony. It can be as structure as a string quartet or as flui an improvisational as a jazz solo. It inspires an informs a remarkable range of human movements an activities, from ance crazes to military marches, from meieval prayer to moern choreography. Opportunities A performer's "research" is usually the evelopment of performance skills through rehearsal, guiance an commitment. Hamilton's eight ensembles offer a breath of opportunity exceptional for a college of our size. Stuents are encourage to participate in more than one ensemble, an participation earns partial course creit. Solo performance options are also provie. Choir. This group of about 60 singers prouces a musical or operetta each year an unertakes an annual spring concert tour. Orchestra. The Orchestra inclues more than 50 stuents an has recently performe the works of Bartók, Beethoven, Coplan, Mozart, Sibelius, an Stravinsky. The Orchestra frequently commissions an premieres new works for orchestra. Jazz Ensemble. Focusing on the big ban soun, the Jazz Ensemble also provies opportunities for improvisation. It has toure New Englan an performe at Carnegie Hall. Masterworks Chorale. The Hamilton College Masterworks Chorale, numbering about 135 singers, brings together stuents, faculty, staff an neighbors to sing oratorios an other large choral works. Brass Ensemble. The Brass Ensemble provies music for various College functions an performs concerts off campus. The campus enjoys the Brass Ensemble's "guerrilla caroling" on the last ay of classes each fall semester. Woowin ensembles. These ensembles encourage the stuy an performance of music for various combinations of win instruments. The repertory has inclue works by Mozart, Richar Strauss, Jacques Ibert an Irving Fine. Chamber music groups. These groups give instrumentalists the opportunity to participate in small 60

55 ensembles mae up of a variety of string an win instruments an piano. Solo performance. Vocal an instrumental soloists have a range of performing opportunities, incluing epartmental concerts, recitals an feature appearances with ensembles. The epartment offers courses in vocal an instrumental solo performance by a faculty of private instructors. A fee is charge for such instruction; stuents receiving financial ai are eligible for assistance In meeting the cost. The Senior Program The Senior Program is a culminating experience in which senior music majors integrate an buil on their first three years of stuy through a one-semester, in-epth stuy of a topic with a faculty avisor. The Honors Senior Project, open by invitation only, is a two-semester creative an intellectual effort carrie out uner the close supervision of at least one faculty member. These honors projects may be either performance- or research-base. Resources The Hans H. Schambach Center for Music an the Performing Arts houses the 630-seat Carol Woohouse Wellin Performance Hall, two large rehearsal halls, 15 practice rooms, faculty offices, an classrooms. Facilities for music also inclue a well-equippe stuio for electronic music; a music library that contains more than 28,000 compact iscs an other recorings; state-of-the-art listening an vieo equipment. Instruments of various kins are available for stuent use without charge. The College possesses several Steinway gran pianos, a variety of win, brass an string instruments, a two-manual Noack organ in the College Chapel, a Steinmeyer one-manual Positif organ, a two-manual Dow harpsichor, a Fuge clavichor, a kora an a Javanese gamelan. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who majore in Music are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Violinist, American Ballet Theatre Professor of Music an Music Technology, California State University Executive Director, New Hampshire Humanities Council Attorney, New York State Senate Vice Presient, Strategy an Business Development, Inepenent Comey Network Director of the Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College Staff Physician, Virginia Meical Center Director of Aministration an Artistic Operations, Pittsburgh Opera Senior Vice Presient, Bank of America Lecturer in Voice, Crane School of Music Chairman, Performing Arts Department, Portlege School 61

56 Peiatric Dentist, Healthreach Dental Center for Chilren Neuroscience The goal of Hamilton's Neuroscience Program, operate jointly by the epartments of Psychology an Biology, is to present stuents the opportunity to explore the fascinating, rapily changing intersection of those isciplines the biological basis of behavior. What is the relationship between behavior an biology? How can that relationship best be observe an stuie? What oes it reveal about ourselves, our culture, our health, even our technology? These are the questions pose an pursue by neuroscience, the multiisciplinary stuy of the nervous system. Research Opportunities Research is a constant in the life of a neuroscience major, but it can come in many forms: regular coursework, inepenent stuy, the senior project, the Senior Fellowship Program, or collaborative summer research with a faculty member. Such opportunities are available only to grauate stuents at many other colleges an universities. During a typical summer, more than 70 Hamilton unergrauates collaborate with faculty members on research projects in neuroscience an other fiels. Many receive summer research grants fune by the College, the National Science Founation, the National Institute of Health an alumni gifts. Stuents an faculty members often co-author papers that are presente at national conferences an publishe in leaing scholarly journals. In recent years stuents have publishe in such journals as Behavioral Neuroscience, Brain an Language, Perception an Psychophysics, Journal of Experimental Zoology an Behavioral an Neural Biology. The Senior Program As seniors, neuroscience majors carry out a research project that culminates in a thesis an an oral presentation. Working closely with a faculty avisor, each stuent uses the senior project to synthesize an focus previous coursework. The senior project is an original work of scholarship that provies an in-epth examination of a particular empirical or theoretical issue. Some of the top neuroscience majors each year are selecte for the Senior Fellowship Program, in which up to seven Hamilton stuents unertake a major research project uner the supervision of two or more faculty members. Recent senior fellows in neuroscience have stuie the neurochemistry of octopamine, patterns of human motion, integration of sensory information by single neurons, evoke potential correlates of cognitive processing, brain mechanisms of rewar an tactile psychophysics. Resources Hamilton s Science Center, which houses the neuroscience program through the epartments of 62

57 Psychology an Biology, inclues more than 100 teaching an research laboratories an 11 high-tech classrooms as well as state-of-the-art instrumentation. In a recent survey of college aministrators, Hamilton was one of only 11 colleges an 28 universities in the nation creite with offering exemplary research opportunities an facilities for unergrauates. Neuroscience stuents have access to lab facilities for scanning an transmission electron microscopes, tissue culture, analytical neurochemistry, molecular biology, neuroanatomical research, intracellular an extracellular single neuron recoring, voltage an patch clamping, eye movement tracking, evoke-potential recoring an tactile psychophysics. Many experiments are controlle by laboratory computers, which are networke with our statistics laboratory an the rest of the campus. In aition, the psychology, biology an neuroscience programs share a 1000-square foot vivarium that contains species ranging from insects to rats. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Neuroscience are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Associate, GE Capital Clinical Research Coorinator, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Director of Research an Development, Biomarker Strategies Neurology Resient, Strong Memorial Hospital Research Coorinator, Joslin Diabetes Center Philosophy The goal of Hamilton's Philosophy Department is to encourage stuents to trace great thinkers an timeless ieas through the ages, while at the same time exploring current issues an the means we use to unerstan them in our own lives. Have you ever consiere telling a lie in orer to serve a greater goo? Debate the morality of war or evience of Go's existence? Accuse a frien of faulty logic? Have you ever wonere why seemingly stury concepts like truth, nature, self, race an gener can get so slippery when you examine them closely? You've been oing philosophy. Research Opportunities Forget the stereotype of the ile intellectual ruminating on great thoughts. At Hamilton, philosophy is about engagement integrating what you learn in the classroom with the realities of a complex, changing worl. Scholarship is a key to that process. Some philosophy stuents pursue inepenent stuy with their faculty avisors. Recent inepenent 63

58 stuies have explore philosophy an film, theories of moral action an the aesthetics of nationalism. Other stuents work even more closely with professors. Their collaborative projects use philosophical theories an moels to illuminate a fascinating variety of human eneavors. Hamilton stuents have been aware Emerson Grants to collaborate with faculty members uring the summer on topics ranging from forgery in the arts to Nietzsche's influence on the Harlem Renaissance. The Senior Program The Senior Program in philosophy has two parts: In the fall semester, majors take a Senior Seminar that frames an completes the unergrauate stuy of philosophy. Here stuents evelop their research interests through intensive reaing an iscussion. They then compose a major research paper, first submitting rafts for peer review, then completing the paper an efening it orally to a panel of fellow stuents an faculty members. Some stuents also choose to evelop a thesis proposal, which may expan on their work or take a new irection. A stuent may enroll in the spring semester Senior Thesis project only if the formal thesis proposal submitte in the fall is approve by the epartment. Resources The Truax Lecture Series in Philosophy brings to campus nationally istinguishe philosophers to lecture an visit classes. Recently, Richar Rorty, perhaps the most important an iconoclastic American philosopher of the era, met with senior seminar stuents an faculty members. His public lecture was on "Moral Absolutism an the Torture of Terrorist Suspects." Other note Truax visitors have inclue Simon Blackburn an Ronal Dworkin. Through the Truax Chair in Philosophy, the epartment brings other accomplishe philosophers to campus to teach a full course an give a series of public lectures. Truax Professors have inclue Hubert Dreyfus, who taught the interisciplinary course From gos to Go an Back, an Lucius Outlaw, who taught a course on African-American philosophy. The Alan McCullough Jr. Distinguishe Visiting Professorship also brings renowne philosophers to campus. This year's visiting professor, Davi McCabe, taught courses on moral an ethical imensions of the political. In , we will welcome Robert Holmes, who will teach The Philosophy an Morality of War. Among his many creentials, Dr. Holmes is a former fellow at the Center for Avance Stuy, University of Illinois an the National Humanities Institute, Yale University; senior Fulbright lecturer at Moscow State University; an the Rajiv Ganhi Professor of Peace an Disarmament at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, Inia. One of the epartment's richest resources is the community of philosophy scholars, both stuents an professors, nurture by Hamilton. The Department of Philosophy, affectionately known as "Philoworl," is house in its own builing at 210 College Hill Roa. Intellectual life there revolves aroun the epartment's seminar room, where stuents gather for courses limite to enrollments of 12 as well as informal stuy an iscussion. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who majore in Philosophy are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: 64

59 Senior Photo Eitor, Major League Baseball Avance Meia Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University Juge, New Jersey Superior Court Vice Presient, Dun & Brastreet Principal Engineer, GE Healthcare Assistant Attorney General, State of Connecticut Director, U.S. Department of Transportation Presient, Keep America Beautiful Partner, Deloitte & Touche, LLP History Teacher, Manlius Pebble Hill School Senior Policy Analyst, National Eucation Association Attorney, Unite States Court of Appeals Physics Beyon the azzling concepts an min bening equations, physics is simply a quest an attempt to unerstan how the universe works. Physicists seek out the basic rules that govern all the natural complexity aroun us, from why water runs ownhill to what makes stars shine. The stuy of physics an the relate fiel of engineering has prouce many of our most crucial scientific, technological an meical milestones: electricity an magnetism, the creation of metals, the existence an behavior of particles an waves, hyraulics, aeroynamics, space exploration, nuclear science, superconuctors the list is enless. But physics at Hamilton is not only about breakthroughs an not only for specialists. A knowlege an appreciation of the physical worl sparks the imagination an makes us more fully human. An a funamental grasp of physics allows us to live with confience an insight in a technological society. Research Opportunities The close stuent-faculty collaboration that is at the heart of Hamilton's physics program means that every major completes at least one substantial research project before grauation with opportunities for many more. Stuent projects often lea to papers that are presente at professional conferences an/or publishe in scholarly journals. Recent stuent-faculty collaborations have been publishe in Physical Review, New Journal of Physics an Classical an Quantum Gravity. Hamilton regularly offers research options in such fiels as theoretical quantum gravity, general relativity, nuclear physics, laser spectroscopy, nonlinear ynamics an astronomy. Faculty members maintain active research programs in such fiels as materials science, 65

60 laser spectroscopy, atomic physics, theoretical physics an computational chemical physics. In aition, stuents may arrange inepenent stuy projects base on topics of interest not offere in the regular curriculum. The Senior Program All senior physics stuents work collaboratively with faculty members on research projects as part of the Senior Program. This intensive one-semester project combines original scientific research with reaing an unerstaning the scientific literature. It culminates in a senior thesis that is efene in a series of oral presentations. The Senior Program reflects Hamilton's commitment to a strong grouning in writing an public speaking. RESOURCES State-of-the-art facilities, avance technology an small classes at the Science Center mean that Hamilton unergrauates have the opportunity to work closely with instruments available only to grauate stuents at many schools. The Science Center is fully wireless an houses more than 100 teaching an research laboratories as well as offices an classrooms, stuent areas an a coffee shop. Instrumentation inclues a laser lab, a solar classroom, high-resolution optical spectroscopy, a 500 MHz variable-temperature multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, nuclear counting equipment an an avance computer lab. Hamilton also is home to the solar-heate C.H.F. Peters Astronomical Observatory, which houses an 11 ¼ " Maksutov telescope an several smaller telescopes. The observatory has been recently upgrae an features computer control of the telescope mount an CCD reaout for collecting images. Hamilton's Quantitative Literacy Center offers tutoring in courses that inclue a mathematics/quantitative component. Stuents may rop in to review topics as neee or to use computers or the vieo library. The center also offers a review for the mathematics section of the Grauate Recor Exam an workshops to accompany specific courses. Tutors at the center are top stuents who have been recommene by faculty members an traine to assist other stuents. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Physics are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Solar Engineer, Southern Energy Management Computer Scientist, New York University Meical Center Director, National Observatory of Athens Director, Global Financial Systems, Foster Wheeler Corp. Mettler Professor of Engineering/Applie Science, California Institute of Technology Optical Physicist, NASA Presient, Logicat, Inc. Professor of Meicine, University of California/Los Angeles 66

61 Systems Architect, NASD Teacher, Egemont High School Vice Presient of Sales & Marketing Systems, Stanar & Poor's Psychology Psychology is the scientific stuy of the human conition. If the human brain is the most complex an fascinating organ on the planet, the human min is even more remarkable. It makes us unique as a species, but it also links us to the animal worl. It is capable of staggering creativity, yet it behaves in preictable ways. Stuents who pursue psychology at Hamilton College buil a boy of knowlege about the forces an influences great an small that shape min, brain an behavior. In aition, through laboratory work an fiel stuies they learn the scientific metho, perhaps the most important means we have of acquiring knowlege. Research Opportunities Research is a constant in the life of a psychology major, but it can come in many forms: regular coursework, inepenent stuy, the senior project, the Senior Fellowship Program or collaborative summer research with a faculty member. Stuents an faculty members often co-author papers that are presente at national conferences an publishe in leaing scholarly journals. Such opportunities are available only to grauate stuents at many other colleges an universities. Majors intereste in applie psychology or the eucation of stuents with special nees can spen a semester at the Boston-area New Englan Center for Chilren. Here stuents have the opportunity to work with chilren with autism uner expert supervision. The facility also offers courses in applie behavior analysis. Majors who primary interest is in clinical psychology can choose practical or fiel placements at local mental health facilities such as the Utica-Marcy Psychiatric Center. The Senior Program Each psychology major completes a research project that culminates in a written thesis an an oral presentation. Working closely with a faculty avisor, the stuent uses the senior project to synthesize an focus previous coursework. Each project is an original work of scholarship that provies an in-epth examination of a particular empirical or theoretical issue. Resources The Department of Psychology provies a sophisticate array of equipment for teaching an research purposes. Facilities inclue computerize laboratories for cognitive psychology, statistical analysis an animal learning stuies; a stuio for vieotaping small-group interactions; an lab apparatus for neuroanatomical research, intracellular an extracellular single-neuron recoring, voltage an patch clamping, eye-movement tracking, evoke-potential recoring an tactile psychophysics. 67

62 After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who majore in Psychology are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Director of Online Marketing, Ernst & Young LLP Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service Peiatric HIV/AIDS Physician, National Institutes of Health Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania School Psychologist, Cambrige Public Schools Neuroscientist, Massachusetts General Hospital Director, Animal Sheltering Issues, The Humane Society of the U.S. Senior Financial Analyst, IBM Corp. Proucer, Disney an ESPN Meia Networks Behavior Analyst, The New Englan Center for Chilren Chief Architect, Port Authority of NY & NJ Peiatric Dentist, Salem Peiatric Dental & Orthoontic Association Public Policy The goal of Hamilton's Public Policy Program is to prepare stuents to examine, shape an participate in civic life in all its imensions. While majors in Government at Hamilton focus on the process of ecision-making, public policy majors focus on the outcomes, from massive programs such as Meicare an Social Security to the etails of social services an eucation policy. Public policy at Hamilton is an interisciplinary concentration. It raws on the tools an insights of political science, economics an philosophy to evaluate governmental ecisions an esign more effective programs. This practical approach to real-worl problems makes the stuy of public policy a hans-on major where stuents can make a real ifference in the lives of people an communities. Research Opportunities The Hamilton Term in Washington Program offers a combination of rigorous acaemic stuy an real-worl experience in national government to the 16 juniors an seniors who participate each fall. Stuents o research an atten seminars le by a resient member of Hamilton s Government Department while working full time in a Washington, D.C., office. In recent years, stuents have worke in the White House Communications Office, the Senate Juiciary Committee, the State Department an the Department of Justice s Civil Rights Division. 68

63 The College's Program in New York City gives stuents an unerstaning of global politics, economics an culture while living in Manhattan an stuying uner a Hamilton faculty member. An internship is a key part of the program, an many stuents turn their internships into extene research projects. Some are selecte to present the results of their research as Hamilton's esignate Levitt Fellows. The Senior Program Public policy majors have three options for the senior project. They may take a one-semester seminar in the Government Department; they may research an write a thesis on a public policy topic, using traitional sources; or they may write a "public contract" thesis, in which they evaluate a policy or issue chosen by a state or local government in the Hamilton area. In recent years, stuents' public contract projects have helpe shape policy for New York State's Division of Youth, Department of Eucation, Office for the Aging, Division of Management an Buget, an Department of Transportation. More locally, stuents have worke with Oneia County's Department of Social Services, Department of Mental Health an EDGE program, as well as the towns of New Hartfor an Paris an the village of Clinton's Chamber of Commerce. Resources Hamilton's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center is one of the College's most active an important resources. Stuents engage in the civic life of the region through the center's Community Outreach Office, service learning projects, an numerous fiel trips an conferences. Stuents an faculty members collaborate on community-base research irecte by the Levitt Center, while the Levitt Scholars Program sens Hamilton stuents to high schools to speak on a variety of civic topics. An the center's Think Tank, a stuent-le iscussion group, provies an informal forum for stuents an faculty members to iscuss current issues. The Government Department's Linowitz Professorship in International Affairs name for the late Sol Linowitz, a Hamilton alumnus, presiential avisor an ambassaor brings a series of eminent iplomats to Hamilton as visiting professors. Recent Linowitz Professors inclue Ewar S. "Ne" Walker Jr., former ambassaor to Israel, former assistant secretary of state an a Hamilton alumnus; Branon H. Grove, former ambassaor to Zaire an 35-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service; an Bernar Kalb, former assistant secretary of state an a veteran iplomatic journalist for The New York Times, CNN, NBC an CBS. The Levitt Center Lecture Series also brings well-known civic servants an public-affairs scholars to Hamilton each semester. Recent visitors inclue Alice Rivlin, founing irector of the Congressional Buget Office an former vice chair of the Feeral Reserve Boar; Nobel Prize recipient in economics Joseph E. Stiglitz; Lawrence J. Korb, former assistant secretary of efense; Catholic an feminist scholar Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; former Planne Parenthoo Presient Gloria Felt; an former presiential avisor, author an conservative commentator Dinesh D Souza. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Public Policy are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Director, Google 69

64 Volunteer, U.S. Peace Corps Eitor in Chief, Texas Monthly Senior Policy Analyst, Virginia Department of Transportation Writer, Money Magazine Director of Global Warming, Sierra Club Chief Financial Officer, NBC Universal Cable Director of Football Aministration, Clevelan Browns Policy Avisor, City of Seattle Vice Presient, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. Presient, CEO, Consumer Health Founation Tax Law Eitor/Attorney, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Religious Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Religious Stuies Department is to provie stuents with an unerstaning of religion not simply as social institution or ogma, but as a powerful facet of human experience an culture. The program in Religious Stuies emphasizes personal an social ientity; text an narrative; historical encounters among traitions; an, existential / theological imensions of cultures. Our courses are istribute over a large selection of religious traitions incluing: Buhist, Hinu, Chinese, Christian, Jewish, an Native American traitions. We represent an encourage eep interisciplinary engagement: majors learn to employ a variety of methos an engage material share by fiels such as philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, literary analysis, oral cultures, art history, women s stuies, archeology, cinema an new meia stuies, an other facets of material culture. Research Opportunities The interisciplinary nature of religious stuies creates a wie array of potential research options for stuents, from archaeological fiel work to computer-assiste inquiries to historical stuy. Conucting research with the collaboration or guiance of a faculty member is a critical part of the curriculum as stuents make connections across isciplines an integrate classroom learning. The Senior Program The Senior Program represents a culminating intellectual experience for seniors in the religious stuies program. Its centerpiece in the senior project, in which each major plans, writes an presents a self-irecte, interisciplinary course of stuy that balances critical skills an creativity. The senior project is carrie out uner the close supervision of at least one faculty member. 70

65 RESOURCES The continuing presence an importance of Native American culture of the Iroquois/Hauenosaunee peoples in the Upstate New York region surrouning Hamilton College has inspire many stuent projects. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Religious Stuies are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Jewish Chaplain, Bar College Consultant, Chilren's Defense Fun Pastor, Springfiel Presbyterian Church Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University Vice Presient of Operations, Valora Technologies, Inc. Software Chief Engineer, GE Inspection Technologies Supervisor of Data Processing, NYS Office of Mental Health Family Nurse Practitioner, Huson River Community Health Air Traffic Controller, Feeral Aviation Authority Business Development Manager, Forrester Research, Inc. Russian Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Russian Stuies Program is to encourage stuents to investigate the rapily changing political an economic scene in Russia an evaluate what those monumental changes mean for the rest of the worl. "A rile wrappe in a mystery insie an enigma" is how Winston Churchill escribe Russia in a still-famous phrase from A half-century of Col War between the Unite States an the Soviet Union i little to soften that characterization in the West. But in recent years, Russia has begun to reveal itself, an Hamilton's Russian stuies program is eicate to fully unraveling the Russian mystery. Stuy Abroa Opportunities Stuents in Russian stuies are strongly encourage to stuy in Russia or one of the other republics of the former U.S.S.R. in a one- or two-semester program. Programs are arrange on an iniviual basis by the epartment. In recent years, Hamilton has place stuents in Moscow State University, St. Petersburg-Herzen Peagogical Institute, Irkutsk University in Siberia, Novgoro Peagogical Institute an Vlaivostok State University in the Far East. 71

66 The Senior Program The Senior Program at Hamilton is a culminating intellectual experience in which stuents raw on an integrate the knowlege, research an language skills gaine in the first three years. At the center of the Senior Program is the senior project, which in Russian stuies usually takes the form of an extene research thesis or translation using Russian-language sources an carrie out uner the close supervision of at least one faculty member. Resources Faculty members regularly organize stuy tours to Russian that inclue visits to such highlights as the Kremlin, the Hermitage an the Catherine Palace. Stuents are encourage to interact with the Russian-speaking community in Central New York, home to hunres of recent émigrés from Belarus an the Ukraine. Also locally, frequent fiel trips are offere to the Holy Trinity Monastery in nearby Joranville, N.Y., heaquarters of the international Russian Orthoox Church. On campus, the Russian Club is one of Hamilton's most active stuent organizations an is famous for its annual Russian feasts. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Russian Stuies are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Analyst, Babson Capital Management LLC Bilingual Teacher, San Diego City Schools Director of Marketing an Communications, Worl Union for Progressive Juaism Director of Online Engineering, Oxfor University Press Vice Presient of Sales & Marketing, Sports Street Marketing Sociology The goal of Hamilton s Sociology Department is to introuce stuents to classic an contemporary theoretical approaches in sociology as they pursue ata collection an analysis methos with opportunities to apply theory to explain empirical phenomena. Human beings are social creatures, shape an in some ways efine by their interactions. Sociology is the stuy of that process. It explores patterns of social life an examines the ways in which social structures an cultures influence our personalities, families, attitues, behavior, work, leisure our very ientities. Sociology at Hamilton is a rigorous but creative program in which accomplishe professors an engage stuents work closely together on a broa range of topics. In sociology, you can stuy politics, economics, religion, sex, race, power, ethics, history, mathematics an just about anything else involving human beings. 72

67 Research Opportunities Doing sociology means eveloping, evaluating an unerstaning research, so every course involves hans-on research possibilities for stuents, carrie out in small classes with the close assistance an supervision of faculty members. Many courses involve fiel trips; others provie training in computer-base research techniques. In aition, stuents have inepenent-stuy options in which they can evelop their own research methos. The sociology program is esigne to promote ambitious, inepenent scholarship. The curriculum is not a strict hierarchy of courses, but a spectrum of opportunities in which goo stuents are encourage to avance as quickly as they can. Our goal is intellectual challenge for every stuent, at every level. The Senior Program The Senior Program is an integrating, culminating acaemic experience for all sociology majors. Drawing on the methoology, research an thinking skills that they have evelope uring the first three years of stuy, seniors work closely with at least one faculty member to plan an complete the senior thesis. Work on the thesis inclues an oral presentation in a public forum, where the auience inclues visiting faculty members from other colleges an universities as well as faculty an stuents from the Hamilton program. Resources Each year the Sociology Department hosts several visiting speakers who are wiely note for their scholarship an insight. Recent speakers have inclue G. William Domhoff, author of Who Rules America: Power, Politics, an Social Change; Diane Vaughan, who stuies the behavior of organizations; Ranall Collins, whose wie scholarly interests inclue the sociology of conflict as well as economics an philosophy; Nancy Denton, who writes an teaches about race, urban neighborhoos an emography; an Joi O'Brien, who explores meaning an ientity in such works as The Prouction of Reality an Everyay Inequalities. Hamilton stuents have the opportunity to talk with these istinguishe guests in a variety of settings. In aition, the epartment's collaborative public opinion polls with Zogby International give stuents the opportunity to work with a istinguishe national polling organization on issues of wie importance an meia interest. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Sociology are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Associate Photo Eitor, Martha Stewart Living/Weings Attorney, Legal Ai Society of Albuquerque, N.M. Deputy Director of Development, U.S. Fun for Unicef Director of Finance, Health Volunteers Overseas 73

68 Social Worker, Jewish Chil Care Association School Psychologist, Cresskill Boar of Eucation Social Worker/Chil & Family Therapist, Chil Guiance Center of S. Connecticut Senior Financial Analyst, Merck & Co., Inc. Teacher/Magnet Team Specialist, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Vice Presient, Meia Solutions, Expeia Theatre The goal of Hamilton s Theatre Department is to teach stuents to think an express themselves creatively while at the same time learning iscipline, time management, an soli group-builing an leaership skills. The program in theatre is at the heart of the liberal arts experience at Hamilton. It focuses not only on the process of creating performance art, but on the growth of the performer as well. Stuents in theatre evelop the tools with which to approach other isciplines with creativity an rigor. The emans an rewars of artistic performance encourage personal responsibility an empowerment, an they buil a sense of community both within the creative ensemble an between performer an auience. Through classes, workshops, projects an prouctions, stuents are helpe to fin an evelop their own ientities. Research Opportunities At Hamilton, stuents of theatre an ance have iverse performance, irecting, choreography an esign opportunities. Auitions for main stage theatre prouctions are open to all stuents. Each year, faculty members an stuents prouce two or three plays irecte by faculty members, two ance concerts choreographe by faculty members, an as many as 10 prouctions irecte, choreographe, esigne, performe an prouce by stuents. Stuents an faculty also participate in the national American College Dance Festival. The College an the epartment sponsor two visiting artists series Classical Connections an Contemporary Voices an Visions that bring renowne performers to campus. In aition to seeing the work of these guests, stuents participate in workshops, seminars an classes with the artists. Recent visiting artists an master teachers have inclue Pilobolus, Dance Brazil, Fel Ballets/NY, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Anne Bogart, the Saratoga International Theatre Institute, Fre Curchak, Mereith Monk, Brea an Puppet Theater, the Joe Gooe Performance Group an Sweet Honey in the Rock. Stuent theatre majors have taught an performe at local schools an art centers as well as with summer theatres. Stuents intereste in arts aministration gain experience in the epartment box office an as house managers. Many theatre majors secure internships with summer theatres after their junior year. Theatre an ance stuents also participate in many outstaning programs abroa an have stuie in such places as Sri Lanka, Nepal, Inia, Bali, Germany, Lonon an Paris. 74

69 The Senior Program The Senior Program is the culmination of one s Hamilton experience in a focuse project, carrie out uner the close supervision of a faculty member. It raws together coursework an creativity, theory an practice. Stuents in theatre an ance have a variety of options in writing, performance, irecting, choreography an esign as they pursue the senior project that conclues the Senior Program. Each theatre stuent prouces a senior project in which he or she not only irects an, where appropriate, acts in or writes a one-act play, but prouces a major scholarly paper base on this experience. Resources Hamilton offers a variety of classroom an performance facilities: Wellin Hall, Minor Theater, List Dance Stuio an Beinecke Events Barn. In aition, the theatre an ance programs provie a range of specialize staging an esign equipment as well as stock an computerize lighting systems in various prouction shops. After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Theatre are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Owner, Zephyr Gallery General Manager, Actors Theatre of Phoenix Prenatal Massage Therapist, Hye Park Therapeutic Massage Manager, Duxbury Performing Arts Center Proucer, NBC TV Stage Electrician/Boar Operator, South Coast Repertory Theatre Teacher/Theatre & English, NYC Boar of Eucation Vice Presient, Wakka Wakka Prouctions, Inc. Women's Stuies The goal of Hamilton's Women's Stuies Program is to encourage stuents to connect ieas, knowlege an moes of thought across traitional acaemic isciplinary bounaries as they analyze the interconnections of gener to social categories such as ability, age, class, ethnicity, nation, race an sexual orientation. Women's Stuies at Hamilton is certainly not for women only. It is not even exclusively about women. Instea, women's stuies provies a powerful perspective on culture an history by placing women at the center of its analysis. Who are we as iniviuals an as members of a society? Who shapes those ientities, an how? How o gener, power, race an class affect the interactions of women an men? These are issues that every thoughtful person must aress. Women's stuies at Hamilton gives stuents the tools to aress them with intellectual rigor in an inclusive, supportive environment. 75

70 Research Opportunities Women's stuies combines theory an practice in creative, prouctive ways, so research is always central to the process of learning an applying knowlege. It may take the form of traitional scholarship, or it may involve less conventional forms of stuy an participation, but women's stuies stuents at Hamilton are engage stuents. They atten small classes an forge strong relationships with their teachers. They collaborate with one another an with faculty members on projects. An they use their growing comman of written an spoken argument to take their place in a vibrant intellectual community. The interisciplinary nature of women's stuies also lens itself to creative combinations of acaemic interests. Women's stuies courses often lea stuents to re-examine an re-evaluate the theories, assumptions an methos of traitional isciplines. Stuents can then create their own interisciplinary major by combining courses in women s stuies with courses in another iscipline, culminating in an interisciplinary senior thesis. One recent interisciplinary major combine courses in women's stuies, Spanish an creative writing, then wrote a senior thesis in the form of a novella compose in Spanish an English about the lives of Puerto Rican women. Other stuents choose to complete a ouble major by meeting the requirements of two istinct majors. Women's stuies might be paire, for example, with government or physics or English, with stuents taking courses in one iscipline that complement the other. The Senior Program Seniors in women's stuies pursue a one-semester senior project that can take the form of either a written thesis or some form of performance. Stuents work inepenently on the senior project, but they are supervise by one or more faculty members. The senior project represents a culmination of each stuent s unergrauate experience; it synthesizes coursework, iscussion an personal reflection into a focuse statement of intellectual growth an insight. Resources The Elihu Root Peace Fun Visiting Professor of Women's Stuies is an enowe professorship that brings a note teacher an scholar to campus each year to join the women s stuies program. Recent visiting professors inclue Minnie Bruce Pratt, Chanra Talpae Mohanty an Gita Rajan. The larger Hamilton community provies many resources valuable to the women's stuies program. The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center provies stuents with opportunities for civic engagement through a Community Outreach Office, service learning projects, an faculty-stuent collaboration in community base research. Burke Library provies a growing range of books, journals an vieo relate to women s stuies; the library also houses Hamilton's Multimeia Presentation Center, a state-of-the-art meia an computer facility that all stuents may use to evelop presentations, performances an other projects. 76

71 After Hamilton Hamilton grauates who concentrate in Women's Stuies are pursuing careers in a variety of fiels, incluing: Art Teacher, Renbrook School Campaign Manager, The Avertising Council Development Manager, International Gay an Lesbian Human Rights Commission Physician, Butler Hospital Prevention Case Manager, House of the Goo Shepher Principal, Mare Islan Elementary School Program Officer, Ms. Founation for Women Teacher, Worl Language, New Haven Public Schools Ranking In 2012, U.S. News & Worl Report ranke Hamilton the 16th best national liberal arts college in the Unite States. Hamilton is ranke as a "more selective" school by the Carnegie Founation for the Avancement of Teaching an as a "most selective" school by US News. In April 2011, Hamilton was liste as the 2n best college in America for writers (after Emory University an before Johns Hopkins, MIT an NYU) by USA Toay/CollegeDegree.com. For , Kiplinger ranke Hamilton 9th in terms of "Best Value among Liberal Arts Colleges in the US," which took into account acaemic quality, cost an financial ai measures. Hamilton is ranke 6th in a similar measure by U.S. News & Worl Report. Princeton Review's 2011 "Best 373 Colleges" Guie (base on stuent surveys) gave Hamilton high ratings of 97 an 97 (out of 100) for acaemics an selectivity, respectively. It was among the few colleges liste that provie the "best classroom experience." The Review, along with USA Toay, also lists Hamilton as one of 2009's Top 50 Private Colleges for Best Value. Hamilton is highlighte in two books; it appears in The Hien Ivies: 50 Top Colleges from Amherst to Williams That Rival the Ivy League an Hien Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence. In 2012, Hamilton was ranke as the 10th Best Value College in the Nation by the Princeton Review Stuent Life The current Hamilton College campus consists of the combine Hamilton an Kirklan college campuses. It has three large wooe areas, known as the Root glen, Rogers glen, an the Kirklan glen. In the mi-1990s, the aministration require all unerclassmen to live in college housing rather than 77

72 in fraternity or sorority houses. It create new social spaces for stuent use, improve funing for on-campus events, an pursue several other social life changes. (Its policy resulte in the closure of all fraternity houses an the Emerson Literary Society's house.) The new policy was controversial, especially the aministration's ecision to prohibit the fraternities from using their houses. As a result, the majority of fraternities conclue they ha no choice but to sell their houses to the college, though some fraternities refuse to sell their houses until well into the next ecae. As the college purchase the houses, it has carrie out extensive renovations. The college has revoke or suspene the charters of a few fraternities for extreme behavior, because of their causing aitional controversy among the stuents an alumni. Housing Nearly all stuents live in college-owne orms. The resience halls have a variety of styles, incluing former fraternity houses, suites, apartment style housing, an more traitional ormitory-style housing. Hamilton offers a cooperative living option to stuents, as well as substance-free an quiet housing. All resience halls are co-e; some have single-sex floors. In October 2010, the College aopte a gener-neutral housing policy, wherein stuents of either sex may room together in rooms esignate for two or more stuents. Societies Eleven fraternities, seven sororities, an one co-e society are active on the Hamilton College campus. Greek organizations maintain a significant (but not overwhelming) social presence, espite being non-resiential since These fraternities inclue two of the "Union Tria": Delta Phi an Sigma Phi. They consist of Alpha Delta Phi (foune at Hamilton College), Chi Psi, Delta Chi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Phi, Delta Upsilon, Lamba Upsilon Lamba, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Phi, Tau Kappa Epsilon an Theta Delta Chi. The sororities are Alpha Chi Lamba, Alpha Theta Chi, Gamma Xi, Kappa Delta Omega, Kappa Sigma Alpha, Sigma Lamba Upsilon, an Phi Beta Chi. While all of the fraternities on campus are affiliate with national organizations, only one sorority (Omega Phi Beta) has a national affiliation. The other six sororities are unique to Hamilton. Lamba Chi Alpha existe at Hamilton until Generally, events sponsore by Greek-organizations occur on campus an are open to all stuents. Hamilton also has a co-e, non-greek social society: the Emerson Literary Society. Campus Meia WHCL-FM - During the acaemic year, Hamilton stuents, faculty, an community members prouce a variety of music, news, sports, an talk raio programs at FM frequency The station is available through most of the Mohawk Valley region an online at whcl.org. It is the only raio station in Clinton. The Spectator, Hamilton College's primary news publication, is publishe weekly. It is istribute in the 78

73 campus ining halls, mail center, an library. The Spectator covers campus, local, an national news as well as Hamilton sports an campus life. The paper can be foun online at The Daily Bull is a aily bulletin that caters to campus counterculture. It is note for being printe on yellow legal size paper, an is istribute on ining hall tables every morning. The Wag is Hamilton's semi-annual satire magazine, publishe near the en of every semester. It features written an graphical satire of campus news an life. The Wag has also prouce short feature films about the "Hamilton experience" in the past. The Duel Observer is a weekly humor an satire publication. Foune by Tom Keane '03 an Davi Schwartz '02, it has aopte the format of a paroy newspaper (e.g. The Onion). The name refers to the uel between Aaron Burr an Alexaner Hamilton which resulte in Hamilton's eath. HamPoll is Hamilton's polling organization, which regularly surveys stuents an faculty on various campus an acaemic issues. Recent surveys have aske about relationship ynamics, evaluations of acaemic epartments, recycling habits, as well as political an social affiliations. The Continental is a stuent-run magazine publishe a few times a semester; it features fashion avice, party photos, an articles on a variety of subjects. Re Weather is the college literary magazine, eicate to promoting the literary arts on campus by printing a variety of stuent-authore poetry an fiction; it is publishe twice a year. The Green Apple is name for one of the symbols of Kirklan College; it features short stories, poetry, an op-es, an is printe on green legal-size paper. Traitions Class an Charter Day: On the last ay of spring term classes, all afternoon classes are cancele for a campus wie picnic an party. Aitionally, a ceremony is hel uring which stuents, faculty, an other members of the Hamilton community are recognize for their acaemic, leaership, an community-evelopment accomplishments. During the ceremony, chosen stuents are also inucte into Hamilton's three prestigious honor societies: Doers an Thinkers (13 rising sophomores), Was Los (6 rising juniors), an Pentagon (5 rising seniors). Class an Charter Day is also the biggest party ay of the year at Hamilton. The popular "G-Roa" party which took place on Hamilton College Classroom this ay became so infamous for unerage rinking an over-inulgence that the college chose to ban the party for Class an Charter Day '09. Citrus Bowl: The Citrus Bowl is the first men's home hockey game of the season. Traitionally the game was calle the Orange Bowl, an upon the first Hamilton-score goal, oranges that stuents ha smuggle into the rink were thrown onto the ice at the visiting goalie. This often resulte in a elay-of-game penalty against Hamilton while the ice was cleane. In recent years, the orange 79

74 throwing has been banne by the College aministration an by NESCAC officials, but the event is still well attene. Orange T-shirts commemorating the event have been istribute in recent years. FebFest: Roote in the long-staning traition of the winter carnival at Hamilton, FebFest is a relatively recent revival. A week-long combination of performances, parties, free foo, fireworks, an various other events, FebFest intens to keep stuent morale high uring the winter. Over the years, bans ranging from the Steve Miller Ban to Ghostface Killah have performe as a part of festivities. May Day Music Festival: Starte in 2004, May Day is an outoor music festival sponsore by several on-campus organizations, incluing the Hamilton College Inepenent Music Fun, WHCL, an the Hamilton College Campus Activities Boar. Past performers have inclue: Citizen Cope, The New Pornographers, The Pharcye, Dea Meaow, Tim Reynols, Chromeo, Jennifer Gentle, Rainer Maria, Te Leo, The Unicorns, J-Live, Catch-22, Sleater-Kinney, Stroke 9, an Eve 6. The name refers to the fact that the festival is stage in early May or late April. HamTrek: Starte in 2004, HamTrek is an annual sprint-triathlon consisting of a 525-yar swim, 9-mile bike rie, an 3.1-mile run. Participants can compete iniviually, in unisex teams of 3, or co-e teams of 3. Prizes are aware to the winners of the ifferent competing groups. Also, many athletic coaches now require their teams to compete. HamTrek takes place on Class an Charter Day. Athletics Hamilton is a NCAA Division III school an has been a member of the New Englan Small College Athletic Conference since The college sports teams are known as the Hamilton Continentals. Hamilton sponsors 28 sports, incluing: Baseball (M), Basketball (M&W), Crew (M&W), Cross Country (M&W), Fiel Hockey (W), Football (M), Golf (M), Ice Hockey (M&W), Lacrosse (M&W), Outoor an Inoor Track & Fiel (M&W), Soccer (M&W), Softball (W), Squash (M&W), Swimming & Diving (M&W), Tennis (M&W), Volleyball (W). Before the acaemic year, Hamilton's sports teams coul not participate in any national postseason tournaments. The rule was change that year, allowing Hamilton to participate in Division III tournaments in various sports. On May 18, 2008, Hamilton won its first NCAA championship, when its women's lacrosse team efeate Franklin & Marshall 13-6 in the finals of the NCAA tournament. About 30% of Hamilton's stuent boy participate in its athletic programs. In aition to varsity sports, Hamilton sponsors several club sports an intramural activities each year. Club sports inclue alpine skiing, curling, equestrianism, figure skating, men's rugby, women's rugby, tae kwon o, ultimate frisbee, an women's golf. In 2008 the men's rugby team place fourth in the national Division III tournament. Hamilton has ha a streaking team since Hamilton's mascot is a Continental, a solier in America's Continental Army of the Revolutionary War. The college's colors are buff an blue, the colors of the Continental Army's uniforms. The college's eponym, Alexaner Hamilton, playe a central role in the Continental Army as General George Washington's Chief of Staff. At many sporting events, Hamilton is represente by the Al-Ham (an abbreviation of Alexaner Hamilton) pig. The pig, large, anthropomorphic, an resse in a Hamilton basketball jersey an a Continental solier's tricorn hat, was introuce in the early 2000s in an 80

75 attempt to boost school spirit an interest in Hamilton's athletics program. Rocking Chair Classic: Since 1980, the annual football game between Hamilton an Milebury College has been esignate the Rocking Chair Classic. The winning team keeps the Mac-Jack Rocking Chair for the following year. The rivalry has been ominate by Milebury, which has won the last 14 matches. Demographics Hamilton typically enrolls about 1812 stuents. Fifty percent are male, an fifty percent are female. The mile 50% of SAT scores for stuents at Hamilton is 1350 to About 60% of stuents come from public schools, an 40% from private schools; from 49 U.S. states an 45 countries. Of the applicants who applie to the Class of 2014, 29% were accepte. A recent year reporte that 5% of Hamilton stuents were escribe as international, 5% as African-American, 1% as Native American, 8% as Asian/Pacific Islaner, 4% Hispanic, 70% White, an 8% as unknown ethnicity. Controversies In 2002, then-presient Eugene Tobin resigne after amitting that he ha faile to give proper attribution to quote material in speeches. Hamilton College Overlooking In 2005, efforts to bring the scholar War Churchill to speak on campus were controversial, as he ha arouse consierable hostility ue to his remarks following the 9/11 attacks in which he compare the victims to Nazis. His appearance was cancelle ue to protests. The college's ecision in 2004 to hire Sue Rosenberg, a former political raical an ex-convict who ha serve 16 years in Feeral prison for possession of explosives an weapons, was criticize. She was implicate, but not inicte, in the 1981 Brinks robbery uring which two policemen an an arme Brinks guar were kille. Professor Robert Paquette complaine when an inepenent stuent group brought Annie Sprinkle an actress an former porn-star, as a speaker. Paquette later le an attempt to create the Alexaner Hamilton Center on campus, but it was unsuccessful. College songs Carissima We Never Will Forget Thee The fight song of Hamilton College, often performe by the Hamilton College Buffers, an all-male stuent a cappella group. The Hamilton College Football team also sings a 'moifie version of this song upon winning a football game. 81