7 courses with the subject COLL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
COLL 161Cerebro 101: Breaking Barriers: Bilingual Outreach in STEM
This interdisciplinary course bridges STEM and the humanities by treating Spanish and English as equal vehicles for scientific knowledge. Students engage in a living laboratory to translate advanced neuroscience into accessible, bilingual communication. Through partnerships with Holyoke DualLanguage classrooms, MHC student mentors facilitate hands-on workshops on anatomy, plasticity, microscopy, and neural art to enact language justice and foster representation in STEM. This course prepares students for professional work in multilingual contexts while strengthening local community bonds.
COLL 211Reflecting Back: Connecting Internship and Research to Your Liberal Arts Education
Learn to speak with confidence and clarity about your summer internship or research project. Connect it to you academic coursework. What have you learned? How is it useful? What are your next steps? Students will reflect on their experience and collaborate with others to generate useful knowledge. Required for the Nexus but open to all students. For more information, email nexus@mtholyoke.edu.
COLL 212Reflecting on Your Summer Internship or Research Experience Education
In College 212, you will navigate the LEAP process for a second time with a new set of learning partners. You will refine your ability to speak with confidence and clarity about your summer internship or research project and connect it to your academic coursework. What have you learned? How is it useful? What are your next steps? Students are expected to reflect on their experience and collaborate with others to generate useful knowledge.
This interactive course combines academic inquiry and community engagement to investigate the theme of diversity and climate within STEM fields. We will begin by examining the ways in which cultural norms and practices intersect with our diverse identities and histories to shape our experiences within the STEM disciplines. How can we challenge and change existing cultures and practices to create environments where we can be our full human selves? Together we will investigate the ideas and actions of those who are changing how we construct scientific knowledge and who can engage in that work. We will then build on this foundation to develop projects that further contribute to this endeavor, engaging closely with resources and sites at Mount Holyoke and the surrounding community. Coursework includes weekly readings, reflective writing, creative projects, and in-class discussions, culminating in a public presentation of our collective work.
This course immerses students in the collaborative and creative world of makerspaces, emphasizing hands-on design, inclusivity, and mentorship. Through progressive design projects -- from initial concepts to more complex creations -- students will reflect on their learning styles, growth, and attitudes. Course readings and discussions will cover core pedagogical principles, including growth mindset, effective feedback, and addressing bias, building a foundation for inclusive teaching. Students will develop skills in both technical tool use and inclusive mentorship, focusing on creating accessible, empowering spaces.
COLL 261About Time: Philosophy, Physics, and Psychology
The concept of time is a source of significant historical debate and active contemporary research across multiple subject areas, including philosophy, physics, and psychology. In this course, we will cover topics like: whether time passes, whether the future is open, paradoxes of time travel, arguments against the existence of time, relativity theory, entropy, quantum gravity, psychological time biases, and how the brain represents time. The course will engage students in a range of multi- and interdisciplinary assessments activities, including paper writing, experiments, coding and data analysis, problem sets, argument analysis, group presentations, and oral debates.
Microscopes are important tools used by technicians, medical professionals, and scientists to investigate interesting scientific questions and solve real-world problems. This course covers important microscopy basics including scale, the relationship between reality and the image, and the kind of information that can be captured with different types of microscopes. This course combines lecture and hands-on laboratory activities allowing students the opportunity to explore the basic principles of visible light, fluorescence, and electron microscopy. We will gain practical hands-on experience with the many forms of microscopy and learn the procedures and tools of the trade necessary to become a proficient microscopist. All students will be trained on at least one research-grade microscope during the semester and the major assignment for this course will be a final portfolio of micrographs created by each student.
