Guerilla Guide

Introduction to the Guerilla Guide For Hampshire College
The Guerilla Guide is now a collection of articles on Hampedia overseen by Re-Rad and designed, collectively, to serve you, the student. This is a collection of information that is important for an incoming Hampshire College student - and for all students in general.

These materials were put together by the hard work of your fellow students here at Hampshire. This is information we wished we had easy access to when we came to Hampshire, information that we have found valuable, resources that can successfully help ones educational process, or things that you might just find down-right interesting.

However, keep in mind that things at Hampshire are constantly changing. This should be used as a guide but not relied upon as absolute fact. It is possible that some things are not completely the same, so you might want to double check with the resources that we've provided.

With that said, this is a helpful guide that should give you an advantage in your educational process and make your time here easier. We hope you have the best and most educational experience possible!

Table of Contents

 * Acronyms - Hampshire has lots of acronyms, nicknames, and abbreviations for important offices and resources. Do you know what they mean?


 * Advising - Need help with your first year advisor, have questions about your tutorial, want to change your advisor?


 * Community Involvement - Hampshire College is very vocal about its community and how involved students are within it. But how does one get involved? Here you will find some of the community governing committees, student groups, and other community activities and information about how to get involved.


 * Cross-listed courses - What are "cross-listed courses"?


 * Division System - How does the "division system" work? Learn about each division.


 * Evaluations - How do you write a self-evaluation? When are they due? When will my professor give me an evaluation, and what will it look like? Find answers to these questions, among many others, on this page.


 * Finance - Few of us are rich enough to pay Hampshire's hefty tuition in full. This in-depth guide to finance will ensure that you know everything you need to know about work-study, loans, payments, taxes, and more.


 * First Few Days - How do you make an approximately 10ft X 10ft square room appear to be a penthouse apartment in the sky? How do you choose amazing life-changing classes and get the most of those that are not? Where do you go to suppress those LNHF (Late Night Hunger Forces)? This, and more, here.


 * Guidelines for an Independent Study - Excited to do your first independent study, but at a loss as to how to actually do one? Check out this page for an in-depth exporation of every aspect of acquiring an independent study, from approaching teachers to work ethic to examples of independent studies others have done.


 * Learning Goals - So, you are a first year, and you notice repeated references to these mysterious things called Learning Goals. Here is an overview of the Division I "learning goals" and what they actually mean.


 * The Schools - What are the five "Schools of Thought"? How do I contact them, and what special programs do they oversee? Find this all out, and more.
 * Transferring to Hampshire - What do you need to know as a new transfer student?


 * Study Abroad - Want to study overseas or do a field study? This guide will tell you all you need to know about the topic.


 * TheHub - Have you barely set foot in theHub, our confusing intranet system where one must go for all sorts of bureaucratic things such as registering for courses and seeing how much you owe to Hampshire? Need some tips and tricks that will make it much easier to navigate?


 * Resource Centers - Hampshire has a lot of resource centers. It also has a lot of acronyms. This combination means that it’s sometimes hard to figure out where these places are and what purpose they serve. But never you fear—the Guerilla Guide is here!


 * The Consortium - Hopefully you know by now that we are part of the Five College Consortium, along with our sister schools Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts. But how do you take classes at one of the other colleges? What other nifty things do these colleges have to offer?


 * Learning activities - The secret way academic credit for pretty much any kind of learning.

A Few Other Key Things

 * A breakdown of the power structure/Governance system at Hampshire:


 * Organizational Chart at Hampshire


 * Hampshire College Constitution


 * Navigating Hampshire: A ton of helpful documents written by various faculty members aiming to help you navigate the system: http://www.hampshire.edu/ctl/11389.htm