Hobart and William Smith Colleges

In this special edition of This Week in Photos, we share photos of 2019 First Year Seminars, a cornerstone of the Colleges' curriculum. Here, students work outside during Associate Professor of History Matthew Crow's course Whales and Dolphins.

During New Chemistry Meets Old Art with Professor of Chemistry Walter Bowyer and Associate Professor of Art and Architecture Liliana Leopardi, students make zinc chromate, an artificial pigment called school bus yellow.

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Darrin Magee teaches students how to make cider at Fribolin Farm. The Sustainable Living and Learning course is taught by Professor of Economics Tom Drennen (left).

Associate Professor of German Area Studies Eric Klaus facilitates a discussion during Build Your Own Westeros.

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Beth Kinne leads a brainstorming session during Sustainable Living and Learning. As part of a year-end project, students select an object they see or use daily and research the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of its production, use and disposal.

Professor of French and Francophone Studies Catherine Gallouet challenges students to understand how their viewpoints as Americans will affect their study of France during Paris, Je T'Aime in the Fish Screening Room.

Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture Alysia Kaplan lectures during Active Forgetting.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies James McCorkle 76, P20 leads a discussion during Interrogating Race in the United States and South Africa.

Students in First Person Singular with Professor of Media and Society Cheryl Forbes (left) share excerpts of their memoirs.

Assistant Professor of English Alex Black leads a discussion on Frederick Douglas' What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? during Performing America.

Students in Making it Strange: Russians Discover America with Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies Kristen Welsh reproduce Russian icons from the 15th through 19th centuries.

To wrap up their semester of study on Russian food and culture, students in Eat Like a Slav present a four-course meal to HWS community members at Fribolin Farm.

At the First Year Seminar Symposium, Joe Tate '23 explains the overall sustainability of various asphalts to President Joyce P. Jacobsen. The event is a celebration of multidisciplinary study coordinated by the Center for Teaching and Learning.

At the First Year Seminar Symposium, students test pigments developed by their peers in New Chemistry Meets Old Art.

Associate Professor of Art and Architecture Liliana Leopardi listens as Zyanya Rizzo '23 presents a collage of newspapers, magazines, letters and photos to recreate her memory of Eaton Canyon Waterfall in Pasadena, Calif.