“Change happens when people decide they love a place”
–Natalie Jeremijenko, Environmental Health Clinic
Welcome to a new series of weekly challenges, each week we will offer up a suggestion of how one can reduce their environmental impact and/or create a just and more sustainable community. These challenges will urge us as a community to investigate our relationship with Vassar, with Poughkeepsie, with the Hudson Valley, and with the planet.
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Progressing from introductory to intermediate and advanced level work
Most college curricula are organized in a progression from introductory to intermediate to advanced study in a particular discipline like biology or physics or philosophy. As students make academic progress along this trajectory, what changes?
1. The depth and the complexity of the material increases
2.
Ancient Egypt—Discovered Remains In an Art Museum?
RCF Workshop Thursday, October 11th
If you’ve been keeping up with news from the CCS, you’ll probably have noticed that a lot of our work has been centered on the Resource Conservation Fund. Still unsure of what the RCF is? Not yet sick of all the outreach coming your way?
CCS is hosting a RCF Workshop this Thursday, October 11th at the Jade Parlor from 4-6 pm.
Giving up the reins in advanced courses
The best way to learn something and truly understand it is to teach it.
The senior seminar for the Neuroscience and Behavior course here at Vassar College is the capstone to a curriculum that emphasizes critical evaluation of the current scientific literature, experimental design and research methodologies. While the previous coursework each student experienced as a sophomore and junior emphasized discussion and close reading of complex material, the true test of mastery is really to explain it clearly to others.