Posts by Cindy Stewart:
The NEW Perspectives
Would you like to teach about television? online media? computer-based gaming? digital photography? or the interconnections among them? Now you can!
For twenty years, Perspectives — one of two ExCollege peer-taught seminar programs for entering students — has focused on the movies.
It’s time for a change.
Starting this fall (2013), Perspectives will expand beyond film and invite rising sophomores and juniors to apply whose passions involve many aspects of “media culture.”
As importantly, teaching Perspectives can now be used as an alternative for CMS minors instead of a Senior Project.
The process for applying to be a Perspectives Leader has been reopened in order to accommodate people who want to take advantage of these new opportunities.
Interested? E-mail Howard Woolf (howard.woolf@tufts.edu) ASAP to set up a time to talk!
The Next Beky
Tweet Are you a Tufts senior looking for a job for next year? Consider being the next Program Assistant for the ExCollege. The Program Assistant position is a full-time, academic-term, paid position with benefits. The Program Assistant is involved in all aspects of the ExCollege operations, from course selection to filmmaking equipment management and much [...]
Meta-MOOC?
Tweet Interested in MOOCs (massive open online courses) and how they will impact higher education? Consider taking a Quidnunc (a group independent study) through the ExCollege next fall. You’ll have a chance to take a MOOC of your choosing while studying MOOCs with other students and faculty. In the end, you’ll put together a presentation [...]
Deadline Extended!
Tweet Were you thinking about being an Explorations or Perspectives Leader, but didn’t get your application in before break? Here’s your chance! We’ve extended the deadline, so get in touch with us ASAP. Call 617-627-3384 or email excollege@tufts.edu to discuss the timeline. DO IT NOW!
The Express!
Tweet Join the ExCollege Board! The ExCollege is beginning the search for new students to join its Board! The ExCollege Board consists of 5 Tufts faculty members as well as 5 current Tufts students. The ExCollege Board meets once a month and works toward setting policy, selecting new courses for each semester, planning campus events, [...]
Election Night Extravaganza
Tweet Mark your calendar for the evening of Tuesday, November 6th. You’ll want to spend it with the ExCollege in the Mayer Campus Center. Trust me. That’s were hundreds and hundreds of students were four years ago as the results of the state and national elections were announced and analyzed. Stuff starts happening at 7:30pm [...]
They Grow Up So Fast!
Tweet This summer we’ve caught up with some ExCollege office “alums” — folks who worked at the ExCollege during or after their time at Tufts — and they are doing all sorts of crazy things like getting new jobs, getting engaged and married, and even having babies! Yikes! Kate Drizos was a student worker in [...]
Share Your World. Teach At Tufts.
Tweet The new visiting lecturer application has just been added to our website for Boston-area professionals thinking about submitting a proposal to teach in Spring 2013. Just go to http://excollege.tufts.edu/lecturersWho.asp to get some info and fill out a quick form that allows you access to the application.
Catching our breath
Tweet Phew! We’re a bit behind the ball on posts, but it’s because we had a fantastic spring semester! Faculty presentations from A Taste of Tufts and student films from TuftsFilmWorks and great reviews of our spring courses … it’s all good. Now that things are quieting down a bit, I’ll try to post a [...]
Our “Researcher in Chief”
Tweet Tufts President Anthony Monaco just presented the latest talk in the A Taste of Tufts series. He discussed two of his most important discoveries, the gene responsible for X-linked Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and a gene specifically involved in human speech and language. Though many in the crowded classroom were transported back to [...]