Ho Ho Ho
Tweet We’re wrapping up Fall semester here at the ExCollege and getting ready for Spring semester! The preliminary course list is on our website (http://excollege.tufts.edu/coursesUpcoming.asp), and we’re hoping to post times, descriptions, and instructor bios soon. The ExCollege offices will be closed starting on Friday, December 23rd and will re-open on Tuesday, January 3rd. That’s [...]
What are we offering for Spring?
Tweet The ExCollege selects its courses on a different schedule from the traditional departments. The ExCollege Board will be meeting all day on Tuesday, December 13th to make course selections and will notify applicants as soon as possible thereafter. We’ll post a preliminary list of spring courses on our website during final exam period. Registration [...]
Spring course selection underway
Tweet Subcommittees of one faculty member and two students have been working hard to interview almost 100 candidates to teach through the ExCollege this spring. Interviews will continue through next week, and then the ExCollege Board takes over, combing through course proposals, reference letters, reviews by faculty members, and comments from the interview groups. Final [...]
Still Looking for a Class?
Tweet ExCollege course registration continues on SIS through next Tuesday, September 20th. Check out these courses that still have spaces: EXP5F: Arthuriana Through the Ages EXP34F: Religion and New Immigrants in America EXP40F: Human-Animal Relations EXP47F: Gender and Culture in War and Peace-Building EXP77F: The Right to Marry
Details, details…
Tweet So we finally got the course descriptions and instructor bios posted on our website. Check ‘em out at the upcoming courses link.
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Tweet Changes to the ExCollege staff, changes to our course listing, changes in the weather…we’re just full of changes over here. First, our Program Assistant for the last two years, Alison Mehlsak, finished up her time with us this past Friday. We’ll miss her a great deal, but we’re excited to announce the new Program [...]
Fall Courses!
Tweet Wahoo! The ExCollege Board met on Wednesday (for FIVE hours) to select the courses we’ll be offering in the Fall. Here is the PRELIMINARY list. It is subject to change, but we’ll post updates on our website throughout the summer. Fall 2011 Courses This is a PRELIMINARY listing of courses for the Fall 2011 [...]
What happened?
Tweet I haven’t blogged all week! What’s happening? Well it’s been a little crazy around the ExCollege. Let’s see…we are finalizing the Explorations and Perspectives seminars for the fall (see below for a list), getting all of the application information together to make final selections for fall visiting lecturer courses (on our website by May [...]
Triple Crown
Tweet And a THIRD piece in this same edition of Tufts Now, this one about Yael Hersonski who is teaching a course in the ExCollege on the use of archival footage in documentary filmmaking while she serves as the filmmaker-in-residence for the Communications and Media Studies program. Read more here – http://now.tufts.edu/articles/unfinished-history
Holy Hogwarts
Tweet Check out this piece in Tufts Now about the ExCollege course on Harry Potter and Christianity – http://now.tufts.edu/articles/holy-hogwarts