Randolph-Macon College First-year Experience

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Randolph-Macon CollegeFirst-year Experience

• First Year of Full Implementation

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FYC 2005-06Look at the courses!

• The Human Comedy Cultural and Neurobiological
  Perspectives on Humor
• Crossing Cultures Images of East and West
• The Human Genome Concepts and Controversies
• Biopolitics Issues for a New Century Biological
  and Political Perspectives
• Communication in Context Bits, Bytes, and
  Behavior
• Wine, Science and Society

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FYC 2005-06Look at the courses!

• Identity Me, Myself, and I We, You, and Them 
• How We Move People
• Cultural Representations of the Body
• Migration
• Modernism and the American Century American
  Culture Between the Wars
• In Gods Good Time

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Co-curricular eventsGuest Speakers

• Regina Barreca 11/10/05 Public lecture Women
  and Humor
• Jaak Panksepp 11/17/05 Public lecture Evolution
  of Mind The Ancestral Sources of Laughter and
  Crying, Joy and Grief
• Saranne Rothberg 4/27/06 Dedication of Laughing
  Place, Childrens Hospital Public lecture
  Comedy Cures
• Frederick Schodt 2/22/06 Public lecture Manga
  Here, Manga There, Manga Everywhere

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Co-curricular eventsGuest Speakers

• Dr. Lindon Eaves 2/16/06Public lecture God, Sex
  and Politics Unraveling Genes Culture
• Dr. Aleskey Zimin 3/16/06Public lecture The
  Challenge of Obtaining the DNA Sequence of an
  Organism
• Richard Wilson 4/20/06 Class lecture on
  forensics and the FBI
• Dr. Richard Meserve 4/13/06 Public lecture
  Nuclear Power Plant Safety and Security

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Co-curricular eventsGuest Speakers

• Joann Keyton 3/13/06 Public lecture
  Communication and Organizational Culture
• Burgess Allison 4/6/06 Class lecture
  Communication and the Internet
• Davis Houck 9/19/05 Class lecture
• Carole Blair 10/26/05 Public lecture
• Linda Hogan 4/25/06 Class presentation poetry
  workshop public reading

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Co-curricular eventsGuest Speakers

• Colleen Curran 11/15/05 Public lecture and
  reading
• Dr. Clea Koff 4/4/06 Public lecture on being a
  forensic anthropologist in Rwanda
• Ayse Polat 4/13/06Film showing (En Garde), panel
  discussion
• Joe Tennis 12/7/05Class lecture
• Doug Richards 4/12/06 Class lecture on Duke
  Ellington

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Co-curricular eventsGuest Speakers

• Amy GivlerIn-class dance demonstration
• Gypsy Roots Swing Band 10/4/05, 5/17/06
• Concert performances in Blackwell
• Kitty Ferguson 4/14/06Public lecture on the
  conflict between mainstream science and faith
• Dr. Douglas Ottati 3/24/06Class lecture Which
  Way is Up? An Experiment in Christian Theology
  and Modern Cosmology

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FYC 2006-07Look at the courses!

• Wine, Science and Society
• Far From Home Immigrant Children and Families in
  the U.S.
• Culture Capitalism Understanding Change in the
  Modern World
• Melting Pot to Mosaic Immigration, Race and
  Ethnicity
• Totally Mental Where the Known Intersects the
  Unknown

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FYC 2006-07Look at the courses!

• Being American Culture and Politics of American
  Nationalism
• The Drug Trade
• What is Life?
• Missing Loss, Separation, and Remembrance
• Repairing Nature