梅利奥拉人文讲座
Going to college provides students with the opportunity to take courses that address important issues and explore new disciplines that are not typically covered in high school. 在十大赌博正规老平台, Meliora研讨会规模很小, selective courses that allow first-year students to study fascinating questions about being human in a complex world: What is the nature of democracy? How do we communicate with one another? What can art, literature, and film teach us about climate change?
The goal of the Meliora Seminars is to create a collaborative and rich intellectual experience for students as they begin their academic careers at Rochester. The Meliora Seminars are designed for incoming first-year students, and do not presume prior experience in the field.
Each Meliora Seminar is unique, but common features of the seminars include:
- Explicit attention to the relevance of the course material to contemporary social issues
- Community engagement through on-or-off campus dialogue with individuals or groups working on issues addressed in the seminars
- Reading-and-discussion small class formats of twelve to fifteen students
每一个梅利奥拉研讨会, 算是正规的, 四学分课程, 可以在集群中使用吗, 未成年人, 和专业.
2022秋季课程介绍
教练: 丽莎·赛拉米, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
Only some people have direct experience with war, but almost all people have very firm ideas about what war 就像—Writing war (writing about war; describing literal wars or fictionalizing them) is as old as writing itself, 而战争写作是阅读的主要内容. In this Meliora seminar, we will think about the "encounter" with war in reading. With a selection of texts drawn heavily from the World Wars of the twentieth century, we will investigate questions of how war is represented in different media. We will learn how to translate our reading into our own writing. This course is designed to introduce students to the practice of critical reading and textual analysis, practices that are the cornerstone of the humanistic / social science disciplines. This course may be used as a substitute primary writing requirement for students who have successfully petitioned.
指导老师: 安妮·威尔科克斯; Solveiga Armoskaite
Ecolinguistics is a combined investigation of linguistics and movement. In the context of sustainable living, the course will examine how verbal and non-verbal expression manifest and shape overall well-being. To provide a specific focus to the course discussion, Ecolinguistics 167 aligns itself with the university’s annual Humanities’ theme. 2022-23年的主题是， 期货(过去和现在). The course will address questions such as: How does language effect past and present social, 政治, 文化态度? What language practices drop off and what remains through time? How does our verbal and non-verbal language enable harm or promote well-being? Classes regularly will include movement explorations, 丰富的讨论, and collaborative activities to investigate aspects of self-expression and communication. 学生 create a final project around the Humanities themes that addresses how verbal language and non-verbal language converge and diverge from each other. The course brings students from multiple disciplines together to deepen their study of the mutually fascinating subject of language.
教练: 乔伊斯·麦克多诺教授, 语言学系
Water 就像ly to be one of the most important and difficult issues in the upcoming century. We'll focus on how water is encoded into language and culture, examining topics around how concepts coded in language shape our understanding of phenomena and the controversies around water.
Language and landscape are two aspects of the same human reality: the world we live in. 水(纯净水), 获得水, 水的所有权, 水权, aquifers) 就像ly to be the most important and difficult issue in the upcoming century. The language we use and the land we live on determine how we treat this substance so essential to life. How is water is encoded into language and culture? I'll examine topics around how concepts coded in language shape our understanding of phenomena and the controversies around water. I'll examine the concepts of water and climate from divergent perspectives and stakeholders, 包括, 重要的是, 原住民.