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This is the fifth of six weekly articles that guide incoming first-year students as they select their Pre-Orientation Program options and First Year Seminar courses.
This week’s Welcome Wednesday will outline three of First Year Seminar course options students can choose from for Term I (Fall 2023). You’ll find these three courses interesting if you want to learn about creating communities and a society built on representation and social justice. In each course, students will learn about the actions they can take to effect change.
Be sure to select your FYS courses before the end of June by completing the course selection form on your admissions portal. Questions? Reach out to the Admissions Office at (607) 735-1724 or admissions@elmira.edu.
Students who want to help create a more just world but aren't sure how to go about it might enjoy learning from Joel Stoker, Lecturer in Religious Studies.
Educators, artists, religious leaders, and activists will speak to students about how they successfully shifted power structures and empowered minorities and the underprivileged. Students will learn about historical policies that created discrimination, explore the narratives of those who moved the arc of justice forward, and participate in and collaborate with leaders from a local social justice organization.
"I'm excited to help students discover how people have changed the world in the past, but more importantly, how people are working to make the world a better place right now," said Stoker. "There are numerous organizations in our own backyard filled with volunteers who make enormous sacrifices to help others find enough to eat, discover a vocation, educate our youth, shelter those who need it, and provide opportunities for racial and social justice."
Autumn Watts, Lecturer in Academic Writing, will guide students on a quest to better understand the nature of cities and how cities influence and are influenced by the people who live in them. Students will explore the City of Elmira and use tools like perception maps, creative writing, and photo essays to interpret their discoveries. They will then delve into films and short stories about utopian and dystopian cities, and study efforts to design intentional communities. Students will team up to design their own "perfect city" using different media to present their ideas and sell the city to prospective residents.
"In this course, we look at the many different ways our identities and relationships shape the spaces we live in, but also how such spaces shape us," said Watts. "Say, for example, how the physical design of a public plaza can get people talking, connecting, and enjoying the environment and each other - or actively silence, endanger, or exclude others. Some of these ways are obvious, others very subtle. So in this class, we'll learn how to look, listen, and pay attention to the environments we live in, how they position us, how we position ourselves - and how we might change those spaces to make a better society."
Dr. Adam Giambrone, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Director of the First Year Seminar, will work with students to explore the world of discoveries in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) through the history and experience of making and breaking secret codes. The course focuses on the question, 'How have code makers and codebreakers affected our everyday lives, even if we don't know it?'
Throughout the course, students will experience their own moments of creativity and discovery in STEM by making their own secret codes and deciphering the messages of their friends. Once STEM is seen as a human endeavor, the course will focus on the goal of broadening and diversifying the STEM community. Modern movies will be used to generate discussion.
"I'm eager to discuss the power of films that bring stories of human achievement to life," said Giambrone. "Blockbuster films such as The Imitation Game and Hidden Figures are not only entertaining, but also they send implicit messages to audiences about who might contribute to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. We'll talk about how movies impact society's views on STEM, who the 'hidden figures' of STEM are, and why sharing their stories matters."
