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During the inaugural Elmira College First Year Seminar (FYS) Showcase and Celebration, Riley Ann Maras ’27, an Education and Art double major, spoke with fellow first-year students about the domestic violence shelter diorama she created for her FYS course, Imaginary Cities.
In the Imaginary Cities course, the students investigated how cities shape a community and how what is and isn’t included in the city affects the people there. Maras’ diorama envisioned a domestic violence shelter that is accessible for the victims while hard to find for the abusers.
Maras enjoyed the course and felt her instructor, Autumn Watts, Lecturer in Academic Writing, did a great job helping her students build the research and discussion skills they will need throughout their college experience.
“This is an important topic and people need to know more about how common domestic violence is,” shared Maras. “I wanted to bring attention and awareness to it. It was worth having a conversation about it.”
The FYS Showcase allowed Maras to share her passion for well-designed domestic violence shelters with all her fellow first-year students. It also allowed her to see what students in the other ten FYS courses learned about. While each of the ten FYS courses had different themes, they were designed to build the reading and critical thinking skills students will need as they progress through EC.
“The showcase was a chance for all first-year students to come back together as a class at the end of the fall term, bookending with their time together during Fall Welcome at the start of the term,” explained Adam Giambrone, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Director of First Year Seminar. “This event gave students a chance to see what their peers have been up to in other FYS sections. We also wanted to create a friendly environment so that participating in a future event like the annual EC Student Research Conference, which is also held in Cowles Hall, might now seem less scary.”
Maras appreciated how the showcase event gave the students a chance to practice their presentation skills.
“Talking in front of people about important topics is an important skill to build,” she said.
Paige Cotton ’27, an Anthropology & Sociology major, felt similarly. She went a step beyond practicing her presentation skills and worked on her survey skills as well. She took the FYS course, Toward A More Just World, taught by Joel Stoker, Lecturer in Religious Studies. As part of her coursework, she researched the Central Park Five, a famous group of black teenagers who were incarcerated for years after being wrongfully convicted of a violent crime. The teens’ convictions have raised questions about certain aspects of the judicial system. Cotton asked attendees whether they believed children should be eligible to receive life without parole if they are convicted of a crime. About 90% of the respondents said “no,” which is what Cotton was expecting.
“When I spoke to the students who said ‘yes,’ they usually said that the punishment should be determined on a case-by-case basis, but I think the Central Park Five demonstrate some flaws and inequities in our legal system, showing that judges should not be able to give arbitrary sentences.”
For Cotton, who is Pre-Law, her FYS course and the FYS Showcase and Celebration provided chances to practice skills she will need as a lawyer.
“I think it is so important to present on issues of inequity. As a lawyer, this is what I want to focus on. I want to help protect everyone in society.”
The Showcase, by design, had a relaxed atmosphere that included formal learning and celebratory fun. The FYS instructors wanted the students to be both the presenters and the main attendees of the showcase.
