Randolph-Macon College First-year Experience

1. Randolph-Macon CollegeFirst-year Experience First Year of Full Implementation

2. 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

3. 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 God’s Good Time

4. 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,” Children’s Hospital; Public lecture: Comedy Cures • Frederick Schodt 2/22/06 Public lecture: Manga Here, Manga There, Manga Everywhere

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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