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Campus as Text: Reading Augustana
Jeffrey Miller, Augustana College
Kyle Tamminga, Augustana College *
Rebekah Walker, Augustana College *
Katie Walth, Augustana College *
Kelly Wong, Augustana College *
Reading Augustana is a required course in Augustana College’s Civitas honors program. The
course asks its students to consider their responsibilities as citizens (Civitas) by examining the
place where they most immediately exercise those responsibilities: Augustana itself. Using
course readings ranging in time from the 19th to the 21st century and in subject from
anthropology to art and from biology to theology, students consider their campus both as culture
and as ecology: a living environment in which the actions of the individual help to create the
meanings of the whole. The creator of the course and several students will discuss how these
elements of Reading Augustana provide a model for the use of campus as text as a fundamental
part of an honors program.
National and International Currents in a Small University’s Interdisciplinary Honors
Seminar Offerings
Heather P. McDivitt, Wingate University
Beth L. Murray, Wingate University
Pamela R. Thomas, Wingate University
This study looks at two interdisciplinary honors seminars: one that stresses global citizenship
through the concept of transitional justice and the other that stresses civic responsibility here in
the United States through a study of the Founding Fathers through the era of slavery and its
eradication.
Honors and the Arts
Friday, October 22
3:30 PM – 4:40 PM
Marriott Tower 2nd Floor, Basie Ballroom A1
Gen, Lg, T&L
Student Moderator: Natasha Gallopp, Paine College *
Pulling, Poking, and Pinching Her Face: Honors and Contemporary Art
John W. Bailly, Florida International University
Alexandra Montesino, Florida International University *
Michelle Montesino, Florida International University *
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