From Sun Lee ’17:
Open house reception for prospective COL applicants will be held on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 4:30 PM in COL Library, 41 Wyllys Ave (3rd floor). This year the deadline for applications is Monday, March 27, the first day after Spring vacation.
Date: Wednesday, October 12
Time: 4:30-5:30PM
Place: COL Library (Boger Hall fka 41 Wyllys 3rd Floor)
Like many frosh and others on this campus, you’re probably wondering “wtf is col??” Fortunately for you, The College of Letters is hosting an open house for Frosh interested in becoming COL majors. COL faculty and students will be meeting in the COL library upstairs in 41 Wyllys (“Boger Hall” lol) on Monday Feb. 29th at 4:15. Come find out more about the major, ask us questions, eat from a veggie tray.
Applications are due March 21st at 3pm and can be found here: http://www.wesleyan.edu/col/
apply.html
Date: Monday, February 29
Time: 4:15 – 5:15 PM
Place: COL Library (Upstairs 41 Wyllys)
Cost: “Your Sophomore, Junior and Senior years”
This just in from the College of Letters:
Are you a freshmen interested in applying to the College of Letters? Due to technical problems some students faced when submitting applications, the deadline for COL applications will be extended to Friday, March 28 at 5:00 p.m.
Interested students should visit here to find out how to apply. If you have any questions about the application process or about the major, email Eugenia Szady at eszady[at]wesleyan[dot]edu
Informal interviews for candidates applying by Friday will be on Monday, March 31.
From Piers Gelly ’13:
On November 7-8, the College of Letters, the Writing Programs, and the Science in Society Program, will be co-sponsoring with The Connection Institute for Innovative Practice “NARRATIVE IN THE AGE OF DISTRACTION,” a conference on the role and importance of narrative in an age of increasing technological and attentional distractions. The conference will feature healthcare practitioners and researchers who use narrative in their practice, as well as leading narrative practitioners who will discuss their adherence to long-form narrative in the digital age.
Among the participants are Rita Charon, M.D. Ph.D., Director of the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; the medical sociologists Arthur Frank, Shadd Maruna and Michael Rowe; Mary Gaitskill, novelist/National Book Award finalist; John McElwee, fiction coordinator at The New Yorker; Molly Barton ’00, Global Digital Director of Penguin Random House; Cami Delavigne, screenwriter of Blue Valentine; Tom Barber, M.D., of Boston University Medical School; Michele Klimczak, MSW, of The Connection; Judi Hannan, author of Motherhood Exaggerated; Jimmie Briggs, award-winning journalist and human rights advocate; Lisa Weinert of Lisa Weinert Consulting; Uzoamaka Maduka of The American Reader; Jennifer Gonnerman, award-winning journalist and author; Guy Story of Audible; and Noah Rosenberg of Narrative.ly.
To register, and for more information, please visit here.
Registration is FREE, and all are welcome. Please register if you plan on attending any part of the conference.
Date: Thursday, November 7 to Friday, November 8
Time: I P.M. Thursday to 6 P.M. Friday
Place: World Music Hall (for registration)
Conference Schedule after the jump:
From Christina Norris ’14:
Interested in philosophy? History? Literature? Foreign language? Studying abroad? Creative writing? Formal writing? Classics? Modern theory?
Can’t decide?
Hey freshmen, come check out College of Letters.
Date: Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Time: 4:15 PM
Place: COL library (41 Wyllys, 3rd floor)
Cost: freeeee
Are you tired of academic monogamy? If you’re a freshman, COL might be just the right solution for you:
Freshmen: You are cordially invited to the COL Open House receptions on Monday Feb. 25 and Tuesday Feb. 26 at 4:15 pm!! COL majors, faculty, and cookies will be present to provide comfort, support, and answers to any major-related questions.
Samantha Januszeski ’13 wants to let the freshmen (and other prospective students) about the College of Letters:
To the Freshmen:
The College of Letters is hosting open houses on Monday December 3, and Tuesday the 4th at 4:15 pm. For those of you who don’t know what the COL is, it’s ” a three-year interdisciplinary major for the study of European literature, history, and philosophy.” If this sounds like something you might be interested in, stop by the library on Monday or Tuesday for coffee, cookies, & information. A more detailed overview of the major is available here.
Date: Monday (December 3rd) & Tuesday (December 4th)
Time: 4:15 pm
Place: COL Library (41 Wyllys, 3rd floor)
Cost: FREE! (And there’s free coffee and cookies!!!)
New dorm rooms also means more triples. But ResLife isn’t calling them “forced triples.”
If you live on Lawn, you can probably hear the power saws from your room. If you don’t, here’s the tip: a whole lot of construction is happening in the Butts. Now that the Career Resource Center and COL/Art History departments have vacated the Butts in favor of 41 Wyllys, ResLife has taken the initiative to snatch up the former office space and build some new dorm rooms.
Here’s the lowdown: there will be new dorm rooms for 92 students. Hallways will become common areas. Each of the Butts will have its own laundry room (no more lugging all your clothes to the Butt B basement). As the Argus reported earlier this semester,
The additional dormitory space is part of a larger plan to increase the student population by 120 undergrads, which the University has been pursuing by increasing acceptances by 30 students each year for the past three years. This goal will be accomplished with the admittance of the class of 2016, and the construction in the Butterfields will help to alleviate the increase in triples in other dorms.
Buckle in, 2016—you’re going to be the biggest class yet another big class, and a whole lot of you will be in triples. You won’t be getting compensated for it, either. As Director of ResLife Fran Koerting explained to me via email, the new triples in the Butts will be sized specifically for the purpose. Consequently, “students in triples will no longer receive a discount nor a point adjustment now that we are able to use rooms that are larger than a traditional double.” Current triple-dwellers: any thoughts on the matter? Since only eight of the new dorm rooms are triples, there’s no word on how this policy will affect frosh assigned to less luxurious triples. (Edit: Fran writes in to clarify: “The other 22 rooms we will be using are triples we have used in the past that are larger than traditional doubles, such as the larger corner rooms in Clark and the triple in Westco, as well as the larger triples we have used in Butterfield.”)
Click past the jump for a brief interview with Koerting about the construction and a gallery of the construction site.
Samantha Januszeski ’13 writes in with one of the better event posters I have seen since I scrolled endlessly through Brendan O’Connell ’08‘s Wesleyan Poster Archive. (Frosh: this is one of only a few majors you need to apply to this year. Apps are due on March 26, but if you get in, you can always reconsider.) Take note that the College of Letters library is now in 41 Wyllys, not Butt C—alas, that faulty has had enough asbestos for one tenured lifetime:
Sometimes I dream about being God. I would make trees, rivers, moats, streams. I would make the Sun, banana chips, taquerias, and Volvos. And then I would make people, and all the things they feel – joy, anger, sadness, caprice, that strange feeling you get when you see a chihuahua try to hump a pug. And then I would watch and see whether I would get my very own Richard Dawkins, and him question my existence.
Anyway. If you ever had those dreams, or even if you don’t but would like to try it out anyway, Lila Becker ’12 has something in store for you!
Come audition for The Ash and The Elder! The play is an adaptation of five creation myths: Norse, Babylonian, Dogon, Quiche Maya, and Melanesian. The show will go up on April 19-21, and it will be staged in the ’92 theater.
Please come with a fictional story or a monologue. Fictional stories are preferred (e.g. tall tale, fairy tale, etc.), but not required. We’ll also ask you to do a cold reading from the script. And if you’d like to show us a special talent (dance, musical instrument, etc.), we’d love that too! We’re looking for 7 actors: 4 male-identified, and 3 female-identified. (But then again, we’re cool with anything in-between and beyond).
Feel free to email lbecker(at)wesleyan(d0t)edu with any questions, or if you’d like to audition but cannot make those times. Click here for facebook event.
Date: Sunday, January 29th and Monday, January 30th
Time: 3-4.30pm (Sun), 8-9.30pm (Mon)
Place: Downey 113 (Sun), Jones Room in the Theater Studios (Mon)
