This group has created a cluster of courses that examine the history, culture, and politics of Francophone Africa from an interdisciplinary and cross-divisional perspective that will enhance knowledge of and interest in Francophone Africa, as well as provide students with an option to complete the Integrated Learning Component (ILC) of the new curriculum. Project…
Mission and History The Weave seeks to contribute to positive social change and the cultivation of an informed citizenry by providing critical perspectives on important stories, voices, and processes that are not receiving sufficient public attention. Students and faculty affiliated with Prof. John Collins’ seminar on global news analysis in the Global Studies Department created the project in 2006. …
Led by Elyssa Twedt, Director of the Spatial Cognition and Perception Lab, the project aims to better understand individual differences in spatial cognition, which helps people perceive, remember, and navigate through environments. We investigate spatial cognition using virtual reality technology. Virtual reality provides a means to create novel environments for which people have no prior experience…
We have developed a semester-long workshop to engage more faculty in Community Based Learning (CBL) pedagogies in order to produce an even more sustainable CBL program with a broader curriculum. Our aim is to use the workshop to bring together faculty new to CBL, students who work in CBL (current Community Mentors), and current CBL…
This site is a digital archive for Twitter & Society, a sociology capstone course at St. Lawrence University taught by Stephen Barnard. Although the course focuses broadly on Twitter’s sociological significance, it also aims to shed light on some of the most intriguing dynamics through original research. In light of these goals, the class will conduct…
A multi-year project to develop a dynamic digital history of Canton, New York. Through both historical and contemporary documents, images, videos, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and other technologies, this FYP will lay the foundation for a community resource that explores “the story” of Canton. We will broadly explore the history and issues of rural America, from…
Jürgen Habermas famously described the culture of the early 1700s London coffeehouses as the spark that kindled the advent of modern democracy. Indeed, the last licensing act in England expired in 1695 and with it also the censorship of press. Within the next decade, London was flooded with newspapers and pamphlets that openly scrutinized practically…
At the peak of its Renaissance period, the Republic of Venice presented itself as the perfect embodiment of Plato’s and Aristotle’s classical republican model. At the same time, it reached a significant hegemonic position in the Western world measured both by hard (military and economic power) as well as soft (political philosophy and culture) standards…
The digital scholarship team is partnering with various faculty members to explore the use of Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, & Mixed Reality in the classroom. Thomas Caulfield ’82, CEO of Global Foundries, significantly helped to advance the digital scholarship initiatives with a recent gift of HTC Vive Virtual Reality System for the Owen D. Young…
Aquí y allá (Here and There) is an online cultural journal published on an annual basis in conjunction with a Creative Writing Workshop taught in Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages. The instructor gives guided writing exercises on a weekly basis, and the students learn how to criticize each other’s work in constructive ways, incorporating…
End of content
End of content
