SS-425 Symposium III

3 Credits

Symposium III offers seniors in Critical and Visual Studies the space to organize and take leadership in the process of critical inquiry. Rising seniors will take significant responsibility for selecting the topic, doing the necessary research, planning, inviting scholars and artists, and/or arranging for presentations relevant to the Symposium topic. They will take the lead in preparing all students for Symposium events, by presenting the readings, placing these in a social, scholarly or creative framework, and facilitating small group discussions. Each semester the symposium will explore a particular, topic, theme or question. Students in Symposium III will assist peers in developing critical analytic capacity through research, writing and speaking in public forums, learning to frame symposium events and passing along necessary skills and details for planning the symposium.