A CONCERT OF IDEAS:
STUDENT WORK FROM PERSPECTIVES COURSES
The semester transition brought a number of changes to the Michigan
Tech campus, including new general education courses for entering Michigan
Tech students clustered under the umbrella title of "Perspectives on Inquiry."
The students had dozens of choices, but all courses sought to help them
use a topic to see the world differently than they once had.
At Tech Tea Time on Wednesday, December 6, some of the students from
these classes will offer a "concert of ideas," a presentation that showcases
examples of the exceptional work they did for their Perspectives seminar.
The students will give lively and informative speeches and dramatizations,
explain models of machines, and describe events and places they have studied.
Other topics will include a debate on animal rights, and a visual argument
on the history of Congo, Africa, showing how the authorities tried to
suppress news of exploitation and atrocities from reaching the rest of
the world. The Tea Time audience will also be invited to examine the posters
used to illustrate the projects and to discuss them with their creators.
Tech Tea Time is at 4:00 p.m. in the MTU Memorial Union Alumni Lounge
and is open and free to all. The series is coordinated by the University
Cultural Enrichment Department. For further information or to submit a
proposal for a future program, call 487-2844.
