All staff and faculty are invited to attend one or both of this fall’s Core Samples Lunches, as guests of the Garaventa Center and Core Program. These have proven a terrific way for all of us to build our knowledge of what happens in UP’s Core Curriculum.
- Tuesday, October 8, 11:30-12:30: Dr. Anne Santiago from Political Science and Global Affairs will offer a sample of her Fall ‘University Big Ideas’ exploration level course CORE 311X – Democracy and Diversity: Politics in an Age of Fracture. The UP Core is offering one of these larger signature courses each semester to highlight mission related themes such as civic responsibility, and this one is specifically timed to help us all makes sense of an intense election season.
- Wednesday, November 13, 11:30-12:30: Dr. Brad Franco from the Department of History will provide a glimpse of his foundation level course HST 220: The Search for Justice in the Western Tradition. Learn about how an evolved version of the classic ‘Western Civ’ model can help us think about what it means to define a just world.
Learning from gifted teachers over free food and without exams: could it be any better? Lunches will convene in the Teske Room in the Commons (seating is limited).
Please RSVP to Shannon Mayer, mayers@up.edu.