Applicants to Project Renaissance can choose among a General Program and up to seven Tracks taught by an outstanding team of ProjRen faculty. Students who complete the year-long program will fulfill a significant fraction of the University's General Education requirements for graduation. The General Program and all of the tracks satisfy one Writing Intensive requirement and, through the technology component, the Information Literacy requirement; most students will also satisfy the requirement in Oral Discourse. In addition, over the course of the year, all students will satisfy another three to five requirements in such disciplinary fields as Humanities, Natural Science, Pluralism and Diversity, and Social Science.

General Program

This program is open to students from any discipline as well as those students who have yet to decide upon a major. This program offers team-taught, interdisciplinary social science and humanities seminars worth six general education credits each semester. Focusing on building students' awareness of social issues in contemporary society, the seminars feature readings and films on a variety of topics, with special emphasis on the politics of race, class, and gender. Students write about and discuss essays, articles, poetry, plays, and novels. They may also write their own creative stories and plays. Group and individual research projects culminate in written essays, webpages, oral presentations or performances. This program also offers the possibility of community service through the Community Action Learning Project (CAL), which in recent years has included "pen pal" relationships with fourth graders in a local public school.

Tracks

Students choosing a track take a “linked” course in an academic Department and a 3-credit ProjRen seminar course complementary to the track (so that the two courses together offer an interdisciplinary experience similar to the General Program). The linked course is usually a larger course that ProjRen students attend with other students. This year there will be five tracks, each of which is appropriate for students considering many different majors, examples of which are listed below. (The linked courses are those for the current academic year and are subject to change for next year.)
 

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