Professors T. Ulmer, V. Cuccia, & P. Risolo

This learning community links ENG 12 (15P,15984) with SPE 21 (13P, 17390) and SD10 (11P, 18087). This semester’s link theme will be “Performance.” In English 12, students will explore how critics analyze performers in preparation for the final paper, in which the students will analyze a performer.  They will also study the notion of performance in works of fiction and nonfiction. In Speech 21, the students will look at their performances in certain roles they act out at home, work or school. Then they will critique a performance using the tools they learned in English 12. In SD10, students will explore their own personal performance in different contexts and other links about performance. Students will visit the KCC Farm as part of this link.

Professors J. Weiss, D. Costello, & L Dembner

This learning community links ENG 93 (9P, 16169) with SPE 11 (6P, 17384) and SD 10 (16P, 18090) and examines the connection between the individual and the larger community. The interaction between individual identity and community through culture, economic class, work and communication will be explored in texts and on campus.  Writing assignments and student presentations will draw on the experience of the individual within the community and develop best practices in how to engage the community of classroom, college, and community at large.

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Professors E. Esdaille, J. Michaels, & C. Samuels

This learning community links ENG 91 (6P, 16146), SPE 11 (5P, 17383), and SD 10 (3P,18080). In it, you will examine identity and change in terms of how they relate to each other. Many of you have at one point or other explored questions of your existence in this world. Have you ever wondered what role society plays in determine your identity? Is “change” important in society? Can a society survive without change?

Is there a best way to negotiate societal patterns and shifts and still construct an identity? What makes you who you are? What makes the identity of a society different or similar to your identity? In what ways do class, ethnicity, race, gender, immigration, education, e.t.c., impact your identity in terms of change? How does your environment influence your identity, and what role does education play in your establishment of an identity? Hopefully at the end of these courses, you will be able to determine the role of identity in your life, and how aspects of society works together to shape and mold you as a person.