For some students, final exams can be the most stressful time of the year. Others are able to get creative in showing their mastery of a subject, so it is more than just a test. Starting on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, students at the College of will be doing everything from displaying their artwork in a gallery showing to designing their own Spanish magazine.
As a final project, students in Beth Linck’s Introduction to Theatre class will write a grant proposal that describes their own imaginary theatre and programming. The proposal is based on the real-life Nancy Quinn Fund at the Alliance of Resident Theatres in New York, which funds new, emerging and small theatre companies. As part of their proposal, students will create a mission statement, describe how their theatre is run and include budget statements and notes. For more information, contact Beth Lincks at lincksba@cofc.edu.
Students in Virginia Bartel’s First Year Experience Seminar “Child-Related Careers” created books for children that focus on careers. The short books are targeted to two- through eight-year-old children, and each includes a preface that explains why the book is targeted for that age child. The reasons include level of vocabulary, types of pictures, and sentence structure and length. Book titles included: “Visiting the Veterinarian,” “Life as a Ballerina,” and “Come Fly With Me.” Bartel says, “This culminating project was designed to enable the students to apply the theoretical knowledge they gained in the major fields of education and psychology, as well as their emerging knowledge about different potential child-related careers.” Bartel can be reached at 843.953.5821.
Twenty-five computer science students will be presenting their semester-long projects in the Tate Center (5 Liberty St.) room 202 on May 2, 2012 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Students from Professor Jim Bowring’s Software Engineering Practicum will be describing their thoughts on the attacks on open-source communities. The event is open to the public. For more information, contact Jim Bowring at bowring@gmail.com or 843.953.0805.
Spanish students in Assistant Professor Benjamin Fraser’s “18th and 19th-century Spanish Literature” class will be designing an electronic magazine (in Spanish) that focuses on one aspect of 18th and/or 19th-century Spanish literature. The magazines will introduce contemporary readers of Spanish to such diverse themes as women and social progress, education and enlightenment, science/science fiction, urban studies and more. For more information, contact Benjamin Fraser at 843.953.6351.
Students in several theatre department classes will display their final projects in a gallery showing on the second floor of the Simons Center for the Arts (161 Calhoun St.) on May 2, 2012 from 1 to 5 p.m. Students enrolled in Assistant Professor Charlie Calvert’s “Scene Design” class will display drawings, paintings and model making that show the process of stage design and the tools used to communicate the designs. Students in Calvert’s “Drafting and Rendering for the Stage” class will display drawings and paintings in which they use stage design techniques. For more information, contact Charlie Calvert at calvertcc@cofc.edu.
Biology Professor Jean Everett gave a final for “Plant Taxonomy,” which consists of students identifying the species and genus of 110 plans that Everett collected fresh two days before. She says, “If the students have synthesized all the ecosystem details I’ve given them over the semester, their work is easier because they will recognize and understand where the plants came from.” Everett can be reached at everettj@cofc.edu.
Students in the First Year Experience learning community (taught by Computer Science Faculty Member Lancie Affonso and Finance Professor Jocelyn Evans “Become a Millionaire: Invest Yourself in a Learning Community” created and presented a scientific poster as part of the “What Does Google Know?” course. Some of the topics included the future of visual search, Google TV and the future of television, predictive analytics, virtual migration, and mobile applications. For more information, contact Lancie Affonso at affonsol@cofc.edu.
