HISTORY OF RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Online course for current Rutgers students (all locations) and alumni
Spring 2016 Semester, January–May 2016
Course registration begins in October 2015
This spring, both students and alumni are invited to take the online course "History of Rutgers University," taught by Rutgers historians Paul Clemens, author of Rutgers since 1945(Rutgers University Press, 2015), and Rudolph Bell. Participants, working in small, virtual groups, will explore major themes throughout Rutgers' 250-year history from its beginnings in 1766 as a small college for prospective ministers to its current place as a leading research university. Through interviews, visual presentations, and selected readings, participants will examine a wide range of topics, such as: 19th-century students from Japan; Paul Robeson then and later; the old and new Rutgers tomato; World War II veterans and the G.I. Bill; Selman Waksman’s contested Nobel Prize; the firing of alleged communist Moses Finley; early residence life at Livingston College; 1969 Black Organization of Students takeover of Newark’s Conklin Hall; LEAP Academy in Camden; art, music, dance, and theater; underwater volcanoes; the establishment of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences; and, of course, entry into the Big Ten®.
For more information or to register: Alumni can sign up for the course through the Rutgers University Alumni Association. Students can register using the Web Registration System by selecting the spring 2016 semester, course code 01:512:285, section 90. The course begins January 19 and ends May 2, 2016.
From the course website:
Your role: Alumni will join students in viewing each week’s presentation, available 24/7 for your convenience, and then participate as “lived experience” experts bringing their unique perspective to the week’s theme. Participating alumni will be placed in small discussion groups with current students, thereby greatly enriching the overall learning experience. Rest assured, while the students will be graded for their discussion postings, alumni will receive only our appreciation. As with the weekly presentations, the discussions are conducted online 24/7.
At midterm, students will be required to engage in individual research projects and during this time we hope you will volunteer to engage by telephone, Skype, or email with individual students who may turn to you as experts for whatever research project they have chosen to undertake. Examples of individual projects might be: campus response to a major news event such as the Kennedy assassination or 9/11; coeducation at Rutgers College, student attitudes toward returning vets from Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan; effective abolition of the separate arts and sciences colleges in New Brunswick; building a new law school in Newark; football victory over Louisville; or the threat to separate the Camden Campus from Rutgers as political payoff for the medical school merger.
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This class, which I have had the good fortune to be a research assistant for, will include some fantastic interviews. I was responsible for the Athletics portion, and 2nd Hundred Years portion. Interviews for the athletics portion include Kyle Flood, Eddie Jordan, Julie Hermann, Lee Schneider, Bob Mulcahy, Dick Lloyd, Tom Liucci, and more.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Sign up here: http://www.alumni.rutgers.edu/s/896/index.aspx?sid=896&gid=1&pgid=7007&content_id=9352
Online course for current Rutgers students (all locations) and alumni
Spring 2016 Semester, January–May 2016
Course registration begins in October 2015
This spring, both students and alumni are invited to take the online course "History of Rutgers University," taught by Rutgers historians Paul Clemens, author of Rutgers since 1945(Rutgers University Press, 2015), and Rudolph Bell. Participants, working in small, virtual groups, will explore major themes throughout Rutgers' 250-year history from its beginnings in 1766 as a small college for prospective ministers to its current place as a leading research university. Through interviews, visual presentations, and selected readings, participants will examine a wide range of topics, such as: 19th-century students from Japan; Paul Robeson then and later; the old and new Rutgers tomato; World War II veterans and the G.I. Bill; Selman Waksman’s contested Nobel Prize; the firing of alleged communist Moses Finley; early residence life at Livingston College; 1969 Black Organization of Students takeover of Newark’s Conklin Hall; LEAP Academy in Camden; art, music, dance, and theater; underwater volcanoes; the establishment of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences; and, of course, entry into the Big Ten®.
For more information or to register: Alumni can sign up for the course through the Rutgers University Alumni Association. Students can register using the Web Registration System by selecting the spring 2016 semester, course code 01:512:285, section 90. The course begins January 19 and ends May 2, 2016.
From the course website:
Your role: Alumni will join students in viewing each week’s presentation, available 24/7 for your convenience, and then participate as “lived experience” experts bringing their unique perspective to the week’s theme. Participating alumni will be placed in small discussion groups with current students, thereby greatly enriching the overall learning experience. Rest assured, while the students will be graded for their discussion postings, alumni will receive only our appreciation. As with the weekly presentations, the discussions are conducted online 24/7.
At midterm, students will be required to engage in individual research projects and during this time we hope you will volunteer to engage by telephone, Skype, or email with individual students who may turn to you as experts for whatever research project they have chosen to undertake. Examples of individual projects might be: campus response to a major news event such as the Kennedy assassination or 9/11; coeducation at Rutgers College, student attitudes toward returning vets from Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan; effective abolition of the separate arts and sciences colleges in New Brunswick; building a new law school in Newark; football victory over Louisville; or the threat to separate the Camden Campus from Rutgers as political payoff for the medical school merger.
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This class, which I have had the good fortune to be a research assistant for, will include some fantastic interviews. I was responsible for the Athletics portion, and 2nd Hundred Years portion. Interviews for the athletics portion include Kyle Flood, Eddie Jordan, Julie Hermann, Lee Schneider, Bob Mulcahy, Dick Lloyd, Tom Liucci, and more.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Sign up here: http://www.alumni.rutgers.edu/s/896/index.aspx?sid=896&gid=1&pgid=7007&content_id=9352
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