Students and professors in several Winter Term courses discussed what they learned this January through speeches, PowerPoint presentations and dance performances at Elon's Info-Share Day Jan. 21. Details...
Faculty and students in Globalization and Culture courses, the theme for Winter Term 2003, gathered in Yeager Recital Hall to share their discoveries.
Presentations were made by students involved in six different classes or projects during the term, including Gillian Murray, who took Introduction to the Fine Arts, taught by Barbara Rhoades.
“Picking a Winter Term class was not easy, but this caught my eye,” Murray said. “We listened to poets and observed dance, and learned a great deal about art touching all the senses,” Murray said, describing an exercise where students were asked to write about their memories of certain tastes or smells such as cough syrup or suntan lotion.
Sam Moore taught Sustainable Development in a Global Economy. He shared some of the issues his 10 students discussed, including ways to bring more of the Earth’s population into the world marketplace. Currently, Moore said, 4 billion people in the world live on less than $2 a day.
Moore said companies must also focus on three important bottom lines-people, profit and planet-to be successful in creating sustainable development in a global economy.
Tuesday’s event was the second Info-Share Day, originally conceived by Tom Arcaro, professor of sociology. Jane Wellford, associate professor of fine arts, hosted this year’s event.