Summer Reading Awards for First-Year Students
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The Center for Ethics and World Societies is sponsoring a number of student awards for creative work based on the summer reading, Vietnamerica. Submissions may involve expository or creative writing and may include (but are not limited to) essays, library research papers, poetry, short stories, film treatments, empirical works. Essays, for example, might be about five pages in length and focus on questions such as (1) Does the author have a political agenda, hidden or open? What might that be? Or, if he does not, is that a fault or virtue of the work? or (2) Vietnamerica’s subtitle is, "The War Comes Home." In what ways does the work detail how the war has indeed "come home"? How does the Amerasian experience compel us to confront the moral and practical consequences of Vietnam and international conflict more generally? Submissions may be work performed as a class assignment in a First-Year Seminar (or another class) or may represent work done independently by students. Multiple prizes will be awarded.
All Colgate first-year students are eligible and are encouraged to submit their work. Submissions must be received by the Office of the Director of University Studies (219 Alumni Hall) before 4:00 PM on Friday, December 10, 1999 (the last day of classes). Projects will be judged on the basis of the quality of the work and its relevance to the theme of the Center, "Homeless in the World: Refugees, Immigrants, and the State." Submissions will be reviewed by faculty and by students who were Awarded Lancy Fellowships for summer research connected to the themes of the Center for Ethics and World Societies. Awards will be announced at the beginning of the Spring term. Questions about the awards or the activities of the Center should be directed to Dr. Jack Dovidio or Dr. Ellen Kraly, the co-directors of the Center for 1999-2000.