Winter
2002
It's not your parents dorm anymore
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"With
most freshmen now living on campus, it is important to build a strong
academic community, and to do that by weaving in a strong academic
program that is a part of student life," says Judith Smith,
vice provost for undergraduate education in the College of Letters
and Science, of the clusters. "We really like the idea of bringing
the lectures to the students' living room."
 Smith
notes that, unlike the original Sunset Village auditorium, which
is primarily a performance space, the new hall at DeNeve was designed
and built specifically as a teaching auditorium.
"We
can have lectures there, we can screen films that are associated
with the classes. There can be social activities associated with
the classes students are taking," Smith says. "This all
is a way to extend that period of socialization and building of
a sense of community. Students come to see UCLA as a university
that not only embraces them as students in the classroom, but also
recognizes them as people who have interests outside of class, and
that our goal is to help them to develop fully as citizens. These
kinds of activities really enrich the total experience."
Additional
Hill classes this year include Fiat Lux seminars, one-unit classes
limited to 15 students that were born out of the university's desire
to address the complexity of issues that arose in the wake of the
September 11 attacks. Some of those seminars are led by Faculty
in Residence — members of the faculty who, in exchange for
12 formal hours of programming with students, live rent-free in
the residence halls. Thus, for example, a student in Professor of
English Fred Burwick's Tuesday 4:20-5:20 p.m. seminar "Ghost
Stories and the Rise of Experimental Psychology" at Hedrick
Hall, where Burwick resides, can parlay topics raised in the course
into a thoughtful discussion with him over dinner. In addition to
the formal Fiat Lux seminar, Burwick offers hands-on workshops on
writing term papers and produces an annual student-theater piece
at the Northwest Campus Auditorium.
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