Marie De Fazio, SUNY Orange graduate and West Nile Surveillance team member collects mosquitoes from a gravid trap at an undisclosed location in eastern Orange County. Gravid traps collect pregnant female mosquitoes who are looking to lay eggs.
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Phone: (845) 341-4725 • Fax: (845) 341-4730SUNY Orange Honors Program launches new seminar: “From Gothic to Goth”
MIDDLETOWN – Multiple piercings, body art and Siouxsie and The Banshees CDs may not seem typical of your average honor student, but Elaine Torda isn’t your typical Honors Program coordinator, which may explain why Orange County Community College’s Honors Program graduated record numbers last spring, has a record number of accepted students this fall, and why its newest cross-disciplinary seminar: From Gothic to Goth had to add an extra section to accommodate student interest.
The one-credit seminar, which runs once a week for fifteen weeks, is available to Honors Program students and on a limited basis to other high achieving students with permission of Torda, the instructor. It will cover art, music, literature, history, architecture and philosophy of the Gothic time period and how it relates to the modern Goth sensibility and lifestyle.
The seminar, which employs the Socratic method, will allow the students enormous freedom to come up with their own discoveries and definitions, within the framework of Torda’s planning.
“I’m going to let them decide for themselves,” says Torda, who says one of the hallmarks of the Honors Program is not only that the students receive a lot of individual attention, but also that they have a lot of input into the learning process. They like that they get to participate so fully, says Torda.
What Torda and other Honors faculty like about teaching the courses and seminars is that the students are so interested and so bright that often an instructor runs through a lesson plan ahead of schedule, and must work harder to come up with more – and more challenging – material.
Due to the wide range of subject matter, seminars are often team-taught or incorporate guest lecturers in specific fields. Torda is working with several faculty experts in From Gothic to Goth, including art professor Susan Slater-Tanner, who will take the class to the Cloisters in Manhattan, a gothic-era museum.
Four additional honors program courses will also be offered this semester.
History of Rock and Roll, English 101, are favorites while International Relations
and Introduction to Mythology are the other new, much anticipated, additions
to the honors lineup. The spring semester will provide even more new course
options and seminar topics in math, business and physical education.
SUNY Orange will have a representative available at the lower level atrium in front of JC Penney at the Galleria Mall at Crystal Run in Middletown on Sunday, August 4, 2003 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. to give shoppers a chance to learn more about the college.
You can pick up printed materials about courses available and ask questions from an admissions professional while you're there, or you can call (845) 341-4030 for more information about scheduling an appointment any other time.
The Admissions Office also sees people on a walk-in basis in the summer. From now until August 8th, Admissions is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Monday through Friday, and Wednesday evenings until 7:30 p.m.
From August 11th to September 2nd, Admissions will be open from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday.
Orange County Community College is offering the five-hour course mandated by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles for all New York State permit holders (4 hours of instruction with a multiple choice test at the end of the course). The course addresses seat belt use, drug and alcohol use, among other topics. The course will result in the issuance of the MV-278 form needed for the road test appointment. Registration must be completed prior to the beginning date of class.
The class costs $25 and the next available class is on Saturday, August 16th. Class runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will be held in Harriman Hall, Room 201.
For more information, please call (845) 341-4890.