F2F: H20
- Photo Gallery
- Calendar of Events
- Common Reading Assignment
- Opinion Survey for All New Students
- Where on Earth Are We Going?
Summary
This year’s Feet to the Fire program explores the challenges we face as a result of global climate change with a focus on the increasing scarcity of water and its impact on cultures and ecosystems around the world. Feet to the Fire: H2O, Seeking Solutions was the theme of this years First Year Matters program, Wesleyan’s answer to the “common reading” program instituted at many universities. In F2F: H2O, first year students are guided through a “common experience” program, designed to introduce students to the academic rigor and interdisciplinary thinking at Wesleyan while at the same time building a community of learners among the first year class. The program consisted of an anthology of multi-disciplinary readings sent to students prior to their arrival on campus, seminars and residence hall discussions during their orientation week, and the staging of a major participatory arts event that engaged students in understanding the issue from a world arts perspective.
Feet to the Fire: H2O, Seeking Solutions
Summer Reading
- R.F. Service, “Delta Blues, California Style,” Science 317, (July 27, 2007), 442-445.
- A. Bach, “Is Water the Next Carbon?,” Urban Land (October 2007), 78-85.
- R.L. France, ed., Thoreau on Water, Reflecting Heaven (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).
- J. Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (New York: Viking, 1939).
- “Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis,” United Nations Human Development Report (2006), 9-37.
- http://www.waterfootprint.org
- http://www.theharrisonstudio.net/lagoon_cycle.html