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Join the CSS
February 19, 2008
Dear First-Year Student:
If you have an interest in the social sciences, we would like to invite you
to consider the College of Social Studies. We are now accepting applications to
the College, so this is a good time to find out more about the major.
The CSS offers a distinct approach to the social sciences. First, and most
obviously, it is a multidisciplinary program of study in government, history,
economics, and philosophy. Social reality does not come carved up into
neat compartments corresponding to academic disciplines, so we believe that
students will develop a better understanding of the subject matter and the
nature of each discipline by considering it in relation to the others.
The College also offers a distinctive pedagogy that
centers on the weekly tutorial. We place great emphasis on reading, writing, and
discussion, so our classes are very small. During your sophomore year, your
work in the College would consist of three small (no more than 10 students),
intensive tutorials in government, history, and economics, and one larger (30
students) colloquium in Modern Social Theory. You probably know how hard it is
to find classes of this size in the social sciences at Wesleyan. We keep
our classes small to make it possible for you to work closely with each other
and with your professors, and in order to develop your writing and analytical skills.
Our pedagogy is also distinctive in its emphasis on the students' responsibility
for their own education. In the CSS, you will write papers on a subject before
you have heard your professor discuss it, thus you will be given the opportunity
to develop your own approach to it, and your own synthesis and analysis of the materials you have
read. You will receive ample support in small, informal
groups with other students, from the teaching assistants assigned to each class,
and from your professors. But the final product will be yours.
There's a lot more to learn about the College, and if any of this is of
interest to you, please come to the information session (TBA). In addition to talking about the College we will be serving
refreshments. Applications can be picked up at the CSS office, 408 PAC, or at
http://www.wesleyan.edu/css/Application.doc. Application forms can be
filled out on your computer and emailed to Madeleine Howenstine at
mhowenstine@wesleyan.edu. Please save as file with your name on it. The
applications
are due Friday, March 28th. You are welcome to come to our Social Hour in
the CSS lounge on
Friday afternoons at 4:00, to chat informally with students and faculty in the
College. If you would like to talk with us, feel free to contact us.
- February25th at 7:00
p.m. & February 26th at 4:15: CSS Common Room (4th floor, PAC) -- a panel information session
conducted by current CSS students.
- Friday, March 28: CSS applications due
(2:00 p.m.), PAC 408.
- Mondays at noon: CSS Monday Lunch in the
Woodhead Lounge.
- Fridays at 4:00: CSS Social Hour in the CSS
Common Room (4th floor, PAC).
Cecilia Miller (PAC 405 ext. 2387)
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN APPLYING TO
CSS?
The College of Social Studies is now accepting applications from Freshmen.
The deadline for submission is Friday, March 28th, at 2 p.m.
Please Click on the following link to access our application. If
possible, open it, fill it, hit "save as." Identify the file with your name
and submit to mhowenstine@wesleyan.edu
with the accompanying documents. Make sure all documents have your name on the
filename. The graded paper may be brought to Madeleine Howenstine, PAC
408.
The Economics pre-requisite for the CSS is completion of Economics 110, with
a minimum grade of C+, or completion of Economics 101 and one other 200 level Economics
course, with an average grade of at least C+. The Economics requirement--designed
to prepare the student for his or her Sophomore Economics Tutorial--can be
completed during the fall of the Sophomore year, but no later.
Students who have taken BOTH AP micro and macro, and have passed both with a
grade of 4 or 5, are not required to take Econ 101, and may satisfy the
economics requirement by taking any other economics course. Students who
have taken only one AP economics course must still take Econ 101 and another
economics course, or take Econ 110. Students are well-advised to have this
required course-work behind them before entering the College.
The CSS accepts applications from Frosh in March. For more
information consult the
Student
Handbook.
KEEP WATCHING THIS SITE FOR MORE
INFORMATION.
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