In Academic Foundations I (AF I), the first course in Adrian College’s First-Year Core Curriculum, students practice the kinds of reading, thinking, writing, speaking, and research strategies they will need to be active and... [ view full abstract ]
In Academic Foundations I (AF I), the first course in Adrian College’s First-Year Core Curriculum, students practice the kinds of reading, thinking, writing, speaking, and research strategies they will need to be active and successful participants in their academic, professional, and civic lives. AF I focuses on questions that are central to students’ daily lives, and aims to cultivate an ethic of inquiry that inspires students to live out each of the college’s Ribbons of Excellence.
The presentations in this session represent excellence in writing achieved during AF I. Faculty from many disciplines judged these research projects to be the best among all those nominated from all of the sections.
One of these essayists will be further recognized with the Star Light Writing Award in continuation of the spirit of a past Adrian College prize, the Inter Society Contest, established in 1879 by two campus literary societies:
the Star Literary Society and the Lambda Phi Society (whose symbol was a ray of light). Then, as now, judgment
for the award is based upon “thought, arrangement, and rhetorical style.”
Students presenting in this session include, Lillian Brueckman, Erin Casey, Emalee Kerr, and Kyleen Wilson