Well, this is my Final seminar course that I am teaching for Honors College. The actual title of this Honors Seminar course was – “ECU Global Explosion: Developing and Organizing a Campus-wide Event.” HRNS 2011. Initially, students in this Honors seminar were supposed to organize and develop a campus wide event for ECU students yet as the semester progressed, my class felt a bit overwhelmed with this major task for the end of the semester. We therefore changed the end goal of this class and they focused on IMPROVING RACE RELATIONS AT ECU.
Overall, this change of direction of the course worked out very well primarily because the students recognized that this was the bigger issue — race relations at ECU. Since they had some difficulty relating to other students who were different than them on campus, it was in their best interest to develop new strategies for all ECU students find new ways to improve race relations on campus.
All the students had to complete an individual report and present it to the class at the end of the semester. We also had the director of Honors College present as well as the Dean of Harriott College of Arts & Sciences present during the class presentations.
Not surprisingly, all the Honor students did an excellent job in their presentations and completed their reports as requested. In addition, each one of their reports were collated into one large class report so that we could document their suggestions into one large document. This large class document will be later presented to the top level administrators at ECU.
Here is a photo of my last Honors Seminar class at ECU!
