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Episode 17: Building Around and Beyond COVID: The Shape of Architecture
No full textJulia interviews Jane Ostergaard, Professor of Architecture, and Mark Pearson, Professor of Architecture, to discuss COVID-19 and its impact on current and future spaces, buildings, and constructions
Episode 8: The Arts of a Pandemic
No full textJulia interviews Connie Canaday Howard, Professor of Theater, and Lee Kesselman, Professor of Music, to discuss the relevance of arts and COVID-19’s impact on them
Using Genre Theory to Reduce Mass Shootings
Get PDF“Suicide contagion” is a well-established phenomenon in which highly publicized suicides are followed by a spike in the general suicide rate. In recent years, scholars have proposed a similar media contagion effect in mass shootings, a claim that’s supported by a growing body of statistical and sociological evidence. The fact that increased media coverage is linked to an increase in the probability of another mass shooting suggests that news media exercise some power over mass shootings. This paper, drawing attention to the “genres” within mass shootings, explores how news media can rewrite these narratives in order to craft a more responsible response
Raising the Standard of Living Through Educating People in District 502
Get PDFMany adults living in District 502, unfortunately, lacked the opportunities to receive a quality education growing up. For this reason, they seek to get a GED diploma in hopes of increasing the standard of living for them and their families. The adult education and English Language Education classes at the College of DuPage provide the necessary resources for this. They offer five classes that differ based on the subjects tested on the GED exam, these being social studies, math, science, writing, and interpreting literature and art. The classes require no fees, are available at multiple locations including online, and can even be taken in Spanish. Although these classes are very thorough and possess high-quality curricula, many adults struggle with passing the classes, preventing them from living a better life. The People Educating People program is a volunteering component of the adult education and English Language Education classes at the College of DuPage. Volunteers attend classes and tutor students either one-on-one or in groups. The purpose of this project is to share my observations on how tutoring benefits adult learners in their continuing education. I volunteered in the program for 41 hours during the fall 2019 semester, attending a second-grade level math class twice a week
Critically Assessing the Invalidity of Race Realism and Finding Solutions to Educate Society on Racial Theory
Get PDFWith race being a hard concept to grasp, many competing theories have arisen to explain what race is and how to categorise someone by race. The dominant explanation for race in early history has been characterised by race realism. Colloquially, race realism is the theory that scientific evidence proves race to be objectively definable by trends in geography, appearance, and most prominently, genetics. Previous research from Stanford geneticist Noah Rosenberg (2005) that looked to support this topic has relied on small sample sizes and data that had otherwise been misconducted. When Sarah Tishkoff (2009) of the University of Pennsylvania conducted the same experiments more thoroughly and with larger sample sizes, evidence contradictory to earlier experiments arose and invalidated the findings supposedly supporting race realism. Considering this, we used data from an extensive public survey to assess society’s underlying beliefs and attitudes towards race while looking to confirm that race realism had been invalidated at a social level. In alignment with the newer findings, the data we collected suggests that people of younger generations have been less and less exposed to the ideas of race realism, and all have come to the conclusion on their own that it is arbitrary to objectively define someone by race. The study showed that while these generations still socially group themselves into races as a result of ancestral and geographic history, there is no genetic property that ties them to their personal sense of identity. Thus, the study concludes by providing ways to further educate the population and avoid the pitfalls of race realism, as certain social groups in the media still back the obsolete ideas of race realism to this day
