The Western Washington Dramatic Collective

This class has provided materials and time to challenge me in my own assumptions and perceptions of the world. At the same time, it has opened up my thoughts on the possibilities of pedagogy. There were times during the semester, where, for many reasons, I became increasingly frustrated with the institutionalized constraints of our liberal arts colleges. I know this frustration will continue in my time here. But I hope to harness it, as we did in the classroom, for something better than a wallowing in what we are told is “just the way things are.” There are other ways of tweaking academia to value other forms of engagement—through our site sits, open-ended web-events, and active democratic discussion.

This is the first draft of a working manifesto for Environmental Studies at Haverford/Bryn Mawr/Swarthmore.

For my final project, I decided to make my first attempt at doing spoken word poetry. I am somewhat obsessed with spoken word and have always wanted to try doing it myself, but have always been intimidated by the idea and never built up the courage to actually give in and try. So I decided to push my comfort zone and artistic limits a bit with this project and try something new!

I had formerly attached this paper as a webby post which did not enable a tag so I have reposted it here with a tag.