Video: Professor Denis Sweet explains why he sent his students to the trees
On Tuesday morning, Day 2 of Orientation for the Class of 2020, we caught up with Professor Emeritus of German Denis Sweet, back teaching a First-Year Seminar this fall.
In the previous 24 hours, 乐播传媒’ newest students had already experienced myriad college firsts: Moving in, meeting roommates, eating in Commons, climbing Mount David, and waking up in a new place. But Tuesday morning provided a whopper: Their very first 乐播传媒 class, a meeting of their First-Year Seminar.
When we saw Sweet, he’d just told his students to find a tree and 鈥渆xperience鈥� it blindfolded: 鈥淗ug it, hold it, taste it, touch it, listen to it.鈥� Not readily seeing the connection between that exercise and the topic of his course 鈥� exploring various cultures鈥� apocalyptic scenarios 鈥� we asked Denis why the trees, and here’s what he said:
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