add technology in the core project

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Many of our students consider the common experience of encountering core texts, together, at the same time, transformative and a corner-stone of their Columbia undergraduate identity. Seeing incoming first years in September, on the steps of Low Library, in coffee shops, and on the train, reading the same red-covered edition of the Iliad is unique to us. And yet the commonality of that experience rarely extends beyond the texts and individual seminars, and perhaps a bit to the communal living environment, where students naturally discuss their course work and compare notes. Using innovative, state-of-the art tools for online participation, we propose to solidify that common sense of purpose by encouraging conversations across the core more formally, and making that conversation an integral part of our shared pedagogy. With this proposal we have the chance to retool the Core for the twenty first century, in a way that answers to the ideals of the texts taught in the program.

[denten]

Roosevelt Montas Jonah Bossewitch Donna Bilak Mark Phillipson Alex Gil Manan Ahmed Dennis Tenen