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First-Year Seminar: Music and Downtown, New York, 1950-1970

Posted in First Year Seminars/First Year Matters, Uncategorized on Jun. 26, 2014 by

Music and Downtown, New York, 1950-1970 This course will explore the history, interconnections, and simultaneous flourishing of four distinct music communities that inhabited and shaped downtown New York during two particularly rich decades in American culture: Euro-American experimentalists; African American jazz-based avant-garde; blues and folk revivalists; and Lower East Side rock groups. Much of the […]

First-Year Seminar Program (FYS)

Posted in First Year Seminars/First Year Matters on Jun. 11, 2014 by

Dear Class of 2018,   As you have no doubt deduced, my name is Andrew Curran. I’m Dean of Arts and Humanities and the Director of Curricular Initiatives at Wesleyan. Welcome to Wesleyan !   I’m writing today to let you know about the First-Year Seminar Program (FYS), which has been designed with you in […]

Welcome to Wesleyan from Dean Melendez!

Posted in Orientation on Jun. 10, 2014 by

As your class dean let me welcome you to Wesleyan!  I look forward to meeting you when you arrive on August 27th.  If you are wondering what a class dean actually does my most important function is to ensure your progress towards graduation.  I also function as a repository, a source of information.  I have […]