Sewanee - The University of the South
AC-5: Immersive Experience

Finding Your Place: Finding Your Place is a program that introduces new students to campus, course work, professors, and classmates. Its place-based approach synthesizes knowledge and experiences across many disciplines and prepares students for an engaged life in and beyond Sewanee. The program consists of courses representing a diversity of academic disciplines that begin in mid-August and end in mid-October. FYP courses are conducted in two parts. A nine-day, pre-semester immersion allows students to explore the concept of place and the surrounding Domain through plenary lectures, common readings, and field trips. With assistance from trained mentors, each course is led by one professor—a professor who also serves as the students' transitional mentor. Once the semester begins, the course continues with weekly seminars and/or field classes that focus through one disciplinary lens. Students deepen their understanding of the topic through a "capstone" project. What's more, the FYP courses even meet a General Education requirement. Haiti Institute: The Haiti Institute in Sewanee is a center for collaborative educational partnerships between Haiti and Sewanee: the University of the South. Its goal is to promote, foster and envision scholarship and research across a broad spectrum of interests pertaining to Haiti and Haitian studies.

Many of our projects are in the early stages, but we hope that each develops as a model that is useful, scalable and adaptable, both in Haiti and in Sewanee. We welcome the involvement of diverse disciplines and new ideas. Currently, we are exploring diverse partnerships, ranging from an initiative to reintroduce shade grown coffee agroecosystems in a remote Haitian mountain village, to linking the renown Sewanee Summer Music Festival with young musicians in Cange, Haiti. http://haiti.sewanee.edu/

https://new.sewanee.edu/programs-of-study/finding-your-place/faculty-courses/