1. The Association of Creative Writing StudentsThe Association of Creative Writing Students (ACWS) We will bring together students who are in the Creative Writing program and create more interest for creative writing among Carolina students.
The main goals of this project are to provide information about creative writing opportunities inside and outside of the university to students, to give students an outlet to showcase their work, to help students improve their creative writing skills, and to create more interest among students about creative writing at Carolina. ACWS would provide workshops, student readings, and a bi-monthly newsletter. We hope that, through ACWS creative writing students will feel more connected to each other and become more aware of the creative writing opportunities at UNC and beyond. We also hope to introduce more students to creative writing at Carolina and to provide a forum for students to showcase their talents.
2. AccessAbility
AcessAbility will focus on accessibility throughout the UNC campus. Emphasis will be placed on disabilities, mental or physical, that are of personal interest to the group members. The group will host guest speakers to address what it means to be disabled, how the disabled view themselves and others, the hardships they face, and their attitudes toward society. In addition, AccessAbility will work with disabled children at local elementary schools. The main goals of AccessAbility include increasing awareness on campus about common disabilities and enhancing accessibility for UNC students and local children with special needs. AccessAbility will engage in discussions with disabled UNC students and collaborate with The Center for Literacy and Disability Studies. Group members will work together to achieve a better understanding of disabilities and improve the quality of life for the disabled on campus and in the larger community.
3. Graffiti Wall Creation
This project centers around the creation of a Graffiti Wall on campus and the creations of other art and creative works that will take root from the Graffiti Wall. UNC currently has no equivalent medium for student body expression. The creation of a Graffiti Wall will fill a void on campus and let students express their feelings and desires in a constructive way as well as serving as a major source of inspiration for new creative works. The major goal of this project will be to gain funding and administrative approval for the creation of a Graffiti Wall on campus. After the Wall is built, the project will host a number of creative projects stemming from the Wall. Current proposed ideas include having poetry write-ins based on the wall that conclude in a Poetry Slam Workshop and having serious discussions on campus issues presented on the Wall and creating initiatives to solve or reply to these issues.. A Graffiti Wall on campus will be a long-lasting source for both input and output of creative work.
4. HIV/AIDS and Women's Empowerment
ThHIV/AIDS is one of the most serious epidemics in our world today. Unfortunately, many people around the world, including those who live in the United States, are not aware that in many developing countries women are not empowered to decide whether not they can use contraceptive methods such as condoms which prevent the spread of HIV. This project proposes to bring together a group of undergraduates with diverse backgrounds and interests in order to put together a skit which will raise awareness about this issue dealing with women’s empowerment and HIV/AIDS in developing countries. To put this skit together, the group of students will work with a variety of national and campus organizations and faculty including the Center for Dramatic Arts, the Women’s Center, UNC Center for Infectious Disease, Student Global AIDS Campaign, American Medical Student Association, the American Red Cross Club and the Global Campaign for Microbicides. In addition to the skit, the group will take a trip to Washington D.C. and/or the North Carolina State Legislature one weekend to lobby lawmakers for increased funding for microbicides research.
5. Exploring Excellent Esculents
Our mission is To cultivate a sense of community centered on exploring the following three themes: the pleasures of gustatory engagement, gardening and the culinary arts as pathways to cultivate community, and a comparative exploration of current local, national, and global food procurement systems and processes. We will collaborate with other related local university and non-university organizations to help us delve into the roots and implications of our nation’s current food system while learning more about what we can do to encourage a healthier, more sustainable food system
6. You Are What You Eat
We will investigate the local and organic food scene in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area. One of the primary purposes of the project is the creation of a UNC web resource that would inform students of locally grown and organic food options, as well as provide maps to local farmers’ markets and healthy supermarkets. Another goal of the project is to raise awareness of healthy food options by distributing informational flyers and handouts with links to the website. The project will work with other Connected Learning Program groups by providing organic or local snacks at their respective events. Team members will make regular trips to local farmers’ markets to purchase produce and to interview vendors about their agricultural practices and goals. Other excursions will include trips to organic farms in the Triangle area to meet farmers and sample items. The project will increase campus knowledge of locally grown food options and encourage healthier diets.
7. Carnatic Music Exhibition
Our hope is that exposure to this form of classical South Indian music will help spread awareness to the campus of South Indian and South Asian culture in general. At the same time, we want to be able to give the broader triangle community the opportunity to play a part in this event as well. We will invite applications from not only artists on campus, but also local youth artists proficient in this form of music to perform at the event. At the same time, we will publicize the event to students and faculty on campus by working with various campus organizations. The exhibition will also include a workshop on learning the basics of Carnatic music and a guest lecture on the common ties between different genres of music in the world.
View the 2007-2008 Projects
View the 2006-2007 Projects
The Connected Learning Program at Cobb residence hall is a joint project of Housing & Residential Education and the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence
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