Stories about ""Wake Up!""
Wake Up Call: A Multimedia Presentation

Thursday, February 5, 2009 2:56 pm

Professor of German Denis Sweet launched an experiential Short Term course in 2008 that "really deals with one's self, one's place in the world and one's place in society." He offers the life-changing course once again in Short Term 2009.

Wake Up Call

Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:06 pm

A chain of such experiential moments — the solo fast being just one of the more salient examples — stretched from one end of Short Term to the other. As far as I knew, nothing quite like "Wake Up!" had ever been tried at Bates before. It was a hybrid that wedded rigorous academic inquiry with direct, personal, unmediated experiential learning.