{"id":2089,"date":"2009-02-05T14:56:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T19:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:37:04","slug":"wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/02\/05\/wake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up Call: A Multimedia Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/wakeup7352.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/wakeup7352-400x267.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"In fact, travel during Short Term has a quality all its own. Students in German professor Dennis Sweet&#039;s interdisciplinary unit &quot;Wake Up!&quot; are also spending two weeks off campus, but in very different activities \u00e2\u0080\u0094 such as a week-long meditation retreat and a week in the wilderness. The course is designed to provide a rigorous experiential journey to self-awareness, appreciation of nature and social engagement.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor of German Denis Sweet launched an experiential Short Term course in 2008 that &#8220;really deals with one&#8217;s self, one&#8217;s place in the world and one&#8217;s place in society.&#8221; He offers the life-changing course once again in Short Term 2009. See a multimedia presentation about the experiences shared by Sweet and his students in spring 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/11\/14\/wake-up-call-2\/\"><strong>View the multimedia presentation of Professor Sweet&#8217;s 2008 course.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of German Denis Sweet launched an experiential Short Term course in 2008 that &#8220;really deals with one&#8217;s self, one&#8217;s place in the world and one&#8217;s place in society.&#8221; He offers the life-changing course once again in Short Term 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[14,234],"tags":[6982,7187,11648,10845],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-teaching-education","tag-philosophy","tag-professor-denis-sweet","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-short-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89049,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/89049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}