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Scripps Students Venture Beyond the Classroom in Core III Teaching Clinic
Students at Chaparral Elementary School are getting a taste of Chinese culture and language, but they don鈥檛 need to leave their classroom to do it. Under the guidance of Melody Chang 鈥�22 and Wendy Zhang 鈥�22, 34 fourth-grade students 鈥渢eleport鈥� from Claremont to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan each week.
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Reporting the Truth in the Age of Fake News
Earlier this year, the New Yorker published an article titled 鈥淒oes Journalism Have a Future?鈥� It鈥檚 an important question but an old one.
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Truth at the Core
In 1965, U.S. diplomat to Taiwan George H. Kerr published Formosa Betrayed, a detailed account of the 2/28 Incident. After Japan鈥檚 surrender at the end of World War II, the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China was given control of the island of Taiwan.
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The Scripps Experience: The Journey of a Scripps Senior
As we count down to commencement day, we want to celebrate how far our seniors have come since they first set foot on campus. Here are just a few of the milestones that make up the Scripps journey.
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Spotlight on Academics: Core III Symposium Student Projects Explore Art, Activism, Math, and More
Scripps Tea provided the setting for Core III students to present their independently researched and designed final projects last week. Faculty, students, and friends from the Scripps community gathered in […]
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Spotlight on Academics: Community at Its Center: Scripps’ New Core I Theme
The Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities, one of the hallmarks of the Scripps education, is a set of three courses that looks at the relationships between the historical production of knowledge and contemporary issues and debates. This year, Core I, the first of these courses and a common curricular experience for all Scripps students, has a new theme: “community.” Sixteen faculty members representing departments across the College worked together for many months to choose the new theme and craft a syllabus around it.
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