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I will be leading a seminar for first-year students in the Purdue Polytechnic to help them reflect outside of the classroom on what matters to them and why. In this not-for-credit seminar, students will be asked to reflect on important questions related to various aspects of their personal lives and to connect those reflections to what they are actually doing as a college student. Students taking the seminar will become more focused, happy, and satisfied with their college experience. This seminar can be an important step in turning college into the transformational experience it is meant to be.
During the seminars students will be asked to reflect on questions such as:
- What does it mean to live a life of purpose?
- What does it mean to live a happy life?
- How to have a productive life filled with meaning?
- Where am I headed and what is my ultimate goal or dream in life?
- How might my college experience influence my goal and dream for life?
- What do I value as a person and how will my time at college impact those value?
- What are my wider responsibilities as a citizen of the world and how can I make the world a better place?
Seminars will be held in September, October, December, January, February, and April. They will be 90 minutes long and held in the evenings. The time, dates, and location are:
- September 15, 2016, at 7 p.m. in Knoy Hall B019
- October 27, 2016, at 7 p.m. in Knoy Hall B019
- December 6, 2016, at 7 p.m. in Knoy Hall B019
- January 19, 2017, at 7 p.m., location TBD
- February 21, 2017, at 7 p.m., location TBD
- April 11, 2017. at 7 p.m., location TBD
The seminar features an interactive exercise and activities that encourage sharing of different thoughts and ideas followed by a quiet time for thinking and writing. There might be some light reading assignments or preparation between seminars.
Enrollment is voluntary and limited to the first 60 students who sign up through my administrative assistant, Janet Ebershoff, at jebershoff@purdue.edu, Knoy Hall Room 467.
The seminar can be a welcome break from the typical week at college giving you the opportunity to think critically and reflect about topics such as your personal values and living with purpose.
