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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

RGS Program Application

Applications

Applications for the Rohatyn Global Scholars program will be open in early September. Please submit your name and email here to be notified.

We are excited to announce that, beginning in 2024-2025, all first-year students are eligible to apply to RGS. This includes “Febs”.

Past First Year Seminars

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First Year Seminars

  • FYSE 1043      Deserts: Myths, Mystery, Magic
  • FYSE 1047      Nature and Society
  • FYSE 1048      The Lives of the Buddha
  • FYSE 1051      The Russia Idea
  • FYSE 1053      K-pop & Transcultural Fandom
  • FYSE 1058      Documentaries & Social Justice
  • FYSE 1059      The Politics of Hope
  • FYSE 1067      Information State Across Ages from the Library of Alexandria to the Snowden Files
  • FYSE 1069      Digital Platforms & Social Change
  • FYSE 1376      Postwar Japan in Film and Literature
  • FYSE 1378      American Environmentalisms After 1960
  • FYSE 1419      Civil Wars and Civil Rights
  • FYSE 1424      Science and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives
  • FYSE 1514      Refugee Stories
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2022-2023 Eligible First Year Seminars

Rohatyn Global Scholars 22-23 were enrolled in one of the following 22-23 First Year Seminars:

 

  • FYSE 1005 Migration: Pol, Ethics, Lit
  • FYSE 1006 Marvel Comics and Society
  • FYSE 1007 Abolutionism(s): Then and Now
  • FYSE 1009 Seeing and Being
  • FYSE 1010 Environmental Intimacies
  • FYSE 1013 Teaching the 1619 Project
  • FYSE 1016 Black Epistemologies
  • FYSE 1017 Politics in Francophone Lit
  • FYSE 1029 Worldbuilding
  • FYSE 1041 Social Issues and Public Policy
  • FYSE 1120 Earth Resources: Origins, Use, and Environmental Impacts
  • FYSE 1308 Political Theory of Black Diaspora
  • FYSE 1309 The True Believer
  • FYSE 1317 The Philosophy of Human Rights
  • FYSE 1419 Civil War and Civil Rights
  • FYSE 1554 Global Environmental Racism
  • FYSE 1575 Growth and Its Limits
  • FYSE 1580 Imagining a Better Tomorrow
  • FYSE 1585 HowMoney MakesWorld Go Round
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For the pilot year (2021-2022), 14 Rohatyn Global Scholars were selected from the following first-year seminars:

  • FYSE 1021               Love and Death in Western Europe, 1300-1900

  • FYSE 1031               Questions of Evidence: Historical, Legal, and Psychotherapeutic

  • FYSE 1049               Myth and Cosmology

  • FYSE 1242               Cinema and Memory

  • FYSE 1332               Reading Africa

  • FYSE 1534               Who Owns Culture? History, Culture and Decolonization

  • FYSE 1571               Race, Body, and Spectacle

  • FYSE 1574               The International Drug Trade

  • FYSE 1576               Great Ideas in Economics

  • FYSE 1583               Growing Up Other in the Americas

  • FYSE 1558               Fighting for Justice

  • FYSE 1588               You’re the Expert: Being a Public Scientist

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Robert A. Jones 59 House
148 Hillcrest Road
Middlebury, VT 05753