学术活动不够,疑难杂症作何解?(二)
我们接上文,就有读者要问了,具体的学术活动要到什么程度呢?或者说,怎样的程度可以最好的展现一个属于高中生的个人风采呢?下面就给大家share一个新鲜的Pioneer学术先修offer,题目围绕着音乐与文化的碰撞,从中国音乐文化到美国音乐文化,从古至今,从20世纪60年代到80年代,甚至涵盖各个社会阶级对于音乐的不同贡献,极具个人特色和学术深度。
Program Topic: Mapping Culture through Music (Culture Studies)
What is a culture, how can it be intimately wrapped up in a location, and how can that be mapped out to better understand its inner workings? In the face of globalization and pervasive online communities, what can conventional wisdom--“location, location, location” and “All politics is local”--tell us about the importance of actual places in cultural formations? We will first orient ourselves with a wide range of music mapping projects, as well as projects that directly address the significance of a location. From a base in the interdisciplinary field of ethnomusicology, we will then examine how scenes and subcultures can congeal in particular places and times, mapping them in New York City’s Lower East Side (punk), Greenwich Village (urban folk revival), and South Bronx (early hip hop). Deploying a broad conception of culture, we will cover other art forms (e.g. graffiti and other street art) and social formations. Haight Ashbury (SF) 1960s counterculture, Laurel Canyon (LA) 1970s singer-songwriters, Chicago 1980s post-disco house, and London 1980s post-punk goth will provide complementary case studies. These examples will provide models before students embark on their own to map out a culture of their choice as their final project, using either Google maps or Story Maps. Readings on theories of place and of subcultures will provide blueprints for issues to be explored, including how group identity and a sense of community can be locally constructed and the significance of physical in-person contact in a world of increasingly virtual relationships.
总体来说,优秀的学术活动离不开学生自身的努力和想法、老师的正确引导与规划、还有家长的支持。做学术活动的同时,学生也要了解自己想要申请的学校对于学生的评估更注重在活动的哪一个板块,做好院校及专业调研。由此出发来做到发挥长处,弥补短处。深度的活动还是建议学生在自己擅长的领域让能力发挥出来,得到认可,这样在申请过程中才会让招生官对个人价值有更清晰的判断。