Interdisciplinary Projects and Creative Initiatives: Student Conference.

Panel: "Mini Sagas: My Creative Process"

The College of General Studies presented the 2013-14 Student Conference titled: “Student Interventions in General Studies: Interdisciplinary projects and creative initiatives”.  The conference consisted in the participation of students of the current English courses presenting their projects to the university community. The panel: “Mini Sagas: My creative Process” supervised by Mildred Lockwood, exposes some interesting creative original performances.  The mini sagas are shorts passages that express a complete idea in just 50 words.  It is difficult to picture how a complete idea can be expressed in a limited quantity of words.  But the fact is that in this “poem like structured” presentations,  this student were able to find the correct words to transmit a message and mostly their thoughts.  The topics related to the panels were about health, racism, physical appearances and expectations.  By the way each panelist performed their mini saga, you can see the connection between what they were trying to express and how that connected in a certain way to their lives.  The most memorable was the one about the expectations of a husband by Ashley Dalmau.  This mini saga was hilarious and caught the audience attention. 
Being able to participate and also assist the Student Conference shows the interdisciplinary topics that the College of General Studies is trying to establish in the English courses.  The different types of learning do not necessarily need to be conventional, thus creating an environment where the student and professor can change and bring other alternatives of learning is key to understanding any subject.