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All incoming first-year students will have multiple sources of good advice about Colorado College. In addition to your faculty advisor and your First Course instructor (advisor and instructor may be the same person, by the way), you'll have access to the insights of an experienced Colorado College student in our FYE Mentor Program.
First-Year Experience mentors are selected by the faculty teaching in the first-year program and are associated with the particular courses in the FYE schedule. It is an honor to be selected as a FYE mentor, and our students take the honor very seriously. FYE mentors will not replace the important formal advising system, but may supplement it with practical, first-hand, 'on-the-ground' advice about courses, campus organizations and informal groups, and the local Colorado Springs area. Please take the initiative in speaking with your FYE mentor, getting to know him or her, and taking advantage of the perspective she or he brings to the experience of student life at Colorado College!
Your FYE Mentor may:
- work with you as appropriate in review for your course assignments,
discuss the readings and participate in course-related group projects
and accompany you on course-related excursions and events.
- offer a number of informal ‘first-year’ introduction-to-college
sessions;
- introduce you to the block plan and offer advice about prioritizing
academic commitments, college community responsibilities, and social
life;
- introduce you to campus activities and student committees;
- arrange occasional social events and informal discussion sessions
for you and your fellow First Course classmates throughout the year;
introduce you to the Colorado Springs community and region;
- provide informal advice about courses and the general design of the
first-year academic schedule in block two prior to preregistration for
blocks 3-8;
- offer pragmatic information (from a student's perspective!) about
the point system and course selection before all-college preregistration
in block 7.
The following is a list of the 2007-08 FYE courses with corresponding
faculty and mentor email links. Feel free to contact them with questions
you may have.
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FYE Course: AN208/CS185/SW200 Introduction
to American Cultural Studies
Professor: Mario Montano
& Laura Padilla
Mentor: Courtney-Rose
Harris
Year: Sophomore
Major: Political Science-History
Hobbies: photography, poetry, running, cooking |
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Mentor: Leslie
Mondragon
Year: Senior
Major/Minors: Philosophy/American Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis
Theories, & Religion
Hobbies: hiking, fishing, traveling |
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FYE Course: AH/PA115 Confluence & Conflict in
Asian Culture
Professor: Tamara
Bentley
Mentor: Christine
Carey
Year: Senior
Major: Art History
Hobbies: art, travel, film, tennis, reading |
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FYE Course: CH100/107 General Chemistry & the
Science of Biomaterials
Professor: Ted Lindeman
Mentor: Garrett Meek
Year: Senior
Major: Chemistry & Russian
Hobbies: running, movies, community service, hunger/homelessness |
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FYE Course: CL/HY130 The Reinvention of the Greeks:
Identity, Empire, & Diaspora
Professors: Trish
FitzGibbon & David
Mason
Mentor: Ella Rauch
Year: junior
Major: Classics & Russian
Hobbies: languages, snowboarding |
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FYE Course: CN/PA101 & CN/PA250 Chinese Language
& Culture
Professor: Hong Jiang
Mentor: Weston
Brownlee
Year: Junior
Major/Minor: English (Creative Writing)/Asian Studies (Chinese)
Hobbies: hockey, music |
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FYE Course : CO100 Introduction
to Comparative Literature
Professors: Corinne
Scheiner and Rob
Kendrick
Mentor: Tristan Bates
Year: Senior
Major/Minor: Comparative Literature/German
Hobbies: orchestra, German film/culture/language |
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FYE Course: DR/DA100 History of Performance
Professors: Tom
Lindblade & Lian
Sifuentes
Mentor: Alex Hesbrook
Year: Senior
Major: English & Drama
Hobbies: violin, poetry, sunbathing, shopping at Target |
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FYE Course: EC151/390 Principles of Microeconomics
& Water: A Thematic Intro to Microeconomic Theory
Professor: Mark Smith
Mentor: Brian Hall
Year: Senior
Major: Economics
Hobbies: cross country, track |
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FYE Course: EN207 Masterpieces of Literature: Greek
to Modern
Professors: Lisa Huges
& David Mason
Mentor: Jenny
Friedler
Year: Sophomore
Major: English (film track)
Hobbies: volunteering, film, music, art, yoga |
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FYE Course: EN280 African Literature
Professor: Adrienne
Seward & Lilian Osaki
Mentor: Neva Jacobs
Year: Junior
Major/Minor: Environmental Science/Religion
Hobbies: hiking, music, food/agriculture, movies |
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FYE Course: EV128/GY140 Introduction to Global Climate
Change & Physical Geology
Professors: Miro Kummel
& Eric Leonard
Mentor: Britton
Alfred
Year: Sophomore
Major: Undecided
Hobbies: hiking, kayaking, art, farming/environmental activism,
reading, movies |
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FYE Course: EV128/MA126 Introduction to Global Climate
Change & Calculus I
Professors: Mike
Taber & Jane
McDougall
Mentor: Ashley Merscher
Year: Senior
Major: Political Science/International Affairs
Hobbies: hiking, biking, music, drama, dance, community service |
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FYE Course: FG110/118 & HS118 Sex & Power:
Gender & Communication
Professors: Eileen
Bresnahan & Tonja
Olive
Mentor: Arlene Ward
Year: Senior
Major: Biology & Feminist and Gender Studies
Hobbies: tennis, rugby, arts & crafts, working at the Pikes
Peak Gay & Lesbian Community Center |
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FYE Course: FR159 French Civilization
Professor: Alistaire
Tallent
Mentor: Alicia Puleo
Year: Senior
Major/Minors: French/History & Art History
Hobbies: musicals, community service, sports, travel |
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FYE Course: FS205 American Film Noir and Its European
Connections
Professor: Dick Koc
Mentor: Lauren Aczon
Year: Senior
Major/Minor: English/Studio Art
Hobbies: dancing, foreign films, road trips, working with children
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Mentor:
Jacob Reuter
Year: Senior
Major: Anthropology
Hobbies: skiing, backpacking, African drumming, yoga, meditation,
painting |
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FYE Course: GS 101 Freedom and Authority
Professor: Dennis
McEnnerney
Mentor: Zale Clay
Year: Junior
Major/Minor: Philosophy/History
Hobbies: traveling, hiking, film from Bergman to Fukasaku, scuba
diving, chess |
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FYE Course: GS204 Spirit and Nature: Religion and
Science
Professor: Keith Kester
Mentor: Michael
Bonner
Year: Sophomore
Majors/Minor: Religion & English (creative writing)/French
Hobbies: movies, books, tennis, video games, soccer, frisbee |
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FYE Course: GY130 Introduction to Geology
Professors: Steve
Quane and Henry
Fricke
Mentor: Wiley Skewes
Year: Senior
Major: Mathematical Economics & Geology
Hobbies: singing, climbing, backpacking, skiing |
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Mentor: Samantha
Phillips
Year: Senior
Major/Minor: Geology/Music
Hobbies: music, arts & crafts, community service |
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FYE Course: HY105 Civilization of the West
Professor: Tip Ragan
Mentor: Brian
Schellenberg
Year: Junior
Major/Minor: History/German
Hobbies: soccer, skiing, hiking, camping, kayaking |
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FYE Course: HY109/PA118 Civilization in East Asia
Professor: John Williams
Mentor: Kelli Curd
Year: Senior
Major: History
Hobbies: singing, cooking, movies, shopping |
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FYE Course: HY225 Survey in Latin American History
Professor: Peter
Blasenheim
Mentor: Colin Kelly
Year: Senior
Major: History-Political Science
Hobbies: mountain climbing, backpacking, snowboarding, arts &
crafts, music |
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FYE Course: JA/PA130/JA/PA250 Japanese Language &
Culture
Professor: Joan Ericson
Mentor: Drew Foster
Year: Senior
Major/Minor: Sociology/Asian Studies
Hobbies: snowboarding, video games, conversation |
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FYE Course: MA202 Foundations of Discrete Mathematics:
A Cross-Cultural Approach
Professors: Amelia
Taylor and Marlow
Anderson
Mentor: Jette Petersen
Year: Senior
Major: Mathematics
Hobbies: running, cooking, baking, reading, drawing comics |
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FYE Course: MU104 World Music
Professor: Vicki Levine
Mentor: Andrew
Salimbeni
Year: Sophomore
Major: Music & Biology
Hobbies: photography, music, science |
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FYE Course: MU202 American Music: From Plymouth Rock
to Rock
Professors: Michael
Grace and Nila
Bhattacharjya
Mentor: Joe Beach
Year: Sophomore
Major/Minor: Music
Hobbies: music, art, foreign language, snowboarding, travel |
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FYE Course: PH203 Modernity & Postmodernity in
Philosophy & Arts
Professor: Alberto
Hernandez-Lemus
Mentor: Katie
Schulze
Year: Senior
Major/Minor: International Political Economy/Spanish
Hobbies: skiing, traveling, lacrosse, cooking |
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FYE Course: PS115/EN115 Concepts of Freedom from
Ancient to Modern Times
Professors: Timothy
Fuller & John
Simons
Mentor: Colin
Larson
Year: Junior
Major: Political Science & History
Hobbies: politics |
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Mentor: Leah
Harrell
Year: Senior
Major/Minor: Political Science/Latin American Studies
Interests: coffee, puns, Maxfield Parish, lime green, sea otters |
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FYE Course: PS203/HY200 The Search for Islamic Order:
Yesterday and Today
Professor: Robert Lee
Mentor: Zach
Falconer-Stout
Year: Senior
Major/Minor: International Political Economy/German
Hobbies: hiking, backpacking, skiing, politics
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FYE Course: RE200 Religious Responses to the Challenge
of Suffering
Professors: David
Gardiner and Dan
Shaw
Mentor: Trevor Isham
Year: Senior
Major: Religion & Economics
Hobbies: skiing, soccer, hiking, books
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