“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
-Albert Einstein
Welcome to PRHS Symposium 2011
Pine-Richland High School (PRHS) students are stepping out of the closed-off "school-world" and demonstrating that school is not a different world from the "real world," but part of it. Students ranging from freshmen to seniors; studying science, social studies, and English; with different interests and talents; are coming together to participate in PRHS's third annual symposium.
This Symposium will follow the same format as an
academic conference.
The academic
objective has three main points:
- to establish interdisciplinary understandings,
- to consider how disciplines treat a topic similarly and differently,
- to create a student-led discourse.
These objectives align with the curriculum in
each course as they model the real-world application of academic skills that students
acquire in a classroom regardless of the subject matter. Each of the participating teachers
understands that they can assess the skills that they teach in class when
students apply them to new and different situations.
This year, the symposium is focused on
An Interdisciplinary Consideration of
Global Issues and Awareness.
Symposium [sim-poh-zee-uhm]: orientates from the ancient Greek social event where men debated about politics and social issues and also celebrated victories in athletic and poetry contests. Today, the word "Symposium" means two different things: 1) to describe an academic conference in which scholars of specific fields share their ideas and discuss their works. 2) to describe a university class distinguished by an open discussion forum instead of a lecture or question-and-answer format.
