Sound Bites

Sound Bites

Excursions in Extracurricular Discourse

St. Joseph's College is proud to present Sound Bites, a forum designed to further enrich the already stimulating intellectual climate of the College. By extending the environment of academic inquiry from the classroom to the extracurricular sphere, Sound Bites seeks to stimulate intellectual discourse throughout the entire SJC community.

Time and place:

Sound Bites meets on an irregular basis in the Student Lounge or in the Red Room and the time is the Common Hour from 12:23 to 1:35. The participants represent the entire St. Joseph's College community: faculty, students, staff and administration. Each time a different topic is selected to be examined and an informal discussion is lead by a moderator. Lectures and scholarly presentations are well represented in academic life at SJC. Sound Bites seeks to complement these by providing a forum for informal intellectual inquiry.

The topics:

The topics discussed in Sound Bites are selected to generate light rather than heat. While there is no question that controversial issues encourage participation, they seldom result in reasoned discourse. It has been said that an interesting truth is one whose negation, were it to be true, would also be an interesting truth. It is in this spirit that Sound Bites seeks to examine interesting truths.

Sound Bites Schedule

 


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