Elon Core Curriculum

MIMA SIMIĆ: Croatian writer, film critic, activist, media personality, and Croatian LGBT person of the decade.  Mima will talk on "LGBT Politics and Activist Strategies of Media Subversion,” discussing how she and other activists and organizations have used strategies of media subversion to affect public and social attitudes on homosexuality and gender in Croatia. Katherine McFarland Bruce, Elon visiting assistant professor of sociology, will join Mima and compare and discuss LGBT activism in the United States, specifically the South. 

Conor Grennan spoke Tuesday to a crowded Alumni Gym about his efforts to reunite trafficked children with their parents in Nepal following a civil war that tore many families apart.

The author of "Little Princes" visits Elon University for a 7:30 p.m. talk about his New York Times bestselling book and his nonprofit's efforts to reunite children separated from their families by human traffickers during Nepal's civil war.

Professor Toddie Peters will hold an information session October 8 for students interested in GST 416 "Wealth & Poverty,"  which travels to NYC and DC this Winter Term.

The Study USA office will offer several information sessions for our summer and semester programs in Alaska, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C. through Nov. 1. 

Students in the class of 2017 may apply for open Study USA programs by visiting the Study USA website  

Students contributed articles about local Latino-targeted businesses to Better Alamanace Wiki website.

Students from an art history class at Elon University will be hosting an exhibit titled African Art: Then and Now in West Africa.

Sign up for Dr. Prudence Layne's GST 375: Prison Nation: Deconstructing the Prison Industrial Complex class.

Twenty-five students in Assistant Professor Laurin Kier's class are blogging about an assignment that honors school shooting victims in Newtown, Conn.