EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship), a yearlong course of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts, is a carefully integrated, multidisciplinary program that focuses on a different topic of international importance each year, bringing in a broad range of speakers to the classroom throughout the year and providing students the opportunities to design and enact an international symposium, film series, and other programming on campus.
EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship), a yearlong course of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts, is a carefully integrated, multidisciplinary program that focuses on a different topic of international importance each year, bringing in a broad range of speakers to the classroom throughout the year and providing students the opportunities to design and enact an international symposium, film series, and other programming on campus.
This course, of the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice, will be a semester-long series of photo and writing assignments designed for students of all skill levels, while exploring the experience of life in often overlooked regions around Boston.
Instructor: Samuel James (A’10) teaches at the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice, housed in the Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership. A frequent contributing artist for Harper’s Magazine, he is the recipient of the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award.
The Inquiry Teaching Group (EXP 0079 XAF) is an opportunity to introduce important global issues to high school students through online or in-person discussions throughout the year and by designing anf enacting a role-playing simulation on the Tufts campus in April for the more than 250 high school students from six states. The schools are a mix of public and private schools, urban and suburban.
