Undergraduate Programme

20-24 February 2012

Monday

10.45 - Welcome with Dr Paul Nimmo & Intro to Great Debate and to Flyer Competition, Martin Hall
11-1 - Question Time (all welcome): Prof David Fergusson in the Chair with Steve Sutcliffe, Cecelia Clegg, Brian Stanley, Matthew Novenson, Martin Hall
1.30-5pm - Speak with Confidence: (Group A - FULLY BOOKED) A half-day workshop on public speaking skills, with expert Richard Ellis, Baillie Room

Tuesday

11-4 - Dissertation Day presentations and workshops, with Dr Paul Foster, Various Venues
1.30-5pm - Speak with Confidence: (Group B - FULLY BOOKED). A half-day workshop on public speaking skills, with expert Richard Ellis, Baillie Room

Wednesday - Field Trips Day

NB Numbers are limited. Places are fully subsidised. Students should sign up for activities by clicking the 'Booking' links below.

9.00- Guerilla Gardening organised by New College Missionary Society - Assist in the redevelopment of a piece of waste ground on the Wardieburn Council Estate. All day activity. Meet in Rainy Hall to take bus.
9.30-4pm - Excursion to Melrose Abbey and Traquair House, with Stephen Holmes FULLY BOOKED
11.-12.30 - Special Collections - beautiful medieval religious artefacts, with Dr Elizabeth Koepping
11-4pm - Edinburgh’s Places of Worship, with Dr Afe Adogame
11-12.30 - Religious Paintings in the National Gallery FULLY BOOKED
2-3.30pm - Special Collections - second group

Thursday

11-1 - Pep up your CV (all welcome), with Dr Jessie Paterson. Graduate Attributes, PebblePad, using Feedback, Transferable Skills, Lecture Room 1
12-2 Homeless Lunches organised by New College Missionary Society. Meet in Rainy Hall for orientation and to collect lunches before going out on to the streets of Edinburgh to find people to share lunch with. A brilliant opportunity to provide for those often most cast aside by society with company and conversation as well as food. You might even learn something for yourself! Please come prepared to sit in the cold/wet.
1.30-5pm - Final Preparations for debating team, with Richard Ellis, Baillie Room. PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
2-4 - Religious Studies Project Podcast Workshop,Martin Hall

Friday

11-1 - Great Debate (all welcome): ‘This House believes that believing is not necessary for the study of belief’. With Prof Mona Siddiqui and Richard Ellis, Lecture Room 1. PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
1pm - Lunch provided by the School, with announcement of the Flyer Competition winner, Rainy Hall
10am-2pm - Salvation Army Community Food Project organised by New College Missionary Society. Help volunteers distribute free food, tea and advice to the residents of Wardieburn council estate. Meet in Rainy Hall to take bus.

Further details

More information on some of the events:-

Religious Studies Project Podcast Workshop

The Religious Studies Project is an innovative podcast series featuring interviews with leading scholars on the important topics in Religious Studies in the 21st century. We aim to build a library of accessible, concise recordings covering the range of methodologies, themes and issues in the contemporary social-scientific study of religions, for undergraduate students and the general public. It is produced with the assistance of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) and with considerable input from New College staff and students. Come along and explore the site, and listen to some interviews. We’ll tell you how we made the recordings and built the site, but more importantly, we want to hear from you - what would you do differently? Do you have any ideas for the site or for promoting it? What would you like to hear us talking about in the future, and with whom? Maybe you could even get involved yourself!

New College Missionary Society (NCMS)

For more than 130 years the New College Missionary Society (NCMS) has been engaging the students of New College with those in need in the city of Edinburgh and beyond. In keeping with this we will be hosting three events during Innovative Learning Week which we hope will provide students with opportunities to put their studies into practice.

All costs (including transport) will be covered by NCMS.

The NCMS hope is that each of these activities will provide learning opportunities of a different kind while serving people in the community.

This article was published on Feb 24, 2012