The Two Rollins Plan Options

Students in the class of 2013 were invited to apply to participate in one of the two Rollins Plan options. Students selected to participate in the Rollins Plan had the opportunity to select program courses in  November 2009 during pre-registration.

 

Global Challenges: Florida and Beyond

You will have the opportunity to be a global citizen by using Florida as a lens that amplifies global challenges and future possibilities. 

 

The Everglades best reveals Florida’s significance as a part of the world’s landscape. Marjory Stoneman Douglas famously stated, “Restoring this ecosystem is a test…and if we pass we get to keep the planet.” For the last century, Florida has served as a laboratory for issues that have become pervasive in our world. Modern engineering, coupled with fantasy, glitz, and a subtropical environment, Florida has transformed from a backwater region into an ethnically diverse state of 18 million. Real estate meltdowns, imperiled natural systems, immigration, suburban sprawl, drug trade, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, and electoral politics are definitive subjects in Florida. 

The seven courses you will take through this program as part of the Rollins Plan will involve students in the examination and engagement of big ideas, challenges and opportunities that face all of us in our community. Students will participate in engaged, hands-on experiences that are the Rollins legacy as a leader in the applied liberal arts. This will be done by experiencing Florida’s natural beauty on field trips, examining efforts to rejuvenate Winter Park’s historic African-American neighborhood, delving into the economics and creation of Disney World, studying the plight of migrant laborers, and helping elementary students envision and create art.  Students will join with faculty that have written books, conducted experiments, created art, consulted with the government, and entertained audiences on subjects across the arts and sciences. Global issues will be at the center of this curriculum through the Rollins Plan. When students conclude this program they will have both a deeper and more pragmatic understanding of the world.

Revolution:

The Revolution curriculum will open your eyes and move you to action. You, too, can become a revolutionary. The future of the world depends on it.

 

The history of the world is the story of revolution. Scientific, social, military and cultural revolutions have defined the most important moments in the progress of humankind. Plato, Beethoven, Einstein, Hitler, Freud and Mother Teresa were all revolutionaries; and revolutions continue today. Think of Iran, stem cell research, and Green Peace. Osama bin Laden, Eminem and Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J., are living revolutionary figures. People you might have never heard of like the musician Stephen Reich, Nobel Laureate Toshihide Maskawa, and Hamid Dawai, the leader of the militant Janjaweed in Darfur, have changed the global landscape in different ways.

The seven courses students will take through this program as part of the Rollins Plan will involve revolutionary ideas and events are crucial to human survival. By understanding the process of revolution, studying the history of revolutions, and becoming acquainted with the great revolutionary people, students will learn from the past, understand the present, and be part of leading us to a hopeful future.