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Multidisciplinary Core Course Info

Welcome to Simmons College!

I am writing to introduce you to the MCC: Culture Matters program at Simmons College.

When you begin the registration process for your courses you will be required to register for one of the MCC sections for the fall 2009.

MCC (Multidisciplinary Core Course) is a required course for all First-Year students at Simmons. MCC is an exciting program that involves engaging students in critical thinking and writing and addressing the challenges and opportunities of living in a multiracial and multicultural society. Every section provides a discussion oriented curriculum that encourages you to engage in issues about race, class and gender.

We have provided a link to all the available MCC sections. When you meet with your advisor, you will be asked to select your top five choices and we will then try to place you in one of the choices. There are eighteen different MCC sections. Each will have a different focus, but all of them will have a strong writing component and will engage you in these critical issues facing our society.

The MCC faculty come from the many different academic areas in the College. Professors from the English, Education, Sociology, Physics, Communication and Modern Language departments teach in the program. The MCC sections have titles such as “Questions of Social Justice,” “Politics, Protests, and Music,” “Television and the Construction of Gender, Race and Class,” “From Borders to Barrios: Growing Up Latino,” and “Academic Achievement Gap or Academic Opportunity Gap?”

We are excited about your coming to Simmons and hope your first year here will be more enriched by our MCC program. We look forward to seeing you in our MCC classes in the fall.

Sincerely,
Gary Oakes
Director, MCC