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• Ha ha ha, ho ho ho, and a couple of tra la laas

  That's how we laugh the day away in the merry old land of AHS...

  (borrowed shamelessly from the lyrics to Merry Old Land of OZ)

Welcome to the AHS WIKI. This page is intended for the general and flexible use of the Olin community, to pursue any and all AHS endeavors!

Please enjoy the links below, and may your stay in AHS be enlightening.

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AHS links:

• If you want general information and documents about Olin's AHS program, you may want to visit AhsPolicies and http://projects.olin.edu/ahs/ as well

• FoundationPlanningMeeting

• If you want to read the AHS Capstone presentation from the May 2006 info session, click here: attachment:AHSCapPresMay2006.pdf||

• Visit OlinRubricPage to see the drafts of communication rubrics

• The AHS Committee recently proposed a CapstoneCourseOption that would allow students to petition to satisfy the AHS Capstone requirement with an additional AHS Concentration course in lieu of the AHS Capstone project (which will still be offered at Olin). The project will be the default. All students (i.e., students who satisfy this requirement via a course or a project) will present their results to the Olin community. Click on the preceding link to read this proposal in full. This followed in part from the AHS CapstoneBrainstorming activity

• Wellesley's course catalog can be perused at http://www.wellesley.edu/Courses/home.html

AHS courses: CURRENT

• If you would like to visit the AHS Capstone WIKI, check out AhsCapstones

• Rob and Jon are once again running the PaulRevereMatSci ICB so come take a look!

AHS courses: PRIOR SEMESTERS

• AhsCapPrepFall06 is for folks in the fall 2006 AHS Cap prep class

• The website for the Fall 2006 AHS Foundation course in creative writing-- "Making Story: A Creative Writing Workshop" is located at CreativeWriting06. Enjoy!

• The website for the Fall 2006 AHS Foundation course "History of Technology: Culture and Context" is located at HistOfTech

• PoliticsOfTheWorldEconomy is worth visiting, especially if you are interested in politics, the economy, or the world.

• Or peruse the fun website for Six Books that Changed the World (Spring 2006) at SixBooks

• The science fiction and historical context WIKI is over yonder at ScienceFictionHistoricalContext (also older one at http://sfhc.olin.edu/sfhcwiki)

• Visit AhsFoundationTeach to read past and present AHS Foundation course syllabi, assignments, course goals, and so much more...

Links that have something to do with AHS people:

• Trying to make an appt with Caitrin? Pick a slot here at CaitrinsOfficeHours. (Outlook + Macs + non-technical user = big mess)

• Trying to have an even better appt with Rob? Pick a slot here at RobsOfficeHours (Outlook + PC + reasonably intelligent person = smooth process)

• Trying to schedule your AHS Foundation Writing Workshops? Sign up here at WritingWorkshops

• WritingTutorPage for Olin's wonderful wordsmiths

Links that aren't really related to AHS, but are here because it's easier than creating a new Wiki for them.

• Here are some OlderLinks that are now obsolete

• Olin's FulbrightPrepProgram wiki is here.

• Allen's research on SocialMobility.

• If you JustFeelLikeChatting then click away and enjoy!

• OSA is kind of AHS-y.

• The OpenWiki is related to the coolest club ever!!! We like to say "ah"s too.

• The PumpkinParty will rock your world ... if you are in the correct advising family, that is!

• Caitrin and Allen's DessertNightOut

• Nancy and Becky's BioethicsPage

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What is this wiki about? Umm...

Interesting starting points:

• RecentChanges: see where people are currently working

• WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing

• FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways

• SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax

• SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains

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