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This is the urgency: Live! And have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Welcome! Shaping A Life is a full-semester, academic, three-credit course. It is designed to offer first-year women at Douglass College a small-class interdisciplinary experience focused on providing them with tools to think critically about their own education and life, as well as skills to use throughout their college career.
Are you a visitor who isn't familiar with the Shaping A Life Course? Thank you for visiting!
We have a page for visitors, designed to acquaint you with the course.
Please remember to go to Voorhees Chapel this Wednesday (April 21)
for the Plenary Session with guest speaker Dr. Claudia Osborn.
The seating chart has been posted.Read the course description.
Look at the list of instructors to find contact information.
Want to make sure you are prepared for class? Check the list of assignments.
Review this information about the Critical Biography project.
Don't forget to check out these helpful reading and writing tips.Take a look at the Plenary Sessions schedule for dates and speakers.
Check to see where you are sitting on Wednesday.Read biographies of Plenary Session panelists.
Find out more about the work you will be doing at the library.
Shaping a Life
Mailing Address:
306 College Hall
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Douglass College
Rutgers UniversityDr. Katherine Birckmayer
Campus Location:
Chemistry Annex
Room 213
732-932-9197 ext. 26
Last updated on April 16, 2004
Web site redesigned and currently maintained by Leigh Neithardt, Spring 2003--
Revised by Jeanne Bowlan, Sept. 2001;
original by Sara Warner, Aug. 2000