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Learning And Sex: A Report On The Analysis Of Single Sex Sections Of First Year Seminars At Csb/Sju, 2014-15, Patricia BolañOs-Fabres, Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee

Academic Affairs Publications

Considering that as recently as 2014, school girls Chibok, Nigeria were abducted by Boko Haram, a Muslim fundamentalist terrorist group, one has to wonder about the correlation between the access to education, equality, safety, and opportunity. The College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University are private Catholic liberal arts institutions whose students enroll in single-sex institutions, but are provided co-educational learning experiences in the classroom. This hybrid structure permits the exploration multiple aspects of a gendered education. Given the opportunity this structure offers, the researchers of this project aim to study the First Year Seminar (FYS) experiences of student …