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Six ALP classes to help fill your fall 2023 schedule

By Zev van Zanten | May 23, 2023

If you’re like most Duke students, you're either a Trinity student trying to meet those T-Reqs or a Pratt kid looking for a fun way to fill one of the few free spots in your schedule. Or maybe you’re panicked about your current workload and looking for a way to mellow your coursework. Regardless of why you’re reading, here are six carefully curated ALP classes that will provide an enjoyable and interesting learning experience.

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Prof. Bev McIver on painting, family and fragility

By Dillon Fernando | July 21, 2015

There's a clandestine beauty hidden behind the faces of people in our lives. Each individual's thoughts, worries, aspirations, state of being radiate what it means to human, and how as humans we struggle to communicate these thoughts and manifest their sentiments in reality.

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Prof. Bev McIver on painting, family and fragility

By Dillon Fernando | June 15, 2015

For my life to be interrupted in that way by having to take care of another human being, it's challenging and difficult. But it's rewarding. I wouldn't change it because she's given me more than...

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Nasher renovations to invite more student engagement

By Georgia Parke | June 15, 2015

The Nasher Museum of Art holds more than 11,000 pieces in its permanent collection, but few of these works are ever seen by students during their years at Duke.

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Thesis exhibition explores identities of hyphenated Americans

By Stephanie Wu | April 16, 2015

The experience of living with this hyphen is so prevalent in my life.

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Music Review: Kintsugi

By Sam Meyers | April 2, 2015

Though this album is a quiet one, simple in melodious structure, it forces us to acknowledge the lyrics in the forefront.

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Alumna-directed 'Enron' sheds fresh light on scandal

April 2, 2015

When Duke’s Department of Theater Studies premiers Lucy Prebble’s play Enron this Thursday, the facts, impacts and absurdities of the Enron scandal will be aired out in a new, refreshing and...

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Interview: Leslie Jamison

By Katie Fernelius | March 18, 2015

"It was always my hope that the questions the book raises would feel useful to people as they resonated in the particular corners of their lives, or their disciplines––but part of the book is also...

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Interview: Retta Sirleaf

By Dillon Fernando | February 26, 2015

Recess attends lunch with Parks and Recreation star and Duke alumna.

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Duke to host premiere performance of modern dance and jazz

By Stephanie Wu | February 19, 2015

"It’s an abstraction that I find inviting. It’s abstract because there’s an opportunity for the audience to interpret it in different ways."

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Student director tackles Hamlet with a little help from Wittgenstein

By Dillon Fernando | February 5, 2015

In his production 'Wittgenstein's Hamlet,' Myers gives Shakespeare's Hamlet a philosophical revamp.

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Danielle Burch's omnibus arrives at the Louise Jones Brown Gallery

By Dillon Fernando | January 29, 2015

Burch's Synthesis: The Audio-Visual Connection relates raw ardor, insecurity and hope, all through the lens of one who has grown up with a hearing disability.

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Actress and activist Laverne Cox to visit Duke

By Dillon Fernando | January 22, 2015

By focusing on a person's anatomy, the humanity of an individual and the uniqueness of his or her story is often lost.

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Monuts Donuts Reopens On Ninth Street

January 15, 2015

An interview with the mastermind behind Durham's most popular donut franchise.

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Moving through Miró

By Stephanie Wu | January 15, 2015

The movements we take in trying to make sense of art are largely universal.

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Latest Nasher exhibit features local artists

By Francis Curiel | January 13, 2015

Area 919 includes work from artists already recognized in today’s art world, as well as those newer to the scene.

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From the World to Lynn: Stories of Immigration

By Sid Gopinath | January 13, 2015

“You’re there, and you’re empathetic, of course,” she continued. “But there’s just no way you will ever understand some of the pain that some of these stories carry.”

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Community-sponsored Intrepid Life begins again in new location

By Emily Feng | January 8, 2015

Intrepid Life, as its name suggests, is not going away any time soon.

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Annual dance program to showcase student and faculty choreography

By Katie Fernelius | November 20, 2014

"We are passionate and have a lot to say and share with those willing to listen.”

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Students perform play on Asian and Asian-American identity

By Emily Feng | November 7, 2014

Ching Chong Chinaman–normally a racist slur–forces the audience to consider the social construction of identity and prejudice.