CQ: Culture Quest
Experience college without borders, an adventure of a lifetime
CQ is a set of activities designed to foster intellectual and literal border-crossings, from art to science, local to global, Christian to Muslim, white to black and beyond.
Complete the main events OR a semester study abroad to complete your Culture Quest
Students, learn more about the Culture Quest and how it benefits you.
Faculty, consider integrating Culture Quest into your course to enhance your students' college experience.
Fall 2012 Main Events
CQ Main Event: Akron Art Museum
Show your Zip Card and begin your own CQ adventure by visiting the Akron Art Museum at least once this semester Through a special partnership, UA students are admitted free.
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CQ Main Event: Dr. Gina Perez
Why are Puerto Rican and Latino Youth Disproportionately Represented in JROTC?
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CQ Main Event: Biomimicry Lecture
UA researchers unraveled the mysteries behind the glue spiders use to spin webs. Path-breaking research like this is called Biomimicry. See this speakers TED talk information.
Janine Benyus spoke on biomimicry on Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m. at EJ Thomas
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CQ Main Event: Freakonomics
Discover the hidden side of everything.
See author Steven Levitt on the Daily Show.
Levitt spoke at EJ Thomas on Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m.
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CQ Main Event: Jon Huntsman
Presidential candidate and Ambassador to China
Huntsman spoke at EJ Thomas on Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m.
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CQ Main Event: Study Abroad
Any student who completes a full semester of study abroad completes CQ for that semester.
If you are interested in learning more about study abroad opportunities at UA visit OIP.
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Spring 2013 Main Events
CQ Main Event: Akron Art Museum
Show your Zip Card and begin your own CQ adventure by visiting the Akron Art Museum at least once this semester. Through a special partnership, UA students are admitted free.
Students interested in this activity also liked EJ Thomas Events and the UA Arts Initiative...
CQ Main Event: The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander is a professor of law at Ohio State University. She will discuss her new book at EJ Thomas on Feb. 7, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
You can see the author on the Colbert Report and read more about her book before hearing her speak at UA as a part of Rethinking Race.
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CQ Main Event: Biomimicry Series
UA researchers unraveled the mysteries behind the glue spiders use to spin webs. Path-breaking research like this is called Biomimicry.
Participate in one (or more) discussions about biomimicry that will be held every Friday from 2-4 in Folk Hall, beginning the Second Week of the term and concluding on Friday of Week Fourteen. To complete CQ you only need to participate in one...but you are welcome to join the conversation each week!
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CQ Main Event: UA Dance Company Spring Concert
Enjoy an evening of movement at EJ Thomas on April 4 and 5, 2013 at 8pm.
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CQ Main Event: Shakespeare in the Spring
Celebrate the work of William Shakespeare...in the spring
April 11th, 3:30-6:00, Martin Center
Performance at 3:30
Lecture following at 5:00
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CQ Main Event: Study Abroad
Any student who completes a full semester of study abroad completes CQ for that semester.
If you are interested in learning more about study abroad opportunities at UA, visit OIP.
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