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  Hello everybody. My name is rob morgan and I'm a faculty member.

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  I wash you in ST louis. This is my 92nd video.

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  I am a teaching professor in the performing arts department in the area of design

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  and also the director of the beyond boundaries

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  program at Washington University in ST louis.

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  The beyond. My hometown before I forget is austin texas hook them

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  beyond boundaries is actually two things. It is a series of courses

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  that are taught across disciplines by two or

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  more faculty across two or more divisions at

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  wash U and also a program that uses those courses as kind of a raw material.

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  Those courses are really exciting. They're open again to all first year students.

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  I want to tell you who what they are actually coming up this fall.

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  My favorite is the class I teach called designing creativity,

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  but there's all kinds of other ones on climate change and art of medicine

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  and when I'm 64 on aging and a really exciting new one on entrepreneurship.

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  Um, in the spring there's three more classes you can choose from gender,

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  youth and global health sustainability course,

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  and also a brand new one on environmental racism.

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  So I really invite you to take those classes if you're in your first year tips for yet.

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  I think number one bi curious, bi curious.

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  You have plenty of time to specialize later in life,

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  but your first years at wash U are all about being curious.

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  Number two, you finish the race, you got to wash, you. Congratulations.

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  Now take a moment to stop and smell the roses,

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  Really get a sense of what wash you has to offer you.

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  And really personally take that journey on your own.

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  Um, beyond boundaries is a wonderful cohort of students.

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  Here's a brief glimpse of who they are in the class of 2023,

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  Christine Nguyen is from Edmond Oklahoma and

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  started her own nonprofit called Limitless Foundation.

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  We've got students that write books together and create art together.

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  Really fantastic students like these.

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  Bennett Rosenberg is a climate associate in the climate change program.

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  There's all kinds of great students also profiled in that podcast,

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  but also right here in the student resources,

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  something called Student store Stories on our

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  beyond boundaries website should be linked below.

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  And then finally, my favorite place on campus.

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  I mean a theater guy, It's got to be the theater, right.

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  We've done so much magic on this particular stage. This is the end.

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  It's in theater on wash U's campus.

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  Should really check it out sometime.

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  That's my 92nd video. Thank you everybody