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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Seniors
    sub title: four years in retrospect
  name:
    name part: Geller, Dan
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Goldfine, Dayna
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: California Newsreel (Firm)
    role:
      role term: distributor.
  name:
    name part: Geller/Goldfine Productions
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (60 min.)
  abstract: For most students, college is a time of dizzying personal change, both confusing and exhilarating. Seniors: Four Years in Retrospect helps prepare undergraduates to take full advantage of these invaluable years of questioning and growth. The filmmakers of Frosh, the widely acclaimed chronicle of one year in a racially diverse freshman residence hall, returned to Stanford three years later to see how college life had changed five of these students. Combining extensive footage shot during senior year with prophetic clips and "outtakes" from Frosh, the two directors have produced an altogether new film focusing on the different trajectories students from diverse backgrounds take to a fulfilling and successful college experience. Monique, daughter of a crack-addicted mother, almost drops out during her first year but is taken under the wing by two black women mentors; she graduates with honors and plans to go on for her Ph. D. Cheng, an academically driven, politically conservative Chinese American pre-law major defies his parents by taking a job as a high-risk investment banker in Singapore. Sam, a white, male, heterosexual "jock," accepts increasing campus diversity but still seeks his own cultural enclave in the BMOC fraternity. Brandi comes to Stanford as a logical consequence of her upper middle class African American background; but she drops out for two years to discover a reason of her own for going to college. Debbie "washes out" of her pre-med program and becomes disenchanted with her sorority; she switches to Women's Studies where she develops the self-confidence to go on to a prestigious med school. Together these concise case studies constitute a unique sociological investigation of continuity and change on today's college campuses. The film will help students, faculty and counselors discuss such issues as: the importance of student advisors and appropriate role models, especially for first-generation college students the pros and cons of taking time off du…
  target audience: adult
  note: California Newsreel presents ; a film by Dayna Goldine & Dan Geller.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed December 01, 2017).
  note: Students: Debbie Kahn, Monique Reece, Sam Scuili, Brandi Shipp, Cheng Song, Richmond Barbour, May Haynes, Steven Krasner, Betty Walker, Hans Weiler.
  note: Editors, Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, Eve Goldberg ; music, Tim Westergren.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    topic: College students
    geographic: California
  subject:
    topic: College seniors
    geographic: California
  subject:
    topic: College students
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: College seniors
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Étudiants
    geographic: Californie
  subject:
    topic: Étudiants de dernière année
    geographic: Californie
  subject:
    topic: Étudiants
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Étudiants de dernière année
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: College seniors
  subject:
    topic: College seniors
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: College students
  subject:
    topic: College students
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    geographic: California
  classification: 371.8242
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 171201
    record change date: 20241201232808.8
    record identifier: in00005582934
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng