FROSH: a Classic for Campus Diversity Training

Produced

• 1993

Key Features

98 minute VHS video

Freshman year. What could be more challenging, disorienting, exhilarating, depressing?

A cinema verite record of a year in a multicultural residece hall at Stanford University provies insight into the freshman year experience

Two award-winning filmmakers- one male, one female- returned to college with their cameras. They spent a year living in a co-ed, multicultural, freshman residence hall at Stanford University. They shot at 2:00 AM bull sessions, in co-ed bathrooms, classrooms and deans offices, and on trips home during winter break. Their unprecedented cinema verite documentary captures the freshman world of scary freedoms and new lifestyles in all its thrilling anxiety.

The students discover they face much more than the traditional academic pressures. Campus life is wracked with unexpected social conflicts:

Freedom of speech vs. anti-harassment codes

Multicultural education vs. western culture

Alcohol, drugs, and dating

Grade anxiety, cultural alienation, and the lure of dropping out

Maintaining ethnic and gay identity on a white, heterosexual campus

Frosh traces a dramatic journey of social experimentation and intellectual curiosity, cultural clashes and spiritual crisis, academic pressure and adjustment problems, but ultimately, individual self-discovery within a diverse community. Nothing less than a contemporary American coming of age story, Frosh is destined to become a classic of student life.

Frosh's frank and open approach to gender, racial, political, and academic issues common to all campuses will help prepare any student for the challenges of college life. Ideal for use in: Freshman year, residential life, counseling, and other student activities programs, and for training professional and para-professional staff.

This program includes a downloadable facilitator guide, in Word document format.  Click here to view the FROSH Facilitator Guide.

Critical Reviews:

"A fascinating portrayal of the freshman year experience… An intimate look at real students living and working together… Beautifully dramatizes the importance of students and peers and of residential life."
Alexander W. Astin, UCLA, author of What Matters in College? Four Critical Years Revisited

"Presents college life in a way that parents, students and staff can understand. Its realism makes it a unique resource for education, training and staff development… Campus life as it really is."
W. Garry Johnson, Association of College and University Housing Officers

Note: The pricing reflected for this program IS the price for educational and governmental agencies. The only other discount for this program would be for volume (multiple copy) discounts.

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