College Visit Talking Books with Dr. Clara Oropeza

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Santa Barbara has one of the best community colleges in the country. Kelly and her producer Tammy spent a day on the campus of Santa Barbara City College sitting in on class and talking about books, poetry, identity and society with Dr. Clara Oropeza. She describes her own intellectual awakenings in a way that helps underline the real point of college.

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0:00.0	Look how green that grass is.
0:01.8	I mean, come on, and the palm trees.
0:05.8	I hope they look at it every day and go crazy.
0:07.8	I know.
0:08.4	I'm very curious what it costs to go here.
0:11.6	I mean, honestly, if we're going back to school,
0:14.0	this is the one.
0:18.6	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:20.1	I'm Kelly Corrigan.
0:21.0	And today I'm on the campus of Santa Barbara City College
0:23.8	with my producer Tammy Stedman, wondering
0:26.4	about the generation of kids between high school and adult
0:29.0	life and in particular, what and who they need to make that transition.
0:35.0	My conversation partner is an English professor named Dr. Clara Orapesa.
0:39.1	She is a soft-spoken, engaging, committed professor
0:42.8	who I watch draw kids out with patients and intellect
0:46.2	and maybe above all, a pervasive palpable kindness.
0:50.4	So join us.
0:51.9	We'll be right back with Dr. Clara Orapesa and Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:59.0	How many classes are you giving?
1:12.0	Four.
1:13.0	Anthropology, witchcraft, science and religion, elementary statistics.
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