New Short Course: Film and Philosophy, November 7-9
CINE4025: Temas Especiales en Cine
Cine y Filosofia
TuLA: Tutor Language Awareness
Language Awareness (LA) includes knowledge of and about language. Teacher Language Awareness (TLA) adds knowledge about students and methodology. Last June, Liz Dayton and Judy Casey presented a new field of study – TuLA — at the Association for Language Awareness conference in Hong Kong.
We will present a summary of our research on the A&S Writing Center at PR TESOL in November.
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Rock Series Draws a Crowd
The Reading Rock Series in PR, organized by MAEE candidate Karrieann Soto Vega, and taking place the week of October 6th through the 10th, drew students and faculty from both the Department and across the campus. Overall, over 300 attendees participated in this interactive dialogue with performing artists from the local area. Graduate Teaching Assistants Emily Aguiló, Jessica Lauer, Yolanda Padilla, and Wilfredo Mercado took their INGL 3103, 3201, and 3202 classes, while a number of other Departmental students and faculty also attended. For the artists, the series offered a unique opportunity to personally interact with Colegio students and to experiment with acoustic sound in the Anfiteatro Figueroa Chapel. Participating students remarked on the unconventional educational setting and made dynamic connections between traditional literary writing processes and the artists’ collaborative production of lyrics and music. Karrieann would especially like to thank the Department of English for its generous support of this activity, which represents a significant component of her MAEE thesis research, and Professor Guillermo Gomez, in particular, for facilitating the presentation of his documentary on the punk scene in Puerto Rico.
Audience on first day of Reading Rock in PR series
Blindfold Drive's bass player, Victor Marini
Octavo Día plays in Anfiteatro Figueroa Chapel
English as a Field of Change and Flow: Contemporary Practices and Research in English Education, Literature, and Linguistics
Faculty - please invite your students to participate in the new English Dept. conference.
For all students who are interested in presenting at the 1st Annual Conference for RUM Undergraduate and Graduate Students of English, February 21, 2009, please see the CFP Call for Papers . Deadline: Nov. 30.
For application and registration, visit our blog:
1st Annual BA/MAEE Student Conference
Pre-Registration is open until January 19, 2009. We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
Judy Casey and Mary Sefranek, Conference Organizers
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Join us on October 22
engl 6006 guest speaker series
22 October 2008
Understanding Bullying
Within Puerto Rican
Cultural and School Contexts
Dr. Bernadette Delgado
Department of Social Sciences
UPR-Mayagüez
CHARDÓN 318 @ 6:30 p.m.
ABSTRACT:
This presentation will discuss a research project that examines the phenomenon of bullying within the Puerto Rican socio-cultural and school context, based on ethnographic interviews conducted with intermediate school students, parents and teachers. Results of this study support the difficulty of finding a term in Spanish that conveys bullying as described in the American and European literature. Attendees will learn how the phenomenon of bullying is conceptualized within the Puerto Rican cultural,social and school contexts. Furthermore, they will understand the relationship between culture and bullying behaviors in order to design interventions that are culturally sensitive.
INFORMATION:
Contact Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas (787-832-4040 ext. 3096/3064; jgeliga at uprm.edu)
Attendees will receive one-credit hour of professional development, certified by CEP.
Professionalism and Presentation Skills Workshop with Dr. Shannon Bischoff
RUMEGA cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to attend a workshop by Dr. Shannon Bischoff on Professionalism and Presentation Skills that are useful to anyone interested in presenting at professional and academic conferences. The workshop will take place on Friday, October 17th, from 4:30 to 6:30 in Ch-319. Aside from this, any student who attends this workshop and afterwards submits a proposal for the 1st Annual Conference for Undergraduate and Graduate Students of English (English as a Field of Flow and Change: Contemporary Practices and Research in English Education, Literature, and Linguistics),will receive special consideration in the review process.
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