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Come One, Come All! Faculty, Friends, and Family are warmly invited to join:

UNIVERSITY TEACHING DEVELOPMENT (INGL 6996) ON

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
in Chardón 326
from 6-8 p.m.

FOR THE FINAL PORTFOLIO PRESENTATIONS OF:

VERONICA BASCH
ADRIANA DORADO
ANNERYS DEJESÚS
LUIS PÉREZ
ASTRID SAMBOLÍN

Session on Beowulf and Old Norse Literature with papers by:

Ruth Delgado("Monsters and Heroes in Beowulf and Grettir's Saga")

Jo-Anne Hernandez ("Monsters Are Us: Analogies and Dis-analogies in Beowulf and Grettir's Saga")

Nick Haydock, and

Rebecca Aylesworth, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

On May 10, 2013, from 5:00- 9:00 p.m. students from Dr. Mary Sefranek's INGL 3104 course (taught as Queer Literature and Composition) will give multimodal presentations at Café Nova Ley. Their presentations are based on poems, songs, short stories, and a novel read in class this year and will unveil a number of hidden talents on the part of the participants (we have discovered the presence of singers, actors, visual artists, media specialists and musicians in our midst).

On Friday, May 3 in CH326 at 4:30 PM, RUMEGA will hold a conference on the topic of identity in literature, linguistics and pedagogy. Our speakers include Prof. Sandra Rios and Prof. Catherine Mazak. Each speaker will have 15 minutes for their presentation, and 10 minutes for questions. The event will be one hour long. CEP credit is pending for attendees.

The title of Prof. Rios’ presentation is: “The Bildungsroman in Environmental Rhetoric: The Heroic Narrative of Casa Pueblo, Adjuntas.”

This afternoon, Friday, April 25th, the presentation "Art and Film in Classrooms and the Inseparability of Critical and Creative Thought" will take place in Chardón 326 from 4:00-5:30 p.m. and will focus on the aesthetic development that art and film cultivate in classroom contexts, as well as their significance for understanding and learning. Strategies for incorporating art and film in classrooms will be addressed.