Summer courses are a great opportunity for students to take additional courses or to meet general education requirements here at UMBC. The English Department is offering a number of exciting courses this coming summer for consideration. Use the "Search for Classes" feature on myUMBC for more information about the following courses:

• SPCH 100: Public Communication

Preparation and practice in forms of oral communication. Emphasis is upon formal speaking in small-group and public address formats. Units to include selection of materials, organization, outlining, word choice, delivery and development of simple visual aids, and listening skills.

• ENGL 100: Composition

A course in critical thinking, reading, and composing, with an emphasis on integrating academic research and documentation. Students read and produce work for a variety of purposes and audiences, focusing on strategies for researching, organizing, drafting, sharing, and revising. To satisfy the composition general education requirement, this course must be taken within a student’s first thirty credit hours of enrollment at UMBC.

• ENGL 190: The World of Language I

Language as a distinctive characteristic of the human species. In this course, we examine the structure of both written and spoken forms of language across cultures, comparing them with animal communication and human gestural systems. We explore language’s neurological basis, theories of origin, and first- and second-language learning.

• ENGL 210: Introduction to Literature

An introduction to the conventions and characteristics of the major genres of literature – prose, poetry and drama. Some attention also may be given to film, television and other materials. This course is intended primarily for non-majors.

• ENGL 271: Introduction to Creative Writing—Fiction

An introduction to the writing of prose fiction.

• ENGL 393: Technical Communication

This course teaches students from various disciplines to communicate technical information effectively. The course's emphases on critical thinking, synthesis, analysis, and the writing process help students to inform and persuade their audiences through the composition of technical documents. Reflecting a professional writing style and document design principles, these documents demonstrate how text and visuals work together to reach different audiences with specific needs. Students also develop oral communication and collaborative skills along with technological and visual literacy.

Beginning in the fall of 2016, LLC students have the opportunity to work alongside an affiliate faculty member of the LLC Program on that professor's research. This opportunity is designed for part-time LLC students and those who do not have a graduate assistantship.

The Program is about Research, not Red Tape:

• Largely informal and voluntary
• Two to three hours per week
• One semester commitment, but renewable
• Mutually beneficial (limited clerical tasks)
• Small LLC stipend for students

LLC students and affiliate faculty members can seek each other out through the People tab of the LLC website.

Once a faculty member and a student are ready to initiate an apprenticeship, please complete this form and return it to the LLC Program office or email it to llc@umbc.edu.

For students to be eligible for a stipend, the form should be completed within the first three weeks of the start of a semester. We also invite LLC students to update their research interests on this Google spreadsheet.

Jodi Crandall Fellowship for Research in Language, Literacy and Culture

• Self-awareness,
• Interpersonal communication, and
• Appreciation of differences, even if you don’t agree

As part of an ongoing research project (Lancaster, 2014, 2015), this talk emphasizes the concept of political monitoring in the study of governing institutions.  Building on the psychological notion that people change their behavior if someone is watching them or they think someone is, the argument will be advanced that the choice of how political monitoring is institutionalized, as a necessary element in the process of overcoming collective action problems in the provision of public goods, reflects choices in state-building, institutional engineering, and public policy.  A wide range of examples will illustrate how constitutionally-based structures, operational rules, and policy design might incorporate political monitoring in order to produce specific outcomes normatively held as desirable.  

 Event will be held on Monday, Feb 13th from 12-2p

In the Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : 7th Floor

Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, Global Studies, and Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars

SPRING 2017

MEET & GREET

Hosted by New CAHSS
Academic Advising Coordinator:
Mr. James Hamilton

Welcome back to the Spring 2017 semester! All of our CAHSS students are invited to come and meet with the new Academic Advising Coordinator to have a brief conversation regarding student advisement needs. Students will have an opportunity to ask questions or share concerns about available student support services, important dates/deadlines to remember, and upcoming CAHSS events/activities.

*Light refreshments will be provided at this event.*

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

12:00pm-12:30pm

Fine Arts Bldg. Seminar Room 559

James Hamilton

Academic Advising Coordinator

College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
410.455.2958

jamham@umbc.edu