If you haven't yet registered for Spring 2021 or are looking to add another course, consider GLBL 460!! 

This class is an introductory course to community-engaged research through digital storytelling. We will explore the main concepts and methods of creating and analyzing global stories, mainly through audiovisual production. We will look critically at the processes of storytelling and community-engaged research, and the connections between local and global contexts of production and consumption of these stories. 

The course will be organized in three simultaneous tracks: reading, viewing and doing. Students will develop a semester long E-Portfolio and use VoiceThread to complement their digital literacy and writing abilities, while audiovisual cultural productions and readings will strengthen their close reading and critical skills. The goal is to embrace our potential as producers of knowledge.

This course will meet online TTH 11.30-12.45
It will count as a GLBL Upper Level Tier Two Elective and has no prerequisites! 

Fulbright Accelerator Workshop for CAHSS Faculty

Friday, February 12, 2021, Noon-1:00pm (invitation with a registration link will be sent in January)

Online

Please save the date for this overview of the Fulbright Core Scholar Program and other exciting Fulbright opportunities for UMBC faculty. The workshop will include information on the upcoming competition and provide tips for short- and long-term planning and preparing strong Fulbright applications. Time will be given for Q&A.

We will be joined by a Program Officer from the Institute of International Education (IIE), which develops and implements the Fulbright programs. Brian Souders, Associate Director for Global Engagement Opportunities in UMBC’s Office of International Education Services, will discuss UMBC’s support for faculty applicants. CIRCA Director and Professor of Visual Arts Lynn Cazabon will share her experiences as a Fulbright Scholar in Latvia in 2015. There, she developed and taught classes in the New Media Arts Program at Liepaja University while pursuing her own project, a series of photographic and text portraits of Liepaja residents at the edge of the Baltic Sea.

The 2021 Fulbright Accelerator Workshop is co-sponsored by the CAHSS Dean’s Office; the Center for Social Science Scholarship; the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts; the Dresher Center for the Humanities; and the Office of International Education Services.

The TEDxUMBC 2020: Unmasking Uncertainty features an impressive line up to include several Shriver Center-connected presentations to include former Shriver LLC member and recently selected Jacqueline C. Hrabowski Scholar Haleemat Adekoya, Student Coordinator Rojin Najmabadi (BARCS) and Shriver Center colleague Zareen Taj.