Yesterday you received notice that the Spring Schedule of Classes is now available. As you are all quite familiar, GLBL has over 125 electives spread over 16 UMBC departments. Attached you will find a document wherein I have compiled a list of the courses offered in Spring 2021 which fulfil requirements of the Global Studies major. Refer to this list (as well as the Course Index on the GLBL website) when planning your Spring 2021 schedule to ensure you are registering for courses which will allow you to make progress in your major.  For the earliest date and time you will be able to register for your courses, visit  (https://registrar.umbc.edu/calendars/registration-appointments/). Receiving clearance prior to the date indicated will ensure that you will be allowed to register at the time specified. Again, you will be submitting your proposed Spring 2021 schedule for review in this Google Form.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me should you have any questions, I will be available via email and webex; should you wish to speak about your concern, please book a GLBL Advising Appointment with me (please CLICK HERE*), provide your phone number in your appointment reservation and I will call you at the scheduled time.

The Empowered University – Shared Leadership, Culture Change, and Academic Success in a Pivotal Time 

Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation in Our Communities Town Hall

Thursday, September 24, 2020  
4-6 p.m. via WebEx

The UMBC community is invited to learn about our Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center and our campus’s connection to a national framework addressing race equity. The Shriver Center’s Choice Program, along with community partners, will also share how structural racism has impacted youth development in Maryland and how we all can become agents of change.

For more information and to register, visit: 

• Last day to make changes to your schedule (ADD or DROP a class)
• Last day to change grade method
• Last day to drop a course without a W grade
  

As recently announced, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) strongly recommends that all students check they have the necessary technology setup to be successful as online learners. To help, DoIT is hosting 12 Sprint sessions for 10-minute, virtual walk-in consults or pop-up support groups on key topics including the following:

1. Getting Online (required of all UMBC students)*

2. Getting A Computer (required of all UMBC students)*

3. Checking Your Blackboard Collaborate Audio Connection (essential)

4. Using UMBC’s Virtual Computing Lab (recommended)

5. Using myUMBC Groups & Webex Teams for Student Clubs & Organizations (8/26, 8/30, 9/2 and 9/9 only).

The sprints will occur across four weeks starting Tues., 8/8 and ending Wed., 9/9 (click here for specific dates & times).

About Today's Sprint

The sprint will take place in a Blackboard Collaborate virtual conference room. Use the following link up to 15 minutes before the start time:

tinyurl.com/umbcdoit-studenthelp

Due to the short format, these virtual support sessions are designed for quick consults, not deep dives or customized training sessions. Also, you will likely be in a virtual room with several people who also are interested in the same topic, and being helped by a DoIT support staff member. Often, you can learn by listening to this Q&A, but if you want a personalized consult, please use my.umbc.edu/help to open a Request Tracker (RT) ticket.

While you can just “show up,” advance registration -- by indicating you are “Going” to this myUMBC event -- is appreciated and can help DoIT gauge how many support staff are needed in each breakout room.

Prior to the session

If this is your first time joining one of our live sessions, please review the Getting Started Guide. You will also find additional helpful information for using Blackboard Collaborate at our extensive FAQs. 

For the best experience, we recommend using Google Chrome or a recent browser update. Closing any unnecessary browser tabs will help conserve your bandwidth. After joining the session, please configure your audio. 

* Note: As announced to all incoming students on 7/23/20, since UMBC requires all students to have a computer and Internet access, these are now officially factored into UMBC’s “Cost of Attendance" and thus, can be funded through financial aid. To learn more, visit doit.umbc.edu/students

 Dr. Tania Lizarazo and her community based digital storytelling work are featured in June's Ideas on Fire, Imagine Otherwise podcast. Dr. Lizarazo's digital storytelling projects include Mujeres Pacíficas, a collaboration with Afro-Colombian women activists; Sexualidades Campesinas, a collaboration with LGBTQ members of farm working communities in California’s Central Valley, and three collaborations with immigrants in Baltimore: Moving Stories: Latinas in Baltimore; Intercultural Tales: Learning with Baltimore’s Immigrant Communities (with Thania Muñoz Davaslioglu); and Honest Conversations: Faith Community Dialogues on Immigration and Race (with Felipe Filomeno).

'What does it mean to value storytelling as a form of knowledge production? How can we develop collaborative research projects with the communities to which we are accountable? What transformative avenues emerge when we ask what people need rather than making assumptions?
In episode 91 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach talks with professor Tania Lizarazo about how digital storytelling lets her build transnational community and accountability in deeply local spaces, the very different process of doing collaborative research that actively enriches the lives of everyone involved (not just the lives of scholars in the academy), and why being willing to listen and learn together in public is how Tania imagines otherwise.' 

Click here to read the full article and listen to her interview on Imagine Otherwise! If you are interested in learning more about digital storytelling and Dr. Lizarazo's methods of project-based learning and collaborative research projects in examining  the ways in which cultural identity is constructed through global media and the role of technology indefining humanness in an increasingly digital world, her class GLBL 409(01)/MLLI 490: I'm a Cyborg but that's OK is running this Fall semester Wednesdays 4.30-7pm- spaces still available, register today!