"How to Be a Better Ally", is a co-facilitated workshop series that focuses on various underrepresented and/or marginalized populations. The series aims to provide UMBC community members with the basic practices for allyship, specifically for the highlighted population.

For the Spring 2023 semester, the "How to Be a Better Ally" series has now expanded to include the following programs. These programs serve as a foundation for allyship under the intersectional identity areas. "How to Be a Better Ally" as a stand-alone program is a workshop to further participants' understanding of the targeted population. This workshop can be requested using the i3b workshop request link here.

FaithZone: Exploring Faith & Spirituality at UMBC

Thursday, February 23rd | 3:30 - 5:30pm

The Mosaic 2B23 The Commons

Monday, March 27th | 3:30 - 5:30pm

The Gathering Space 103 CWB

Join the conversation and exploration of religion, faith, and spirituality in this workshop at UMBC. This session will include a brief overview of the national landscape of religious practice and spirituality on college campuses, encourage storytelling and connection through the lived experience of participants, provide an opportunity to learn and discuss best practices, and introduce participants to resources and opportunities to engage further with this topic and the UMBC community.

Living into the Tension: Faith, Diversity, & Allyship

Wednesday, March 8^th | 4:00 – 5:00pm

The Mosaic 2B23 The Commons

In partnership with The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being, join the conversation and discuss the importance of being an ally during the intersections of race & ethnicity with religious & spiritual beliefs and identity. This workshop will further unpack the understanding of living at the intersections of religious, spiritual, and racial identities.

For further information and updates on our "How to Be a Better Ally" series, check our myUMBC page for additional information. 

Latin immersion post-bac curriculum (& Graduate Certificate) now available online   

https://www.uky.edu/academics/graduate-certificate/latin-studies-online  

The Institute for Latin Studies' Graduate Certificate curriculum, in which Latin is the exclusive spoken language, all assignments are written in Latin, and participants engage in close reading of Latin texts, is now entirely available in online courses. This curriculum has already become well known for offering deep immersion in the spoken use of Latin, a wide variety of exercises Latin prose composition, and exposure to the entire patrimony of literature in Latin, which includes not only seminal texts from antiquity, but also Latin literary masterpieces produced in early-modern and modern times. All these benefits are now accessible in an online, but real-time format.   

Write to Terence Tunberg: terence.tunberg@gmail.com  

Also now available online are two courses in Latin Prose Composition, which were previously accessible only to students physically situated in the campus of the University of Kentucky. These courses will focus in depth in the techniques of writing prose in Latin, a skill that is also highly beneficial for people interested in speaking correct Latin.   

Interested persons should write to Milena Minkova: mmink2@uky.edu 

 

Yet another addition to our roster of online offerings is an Intensive and Accelerated Introduction to Latin. Participants in this course will learn in accelerated format and in the space of one academic term most of the important basic principles of Latin morphology and syntax, while beginning to read continuous passages from unadulterated Latin texts as they progress.   

More information is available from Laura Manning: Lamanning@uky.edu

Pre-Optometry Society

Attention all UMBC students:

A graduate student in the Department of Geography & Environmental Systems is sponsoring a survey that looks to understand how students comprehend waste, climate change and environmental justice. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete and is for UMBC graduate and undergraduate students.

The goal of the project is to see if students make connections between environmental justice, waste and climate change at universities. By understanding if those connections are made we hope to look at how to utilize power to make changes surrounding waste and environmental justice at UMBC.

Link to survey: https://umbc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_czNGVHvEwnLufVc

Please contact Mackenzie Bodman (mbodman1@umbc.edu) for more information.

Attention all UMBC students:

A graduate student in the Department of Geography & Environmental Systems is sponsoring a survey that looks to understand how students comprehend waste, climate change and environmental justice. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete and is for UMBC graduate and undergraduate students.

The goal of the project is to see if students make connections between environmental justice, waste and climate change at universities. By understanding if those connections are made we hope to look at how to utilize power to make changes surrounding waste and environmental justice at UMBC.

Link to survey: https://umbc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_czNGVHvEwnLufVc

Please contact Mackenzie Bodman (mbodman1@umbc.edu) for more information.