Dear POLI 100 Students!
We hope you are having a wonderful summer!! If you are a new first-year or transfer student in POLI 100 this fall, we wanted to let you know about an exciting opportunity to earn additional credit, get some extra support, and get a head start on a great GPA by switching to POLI 100Y!
In the Y section – you will have the chance to connect with other new students as well as a staff instructor and a peer facilitator who will help you navigate your first semester at UMBC and become familiar with the campus. Students in the Y section earn an extra 1-credit towards their overall credit load for the semester by attending a once per week discussion attached to the lecture for POLI 100. This class is intended to be fun, dynamic and extremely informative. POLI 100 meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 10 to 11:15 AM The Y section meets on Wednesday’s 4 to 5:15 PM. Remember, when you make the switch, you are given one extra credit! So why not?
If you are interested in making the switch, please email Professor Anson: iganson@umbc.edu and Emma Sellers: sellers@umbc.edu ASAP and they will help you switch from POLI 100 to POLI 100Y. If you have any questions, please let us know!
Thank you!
]]>The 2022 fall semester is fast approaching, and as such, it’s important to check your schedule before the semester starts. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
If you need to make changes to your schedule, the last day to add or drop classes is September 14; however, course availability is low, so please check your registration and make any necessary changes as soon as possible.
MUSEUM STUDIES FELLOW AT SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The School of Design and the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at South Dakota State University invite applications for a new Museum Studies Fellow for the spring and summer 2023. This fellowship initiative has been made possible thanks to combined funding from the FUNd for Museum Studies and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
South Dakota State University offers the only program in Museum Studies across the state. Founded in 2015, the Museum Studies at SDSU is a dynamic, robust, collaborative and interdisciplinary minor. It provides students with a solid background in the preservation and presentation of cultural materials and artifacts, as well as in communication, design, and management skills.
Our minor is shaped and delivered as an academic-professional partnership with five institutions in Brookings: the South Dakota Art Museum, the South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, the Children's Museum of South Dakota, McCrory Gardens, and SDSU's Archives and Special Collections at Hilton M. Briggs Library. The minor’s operations are managed within the School of Design, an interdisciplinary academic unit housing programs in Art Education, Studio Art, Graphic Design, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Interior Design.
The Museum Studies Fellow will be a graduate student (Master’s or PhD) with a Museum Studies background or some experience in collecting institutions, for instance museums, library archives, public gardens, state or national parks, or historic sites.
The Fellow will be actively involved in our spring 2023 Introduction to Museum Studies course and in our Summer 2023 Internships. They will shadow the Instructor of Record, visit all the partner institutions, be involved in the class activities, share insights with our undergraduate students. The fellow will also be actively involved with our partner institutions here in Brookings throughout the fellowship.
During the spring semester, the Fellow will deliver a public lecture centered on their own exhibition record, career path, research, and/or relevant experiences in the field.
The Fellow will be required to submit a progress report periodically throughout the fellowship and a final report at the end of the fellowship period. The report will be detailing the activities completed throughout the duration of the project and the learning that occurred; it will provide insights on how this multi-layered mentoring model has contributed to the Fellow's professional growth.
The Fellow will receive a $19,046 all-inclusive stipend to travel and live in Brookings for seven months, from January 7 to August 7, 2023. We will assist in identifying housing options.
We are excited that our interdisciplinary vision is further expanding through partnership with three prestigious institutions in New York: the Brooklyn Museum; the National Park Services (Roosevelt and Vanderbilt homes in Hyde Park, NY); and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. The fellow will be given an additional $2,000 stipend to travel to New York City to visit the museums of our out-of-state partners, talk with some of the staff, and catch a glimpse on connections between the fine arts, architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design in institutions, whose strengths complement those already present in Brookings.
A complete application package will include:
Please, email your application to Dr. Leda Cempellin, the Museum Studies Coordinator and Associate Director of the School of Design (Leda.Cempellin@sdstate.edu) by no later than September 20th, 2022. Finalists will be selected among the applicants for a Zoom interview during the month of October and the Fellow will be finalized by early November.
The H. Furlong Baldwin Library at the Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) is offering a paid oral history internship for the fall semester. The internship format is flexible for in-person or hybrid work. The intern will gain a thorough understanding of the oral history life cycle, along with experience using the archival management system ArchivesSpace, digital asset management system (DAMS) ResourceSpace, and transcription software Trint. The intern’s work will be focused on transcript editing, research, metadata and finding aid cleanup.
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Hello!
We are a couple of Ph.D. students at UMBC living in a 2 bhk, 2.5 br townhouse.
We are looking for roommates to move into one of the bedrooms. You can have your own bedroom, or share with a roommate.
You get a large private bedroom with attached private bath. You also get your own private living room, which you can use as your work space. The place is ideal for couples or people looking to share.
We also have an attached patio that overlooks the neighboring creek!
The house is in a nice, quiet community close to the UMBC arbutus bus stop and 10 min from the campus.
The rent is 925$ a month.
If you are interested, you can contact me at +1 443-953-8593 or anantak1@umbc.edu
]]>The Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) seeks an intern to help digitally preserve and increase online access to Museum and Library collections through scanning and photography. Working closely with the Imaging Services Technician & Staff Photographer, as well as other members of the Museum and Library collection teams, the intern will capture images, attach metadata, research, and help make materials more accessible through MCHC’s Digital Collections portal.
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