Involvement Fest is a great opportunity to meet members and learn about student organizations! 

Finally, the day has come, the UMBC EVENT CENTER OPENER!  Come cheer on your Retrievers, UMBC Men vs. Vermont, Saturday, February 3rd at 4:00pm and UMBC Women vs. Binghamton, Thursday, February 8th at 7:00pm.

I’m confused. Where can I use the prize money again?
Anywhere that you can use your red card. For example:

Click here for a more detailed list of locations where you can use your Red ID.

Rules for Entry:
To enter the contest you have to share your best financial literacy advice. This can be done in any way that is visible to other people. You could:

Once you've shared your advice, send it to financialsmartsawards@gmail.com for official consideration. Just send a screenshot of the post, or send us the file if your entry is a video. 

Submitted content must not contain illicit material, including but not limited to foul language, drug use, and violence. Keep it PG.

When are entries due?
March 1st, 2018. 

How are winners determined?
A handful of finalists will be hand-selected by a panel of judges. Those entries will then be posted to myUMBC, where the campus community will vote on the best entries. The winners will be the entries that make it past the judges and receive the most community votes from students, staff, and faculty.

Who are the judges?
Members of the UMBC Financial Literacy and Education Committee.

What are the judges looking for?
Entries that are creative, offer practical personal finance tips, and promote financial literacy.

What is financial literacy?

Check out financialsmarts.umbc.edu and find out!

(SS) GEP, (SS) GFR (WI)

Based in the life-course perspective, this course blends academic analysis of human aging in social context with more experiential learning, including exposure to literature on older adults, awareness exercises about aging in the news and talking with older adults in and out of class to debunk common myths and stereotypes regarding aging and older adults. Academic content is broadly social, in terms of understanding family and community contexts of aging, the individual experience of aging including productivity, spirituality and typical engagement, normal changes and diseases common in physical and psychological health, and a focus on how society views aging. Finally, students will be encouraged to identify themselves as aging individuals, on a trajectory toward later life.

(SS) GEP, (SS) GFR

Lecture: TuTh 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Information Technology 104 | Nicole Cousin-Gossett

IHU Seminar: Fr 1  –  2:15 p.m. | Public Policy 105 | Staff

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Lecture: MoWe 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Information Technology 104 | Bryan Ellis

IHU Seminar: Fr 1 – 2:15 p.m. | Public Policy 206 | Keith Evans

An introduction to the concepts used in all advanced sociology courses: basic elements of social structure, including primary groups and organizations, culture and society, socialization, social stratification and social change.

Lecture: MoWe 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Sherman Hall 207

Lisa Beall

Discussion: We 4 –  5:15p.m. | Engineering 122

Staff

How do we define the "good life"? Is success defined by money, possessions, and status or are there other, just as important, ways to achieve prosperity? What limits are placed on individual success by culture, class systems, and/or access to opportunity? How do we determine professional and personal standards of success? In this seminar, students will examine the concepts of wealth and prosperity as represented in literature, drama, history, psychology, and religion. The experiences of characters from text and film will be analyzed for how wealth and prosperity (in whatever way they are defined) can impact an individual and the society in which he/she lives in both positive and negative ways. Through class activities and out-of-class assignments, students will begin to identify the "wealth" they currently have, what they desire, the means for achieving their desired forms of wealth, and to consider forms of wealth and prosperity that have yet to be defined for them. Determining a personal definition of prosperity is the first step toward establishing goals and making plans for attaining them.

Monday, Jan 29: Admin 529

Thursday, Feb 1: Admin 611

Monday, Feb 5: Admin 611

Thursday, Feb 8: Admin 611

Lecture: TuTh 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Performing Arts & Humanities Building 201

Eve Munson

An Indian filmmaker remakes Macbeth as a Mumbai underworld police thriller. A Chinese director re-imagines Hamlet as a martial arts romance. At a Kentucky maximum security prison, inmates put on a production of The Tempest. In a literary web series, Beatrice and Benedick are YouTube vloggers who share their private thoughts on separate channels. Shakespeare’s plays can now be found re-created on film, TV, interactive games, graphic novels, and web series. What can these diverse adaptations tell us about the cultures that produce them and the plays that inspire them? How is modern Shakespeare presented to the masses in terms of sexuality, gender, race, violence, and nationalism? Why do contemporary artists feel such a recurring need to parrot and parody Shakespeare, and how much of this activity is about Shakespeare at all? We will also read the “original” Shakespeare texts to which the re-writers respond. Students will have opportunities to experiment individually and in small groups with crafting their own adaptations.

Lecture: TuTh 4:30 – 7 p.m. | Sherman Hall 207

Richard Otten

This course will illuminate the ways in which we are passive consumers of popular culture and empower individuals to become critical participants. Popular culture is all around us. It influences how we think, feel, vote, and live our lives. This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the study of U.S. popular culture and aims to examine the multiple ways gender has been portrayed in various popular cultural forms. Through an intersectional and intertextual investigation of television, film, popular music, advertisement, and social media, we will explore how representation as objects, consumers, subjects, creators, challengers, and critics both reflect and produce socio-cultural phenomena and ideas about the proper role of women and men in society. Throughout this course, we will consider the intersections of gender, sex, and race and analyze how they are articulated in popular culture.