Plain and simple, there is no one way, or right way, for a student to select a major. The process is unique to each student and many factors can influence the decision.

At UMBC, we want to support you in your journey to choosing a major. We believe this process is so important that we created a three-day event solely dedicated to major exploration: The MAJOR Event.

Have you already declared your major? Great! Still check out the following events to learn how to make the most of your academic major, including internship, study abroad, research opportunities, etc.

Monday, October 1

3pm – Fine Arts Building Recital Hall

Internationally recognized career expert, Dr. Don Asher, will give a dynamic talk entitled “You Can Major in Anything You Want: If and Only if You do These 5 Things in College.”

The first 55 students to attend will receive a free copy of Don Asher’s book!

4:30pm-5:30pm – UC Ballroom

Join us for a MAJOR Networking Event! Come play People Bingo to meet department/program alumni and student representatives and discuss how majors work in the real world.

Food will be provided.

Tuesday, October 2

1:00pm-4:00pm – Commons 318. 328, 329

What Can I Do with This Major? Several of UMBC’s unique academic programs will showcase ways to experience what it’s like to pursue a particular major. Featured programs will include: 

• Dental Hygiene
• Education
• Theatre
• Geography and Environmental Systems
• Individualized Study (INDS)
• Management of Aging Services
• Bioinformatics

This will also include a session on “How Do I Talk with my Parents About my Desired Major?”

Wednesday, October 3

10:00am-12:00pm – UC Ballroom

Majors Fair. Join us for a fun and lively opportunity to meet with faculty and staff representatives to explore and learn more about the vast and diverse majors at UMBC.

Free breakfast and a free t-shirt will be provided!

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Participants at any of our events will be entered into a drawing for a $100 UMBC Red Card Credit.

We hope to see you next week!

Keegan Cook Finberg to Read at Baltimore Book Festival

The Language Training Specialist (LTS) is a non-supervisory FP-03/GS-13 position and serves as technical advisor on language program design and management, language program staff development and language materials development.  The LTS collaborates to develop strategies, systems, procedures and materials that support language programming, participates in the collection and analysis of language training data and reports findings to stakeholders within the agency. The LTS designs and advises on the development of training for language instructors, developing standard curriculum, training materials and guidance, and may travel to Peace Corps posts to provide staff training and technical assistance. The LTS facilitates information and materials sharing among country language programs and serves as liaison and advocate for language training issues.

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens. 

Applications accepted through October 26th.

Details can be found here.

Our self-guided tutorials cover a variety of useful research skills. These tutorials are available in a variety of formats. Some are videos and some are web pages (interactive and static). Many have been produced by other libraries.

You’ll find great topics such as:

Research Basics                    

●     Choosing a Good Topic

●     Citing Sources

●     Understanding Call Numbers

 Understanding Sources                     

●     Evaluating Sources for Credibility

●     Anatomy of a Scholarly Article

●     What Are Primary Sources?

 Finding Resources                 

●     Where to Search

●     Searching for Articles

●     Searching for Databases

●     Using the Everything Search

●     Find Primary Sources

And browse the full list here: https://library.umbc.edu/tutorials/index.php

This semester we have NINE students enrolled in the zero credit 096 Practicum course through the Shriver Center, with their service site being Retriever Essentials!!

Yesterday was a busy day! No amount of rain deterred the cheer the students had while collecting donations throughout campus.

A big thank you to all of our supporters! Your donations keep us running. Right now we are still in need of the following items:

• pasta sauce

• brown rice

• canned beans

• canned meat
• canvas bags (need to be big enough to fit a packed brown paper bag inside)

• toothpaste and mouthwash

• deodorant

• chapstick

Do you think you might want to go to grad school some day? 

Come find out about how that all works!  

Pizza will be provided!

See attached flyer for more details!

Mina Cheon MFA ’02, Imaging & Digital Arts, is a Korean American global new media artist, scholar, and educator. Dividing her time between Baltimore, New York, and Seoul, Korea, Cheon produces artwork – “Polipop” – that draws inspiration from global media and popular culture, intersecting politics and pop art in evocative ways, while maintaining her connections to UMBC and the MFA program.

“All of Dr. Cheon’s accomplishments indicate a level of insight, innovation, persistence, and quality of production that serves as a model for what our IMDA grads and alumni might attain at not only a local and national, but also international level,” says nominator Dr. Kathy O’Dell, Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Special Assistant to the Dean for Education & Arts Partnerships at UMBC.

Cheon will receive the UMBC Alumni Award for Outstanding Alumna in Visual & Performing Arts at a ceremony on October 4.

Cheon received a Ph.D. in philosophy of media and communications from1 the European Graduate School at the European University for Interdisciplinary Studies in Switzerland, an MFA in painting from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and a BFA in painting from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea.

With a thematic focus on geopolitical and contested spaces, race culture and postcolonialism, and Asia’s relationship to the Western world in global media culture, Cheon has worked on North Korean awareness and global peace projects since 2004. Cheon’s work has been exhibited in or is in the collection of numerous and varied museums and galleries internationally. Represented by Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York, Cheon’s art is currently featured at the international Busan Biennale 2018 in Korea where her art installation of 100,000 choco-pies is meant for the audience to eat. The famous snack loved by North Koreans and produced in South Korea has become the product of the existing cultural loving exchanges between the two Koreas and the work advocates for Korean unification.

The author of Shamanism and Cyberspace, Cheon contributes to a variety of publications and serves on the Board of Directors of the New Media Caucus of the College Art Association. Awarded the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Unity Week Award for her efforts promoting cultural diversity within and beyond her college, Cheon is a full-time Professor at MICA and a mentor of Art-Uni-On, a global mentorship network by Hyundai Co. and the Seoul National University College of Fine Arts.

Despite her global reach, Cheon remains committed to the local Baltimore art scene. Alongside husband and architect Gabriel Kroiz, Cheon owns and operates K-Town Studios in the Remington neighborhood of Baltimore City. Home to their own studios, Cheon and Kroiz rent affordable studio space to artists and creative entrepreneurs. Additionally, the husband and wife team, known professionally as Cheon Kroiz, launched the installation Diamonds Light Baltimore at the inaugural Light City festival in 2016.  

At UMBC, Cheon is known for her support of Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) graduate students, returning to campus for lectures to current students and offering feedback to graduates on current research and creative work. In May, Cheon presented the inaugural IMDA Friends + Alumni MFA Award. Founded and inspired by Cheon, the award recognizes the most outstanding MFA exhibition and written thesis with $1,000 monetary award, with the goal of boosting the emerging career of promising IMDA alumni.

— Amy Dalrymple

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REGISTER TODAY: Join us Thursday, October 4, to celebrate these individuals at the Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall.

See the full list of 2018 Alumni Award honorees here.