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. Rikke Platz Cortsen is Danish lecturer at University of Texas, Austin where she teaches Danish language and culture including courses on Hans Christian Andersen, Northern European Comics, Contemporary Scandinavian Stories and Copenhagen as a City of Culture. She got her PhD from the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on time and space in comics. She researches space and place in comics in the Nordic countries and her latest peer reviewed publication is “Kverneland and Fiske in the Footsteps of

language skills to fluency and had more desire to go abroad again. This has all led me to teach for a year in Taiwan, and to live in Austria again next year as an English assistant in an Austrian High School. I guess I am surprised that a study away experience could impact so much of my future! Salzburg, Austria September 2016

Events:Chong Wa Education Society Since Time Immemorial (STI) Workshop and World Language Teacher Networking Do you know about the new PESB regulation regarding Indigenous studies? What is STI? How do you incorporate Indigenous studies into the curriculum? Join us to find the answers! Who: Pre-service and In-service teachers What: A teacher networking event & workshop on the new PESB regulation by Dr. Tara Haskins & Dr. Donita Torres with PESB guest Leiani Sherwin Where: Online When: Saturday

language, culture and international issues – features student-living and faculty offices in the same building. In the acoustically brilliant Lagerquist Concert Hall, students practice and perform in one of the most extraordinary venues in the region. The bonds you develop with your professors in the classroom carry over just about everywhere. On Garfield Street, students and faculty meet at a coffee house to talk about a movie they’ve just seen or their progress on a chemistry project. The highly

individual or group may hold. Explicit Bias is conscious and intentional bias expressed through language or gesture and intended to insult and demean another person. Implicit Bias exists “outside the level of awareness because [it is] deeply embedded in the psyche and made invisible” (Sue, 2010). While implicit bias may not be grounded in intention, the impact of the bias still exists for the individuals or groups who experience its effect. Both forms of bias also can take the form of on-going

Major in Hispanic Studies A minimum of 36 semester hours beyond HISP 103, including: Foundational Courses 4-20 semester hours, depending on entry level HISP 201: Intermediate Spanish (4) HISP 202: Intermediate Spanish (4) HISP 252: Spanish for Heritage Speakers (4) HISP 300: Spanish Conversation (4) HISP 301 or 351: Hispanic Voices for Social Change/Hispanic Voices for Heritage Speakers (4) HISP 331: Intensive Spanish Language and Culture (Study Away) (4) Exploring Literary, Linguistic, and

be afraid to break out from the group! Although my American cohort was great and I made good friends with them, I also actively tried to meet both Germans and other students. I got to know the city better and I started to feel like I was getting the true student experience in Germany. What surprised her about studying away: Just how many international students there were at my university. In one of my language classes I was the only native English speaker, which was amazing and fun and forced me

Program ‘s emphasis on language “stuck with [him] forever.” “I have a lot of my Shakespeare education in my head all the time (while writing music and lyrics),” Huertas said. “Would this character stick to a meter?” he recalled often asking himself while writing Lizard Boy . “Would he rhyme if he had this in his head?” (Photo: Justin Huertas/Lizard Boy) The poster for the production of Lizard Boy. +Enlarge Photo “How does this language inform what the characters are going through? That’s something

Professor, University of Maryland, College Park Understanding and Supporting Chinese Families during the COVID 19 Pandemic A surge of racism and xenophobia towards Chinese Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to high levels of stress within the Asian American, particularly Chinese American community. During this presentation We will discuss common myths about Chinese American families, their strength, and stress (e.g., language barriers, acculturative stress, experience with racism

reading is one thing, but having the critical analysis skills from my time as an English major help me to help my authors in shaping their stories. My PPA minor, on the other hand, gave me the language to talk about publishing, and was my first time practicing thinking about books as not just a creative endeavor, but a business, with a market and an audience to consider. That’s the kind of perspective that can really set you apart as a candidate in an interview for a publishing job! What do you love