International Education Week is an opportunity to highlight international initiatives on campus, celebrate the international student population, and expose domestic students to international experiences they would not otherwise know. 

Event details and links to join are found in the events tab of this page

We look forward to bringing the world to UMBC! 

Retriever Essentials, the UMBC food pantry, continues to offer free bags of nutritionally balanced non-perishable food.  These bags can be picked up 24/7 at the UMBC police station on campus.  Students, faculty and staff just need to show their campus id.  You can pick up a bag as often as you need to.

This year, Retriever Essentials is offering a free bag of non-perishable Thanksgiving food that must be requested by November 16.  Click on this link for the details: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/retrieveressentials/posts/97178

There is also an online "Community Dinner" on Thursday, December 3 from 7 - 8 p.m. .  Details can be found here https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/retrieveressentials/events/88861

If you are not comfortable picking up from the UMBC police station, please email us at retireveressentials@umbc.edu, and we will make arrangements to meet you on campus or near campus to deliver the food to you.

Meeting ID: 897 2289 5797

Passcode: 173770

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Dr. Joseph Siu will be presenting his research at the upcoming Society for Music Theory national conference (Nov 7–8 and 14–15). The title of his presentation is "Phrase-Rhythmic Norms in Classical Expositions: A Corpus Study of Haydn’s and Mozart’s Piano Sonatas," and below is the abstract:

Recent research in phrase rhythm and hypermeter have found that some phrase-rhythmic patterns, such as the end-accented “closing-theme schema,” appear regularly in certain parts of the Classical sonata exposition. These phrase-rhythmic norms can, therefore, be regarded as the first-level defaults according to the compositional preference hierarchy in Sonata Theory. However, besides the closing-theme schema, there has been no systematic study to examine the phrase-rhythmic norms in the other locations of the sonata exposition. Therefore, this study aims to fill that research gap by conducting a corpus analysis of phrase-rhythmic usage in all the first-movement piano sonata expositions composed by Haydn and Mozart. This corpus study can then inform our understanding of phrase-rhythmic default levels in Classical sonata form as well as any individual differences in the compositional styles of Haydn and Mozart. 

In Haydn’s and Mozart’s piano sonatas, phrase rhythm in the primary themes are generally regular, while the secondary themes are mostly irregular. However, in the transitions, Haydn and Mozart have different first-level defaults, with regular phrase rhythm occurring more often in Haydn while irregular phrase rhythm is the norm in Mozart. When irregular phrase rhythms occur, Haydn’s sonatas demonstrate a strong preference to focus on a single loosening device, non-quadruple hypermeasures, while Mozart’s sonatas tend to also include the use of metrical reinterpretations and end-accented phrases. This study also reports on the phrase-rhythmic norms at the boundaries of the sonata formal sections and the hypermetric placements for the MCs, the dominant-locks, and the EECs. 

We hope you all are doing well and that you enjoyed the extra hour of sleep we got with Daylight Savings (I'm sure many of us needed it)!

Tomorrow the Anthropology Club will be holding its third general body meeting this Wednesday November 4 from 12:00PM-12:30PM via Webex (attached is the link to the Webex room in which the meeting will take place).

At this meeting we will be having a guest speaker! Owen Stone from Thread, an outreach organization based in Baltimore focused on engaging diversity and ending social isolation, will be giving a short presentation about some of the great work they're doing and ways you can get involved! 

As always, please invite friends as our meetings are open to anyone interested in anthropology. We look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday!

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Zareen Taj (she/her/hers) is a PhD student at UMBC in the Language, Literacy and Culture program, and a full-time employee with the Shriver Center at UMBC. She is an activist for women’s rights and human rights, and an advocate for immigrant communities. She has worked continuously to promote women’s rights and immigrant’s rights and has attended numerous conferences, given speeches and mentored refugees in the U.S. She has played a major role in establishing connections between refugees and service providers. She has eighteen years of experience mentoring and assisting refugees in Maryland. She was the first Afghan woman who visited five massacre sites and interviewed the survivors of the Taliban Massacre and produced a video documentary about her journey. She also made a trip to Afghanistan to research about the empowerment of Afghan women. She is the author of a book called Journey to Empowerment: Women After Taliban, and the author of numerous opinion articles about Afghanistan.

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Lauren Pollack

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Looking for courses to take in the Spring 2021 semester? Check out the English department's offerings and find the ones that fit your interests and schedule!

Spring 2021 classes are listed below with topic and instructor name. PDF with full descriptions available at the top of this page.

ENGL 303 – The Art of the Essay (MW 4:00 - 5:15)
Instructor: Purpura

ENGL 305 – British Literature: Restoration to Romantic (T/Th 1:00 - 2:15)
Instructor: Falco
 
ENGL 307 – American Literature: From New World Contact to Civil War (T/Th 11:30 - 12:45)
Crimes and Tropes of Transgression
Instructor: Tran

ENGL 308 – American Literature: The Civil War to Present (MW 10:30 - 11:45) Revolution in Form
Instructor: Finberg

ENGL 310 – Topics in Poetry (T/Th 10:00 - 11:15)
Poetry and Landscape
Instructor: Falco

ENGL 332 – Contemporary American Literature (T/Th 1:00 - 2:15)
American Dreams and Nightmares
Instructor: Tran

ENGL 349 – The Bible and Literature (MW 2:30 - 3:45)
Instructor: Osherow

ENGL 351 – Studies in Shakespeare (MW 5:30 - 6:45)
Shakespeare’s Afterlives
Instructor: Osherow

ENGL 371 – Creative Writing - Fiction (MW 1:00 - 2:15)
Instructor: Shivnan

ENGL 373 – Creative Writing: Poetry (MW 5:30 - 6:45)
Writing Poetry
Instructor: Purpura

ENGL 382 – Feature Writing (MW 2:30 - 3:45)
Instructor: Rudacille

ENGL 383 – Science Writing (MW 1:00 - 2:15)  
Instructor: Rudacille

ENGL 385 – New Media and Digital Literacies (T/Th 2:30 - 3:45)
Instructor: Brooks

ENGL 407 – Language in Society (W 7:10 - 9:40)
Instructor: McCarthy

ENGL 448 – Seminar in Literature and Culture (MW 4:00 - 5:15)
Poetry and Capitalism
Instructor: Finberg

ENGL 451 – Seminar in Major Writers (T/Th 10:00 - 11:15)
Jane Austen and the Romantic Novel
Instructor: Smith

ENGL 469 – Studies in Race and Ethnicity (T 4:30 - 7:00)
Minor Universes
Instructor: Tran

ENGL 493.01 – Seminar in Communication and Technology (M 4:30 - 7:00)
Writing Disability Identities
Instructor: Holladay

ENGL 493.02 – Seminar in Communication and Technology (Th 4:30 - 7:00)
African American Rhetoric
Instructor: Brooks