Interested in an LLC Summer Course?
"Discourse And Conversation Analysis" May be Offered
If you have an interest in earning 3 credits this summer, consider taking Dr. Christine Mallinson's LLC 750: Discourse and Conversation Analysis class.
Course objectives:
- To think critically about the role of language, language ideologies, and linguistic practice in our everyday practice and in our social institutions,
- To acquire a basic understanding of the collective areas of study known as discourse analysis and conversation analysis, particularly from the fields of linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and media/communication studies,
- To conduct close readings of written and spoken texts in a variety of forms and genres, particularly with regard to how power circulates through language,
- To compare and assess various methodologies of discourse/ conversation analysis in relation to one’s own individual research interests/project.
The course can only be offered if there is enough interest, so please email Liz Steenrod at
esteenrod@umbc.edu if you would sign up. (If you've already contacted her, no need to do so again.)
Deadline to let us know your interest is February 15th.
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Announcing the Spring 2016 AOK Library & Gallery Workshops
Register Today!
Literature Review Workshop (2 offerings)
Wednesday, February 17, 12-1 PM, LIB 259
Wednesday, March 23, 12-1 PM, LIB 259
Is writing the literature review a stumbling block? Come to hear what a literature review is and what its required components are. Learn how to address common writing issues, such as effective use of summary and synthesis, and use of quotations. This workshop will help you to learn how to begin and advance your literature review, and how to connect your ideas to the literature in the field.
EndNote Basic Workshop
Monday, March 7, 12-1 PM, LIB 259
Learn how to utilize the full range of features included in the web-accessible citation manager. This hands-on workshop will focus on setting up an account, importing and transferring references, sharing references, and accessing your references in Microsoft Word.
Zotero Workshop
Thursday, March 10, 12-1 PM, LIB 259
Zotero is a freely available citation management software that allows you to save citation information while searching and browsing the Web. With a single click, Zotero saves citations and enables you to create customized bibliographies in standard citation styles, including MLA, Chicago and APA. This workshop will introduce some of the key functions of Zotero such as: installing Zotero, adding citations to your Zotero library, organizing and managing your citations, creating a bibliography, and using the Microsoft Word plug-in to easily insert citations from Zotero into your documents.
How to Conduct a Preliminary U.S. Patent Search
Monday, March 28, 12-1 PM, LIB 259
Patent searching can be a daunting and overwhelming process. Come learn how to conduct preliminary patent searches of U.S. patents and published applications using free online resources of the USPTO and its bi-lateral partner EPO (European Patent Office).
Creating an Academic Research Poster Workshop (2 offerings)
Wednesday, April 13, 12-1 PM, LIB 259
Wednesday, April 20, 12-1 PM, LIB 259
An academic research poster is a visual communication tool that allows you to present your research in a clear, concise, graphic format. Learn how to create a poster that stands out. In this workshop, learn the design principles and guidelines that will help you create an effective and aesthetically pleasing poster using PowerPoint. We’ll discuss layout, fonts, colors, graphics and more.
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Literature Review Workshop (2 offerings) Wednesday, February 17, 12-1 PM, LIB 259 Wednesday, March 23, 12-1 PM, LIB 259 Is writing the literature review a stumbling block? Come to hear what a...
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National Political Science Honors Society
Dear Poli Students,
Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honors Society, is currently holding a membership drive. To be eligible, students must have completed at least 60 total credits and at least 10 credits in Political Science, including at least one upper level course. In addition, juniors must have a GPA of 3.08 and seniors must have a GPA of 3.31.
To apply, please fill out the attached application form and drop it off, along with a check for your membership and the regalia you would like (see the application form) at Professor Forestiere's office in PUP 306.
Best!
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Four Week Faculty-led Study Abroad
Hello Students,
We are now accepting applications to the faculty-led study, 4-week abroad programs to Italy (Dr. Forestiere) and Poland (Dr. Grodsky) this summer. If you are interested in learning more or applying, please contact Dr. Forestiere at
forestie@umbc.edu or Dr. Grodsky at
bgrodsky@umbc.edu. You can also check out the attached link that goes to the UMBC Summer Programs page.
The deadline is March 10th!
Best!
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Write for The Baltimore Zeitgeist
Poli Students,
The Baltimore Zeitgeist, a rapidly growing national undergraduate political magazine founded at Johns Hopkins University in 2014, is looking for undergraduate writers. The magazine is committed to expanding its reach throughout the region in accordance with their commitment to engage politically thoughtful undergraduates at peer institutions.
The staff application and all of our articles are posted to our website -http://baltimorezeitgeist.com.
For questions, please contact Zachary Broner at zbroner1@jhu.edu, or the editor in-chief, Jonathan Loewenberg, at jloewen2@jhu.edu.
Best!
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CFP: AnthroPlus Student Conference
University of Maryland
Call for Papers:
The AnthroPlus student conference is a free, one-day event organized by anthropology graduate students at the University of Maryland, College Park. This year's theme is "Building Community Engagement and Social Equity in a Changing World." We encourage presentations relating to the theme, but all submissions are welcome.
The conference is open to both graduate and undergraduate students who would like to present on any aspect of anthropology or related disciplines. We welcome student research from an internship, thesis, dissertation, class project, or other assignment. Submissions from students of other universities and from departments outside of Anthropology are welcome.
This year's AnthroPlus Conference will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park on March 5, 2016. Abstracts are due
online by February 19, 2016. Please visit our
website for more information about the conference, to submit an abstract, or to register.
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Research Opportunity!
Hi Everyone,
Dr. Tyson King-Meadows is looking for a new research assistant. If you are interested, the information and a link to the application is below.
Cheers!
Research Assistantship
Department of Africana Studies
Work Study students are strongly encouraged to apply
Department: Africana Studies
Position: Research Assistantship
Positions Available: 1-2
Duties: To provide research support for Dr. King-Meadows.
Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities: data entry; finding assigned journal articles, newspaper articles, and books; preparing typed summaries of journal articles, newspaper articles, and books; running errands to AOK library and to other units on campus; photocopying, scanning and faxing, sending emails, preparing outgoing mail; typing documents; making phone calls; compiling documents and correspondence; attendance at weekly project meetings and participation in library research training; preparation and submission of final research report on activities; work on special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
Required skills: Research skill would be helpful, but will train. Ability to work independently on assigned tasks, familiar with Excel and Microsoft Word. General office experience required. Key Competencies include organizing and planning, prioritizing, attention to detail and accuracy, problem-solving, adaptability, teamwork, and written and oral communication skills.
Start Date: FEB 15 2016
Duration: 11 weeks
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Invitation to Mentor Baltimore City Youth - Spring Semester
Dear LLC students,
Welcome back for spring semester. I am writing to ask you if you would be willing to participate in a partnership between UMBC and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), a high school in Baltimore City. Poly is one of the oldest and most prestigious high schools in the country. Although it has a magnet program for engineering and science, it also has a strong liberal arts program. UMBC already has a good relationship with the school. It is a Professional Development School partner with UMBC where our student teachers are trained, as well as hired, to teach (at least twice in recent years). UMBC and Poly have worked together in other ways over the years. Poly students have come to campus for AP exam preparation and for recruitment tours, and we have recently established a partnership through the CollegeBound Foundation to offer scholarships to high performing students from Poly and other city public schools.
Poly successfully competed last year to be one of the schools allowed to offer the new “AP Capstone” class. This class is a part of a national initiative from College Board to “equip students with the independent research, collaborative teamwork, and communication skills that are increasingly valued by colleges.” UMBC is proud to be one of the state’s two official higher education supporters of this initiative.
There are 18 Poly juniors enrolled in the class this year, and UMBC is already supporting these students. During the fall semester, the students were introduced to campus, got library cards, and worked on group projects. In the upcoming spring semester, they will be working on individual research projects producing both a written paper and a presentation. To help them complete their projects, we hope to pair them with UMBC faculty mentors and are asking if you would be willing to serve as one of these mentors.
What would be involved? Your role would be to provide advice and support to one of the Poly students in her or his research. The research paper is to be inspired by one or more of the pieces of “stimulus material” listed below. Students need to produce an annotated bibliography (by March 2), a project outline (by March 23), a rough draft (by April 6) and a practice presentation (by April 18). Mentees will be expected to meet face-to-face with their mentors here at UMBC twice before March 23 and once more by April 1. Additionally, mentors and mentees will exchange a total of 8 substantive e-mails (cc’d to Poly faculty members), about the project in its various phases. We will be having a meet-and-greet kick-off breakfast on Friday, February 19 (9-11am) and students will be presenting their work on April 18. We believe that we are asking, in total, for about twenty hours of your time between mid-February and mid-April.
As far as possible, we will try to match faculty members with students based on the project topics the students choose, but the Poly faculty members do not believe that you will need to be an expert in their students’ areas of interest to be instrumental to their work. They are more interested in having their students receive individual attention and guidance from you, as a university professor, as they work through the steps to develop and carry out a research project.
We think this is a great opportunity to move UMBC’s efforts forward in building community engagement with Baltimore and a chance to support and encourage bright students from the city to attend college (perhaps at UMBC!), by giving them a taste of what the college experience is like.
I know every semester is busy, and that you are involved in many projects. I hope that you will be able to participate in this one, but will also quite understand if your commitments mean you cannot participate.
Please let John Stolle-McAllister (stollem@umbc.edu) know whether you will (or won’t) be able to participate by Monday, February 8.
Simon Stacey (spstacey@umbc.edu) will be happy to answer any questions that you might have about the AP Capstone Course.
Thank you for considering this opportunity.
Best regards,
Diane Lee
Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education
Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs
List of “stimulus material” for Spring 2016. Students will draw on at least one piece to inspire their research project. (Please note, these texts are embargoed for students by CollegeBoard until February 1.)
Russ Rymer, “Vanishing Voices,” from National Geographic
William Stearns Davis, “Chapter XVI: The Life of the Peasants,” from Life on a Mediaeval Barony
Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait Between the Borderline of Mexico and the United States, 1932
Ferris Jabr, “The Secret Life of Plants,” from New Scientist
James Baldwin, “A Letter to My Nephew,” from The Progressive
Thomas Dietz et al, “The Struggle to Govern the Commons,” from Science
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SCRA Research and Focus Group Training and Experience
Graduate Students Needed
Focus Group Leaders Needed
Study exploring Police-Student interactions in Baltimore City
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