Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Printing Orders for the Beginning of the Spring Semester
If you have printing orders, including syllabi, policy sheets, etc. that you'd like for the beginning of the spring semester, please send them to me at least 48 business hours before your class time. Please note that the week of January 4-8 is consumed by graduate applications and I may not get MAXI orders placed with my usual alacrity.
Community Vigil for Don Belton
Friday, January 1, 2010
5:00-6:00 p.m
Bloomington Courthouse
Don Belton, a recently hired (2008) Assistant Professor here at IUB in English and the Creative Writing MFA program, was murdered Sunday night, stabbed in his home. An out gay African American writer, much of Don's work focused on the disjunction between representations and realities of black masculinity.
Below are links to local Bloomington news sources on the murder and Rae Greiner's announcement of the upcoming community gathering.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12982.html
http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/Don-Belton.html
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=72731
5:00-6:00 p.m
Bloomington Courthouse
Don Belton, a recently hired (2008) Assistant Professor here at IUB in English and the Creative Writing MFA program, was murdered Sunday night, stabbed in his home. An out gay African American writer, much of Don's work focused on the disjunction between representations and realities of black masculinity.
Below are links to local Bloomington news sources on the murder and Rae Greiner's announcement of the upcoming community gathering.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12982.html
http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/Don-Belton.html
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=72731
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Spring 2010 Graduate School Foreign Language Exam (GSFLE) for French
Please find below the scheduled dates and times for the Spring 2010 Graduate School Foreign Language Exam (GSFLE) for French.
Friday, January 8, 2010
8:30 am, 10 am, 1:30 pm, 3 pm
BEST Testing Room - Franklin Hall 014
Friday, January 15, 2010
8:30 am, 10 am, 1:30 pm, 3 pm
BEST Testing RooM - Franklin Hall 014
This exam is given by BEST (Bloomington Evaluation Services and Testing). Please note that the Department of French and Italian does not handle registration for this exam.
Students may register at the BEST Testing Center in Franklin Hall 014 (855-1595). Be prepared to provide your 10-digit University identification number and pay applicable test fees:
• Standard Test Fee: $15.00
• Mail/Phone Registration: $18.00
• Special Appointment: $50.00
Further details about the exam, including sample questions, may be found on the BEST website.
Friday, January 8, 2010
8:30 am, 10 am, 1:30 pm, 3 pm
BEST Testing Room - Franklin Hall 014
Friday, January 15, 2010
8:30 am, 10 am, 1:30 pm, 3 pm
BEST Testing RooM - Franklin Hall 014
This exam is given by BEST (Bloomington Evaluation Services and Testing). Please note that the Department of French and Italian does not handle registration for this exam.
Students may register at the BEST Testing Center in Franklin Hall 014 (855-1595). Be prepared to provide your 10-digit University identification number and pay applicable test fees:
• Standard Test Fee: $15.00
• Mail/Phone Registration: $18.00
• Special Appointment: $50.00
Further details about the exam, including sample questions, may be found on the BEST website.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Volunteer Training Date Set for Interfaith Winter Shelter
Volunteer training for the Interfaith Winter Shelter will be held on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at Sherwood Oaks Christian Church, 6:00-9:00 PM. Please consider attending the training and joining the amazing group of volunteers who have made it possible for our community to offer hospitality and comfort to our homeless neighbors this winter.
For additional information about Bloomington’s only low-barrier shelter, go to interfaithwintershelter.org. The shelter’s mission, partners, and volunteer sites and shifts are described there. We especially need volunteers to fill graveyard shifts. If you have specific questions, please contact Patricia Andrews (339-7484 or andrewsp@indiana.edu).
For additional information about Bloomington’s only low-barrier shelter, go to interfaithwintershelter.org. The shelter’s mission, partners, and volunteer sites and shifts are described there. We especially need volunteers to fill graveyard shifts. If you have specific questions, please contact Patricia Andrews (339-7484 or andrewsp@indiana.edu).
Monday, December 14, 2009
Pizza Lunch in CMCL
For all you hardworking AIs, we'll be ordering in pizza for lunch on Tuesday, December 15th. Happy Grading!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
J510: Media & Society Seminar
Spring 2010
MW 4:00- 5:15,
Room 214 in Ernie Pyle Hall
Professor David Nord
School of Journalism
This course, as its title declares, is about ³media and society.² That phrase might be taken two ways. It could mean the media as institutions in a larger social context; or it could mean the society, the social structure, within the mass media organizations themselves. Both meanings guide my approach to J510. In fact, this distinction divides the course into two parts. The first part of the course will examine the place of mass communication organizations (especially news media) in the American democratic polity and economic system. The second part of the course will explore the internal structures and procedures of media organizations (especially news media) and the effects of those structures and procedures upon performance. The class will pay particular attention to three key
themes: (1) the current economic crisis in American journalism; (2) the increasing role of press criticism in partisan politics; and (3) the effects of new technology on the nature of news.
This is a blend of a readings colloquium and a research seminar. The work will involve considerable reading in media studies, politics, and current business and political journalism. Three short essays will also be required. The class meets Mondays and Wednesday, 4:005:15, Room 214 in Ernie Pyle Hall.
David Nord is professor of Journalism and adjunct professor of History and American Studies. For further information, please contact him at:
.
MW 4:00- 5:15,
Room 214 in Ernie Pyle Hall
Professor David Nord
School of Journalism
This course, as its title declares, is about ³media and society.² That phrase might be taken two ways. It could mean the media as institutions in a larger social context; or it could mean the society, the social structure, within the mass media organizations themselves. Both meanings guide my approach to J510. In fact, this distinction divides the course into two parts. The first part of the course will examine the place of mass communication organizations (especially news media) in the American democratic polity and economic system. The second part of the course will explore the internal structures and procedures of media organizations (especially news media) and the effects of those structures and procedures upon performance. The class will pay particular attention to three key
themes: (1) the current economic crisis in American journalism; (2) the increasing role of press criticism in partisan politics; and (3) the effects of new technology on the nature of news.
This is a blend of a readings colloquium and a research seminar. The work will involve considerable reading in media studies, politics, and current business and political journalism. Three short essays will also be required. The class meets Mondays and Wednesday, 4:005:15, Room 214 in Ernie Pyle Hall.
David Nord is professor of Journalism and adjunct professor of History and American Studies. For further information, please contact him at:
H650: Digital History/Digital Humanities Course
Kirsten Sword is offering a course on History and the New Media (Digital
History) next semester that will be useful for students in related humanities disciplines, but which might have escaped notice because it ill-fits curricular categories.
Its purpose is to equip students with skills that have become implicit requirements for humanities scholarship and teaching (as well as for public history), but which are not directly addressed in the established curriculum. The course assignments ask students to bring their own work into the conversation, and it can be used in ways that help prep for field-specific exams, as well as to develop research strategies and proposals for dissertation work. Our discussions explore fundamental questions about the aims of scholarly communication, and the instructor consequently would like to bring in students from different temporal & geographic fields, different disciplines, and with a range of technical (and non-technical) experiences.
Students who took the class last time praised it as conceptually challenging as well as methodologically useful. It looks as if it will be a small course next semester, and input on ways it might be customized to suit student interests will be welcomed. Please encourage anyone on the fence about the course to register, or to contact the instructor with questions.
History H650: Digital History
Spring Semester 2010, Fridays, 10-12:15
This colloquium is designed to help humanities scholars think systematically about how digital media affect their work. We will explore the vast array of digital resources historians use in research, in teaching, and to engage the public outside of academia. Our common readings will include highlights from the lively debate between academic techno-enthusiasts and techno-skeptics, a range of exemplary digital projects, and a pragmatic guide to creating one's own digital tools. The emphasis of the course, however, is on building collective knowledge out of individual investigation of the resources most relevant to our own fields. We will be helping each other to think broadly about what has been done and what might be done with the "new media," while at the same time addressing more concrete questions about what is possible and wise for us individually.
Course assignments will allow you to invest time in evaluating and learning the tools you will need for your scholarly endeavors, whatever your current level of technical skill. You will be asked to lay the plans for a digital project related to your work, and to use your acquired expertise to educate your classmates. You will also be asked to develop one of the technical skills appropriate to your
project.
The instructor will facilitate training, but the class will not teach specific programs. Discussion will focus on the common issues and opportunities technology raises for humanists. The colloquium has been designed with historians in mind, but the concerns are interdisciplinary and students from other departments are encouraged to enroll.
For more information, contact Prof. Kirsten Sword, ksword@indiana.edu, or see the course website at http://www.indiana.edu/~dighist.
History) next semester that will be useful for students in related humanities disciplines, but which might have escaped notice because it ill-fits curricular categories.
Its purpose is to equip students with skills that have become implicit requirements for humanities scholarship and teaching (as well as for public history), but which are not directly addressed in the established curriculum. The course assignments ask students to bring their own work into the conversation, and it can be used in ways that help prep for field-specific exams, as well as to develop research strategies and proposals for dissertation work. Our discussions explore fundamental questions about the aims of scholarly communication, and the instructor consequently would like to bring in students from different temporal & geographic fields, different disciplines, and with a range of technical (and non-technical) experiences.
Students who took the class last time praised it as conceptually challenging as well as methodologically useful. It looks as if it will be a small course next semester, and input on ways it might be customized to suit student interests will be welcomed. Please encourage anyone on the fence about the course to register, or to contact the instructor with questions.
History H650: Digital History
Spring Semester 2010, Fridays, 10-12:15
This colloquium is designed to help humanities scholars think systematically about how digital media affect their work. We will explore the vast array of digital resources historians use in research, in teaching, and to engage the public outside of academia. Our common readings will include highlights from the lively debate between academic techno-enthusiasts and techno-skeptics, a range of exemplary digital projects, and a pragmatic guide to creating one's own digital tools. The emphasis of the course, however, is on building collective knowledge out of individual investigation of the resources most relevant to our own fields. We will be helping each other to think broadly about what has been done and what might be done with the "new media," while at the same time addressing more concrete questions about what is possible and wise for us individually.
Course assignments will allow you to invest time in evaluating and learning the tools you will need for your scholarly endeavors, whatever your current level of technical skill. You will be asked to lay the plans for a digital project related to your work, and to use your acquired expertise to educate your classmates. You will also be asked to develop one of the technical skills appropriate to your
project.
The instructor will facilitate training, but the class will not teach specific programs. Discussion will focus on the common issues and opportunities technology raises for humanists. The colloquium has been designed with historians in mind, but the concerns are interdisciplinary and students from other departments are encouraged to enroll.
For more information, contact Prof. Kirsten Sword, ksword@indiana.edu
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