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2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements, International study

SCAN Second 8-week courses, and more!

Dear Friends of the Scandinavian Program and Scandinavian Club at the U of I!
Mark your calendars for several upcoming events and courses, sponsored by or related to the Scandinavian Studies Program or the student Scandinavian Club (RSO).
 
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Time to sign up for second 8-week courses Spring 2014!!
Running March 17 – May 7, 2014
 
SCAN 215: Madness, Myth and Murder – Scandinavian prose fiction in English translation (same as CWL 215)
MWF, 1:00-2:50 PM, 3 credit hours
 
SCAN 494: Intro to Swedish Sign Language (meets with SHS 390)
MTWTh, 8:00-9:50 AM, 4 credit hours
 
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SAO-LAS: Stockholm Summer Artic Program 2014
“Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic”
SCAN 386/GLBL 386/SESE 386
6 credits
 
Program Dates: June 2 – July 4
Study Abroad Office Application Deadline:  March 1, 2014
 
In this intensive five-week program – for science and non-science students – program participants will learn about issues related to climate change and human presence in the Arctic from interdisciplinary perspectives.  UIUC students participate together with students from KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and will spend two weeks in the Arctic.  This year’s field sites will be located in Northern Sweden, with time spent in Kiruna, followed a stay in the Swedish mountains at the Tarfala Research Station, and ending with a stay at the Abisko Research Station near Lake Torne Träsk.  Applicants must have junior status or consent of the instructor.
 
Program contacts:
Jonathan Tomkin, Associate Director, School of Earth, Society, and Environment (tomkin@illinois.edu) 
Alison Anders, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geology (amanders@illinois.edu)
Kristen Stout, Study Abroad Office Advisor for programming in mainland Europe (kmstrom2@illinois.edu) 
 
Apply to the program at the following address:
 
Sponsored by the Study Abroad Office, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Scandinavian Studies, European Union Center, Global Studies, Earth Society & Environment and INSPIRE.
 
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Join us for Swedish Conversation Group and Coffee Hour Thursdays!
2:30-3:30 PM
(Runs from January 30 through May 1; excluding March 13, 27)
Philippson Library, 3114 Foreign Languages Building
 
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Mark your calendars for these Spring 2014 lectures:
 
Colloquium:  “Constructing Jerusalem at Vadstena (Sweden): Creating a Symbolic Space through Text, Architecture and Paraliturgical Devotions”
Thursday February 27, 5:00 PM in Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB 1080
Michelle Urberg, Music, University of Chicago.  Colloquium organized by Medieval Studies at UIUC.
 
 
Lecture:  “The Trouble with Stars ­ Global vs. Vernacular Stardom in Two Forms of European Popular Culture”
Thursday March 6 at 5:15 PM in Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB 1080
Dr. Olof Hedling, Lund University, Fulbright Hildeman Visiting Scholar in the Scandinavian Program, U. of I.
 
 
Lecture:  “Fictionalizations of a Welfare State Sex Scandal: The Re-telling of Historical Events and Call Girl (2012)”
Thursday April 3 at 5:15 PM in Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB 1080
Dr. Mariah Larsson, Stockholm University, EUC and MACS Visiting Scholar and INSPIRE fellow. 
 
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Interested in the Scandinavian Minor or Major? 
Contact the program advisor, Dr. Mark Safstrom, to set up an appointment (safstrom@illinois.edu FLB 3117).  Now is also the time for currently enrolled minors and majors to schedule a time for their Spring course audit. 
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2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

Sustainability in the Home Landscape

HORT 199, Sustainability in the Home Landscape, is a new 2 credit hour class meeting Tues. and Thursday, 6 pm – 8 pm in the second half of the semester.  Since this is a new class and is listed under HORT 199 there are seats open in this class.
 

Sustainability in the Home Landscape

HORT 199 Lecture/Discussion

Tuesday and Thursday, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Spring Semester 2014,

Second Eight Weeks, 2 credits, CRN 60986

 

This course is designed expose students to issues and practices associated with the sustainable management of residential landscapes. Sustainability means the capacity to endure over time. As part of the natural world and dependent on the use of natural resources to sustain our residential environment and personal activities it is essential for individuals and families to connect and balance ecological, economic and social systems to meet the needs of today without compromising the needs of future generations.

 

The goal is to teach future homeowners to sustainability manage what will most likely be their single largest investment, their home and its landscape. It will strive create a bridge between producers and suppliers of viably sustainable landscape goods, services materials and technologies to homeowners, the end users.  Topics will be presented so as to emphasis the science behind the selection of landscape plants, soil care, sustainable plant care practices, water management strategies, use of non-renewable resources, and the principles of landscape design that emphasis energy conservation. Students will be exposed to cooperative efforts to promote sustainability including, the Sustainable Sites Initiative™, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.

 

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2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements, Study Abroad

Course options for students interested/returning from study abroad

1.       ANTH/GLBL 227- UNPACKING INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE (no prerequisite, open to all majors)
CRN 60076
Lecture-Discussion
1
12:00 PM – 01:50 PM
T
106B3 Engineering Hall
Course is designed to help students unpack their international study abroad experience, learn how to market the soft skills they gained abroad and explore professional options once they graduate.  Guest presenters from the Career Center and other units provide practical advice on how to maximize the post-study abroad experience.
·         Starts March 18th.
·         For more info contact: Nicole Tami (tami@illinois.edu)

Come share your stories

• Market the valuable hands-on experiences you gained abroad

• Connect with other study abroad returnees

• Explore next steps for working or living abroad after you graduate

• Plug into international networks

Through in-class activities, group discussions, and writing exercises, you’ll reflect on your experiences and sharpen the professional tools and transferable skills you picked up along the way.

ANTH/GLBL 227: Second 8-weeks course Tuesdays, noon-1:50 pm | Starts March 18, 2014

2.       PRE-DEPARTURE FOR STUDY ABROAD-Course begins week of March 17 CMN 199 section A; M 4-550 CMN 199 section B; W 4-440
Studying abroad can be exhilarating, transformative, and stressful. The optional, one-hour course has been developed specifically to prepare students from across departments and colleges to get the most from their upcoming Study Abroad experience.  This course will address a range of issues such as:
·         Getting the most from relationships with host nationals
·         The values and expectations you unknowingly bring to encounters with your hosts
·         The most difficult part of having to live daily in another language
·         Culture shock
·         For more info contact: Michele Koven (mkoven@illinois.edu)
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2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements, Study Abroad

Post-study abroad 8-week course Spring 2014

Here is a 2nd 8-week course designed to help students unpack their international study abroad experience, learn how to market the soft skills they gained abroad and explore professional options once they graduate.
 
Back from Studying Abroad…
Now what?
Unpacking your International Experience
• Come share your stories
• Market the valuable hands-on experiences you gained abroad
• Connect with other study abroad returnees
• Explore next steps for working or living abroad after you graduate
• Plug into international networks
Through in-class activities, group discussions, and writing exercises, you’ll reflect on your experiences and sharpen the professional tools and transferable skills you picked up along the way.

 

ANTH/GLBL 227- UNPACKING INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Second 8-weeks course Tuesdays, noon-1:50 pm | Starts March 18, 2014
 
CRN 60076
Lecture-Discussion
1
12:00 PM – 01:50 PM
T
106B3 Engineering Hall
 
 
2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

2nd 8-week course ENGL 274: Contemporary Classics

We have a great 2nd 8-week course on offer in the spring, called “Contemporary Classics,” that could appeal to a wide range of students.  Please help us get the word out.   Thanks!

ENGL 274, Section D (Literature and Society)
TOPIC: CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS

MWF 1:00-2:20
Prof. Gordon Hutner

This course investigates the novels that readers and reviewers have signaled to be among the most important of the current generation. They may not be popular favorites, but they have won critical esteem, especially insofar as all of our books have been finalists for or have won prestigious prizes.  In that regard, they are extremely readable, even if they only occasionally surface on bestseller lists. One or two of the authors may already be known to you; several more are well known in literary circles, and a few are only now coming into recognition.  Unlike other courses, where author reputations are already fixed and where there are already standard interpretations, this class offers students the chance to be among the very first to study these examples of the serious (though occasionally humorous) literature of the last decade or so.

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2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

Two New Speech & Hearing Science Electives for Spring 2014: SHS 390 Intro to Swedish Sign Language and SHS 390 Communication Disorders and Discourse Analysis

For your information, the Department of Speech and Hearing Science will be offering two special topics classes Spring 2014:  Intro to Swedish Sign Language and Communication Disorders, as well as Communication Disorders and Discourse Analysis. Each course is listed separately under different sections of SHS 390.
 
There are no pre-requisites for either of these classes and each course is open to all majors.
 
Intro to Swedish Sign Language is a four hour elective which will be offered under SHS 390 during the 2nd 8 weeks of the semester. Two sections will be offered: section SS1 will meet 9:00-10:50 MTWR (CRN 60703) and section SS2 will meet 11:00-1:50 MTWR (CRN 60705). The class will be taught by a Deaf native Swedish instructor. No knowledge of American Sign Language or Swedish is required.
 
If there are any questions about the Intro to Swedish Sign Language class please contact Matthew Dye directly at: mdye@illinois.edu. (Although this is not related to the American Sign Language classes, if students have questions related to those courses, please direct any questions about that to Matt Dye as well.)
 
The other SHS special topics class that will be offered under a different section of SHS 390 (section DA) is Communication Disorders and Discourse Analysis (CRN 57694). This three hour full semester course will be taught by Dr. Julie Hengst. It is scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00-12:20. A description of that class is attached. If you have any questions about this course, please contact Dr. Julie Hengst directly at:  hengst@illinois.edu.
 
Thank you for sharing information about these courses with your students.
2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

JOUR 480 and JOUR 460

The following Fall 2013 Second 8 week course has several openings.  Please forward on to interested students.
 
Multimedia Journalism in eBook Publishing
3hr course, second 8 week
While much of the focus in journalism recently has been on presenting content on the Web and mobile devices there is another paradigm shift sweeping into prominence: from paper books to eBooks. This class will explore eBooks as a journalistic medium particularly focusing on multimedia on this platform. Using easy-to-use tools like Apple’s iBook Author, this hands-on class will allow the students to explore the methodology and concepts of creating eBooks for journalism. Each student will produce an eBook with multimedia content. Prerequisite: Jour 410: Multimedia Reporting or experience with photography and consent of instructor.
Right now the Prereqs are JOUR 400 and JOUR 410, if a student is interested in the course they can also contact the professor and to see about getting consent to enroll.  Professor Johnson at bkj@illinois.edu
 
JOUR 460 is The Media and You
2hr course, second 8 week
Getting the Message Out This course will equip students and practitioners in journalism, public relations, business, agriculture and science and technology fields with practical knowledge and tools to understand and work with all forms of media to achieve their goals. The course will include a quick survey of contemporary public relations and clarify several discrete elements: publicity, advertising, branding, press agency, public affairs, issues management, lobbying, investor relations and development. This will set the stage for this course, which will focus on working with and, at times, around news media. The core issue of working with the media will encompass guidelines for good media relations, guidelines for working with the press, and understanding the ethical dimensions of the relationships that form. The course will employ case studies, real and hypothetical. The class will break into small groups for the last four or five sessions to develop a set of strategies, employing an array of media, to reach a PR goal the instructor will develop. The instructor will solicit real world opportunities for class teams to work with local/regional interests on a media and communications plan that suits the client.
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2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

The Media and You, second 8 week course

The Media and You
 
Fall 2013 second 8 weeks and still has seats available
 
Getting the Message Out This course will equip students and practitioners in journalism, public relations, business, agriculture and science and technology fields with practical knowledge and tools to understand and work with all forms of media to achieve their goals. The course will include a quick survey of contemporary public relations and clarify several discrete elements: publicity, advertising, branding, press agency, public affairs, issues management, lobbying, investor relations and development. This will set the stage for this course, which will focus on working with and, at times, around news media. The core issue of working with the media will encompass guidelines for good media relations, guidelines for working with the press, and understanding the ethical dimensions of the relationships that form. The course will employ case studies, real and hypothetical. The class will break into small groups for the last four or five sessions to develop a set of strategies, employing an array of media, to reach a PR goal the instructor will develop. The instructor will solicit real world opportunities for class teams to work with local/regional interests on a media and communications plan that suits the client.
 
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2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

new Global Studies 8-week course

LAS Global Studies is offering a new course for the second 8-weeks of the Fall Semester (10/19-12/11) This is a writing workshop for students who have studied abroad. All majors welcome.
 
 
First Person Global (GLBL 199) with Professor Carol Spindel
Tuesdays 4-5:50 pm in 1126 FLB
This is a writing workshop for students who have studied abroad and want to deepen their understanding of globalization by writing about their own experiences. Writing in the first person raises fundamental questions about identity, power, cultural understanding, and representation. In this class we challenge ourselves to chronicle our global encounters in ethical, thoughtful, and creative ways. We read and discuss narrative nonfiction and personal essays by contemporary writers and we write to have it all — vivid characters, true stories, accurate information, perceptive ideas, and robust language. (1 credit hour)
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