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New courses!

· AFAM 306: Visual Storytelling: Race, (In)Visibility, and the American Landscape https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014505&term=1161

· CHUM 320: Modern Intellectual History in Global Perspectives https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014504&term=1161

· QAC 311: Longitudinal Data Analysis
https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014511&term=1161

· QAC 312: Hierarchical Linear Models
https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014510&term=1161

· QAC 314: Survival Analysis
https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014509&term=1161

· QAC 385: Applications of Machine Learning in Data Analysis https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014508&term=1161

· QAC 386: Quantitative Textual Analysis: Introduction to Text Mining https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014507&term=1161

The Wesleyan Sustainability Office is seeking frosh and sophomores
to serve as Eco Facilitators for the 2016-2017 school year! Eco Facilitators (EFs) are peer-to-peer sustainability educators who promote sustainable lifestyles on campus within the context of global climate change and social inequality.

In Spring 2016, EFs will enroll in a semester-long student
forum focused on theories and strategies for sustainable behavior change. Throughout the fall and spring of the 2016-2017 school year, EFs will be paid to implement these strategies, working with first-year students and Res Life to serve as a resource on how
to adopt sustainable lifestyles. Working as an Eco Facilitator is a great opportunity to gain leadership skills and take part in building a more sustainable campus community.

Applications
are due by 11:59 PM on Saturday, December 5th.

An information session will be held on
Monday, November 30th at 12:15 PM in Usdan 108
More information is available at http://www.wesleyan.edu/sustainability/students/eco-facilitators.html.
Please email ecofacilitators@wesleyan.edu
with any questions.

Going Global Beyond Study Abroad

In celebration of International Education Week, join a panel of students knowledgeable of international fellowships, graduate school abroad, international internships, conducting research abroad, securing funding for international research or language study. Panelists will share best practices and recommendations in pursuing these opportunities abroad. The panel will be held in the Career Center on Wednesday November 18th beginning at 5:30 PM and moderated by Kate Smith, Associate Director of Fellowships, Internships and Exchanges. Please join us to learn and plan your next international step beyond study abroad.

Website: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cgs/index.html
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/516955898463759/

Writing Short Fiction in Spanish
SPAN 227 / CGST 227
T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM;

P.O.I – LIMITED TO 12 STUDENTS

This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of writing short fiction in Spanish, and will enhance their knowledge of the Spanish language through the reading of great short stories that will inform students’ own writing and the development of a personal style. We will examine essential features of fiction (methods of constructing narrative tension, climax, ambiguity, character, different kinds of autobiographies and descriptions, dialogues, monologues, etcetera,) as well as various fictional styles through the texts of masters such as Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Cristina Sánchez Andrade, Valle-Inclán, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, among others.

Requirements: at least SPAN 221 with a minimum of B+. Priority will be given to HISP majors and students who have studied abroad in a Spanish-speaking country, but all are encouraged to apply.

Check out the peer advisor blog for some effective strategies for pre-registration:
http://peeradvisor.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2015/11/09/pre-registration-strategies/

Best,

Dean Wood

Interested in Winter Session?

Don’t miss your opportunity to participate!

Registration for classes, housing, and dining closes December 2 – at noon – right after we return from Thanksgiving break. You can find the form for Winter Session, as well as links to sign up for dining and housing, in your Eportfolio Winter Session bucket or online at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wintersession/enroll/index.html. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, your advisor, or the Winter Session office at winter@wesleyan.edu.

Information Session: Summer 2016 in Oaxaca, Mexico
With Professor of Anthropology, Anu Sharma and Associate Director of Study Abroad, Emily Gorlewski

Tuesday, November 17, 2015
South College B2/B3
12-1 p.m.
Pizza will be served
RSVP to study abroad@wesleyan.edu

Course Information
Credits: 2
Dates: May 25-Jun 3: Wesleyan Campus/Jun 5-Jun 24: Oaxaca, Mexico
Description: This course will focus on how indigenous communities are challenging the mainstream growth-oriented development logic promoted by international organizations, and articulating and living radical alternatives to development.

Wesleyan University

Emily Gorlewski / Associate Director, Study Abroad
Office of Study Abroad / Center for Global Studies

Wesleyan University
+1 (860) 685-3007
105 Fisk Hall, 262 High St. Middletown, CT 06457
wesleyan.edu/studyabroad

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Study Abroad Stories for Prospective Study Abroad Students 11/12

The Deans’ Office and the Office of Study Abroad are hosting an event for prospective study abroad students featuring students who have recently returned from study abroad. These students have great pictures to show and stories to tell about their experiences, and if you are planning to study abroad, we’re sure you have great interest and questions for them.
Daniel Family Commons

Thursday, November 12, 6:30-8:00pm.
Light refreshments will be served
Please use this form to RSVP.

Looking forward to seeing many of you there! And while we have you reading this, please like the Office of Study Abroad’s new Facebook page.

You’re invited to the Fall
WHY AMERICAN STUDIES?!
FESTIVE GATHERING

Music to your ears
AMST DJ

Food
Typhoon Thai food, Lyman’s Orchard Cider, Lucibello’s Almond Cookies

Food for Thought
Some AMST majors & faculty will for one minute each say something about
interdisciplinary & postdisciplinary knowledge without borders
questioning the givens & imagining what can be
unlearning as well as learning
what are you involved in & what can you do about it?

Where
the lovely Center for the Americas (yellow house opposite Fisk)

When
this Wednesday Nov. 11, 6:00-7:00

What can you “do” with American Studies? A lot for the rest of your life: you can develop the critical and creative skills to step back from and question the “givens” thrown at you and imagine how the world–or whatever enterprise you become involved in (government, business, law, revolution)–can be made otherwise.

Want a sample of this? This TODAY, Nov. 5, 4:30-6:00, Downey 113 we have a really special panel that explores how three American Studies alums working in media are putting American Studies into action, thinking through what they’re involved in and what they can do about it. Among other things, we’ll explore not just social critique but popularizing social analysis and critique. And we’ll consider the importance not just of exposing systemic social contradictions but putting the spotlight on Americans who are trying to find solutions. It features Emmy-winning, Peabody award-winning, and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Prize-winning ABC news producer and documentary-maker Claire Weinraub ’93, labor and continuing editor of the progressive and exciting weblog Daily Kos: News, Community, Action Dr. Laura Clawson ’98, and literary agent Grace Ross ’12. Check it out! Treats/reception will follow.

Joel Pfister
Chair, American Studies Department