Apply for a Writing Mentor!

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Apply for a Writing Mentor!

A Writing Mentor is a writing tutor who will work steadily with you one-on-one for a full semester to help you improve your writing. Many students prefer this arrangement over alternatives such as the Writing Workshop since the Mentor program helps foster a close relationship between the student and tutor while giving the student an opportunity to receive consistent feedback on their academic writing for about 45 minutes each week over the course of the semester.

The deadline to apply for a mentor is Monday, September 19th at 8:00 AM, and you can find complete information on the “Apply for a Writing Mentor” page on the Writing Workshop website (along with a link to the application).

Chinese Pop Culture Course

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Welcome Back everyone!

I would like to draw your attention to an exciting new class offered in the College of East Asian Studies this semester: CEAS 181, Chinese Pop Culture, which meets MW 10:50-12:10.

The course examines a wide range of Chinese pop culture materials from film to literature, martial arts to internet culture.

It appears there was some confusion about whether the class is held in Chinese or English. It is taught in English (a Chinese language class covering similar subjects is CEAS 204).

The film screening time is currently listed as Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15, but that time is just a placeholder as required by the registrar. The film screenings will be scheduled at a time that works for the students in the class, so if you are in athletics, please don’t let that posted time worry you.

I urge you all to attend on Wednesday and consider adding the class to your schedule.

Best regards,
Prof. Haddad

Apply to be a Peer Health Advocate

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The Peer Health Advocates (PHA) are the student voice of WesWELL’s health education outreach efforts and integral to the development and implementation of those efforts.

Involvement in the group is intended to impact your own understanding and behaviors around health as well as educate and promote health to the entire Wesleyan community.

We welcome students with interest in all health topics who wish to have a positive impact on the well-being of Wesleyan to apply to be a PHA.

Please visit the WesWell website for more information and to apply.

NEW LAST courses

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HIST 112 (FYS): Living the Latin American City: Urban History, Politics, and Culture (T/R, 2:50-4:10)
https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014748&term=1169

HIST 245 (survey) Survey of Latin American History (M/W, 8:20-9:40)
https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=004878&term=1169

HIST 297 (seminar) Mexican History and Visual Culture from Conquest to Present (T/TH, 8:50-10:10)
https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014749&term=1169

New Course in the Physics Department

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NEW: PHYS 107: Life in the Cell from a Molecule’s Perspective, which meets TR 10:20-11:40 in Exley 221.

This course is a writing intensive introduction to a handful of important topics in molecular biophysics. While I intend the course to introduce students to biophysics while they still have time to pursue the certificate, it would also be a great choice for a student looking for a course in NSM that is not math heavy. There are no problem sets, and no exams. Assessments consist of contributions to the class website (20%), twice-weekly exploratory writing assignments (40%), and a final paper (40%).