Department News
Spanish Major Declaration Worshop Spring 2012
31 January 2012
The Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese has announced the date for the Fall 2011 Spanish Major Declaration Workshop. The workshop will be held on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 in Wilson Hall 140.
Students must bring a Declaration of Major form to the workshop. These forms can be found in Monroe Hall. Students must fill out the form including all courses that have been taken that satisfy the major as well as the courses you plan to take. Any areas of uncertainty will be reviewed by an advisor. You will then be assigned to an advisor who is suited for your desired course of study.
Students interested in declaring a major must attend the workshop. This workshop will be presided over by Spanish Faculty Advisors who will review the highlights of declaring a Spanish major and will be available to answer questions from students.
Friends in Firenze, an article by Tyler Deboard, on the J- term he took, "Love Affair with Tuscany: Utopias and Beyond."
25 January 2012
For more please visit Cavalier Daily
"The Self and the Other"-An Interdisciplinary Conference
24 January 2012
The SIP Conference Committee is hosting our second interdisciplinary graduate student conference on February 10 and 11 with the theme of “The Self and the Other.” This conference has been organized in order to help foster relationships between graduate students across departments within Arts and Sciences as well as to provide presenters with the opportunity to hear new perspectives on their research. A total of eighteen presenters from seven different programs (Spanish, Italian, French, Religious Studies, Sociology, Slavic Language and Literatures, and Art and Architecture History) will be presenting papers on topics ranging from cross-cultural encounters to narrative discourse. This year’s keynote speaker is Anna Brickhouse, from the UVa English department. The title of the key note will be ““The Self, the Other, the Translator.”
Roundtable on Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Spring 2012
19 January 2012
Roundtable on Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Spring 2012
Please join us in the inaugural interdepartmental Roundtable on Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, a unique opportunity for teachers from different foreign language departments and schools to come together to share innovative teaching ideas, best practices, and research on language teaching and to engage in ongoing dialogues about teaching and learning. Each session will start with a short presentation followed by opportunities for discussion with participants, questions, and brainstorming. Light refreshments will be provided.
Date: January 27 The Power of Creativity Time: 3:00-4:30pm Alison Levine (French) Location: Gibson 211
Description: I will discuss various ways I attempt to engage students’ creativity in my French courses, from intermediate-level composition to advanced film and culture courses. My thinking on this is influenced by the “backwards” model of course design, in which assignments take center stage in thinking about course planning. I will talk about various ways I have integrated creative assignments to align with various types of course objectives, and the results I have observed in student learning and performance.
Date: February 17 Assessment and Rubrics Time: 3:00-4:30pm Emily Scida (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese) Location: Gibson 211
Description: Once we have developed a curriculum and assignments that align with our learning goals, how will we know that students have achieved those learning goals in our courses? How might the use of rubrics support us in our teaching, grading, and assessment? We will examine the benefits of rubrics and discuss how to design clear and effective rubrics for use in foreign language courses at any level.
Date: March 16 Contextualized lesson plans and assessment Time: 3:00-4:30pm Josh Mason (French) Location: Gibson 211
Description: In this presentation, I will discuss the importance of creating integrated lesson plans that naturally navigate a specific context. No matter the level of language in the L2, all students come with a “suitcase” filled with experiences and knowledge that can be tapped into if they are presented with familiar contexts. Exams and compositions are no different and should carry out the same strategies as the classroom environment. Ultimately, I believe students benefit greatly from a contextualized learning atmosphere.
Date: April 13 Theme-based curriculum design for advanced language courses Time: 3:00-4:30pm Hsin-hsin Liang (East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures) Location: Gibson 211
Description: This paper presents ways in which traditional “Media Chinese” courses at the advanced level can be redesigned to be theme-based language courses. Knowledge of the assigned themes as well as language proficiency can be simultaneously acquired primarily by having students actively search for meaningful information in various media. My experience with this course redesign may be applied to any foreign language curriculum.
Date: May 4 Languages Across Borders: Building Upon Cross-Linguistic Expertise in Time: 3:00-4:30pm Teaching and Learning a Second/Foreign Language Location: TBA Amanda Kibler, April Salerno, Christine Hardigree (Curry)
Description: This presentation examines the challenges and possibilities of peer-mentoring models in which native speakers and learners of the same languages are paired together to engage in collaborative tasks in both languages. Drawing upon data collected in a yearlong dual-language enrichment program designed for Spanish-speaking English language learners and English-speaking Spanish language learners, presenters will first share preliminary findings regarding changes in students’ second language proficiency and cross-cultural understanding before facilitating interactive discussions on the ways in which dual-language, peer-mentoring models can be used for diverse purposes across a variety of
language-learning settings.
Registration
Pre-registration is not required but will help us in planning and logistics. To register
Contact Information
For more information or if you have questions, contact Emily Scida at ees2n@virginia.edu.
LATEST ISSUE OF LA VENDEMMIA JUST OUT!
6 December 2011
Read up on the latest news in Italian Studies at UVa in the December 2011 issue of La Vendemmia, now available La vendemmia dicembre final.pdf.
GORI ART COLLECTION INTERNSHIP
6 December 2011
The undergraduate program in Italian Studies is now accepting applications for the summer internship at the Gori Collection of Site-Specific Art in Santomato, Italy (Tuscany region). In 1982 Giuliano Gori was the first private collector in the world to start commissioning site-specific art and today his collection represents one of the largest and most qualified of its kind in the world. The internship is open to Italian majors and students of Italian, and gives students an exciting opportunity to lead tours and help manage a one-of-a-kind art museum. For more info, click Gori Collection internship Announcement 201.
Mabel Richart, Visiting Professor from University of Valencia
3 December 2011
Please join us on Monday, December 12, 2011 to hear a terrfic lecture given Mabel Richard, Visiting Professor from the University of Valencia on films of Luis Buñuel. The title of her talk is “Tristana de Luis Buñuel, o de la importancia de pantuflas y pianos: claves de und traducción intersemiótica”. The lecuter will take place at 4:00pm on December 12, 2011 in 141 Naue Hall.
The lecturer is free and open to the public!
Please see attached flyer for more information.
The Spanish Inquisition Minor Hall Friday 11/4/11
3 November 2011
For Novermber 4th, the Spanish Inquisiotn has been changed. The room is Minor Hall 125a t 2:00pm!
The Spanish Inquisition
12 October 2011
November 4 and 5, 2011
“The Spanish Inquisition: Rereadings and New Questions.”
Doris Moreno of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona will give the keynote address on Protestants, the Society of Jesus, and the Inquisition at 4:00 on Friday.
There will be additional panels on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Sara T. Nalle (William Paterson U), Gretchen Starr-LeBeau (University of Kentucky), Lu Ann Homza (U of William and Mary), Kimberly Lynn (Western Washington U), Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins U), Adam Beaver (Princeton U), Allyson Poska (Mary Washington U), and Jodi Bilinkoff (UNC Greensboro) will join UVA scholars from Spanish and History.
On Saturday morning, we will also hold a linguistics workshop on reading Inquisition sources. Professor Moreno’s address will be in Spanish and the other presentations will be in English.
The symposium is sponsored by Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, with support from the Corcoran Department of History and the Jewish Studies Program.
For the program information please see Spanish Inquisition
Lecture by Andrés Soria Olmedo
11 October 2011
Please join us on October 17, 2011 for a lecture titled “Lorca en New York: Oficina Y Denuncia” given by Professor Andrés Soria Olmedo from the Universidad de Granda.
“Lorca en New York: Oficina Y Denuncia”
Friday, October 17 at 6:15pm
NAU Hall, 341
We look forward to seeing you there.
For more information, please see announcement.