The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Announcements
Writing Center Hours for Summer 2009
Summer 2009 Writing Center Hours:
June 22, 2009 to August 3, 2009
Only Walk-in Hours during the Summer!June 22 - July 13
Monday & Tuesday
1:30 - 2:30pm & 4:30 - 5:30 pmJuly 14 - August 3
Monday & Tuesday
4:30 - 5:30 pmFree computer use (for Spanish & Portuguese students ONLY) and .10 cents a page printing in Tutor Lab
Walk-in Service
06/30/09
The Writing Center is located in Folwell 34A. Walk-in consultations will be kept brief if there is a high demand for appointments. The Writing Center serves Spanish and/or Portuguese majors and minors or any student enrolled in a 3000-level course that is primarily taught in Spanish.Graduate Student Research and Travel Awards 2008-2009
Congratulations to all the graduate students who received awards to conduct research, travel, deliver papers at national and international conferences. Click on the title of this post to see the entire list.
05/28/09Fulbright awards for students in our programs
Congratulatioins to two undergraduate students who have been awarded Fulbright Teaching Assistantship Grants to work and learn abroad.
Jillian Stein, a 2009 summa cum laude candidate for a bachelor's in Spanish studies and bachelor's in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, received a Fulbright Teaching Assistant Grant to Spain. Stein will serve as a teaching assistant in English classes at a secondary school. She also intends to volunteer at a speech therapy clinic or women’s organization in the community.
Antoni Tang, a 2009 candidate for bachelor's degrees in marketing and African American/African Studies, with a Spanish Studies minor, received one of only three available Fulbright Teaching Assistant Grants to Venezuela. Tang will help to teach English to pre-teen and teenage students. He plans to volunteer with an Afro-Venezuelan organization in the community and plans to learn about Afro-Venezuelan movements for social justice.
05/20/09
Our warmest congratulatons to both of them and best wishes for their endeavors in Spain and Venezuela!Graduate student milestones
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies extends its warmest congratulations to all graduate students who successfully completed exams this academic year!
MA Prelims:The following students have successfully completed their Masters degree!
Karin Whitehouse
Daniela Goldfine
Sean Raley
Kristin Powell,
Angela GeorgePhD Prelims: The following students are now A.B.D.!
Joseph Towle
Naomi Wood
Nelly Pilares
Katherine OstromPhD Defense: The following students have completed their Ph.D.!
05/15/09
Gerardo Chavana
Hector Reyes-Zaga
Sara Mack
Deyanira Rojas-SosaChris Clark receives U of MN's President's Award for Outsanding Service!
Congratulations to Christopher Clark, our wonderful Folwell Hall building maintenance staff person, who has been awarded the University of Minnesota President's Award for Outstanding Service! This award recognizes exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments and service units by faculty and staff.
05/11/09
"This award recognizes exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments and service units by any active or retired member of the faculty or staff. Such service must have gone well beyond the regular duties of a faculty or a staff member, and demonstrate unusual commitment to the University community."
All of us in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies are thrilled on behalf of Chris Clark, and thank him for his part in making Folwell Hall the winner of this year's "Beautiful Building" award in Facililties Management as well. Thank you, Chris!Congratulations! Selmer Birkelo Scholarship for 2009-2010 awarded to two Spanish Studies majors
We would like to extend our warm congratulations to two of our department’s undergraduate students who were awarded the Selmer Birkelo Scholarship for 2009-2010. These students are Chelsey Rosetter (Spanish Studies major) and Elizabeth Troolin (Spanish Studies and Political Science double major). They were two of only fourteen students in CLA to receive this award! !Enhorabuena!
04/25/09
Founded in the 1960s, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, is widely recognized as a pioneer in the study of language, literature and, more broadly, cultural expressions from interdisciplinary perspectives grounded in socio-historical consciousness and political urgency. We offer B.A. degrees in Spanish and in Spanish and Portuguese; M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, Hispanic Linguistics, and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures. Our faculty have strengths in the colonial, postcolonial and globalization triad; gender and sexuality studies; memory and witnessing; human rights; and border cultures. In Linguistics, our strengths are in the study of language in its context(s) with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to language contact, phonology, pragmatics, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and syntax. At present we are undergoing an exciting moment of renovation and growth, and are looking forward to further enhancing both undergraduate and graduate learning experiences through a series of presentations, lectures, films, workshops, and opportunities for professional development and for community outreach.
The department also has strong institutional ties with important research communities across campus such as the Institute for Advanced Study, European Studies Consortium, CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition), Center for Medieval Studies, and ICGC (Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change).