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Please submit material
for the College of Arts
and Sciences Newsletter
to Linda Thien by Tuesday
at 5:00 p.m. via e-mail: thienlr@slu.edu; fax: 977-3649; interoffice mail: Fusz
Hall, Second Floor
Don't forget to submit
important departmental news to
Grand Connections
The Ignatian Anniversary Year
This semester's
observance will focus
on Jesuit leadership through discussions
of Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney and
his lectures on March 27 and 28th.
A series of talks celebrating "Jesuit
Jubilee '06:
A Vision, A Mission, A Prayer," will be offered by
the Missouri Province of the Jesuits at 7:30 p.m.
Sundays at St. Francis Xavier College Church.
Speakers will also preach at the 10 p.m. student
Mass.
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January 16
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - University Holiday
January 19
Department Chairs' Meeting,
3:00 - 4:30 p.m., Busch Student Center 351
January 19
If a course you are
teaching this semester touches on women's issues or topics related to
global outreach, injustice, poverty, or social changes, you may want
to encourage your students to attend this event. Dr. Mark Chmiel,
professor of theological studies, will share a tribute to his wife Mev
Puleo at 7:00 p.m. in the Pius Library Knight's Room.
Ms. Puleo, who died at the age of thirty-two, was a SLU graduate and
photojournalist. She confronted injustice and poverty and worked tirelessly
for social change in the U.S., Haiti, El Salvador, and Brazil.
Dr. Chmiel's book, The Book of Mev, and his presentation celebrate
Mev's life. This event is sponsored by VOICES, UNA, Amnesty International,
Aquinas Institute of Theology, Pax Christi, Micah House, HALO, and the
College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, email Katie
O'Brien.
FROM THE COLLEGE
MOVE OF THREE PROGRAMS
With
this new year we have some significant changes within the program structure
of the College. The Honors, PreLaw, and Preprofessional Health programs
will be under the direct supervision of the Office of the Provost. Since
these programs interrelate closely with administrative structures and
schools of the University outside of the College and are of particular
concern in relation to the admissions' process, the provost has decided
to locate them more centrally.
For the present, they will remain in their current space locations.
2006 Alpha Sigma Nu Award Nominations
The
AJCU (Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities) is soliciting
nominations for the 2006 Alpha Sigma Nu Awards. This year's category
is The Sciences: Natural Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences,
Mathematics and Computer Sciences. Deadline
for submissions is March 1, 2006.
Applications are available online,
at the A&S office in Fusz, or in the science department offices.
The Arts and Sciences Core Assessment Committee
As College of Arts and Sciences faculty start to present their syllabi for Spring classes, the Core Assessment Committee would like to share one of the conclusions from our efforts to assess the core curriculum in the college.
It seems that students do not always perceive the purposes of the various core classes they are required to take. Some of their complaints about core classes stem from this lack of understanding. Happily, this is a problem that can be easily addressed--to the benefit of both students and faculty teaching core classes.
We urge faculty who teach core classes to consider stating explicitly on their syllabi how the objectives of their course contribute to the objectives of the core. This explanation could also be discussed in early class meetings. Faculty members might think it is self-evident why students should know or be able to do certain things, but the rationale behind core requirements is not always as clear to students as we might hope.
Since a consistent message may
be most effective, we encourage you to borrow liberally from the language
used to explain the rationale of the college core requirements on the
Arts
and Sciences website.
It may also be helpful for faculty to think about the purposes of their
courses in terms of the Five
Dimensions of the Saint Louis University experience.
The Arts and Sciences Core Assessment Committee:
Ellen Carnaghan, chair
Russell Blyth
Peter Lah
Janice McIntire-Strasburg
Colleen McCluskey
Wynne Moskop
Tom Valone
NO FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY
January 22
"Jesuit Jubilee '06: A Vision, A
Mission, A Prayer": The series opens when
Gregory Boyle, S.J., will address "Tattoos on the Heart: Kinship
and the Poor." Fr. Boyle is a Jesuit priest, founder and executive
director of Jobs for a Future/Homeboy Industries, an employment referral
center and economic development program in Los Angeles. Begun in 1988
for at-risk and gang-involved youth, Jobs for a Future is a nationally-recognized
center that monthly assists 1,000 people in re-directing their lives.
January
24
UNIVERSITY THEATRE:
"Thiefth" by Susan Howe
and David Grubbs
6:00 P.M.
University Theatre, Xavier Hall
Poet Susan Howe and musician/composer David Grubbs will present an
electroacoustic performance of Howe's poems "Thorow"
and "Melville's Marginalia" for voice, computer,
and piano. Ms. Howe is the author of numerous books of poetry and
criticism, including The Midnight (2003), The Europe
of Trusts (2002), and Pierce-Arrow (1999). Mr. Grubbs
has released eight full-length solo albums, the most recent of which
is A Guess at the Riddle (Drag City). A CD of this collaboration
was recently released on the Blue Chopsticks label; it has been included
in the Artforum's Best of 2005 and a critics' poll in the
January issue of The Wire magazine.
January 26
SLU Film Studies Program will open its
Campus Film Series for Spring 2006 with "Tre
metri sopra il cielo" (Lucini, Italy, 2004), at 7 p.m., in Kelley
Auditorium, no cover. The film will be introduced by Film Studies
and invited faculty. Upcoming films will be announced in this Newsletter.
FROM THE COLLEGE
MOCRA EXHIBIT
"Arshile
Gorky: The Early Years - Drawings and Paintings, 1927 - 1937"
will be on exhibit from January 22 - March 12, 2006 in MOCRA. The
free public opening reception
will be held on Sunday, January 22,
2006, from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was one of the most influential artists in the development of Abstract Expressionism. This exhibition will feature over 40 rare drawings and paintings that reveal Gorky's early experiments and hint at his own distinct style that was to reach its maturity in the 1940s. This exhibition is part of "MOCRA: Sources," an occasional series of exhibitions presenting those seminal artists who have influenced the development of modern and contemporary art, and whose impact is seen in the artists of our time who engage the religious and spiritual dimensions in their work.
For more information, please call 977-7170 or mocra@slu.edu; or visit the website.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
Modern and Classical
Languages
Dr. Simone Bregni, Assistant
Professor of Italian, has authored an article titled " 'Paradisus,
locus amoenus': immagini del paradiso nei primi cinque secoli dell'era
cristiana" which was publised in Revista di Storia e Letteraura
Religiosa (2005).
Theological
Studies
Dr. Tobias Winright, Assistant
Professor, authored "Advent of a New Attitude for Evaluating War?"
The Cresset 69/2 (Advent 2005): 44-46; and on January 7 Dr.
Winright presented a paper, "Just Cause and Preemptive Strikes
in the War on Terrorism: Insights from a Just-Policing Perspective,"
at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in Phoenix,
Arizona.
Community Outreach, Partnerships, Media Events
External Funding, Research Productivity
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