List of events & activities at the DFLC
This system is designed to keep track of all DFLC Sponsored Events across semesters
| Date | Mar 30 2011 4:10PM | Place | Thompson Hall 109 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title | Departmental Idea Share | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Summary | Faculty and teaching assistants met to share ideas about how best to teach writing in the foreign language classroom. Refreshments were served. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Feb 23 2011 4:15PM | Place | CUE 202 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title | Faculty Speaker Series: Birgitta Ingemanson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Summary | This semester’s DFLC Faculty Speaker Series featured Distinguished Professor Birgitta Ingemanson (Professor of Russian), whose talk was titled “A Mosaic of Cultures: Songs with Photos and Poetry; Thoughts on Place, People, and Life.” Professor Ingemanson’s presentation used music and photographs to weave together a retrospective of personal and professional experiences that traversed an array of cultures, histories, and languages. The talk was attended by about 75 students and faculty, and was followed by a reception. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Feb 16 2011 3:15PM | Place | LLRC Lab (Thompson210) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title | Universidad de Costa Rica Exchange by Nick Tratz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Summary | Nick Tratz, a Teaching Assistant of Spanish, was the first participant of a Graduate Program Exchange with the "Universidad de Costa Rica" in fall 2010. During the presentation he shared with us his experiences in Costa Rica, addressing issues as important as the process of adaptation to a new culture and environment, the challenges of working and studying at a different institution, the novelty of living with a Costa Rican family, the benefits of being fully immerse in a Latin American country for one semester, money/expenses related issues, and much more. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Jan 18 2011 7:00PM | Place | CUE 203 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title | Assembling a Toolkit for Global Exchange | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Summary | A panel discussion of knowledge and skills essential to succeeding in the global environment. Panelists will provide a succinct list of things they have found to be necessary for work outside the United States including, but not limited to, the following areas: humanitarian efforts, business, scholarship, research, and national security. This will be followed by questions for the panelists from the audience regarding their experiences with intercultural communication | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Apr 12 2010 5:00PM | Place | Honors College Lounge | ||||||||||||
| Title | Visiting Speaker Event: Dr. Marvin Marcus | ||||||||||||||
| Summary | Through funding by the UISFL Grant and DFLC, the Department hosted Japanese Literature specialist Dr. Marvin Marcus (Washington University in St. Louis). Dr. Marcus gave a presentation and photo exhibition, titled "Traditional Japan Joins the Twenty-First Century," that featured his photography and deliberated on his experiences in Japan. | ||||||||||||||
| Date | Apr 14 2009 6:30PM | Place | Butch's Den Room |
| Title | Les Falles Concert | ||
| Summary | This sponsored activity by the DFLC and the WSU International Center gathered more than 100 students, faculty and community members to listen Spanish music played by the Pullman Community Symphonic Band. Ten students of Foreign Languages were awarded for their excellence in the “les falles” contest that took place during the week at the Language Learning Resource Center. | ||