FALL 2009 Workshops for Graduate Students at UTSA

Fall 2009 Workshops for Graduate Students

UTSA will be offering workshops on financial aid, graduate writing, presentation proficiency, effective grant writing, financial considerations, CV development, and interview preparation.

Register for these workshops here:

http://www.graduateschool.utsa.edu/current_students/detail/graduate_school_services/

FINANCIAL AID FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

UTSA Financial Aid Representatives offer current and prospective graduate students tools and tips to secure grant, scholarship, and loan funding for Graduate School and understand the financial aid process.

Wednesday, September 16

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Main Campus, UC 2.02.02 (Retama Auditorium)

Saturday, November 21

10:00 am – 11:30 am

Downtown Campus, BV 1.328 (Aula Canaria)

GRADUATE WRITING SKILLS

Staff members from The UTSA Writing Center will cover topics that include Expectations of Grad Writing, APA Citation, and the Art of Proofreading.

Saturday, September 19

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Main Campus, BB 3.03.03

Wednesday, September 23

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Downtown Campus, BV 1.338

PRESENTATION PROFICIENCY

Learn how to master PowerPoint, calm pre-speech jitters, and give an academic talk.

Wednesday, October 7

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Downtown Campus, BV 1.338

Saturday, October 17

10:00 am – 11:30 am

Main Campus, BB 3.03.02

EFFECTIVE GRANT WRITING

Topics will include practical tips for grant writing to secure funding proposals.

Wednesday, October 21

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Downtown Campus, BV 1.338

Saturday, October 24

10:00 am – 11:30 am

Main Campus, BB 3.03.03

FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL

The Graduate School provides financial insight from a UTSA graduate alumni perspective, with a practical approach to understanding ALL available funding options at UTSA, responsible students borrowing, and debt/money management.

Saturday, October 31

10:00 am – 11:30 am

Downtown Campus, BV 1.328 (Aula Canaria)

RESUME, CV, AND COVER LETTER DEVELOPMENT

Learn the keys to structure your professional resume, curriculum vitae, and cover letter. TheCareer Center discusses these topics in depth.

Tuesday, November 3

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Downtown Campus, FS 1.402

Saturday, November 7

10:00 am – 11:30 am

Man Campus, BB 3.03.02

INTERVIEW PREPARATION

The Career Center covers topics and provides insights to prepare students for professional interviewing and the resources available to search for positions in their field.

Thursday, November 5

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Downtown Campus, FS 1.402

Saturday, November 7

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Main Campus, BB 3.03.02

TexTESOLII Fall Regional Conference

TexTESOL II Fall Regional Conference - “TESOL - The Field of Dreams”

It will be held on Saturday, October 3, 2009 from 8:30 A.M. until 3:00 P.M., at the UTSA 1604 campus, in the Science Building. All paid registrants receive entrance to the conference and exhibit area, continental breakfast, and boxed lunch.

The registration deadline has been extended to Friday, September 25.

Hope to see you there!

Jennifer Swoyer
Membership Chair
(210) 397-7556
jennifer.swoyer@nisd.net

UNAM Conference

Several of the faculty and doctoral students from BBL will be presenting at the UNAM San Antonio 15th ESL Conference.

WHEN: September 26, 2009 - 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

$50.00 Registration Fee - Breakfast pastries and Mexican luncheon included

For further information, contact: Kelly Manuel, ESL Department (kelly@unam.mx) 210-222-8628

Come by and support our BBL friends!

David Crystal to visit UTSA

As part of the Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series and the COLFA Lecture Series, David Crystal will be presenting 3 lectures in October 2009.

Brackenridge Lecture I
Pronouncing Shakespeare.
Wednesday, October 28
Based on Professor Crystal’s work with Shakespeare's Globe in 2004 and 2005, this lecture will present a fresh reading of some Early Modern English texts, and will explore the implications of his phonological analysis of these works, such as new insights on rhymes and puns. The Sonnets will also figure heavily in this presentation, in this anniversary year.
7:00-9:00 pm Assembly Room, JPL 4.03.12
Co-sponsored by the Friends of Shakespeare and the Crittenden
Endowment Fund


COLFA Series Lecture
Language Death: Writing the Obituary of Languages?
Thursday, October 29
Half the languages of the world will die out within the next century. This talk reviews the way languages are dying, asks why, and then asks what can be done. It presents the arguments why people should be concerned, drawing a parallel with other ecological domains.
6:00- 8:30 UC Ballroom II
Sponsored by the College of Liberal and Fine Arts


Brackenridge Lecture II
In Search of English: By Hook or By Crook
Friday, October 30
A lecture based on the 2007 book, a linguistic travelogue of a journey to find out more about the fascinating variety and history of the English language, in Britain and overseas. The talk covers accents and dialects, place names and etymologies, introduces some of the people and places encountered, from Lady Godiva to Bricklehampton, and reflects on the language's continually changing and elusive character.
1:00-2:30 pm University Room, BB 2.06.04
Co-sponsored by the Honors College, the Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures, and the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies

David Crystal is one of the world’s foremost authorities on language and linguistics. He is the author of the extremely successful Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (2nd ed. 1997), Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (2nd ed. 2003), and English as a Global Language (2nd ed. 2003). An internationally renowned writer, journal editor, lecturer and broadcaster, he received an Order of the British Empire award in 1995 for his services to the study and teaching of the English language. He has written extensively on the language of Shakespeare, including Think on my Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language (2008), Pronouncing Shakespeare (2005), and Shakespeare’s Words (2004). He has also published books on Language and the Internet (2006) and Txtng: the Gr8 Db8 (2008), on such fields as intonation and stylistics, and on the application of linguistics to religious, educational and clinical contexts. Of his approximately 100 books, the UTSA library holds 35.

The Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) will be holding the 3rd Annual Bilingual Symposium on Immigration here in San Antonio on October 9-10, 2009

More information about the symposium is available here:

http://juandiegoproject.blogspot.com/2009/07/3rd-annual-bilingual-symposium-on.html

Dr. Milk's Start of the School Year Party!

Dr. Milk and his wife Mrs. Rosa Marie Milk invite you and your guest to a reception and pot luck dinner to kick off the new academic year!

Date: Saturday, September 12th

Time: 5:30-8:00

Address: 18110 Marble Spring

RSVP: Margarita Gomez (margarita.gomez@utsa.edu)
If you wish to bring something, let Margarita know in your email