{"258531":{"#nid":"258531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Update on the School of Modern Languages Introductory Seminar launched Fall 2013","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EML Introductory Seminar, Fall 2013\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(Instructor on record: Kelly Comfort; Participating faculty: \u0026nbsp;Rumiko Simonds, Britta Kallin, Vicki Galloway, Jin Liu, Stephanie Boulard, Stuart Godlberg, Michael Wiedorn)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EML 2813, Introductory Seminar in Modern Languages, is a lively, discussion-based course in which all thirteen students consistently attend and participate on a weekly basis.\u0026nbsp; Quiz scores demonstrate careful reading of assigned texts and viewing of assigned films before each class meeting.\u0026nbsp; Students\u2019 reflective essays reveal in-depth and sophisticated analysis of the assigned texts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFour faculty members have participated in the seminar thus far.\u0026nbsp; Kelly Comfort has taught \u003Cem\u003E\u0022Silko\u2019s Ceremony\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E (U.S. Native American) and Puig\u2019s \u0022Kiss of the Spider Woman\u0022 (Argentina), St\u00e9phanie Boulard has taught Genet\u2019s \u0022The Maids and Denis\u2019s Murderous Maids,\u0022 Michael Wiedorn has taught Cond\u00e9\u2019s \u0022Land of Many Colors\u0022 and Glissant\u2019s \u201cPoetics of Relation,\u201d and Britta Kallin has taught Maccarone\u2019s \u0022Unveiled.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe discussion of two novels, one play, one novella, one critical essay, and two films has led to a consideration of marginalization based on ethnic and racial identity, mental health status, class status, sexual orientation, immigrant or refugee status, and political viewpoints.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe forms of marginalization examined have involved isolation, hospitalization, exclusion, subjugation, exile, and imprisonment.\u0026nbsp; The professors involved in the course have provided in-depth cultural and historical background material to help students understand the particularities of the assigned course materials, so that cross-cultural analysis and comparison take into account the differing social, political, historical and cultural contexts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents have commented that they greatly enjoy the team-teaching approach to the course, especially because of the background information and regional and linguistic expertise each faculty member brings to the course.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the assigned texts, students are required to log a total of 30 international community engagement activity hours and to maintain a cross-cultural reflection journal throughout the semester.\u0026nbsp; Students have been active in on-campus activities and community-based cultural events that have helped them hone their linguistic skills and improve their intercultural competence.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, students are working in groups to complete a presentation on marginalization at Georgia Tech or in Atlanta.\u0026nbsp; Whether organizing a panel of invited students or community members, creating a video documentary, or maintaining an active blog, each group\u2019s project and presentation will examine a type of marginalization (e.g. cultural, racial, ethnic, religious, geographical, academic, political, sexual, gender, socioeconomic, etc.) present in Georgia Tech\u2019s campus or the greater Atlanta community.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStill to come in this semester\u2019s seminar are classes by Stuart Goldberg on Venedikt Erofeev\u0027s \u201cMoscow to the End of the Line,\u201d Rumiko Simonds on Fusako Kushi\u2019s \u201cMemoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman\u201d and \u201cIn Defense of \u2018Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman,\u2019\u201d Jin Liu on Zhangke\u2019s \u0022Pickpocket and Unknown Pleasure,\u0022 and Vicki Galloway on Sistach\u2019s \u0022Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27835","created_gmt":"2013-12-04 11:41:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:29","author":"Shamiso Barnett","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"258541":{"id":"258541","type":"image","title":"cross cultural","body":null,"created":"1449243972","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:46:12","changed":"1475894938","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:58","alt":"cross cultural","file":{"fid":"198286","name":"cross_cultural-294x300_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cross_cultural-294x300_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cross_cultural-294x300_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13463,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cross_cultural-294x300_1_0.jpg?itok=XCKLkkRD"}}},"media_ids":["258541"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"80701","name":"Modlangs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}