Honors Bulletin
All the Honors News that's Fit to Print
Big Week!
Whoa baby, this is going to be a huge week in the Honors Program:
- Tuesday: Amanda has a baby!
- Wednesday-Thursday: Appalachia Basket Raffle- Stop by for your chance to win some exciting prizes! Bring friends/family/faculty! You can also donate a basket if you like- just bring things you'd like to donate to the Honors Lounge!
- Thursday: TURF-CreWS- Go see the exciting things students are working on!
- Friday: Honors Ball- Come cut a rug with Honors student, staff, and faculty!
Bulletin Contents
- Employment Opportunities
- Events
Employment Opportunities
English Teaching Opportunity in China
7education is opening applications to help bring together motivated volunteers who are native English speakers and bilingual Chinese university students to provide teaching services and to develop distributable teaching materials in China.
Honorable Annie Kim did this trip last year and had this to say:
“It’s something that’s so empowering to be able to speak and communicate in another language, and the process of learning another language is something that’s really beautiful and really helps to build your confidence as a person in general, not specifically just in learning that language. What we’re doing really, really transcends just teaching English and just building confidence in speaking a language.”
Honorable Annie Kim did this trip last year and had this to say:
“It’s something that’s so empowering to be able to speak and communicate in another language, and the process of learning another language is something that’s really beautiful and really helps to build your confidence as a person in general, not specifically just in learning that language. What we’re doing really, really transcends just teaching English and just building confidence in speaking a language.”
Events
UK & Ireland Graduate Degree Fellowships
Tuesday, April 12th, 10 - 11 AM
Tuttleman Room 201
Do you have a high GPA and significant leadership experience? Come learn about prestigious awards to earn a graduate degree in the UK or Ireland. These information sessions will focus on the Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, and Gates awards.
For questions or more information, please contact Barbara Gorka (barbara.gorka@temple.edu), Director of Fellowships Advising.
Tuttleman Room 201
Do you have a high GPA and significant leadership experience? Come learn about prestigious awards to earn a graduate degree in the UK or Ireland. These information sessions will focus on the Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, and Gates awards.
For questions or more information, please contact Barbara Gorka (barbara.gorka@temple.edu), Director of Fellowships Advising.
A Brieft History of Seven Killings Writer Marlon James
Thursday, April 14, 5 p.m.
Anderson Hall Room 821
The Temple MFA Creative Writing Program is proud to have novelist Marlon James reading in our Poets & Writers Series. The reading is free and open to the public.
Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. His most recent novel, A Brief History Of Seven Killings, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. In the book, James explores multiple genres: the political thriller, the oral biography, and the classic whodunit to confront the untold history of Jamaica in the late 1970’s, the assassination attempt on Bob Marley, and the country’s own clandestine battles of the cold war. His second novel, The Book of Night Women, won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. James’ short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Kingston Noir, and Silent Voices, and his nonfiction has appeared in Granta, Publisher’s Weekly, and The Caribbean Review of Books. He teaches at Macalester College. He will read from his work.
Anderson Hall Room 821
The Temple MFA Creative Writing Program is proud to have novelist Marlon James reading in our Poets & Writers Series. The reading is free and open to the public.
Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. His most recent novel, A Brief History Of Seven Killings, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. In the book, James explores multiple genres: the political thriller, the oral biography, and the classic whodunit to confront the untold history of Jamaica in the late 1970’s, the assassination attempt on Bob Marley, and the country’s own clandestine battles of the cold war. His second novel, The Book of Night Women, won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. James’ short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Kingston Noir, and Silent Voices, and his nonfiction has appeared in Granta, Publisher’s Weekly, and The Caribbean Review of Books. He teaches at Macalester College. He will read from his work.
How to Not Be a Tourist When You Feel like a Tourist (with pizza)
Friday, April 15, 1 PM
Honors Lounge
Join HPM Gaelen McCartney for a workshop on studying abroad and immersing yourself beyond the classroom. Pizza will be provided, wisdom will be shared.
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