Dear Friends, I hope you enjoy this month’s newsletter. As I have mentioned in the past, the goal of our newsletter is to stay more closely connected by bringing you news and updates about the department, its students and faculty, and our larger role in the university. To that end, I am pleased to tell … Continue reading A Note From the Chair
by: Elizabeth Zabel My experience abroad last summer studying multimedia journalism in Poland taught me things I could have never learned inside the classroom. I was pushed outside of my comfort zone into an environment completely foreign to me and given the opportunity to explore a culture very unlike my own. I spent three weeks … Continue reading Study-Abroad Pays Off: International Studies Grad on her Recent ISU Trip to Poland
WLC is pleased to introduce our new Global Student Ambassadors: Mark Hannasch, Taylor Thenhaus, and Ouma Amadou. Following the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ LAS Ambassadors Program, WLC Student Ambassadors will represent the department on campus in a variety of ways. They will help us create departmental promotional materials, reach out to other students … Continue reading WLC Global Student Ambassadors
M. Celeste Gonzalez Chaves is a new Lecturer in Spanish at Iowa State University. She received her MA in Spanish with a minor in English as a Second Language from the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2006. She obtained her BA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the Instituto Terrero in Argentina in … Continue reading New Facutly in WLC: Celeste Gonzalez Chaves
I studied abroad this summer in the city of Fez, Morocco for seven weeks. While I was there I intensively studied the Arabic language, lived with a Moroccan host family, and went on weekend excursions to different cities and the Sahara Desert. My Arabic language classes were four hours each day and five days each … Continue reading Stories from Study Abroad in Morocco
Shreya Bhardwaj is a senior pursuing a triple major in Economics, Women’s Studies and International Studies. Below, Shreya shares her memories of a summer 2014 Study Abroad program in Cusco, Peru. In the summer of 2014, I had an amazing opportunity to visit Cusco, Peru. Peru was an experience like no other. Having come from … Continue reading Stories from Study Abroad in Peru
How did you decide to become a University professor? It was by no means a straightforward career path. As an undergraduate, I was also interested in political science and history and I considered attending law school after graduation. My study abroad experience at the University of Tübingen, Germany transformed my outlook on life and intensified … Continue reading Q&A With Prof. Mark Rectanus
Did you know that WLC now has a minor in World Film Studies? The minor offers coursework in the history, theory, and aesthetics of world cinema, while introducing students to influential auteurs and cinematic traditions from around the globe. In addition to studying trends and movements of international cinema, many of our World Film Studies … Continue reading Film Producers’ Club