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Spring Course Offering: LLC 750.01

LLC 750.01: Identity as Cultural Practices Enrollment is already available for this class. Please contact Dr. Bev Bickel for more information.

Posted: November 10, 2017, 1:56 PM

Spring Course Offering: LLC 750.02

LLC 750.02: Applied Statistical Analysis for Publishing in the Social Sciences. Enrollment for the course is already available. Please contact Dr. Cedric Herring for more information.

Posted: November 10, 2017, 1:53 PM

The Department of Africana Studies

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The Department of Africana Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County welcomes panel, paper, and poster presentations that will contribute to a better understanding of the complexity of...

Posted: November 9, 2017, 2:20 PM

Public scholarship event today at 11:30!

Voices of a People's History: Public Read Out Today on the UC steps (near Starbucks) the Humanities Scholars will be staging a Public Read Out of Voices of a Peoples History of the U.S....

Posted: November 9, 2017, 8:11 AM

Impact of House Tax Bill and a Call for Action

The Graduate Student Association sent this message to all graduate students. We are reposting it because of its importance and possible impact in the lives of all Graduate Students. HR 1,...

Posted: November 8, 2017, 8:54 PM

Congratulations to our new Doctoral Candiadates

Ceremony November 7, 2017

We want to congratulate the LLC students who recently obtained their doctoral candidacy. These students were recognized yesterday in the ceremony offered by the UMBC graduate school. These are...

Posted: November 8, 2017, 4:36 PM

Richard DeShay Elliott

American Studies and Political Science, minor in History

“It’s Just A Jump To The Right: How The Tea Party Has Affected Conservative Discourse.” In this study, a cultural and linguistic approach was used to analyze the effect that speeches by members...

Posted: November 7, 2017, 2:53 PM

WINTER COURSE: POLI 409-Russian Politics Propaganda

Time to figure out what all this Russia stuff is about?

If the 2016 election wasn’t enough reason, consider these: It is the largest in the world. It has more natural gas than any other country on Earth. It has one of the greatest militaries in the...

Posted: November 7, 2017, 1:36 PM

Classifying Hurricanes

Samantha Durbin, class of 2017, environmental science, discusses issues with how hurricanes are categorized in this Capital Weather Gang article for The Washington Post.

Posted: November 7, 2017, 8:51 AM

REMINDER: Mid-tenure Reviews: Dr. Anson and Dr. Blake

Input needed from POLI students

This year, two Political Science assistant professors—Dr. Ian Anson and Dr. William Blake—are scheduled for their mid-tenure reviews. The faculty have tasked two, two-person student committees to...

Posted: November 6, 2017, 1:14 PM