20062007 Highlights

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• 2006-2007 Highlights

Fall Faculty Retreat August 21, 2007
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2006-2007 Achievements

• Working together, we made notable progress
  enhancing our profile in
• Teaching
• Research and Scholarship
• Development and Growth
• Our Strategic Goals

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Advancing our Teaching Mission

• We further internationalized the curriculum at
  VCU in innovative ways at every level, from
  general education to graduate programs, and
  gained visibility for the quality of our
  programs.

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Faculty Awards

• Cinzia Corubolo received the Distinguished
  Adjunct Award from the College of Humanities and
  Sciences.
• Paul Dvorak received the Foreign Language
  Association of Virginia Outstanding Teacher
  (College) Award.

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Teaching Achievements

• During the 2006-2007 academic year, The School of
  World Studies saw a 10 increase in the number of
  graduates over the previous year to 115.

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2006-2007 Graduates

• These degrees were earned in 
• Anthropology 12
• For. Lgs./French 6
• For. Lgs./German 8
• For. Lgs./Spanish 28
• International Studies 31
• Religious Studies 30

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2006-2007 Graduates

• An additional sixteen students in the College of
  Humanities Sciences graduated with a secondary
  major offered by World Studies.

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Numbers of Majors

• The number of students majoring in World Studies
  programs grew by 15 over the previous year to
  513 as follows

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Numbers of Majors

• Anthropology 75
• French 29
• German 8
• Spanish 88
• International Studies 217
• Religious Studies 96

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Total Enrollment GrowthF 05 - S 07
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Enrollment growth by program

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Curricular Development

• New minor in Russian
• Revisions to German major
• Creation of two new 500-level courses in World
  Film Studies

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Curricular Development

• Development of two major concentrations
• World Film Studies within the BA in Foreign
  Languages
• World Cinema within the BA in International
  Studies
• New courses in Chinese and Arabic

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Faculty Development

• LinguaFolio Workshop, Spring 07.  A half day
  workshop organized by Pat Cummins for VCU
  language teachers on ways to strengthen
  proficiency-oriented teaching and assessment.

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Grants Awarded Related to Teaching

• Paul Dvorak begins the fourth year of a contract
  with the Virginia Department of Education to
  support hosting the Governors Summer Foreign
  Language Academies A Global Village.
• Five Student Engagement grants were awarded to
  World Studies faculty.

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Grants Awarded Related to Teaching

• Mark Wood co-directs a three-year grant from the
  Metanexus Institute (15,000) to support a series
  of public forums on topics related to Faith and
  Life Sciences.
• Jérôme Cornette and Julián Gutiérrez submitted a
  US Department of Education Title VI proposal to
  support new programs in World Film Studies.

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Student engagement

• The Advising Office improved services to students
  through the recruitment of a great advising team,
  an internship coordinator and an events
  coordinator.
• We established a new position of Coordinator of
  Advising to continue improving our growing
  services.

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Research and Scholarship

• World Studies faculty are active and productive
  scholars in their fields as demonstrated by the
  number and quality of publications and conference
  presentations.

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Books

• Bromley, David G., ed. Teaching New Religious
  Movements. New York Oxford University Press,
  2007.
• Brown, R. McKenna, Judith M. Maxwell and Walter
  E  Little.  La ütz awäch?  Introduction to
  Kaqchikel Maya Language. Austin University of
  Texas Press.  2006.

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Books

• Kassen, Margaret Ann, Roberta Z. Lavine, Kathryn
  Murphy-Judy, and Martine Peters, Eds.  Preparing
  and Developing Technology-proficient L2
  Teachers.  San Marcos, TX CALICO.  2007.
• Muñoz, Eugenia.   La vida en poemas. (recorded on
  CD). Richmond Nomega Recording Studios, 2006.

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Books

• Piciché, Bernardo. Argisto Giuffredi Gentiloumo
  Borghese nel Vicereame di Sicilia.  Rome Euroma
  Press.  2006.
• Strohmaier, Brigitte and Robert Rosner, Eds. 
  Trans. Paul F. Dvorak.  Marietta Blau, Stars of
  Disintegration Biography of a Pioneer of
  Particle Physics (Studies in Austrian Literature,
  Culture, and Thought).  Riverside, CA Ariadne
  Press.  2006.

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Books

• Swenson, Kristin M. and Esther R. Nelson.  What
  Is Religious Studies? A Journey of Inquiry. 
  Dubuque, IA Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. 
  2006.

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Articles

• Cornette, Jérôme.  Tribeca, terreur et beauté.
  Cahiers du cinéma  614 special Hollywood issue
  (summer 2006) 26-7.
• Cummins, Patricia.  LinguaFolio American Model
  of the European Language Portfolio, The Modern
  Language Journal.  91 (2007), 117-21.

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Articles

• Godwin-Jones, Robert.  Tag Clouds in teh
  Blogosphere Electronic Literacy and Social
  Networking Tools, Language Learning
  Technology, Vol 10, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 8-15.
• Godwin-Jones, Robert.  Digital Video Update
  YouTube, Flash, High-Definition, Language
  Learning Technology, Vol 11, No. 3, January
  2007, pp. 16-21.

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Articles

• Góngora, Mar.  Actos de subversión y cambio
  histórico el mito de las amazonas y de la Papisa
  Juana en Silva de Varia lección de Pedro de
  Mexía La Torre 11 (2006) 263-282.
• Góngora, Mar.  Poesía, melancolía y subjetividad
  femenina la humanista Luisa Sigea. 
  Neophilologus 90 (2006) 423-443.

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Articles

• Linde-Laursen, Anders. Universiteter i deres
  samtid.  Praktik Teori 2006/01 29-35
• Muñoz, Eugenia.  La cocina como espacio de
  tradición, poder y transgresión en Como Agua para
  chocolate de Laura  Esquivel.  Anales XI
  Seminário Nacional Mujler e Literatura/II
  Seminário Internacional Muhler e Literatura.
  Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
  Brazil.  2006.

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Articles

• Overvold, Angelina.  Le puits, voie/voix de
  rédemptin dans Juletane de Myriam
  Warner-Vieyra.  Arthur D. Drayton, et al, Eds.
  African Literature at the Millenium. Trenton, NJ
  Africa World Press.  2006. 
• Sims, Robert.  Parodia y metaparodia en Memoria
  de mis putas tristes de García Márquez, Revista
  Huellas, Nos. 76 y 77.   Barranquilla, Colombia
  Universidad del Norte. 2007. 

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Articles

• Swenson, Kristin M.  A Good Meal Goes a Long
  Way.  In Essential Wellness.  January 2007.
• Swenson, Kristin M.  Psalms and the Healing
  Power of Poetry.  In Essential Wellness. 
  November 2006.

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Articles

• Wu, Weiping.  "Cultivating Research Universities
  and Industrial Linkages The Case of Shanghai,
  China."  World Development 35, 6 (June 2007).
• Wu, Weiping.  "Migrant Intraurban Residential
  Mobility in Urban China."  Housing Studies 21, 5
  (September 2006) 747-767.

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Chapters

• Brinckwirth, Anton, Elizabeth Kissling, Kathy
  Murphy-Judy, and Carlos Valencia.  " Technology
  follows technique Refocusing the observational
  lens."  In Kassen, et al, Eds.  Preparing and
  Developing Technology-proficient L2 Teachers. 
  San Marcos, TX CALICO.  2007.

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Chapters

• Bromley, David G. and J. Gordon Melton.
  Challenging Misconceptions about the New
  Religions-Violence Connection. Pp. 42-56 in
  David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton (eds.),
  Cults, Religion, and Violence. Cambridge
  Cambridge University Press, 2002.  Reprinted in
  Katherine Swarts, ed. At Issue Are Cults a
  Serious Threat? Thompson/Gale Publishers, 2006.

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Chapters

• Bromley, David G.  Teaching New Religions
  Studies/Learning from New Religious Movements.
  Pp. 3-28 in Teaching New Religious Movements,
  edited by David G. Bromley. New York Oxford
  University Press, 2007.
• Bromley, David G.  Methodological and Ethical
  Issues in the Study of New Religious Movements.
  Pp. 65-90 in Teaching New Religious Movements,
  edited by David G. Bromley. New York Oxford
  University Press, 2007.

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Chapters

• Palmer, Susan and David G. Bromley. Deliberate
  Heresies New Religious Myths and Rituals as
  Critiques. Pp. 135-158 in Teaching New Religious
  Movements, edited by David G. Bromley. New York
  Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Cowan, Douglas and David G. Bromley. The Church
  of Scientology. Pp. 169-196 in New and
  Alternative Religious Movements,  Volume 5,
  edited by Ashcraft and Gallagher. Greenwood
  Praeger, 2007.

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Chapters

• Bromley, David G.  Affiliation and
  Disaffiliation Processes in New Religious
  Movements. In New and Alternative Religious
  Movements, edited by Ashcraft and Gallagher.
  Greenwood Praeger, 2007.
• Bromley, David G. Moral Panics. In The
  Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford Blackwell
  Publishers, 2007.

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Chapters

• Piciché, Bernardo, Prudenza e Poliglossia nella
  Sicillia del Cinquecento In Roberta Morosini and
  Cristina Perissenotto, Eds.  Mediterranoesis
  Mediterranean Voices from the Middle Ages and the
  Renaissance.  Rome Salerno.  2007.

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Chapters

• Rosenberg,  Brett Allen. A data driven analysis
  of telephone interpreting.  In Cecilia Wadensjö,
  et al, Eds. The Critical Link 4 
  Professionalisation of interpreting in the
  community.  Selected papers from the 4th
  International Conference on Interpreting in
  Legal, Health and Social Service Settings,
  Stockholm, Sweden, 20-23 May 2004.  Amsterdam 
  John Benjamins.  2007. (pp. 6576)

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Chapters

• Wood, Mark and Brian Cassel.  Moral Imperatives
  for Palliative Care and the Implications for the
  Science-and-Religion Dialogue.  On-line
  Proceedings of the Annual Metanexus Conference,
  Philadelphia.  2006.

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Chapters

• Wu, Weiping.  "Building Research Universities for
  Knowledge Transfer The Case of China," in Shahid
  Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima, eds.  How Universities
  Promote Economic Growth.  World Bank Directions
  in Development Series, Washington, DC the World
  Bank (2007), p.185-197.

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Chapters

• Wu, Weiping.  "Shanghai The Evolution of
  Chinas Future Global City," in Klaus Segbers,
  ed., The Making of Global Cities Johannesburg,
  Mumbai/Bombay, São Paulo, and Shanghai. 
  Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press (2007),
  p. 113-134.

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Book Reviews

• Góngora, Mar.  Barletta, Vincent.  Covert
  Gestures  Cryto-Islamic Literature as Cultural
  Practice in Early Modern Spain.  Minneapolis U
  of Minnesota P, 2005.  Caliope Journal of the
  Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic
  Poetry  12.1 (2006)  99-101.
• Muñoz, Eugenia.  Cuestión de hábitos  de R.H.
  Moreno Durán Enmascaramientos de la escritura y
  confirmación de una poética for Revista
  Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, September,
  2006.

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Development and Growth

• We made progress in attracting increased funding
  support through higher visibility, greater
  enrollments and external sources.

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World Studies visibility events

• Expressing Life through Poetry, organized by
  Elizabeth Kissling, Eugenia Muñoz and Anita
  Nadal, this event in the VCU Student Commons
  attended by over 70 students and community
  members.
• The 3nd Annual VCU Arabic Film Festival. The
  Grace Street Theatre hosted six films to capacity
  crowds over a two-day period.  Salwa Sheibany
  served as faculty advisor. (co-sponsored with
  the VCU Honors College and the Office for
  International Education)

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Events

• The Life Sciences and Religion Forum Series. Mark
  Wood co-founded and directs this series which
  this year included participation by several SWS
  faculty members.

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Events

• The 12th Annual World Studies Student Research
  Conference.  Virginia Casanova organized our
  largest and best attended conference to date,
  including special exhibits and over 150 students
  presenting on twenty-nine panels organized and
  chaired by VCU faculty.

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Events

• The 4rd Annual VCU Grace Street Festival.  VCU
  students, staff and faculty joined with local
  merchants to fill the 900-block of Grace Street
  with music, food and approximately 1,000 people
  in celebration of the many cultures and
  traditions from around the world that have found
  a home in Richmond.

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Events

• The 15th Annual French Film Festival.  Festival
  directors Peter Kirkpatrick and Françoise
  Ravaux-Kirkpatrick oversaw the largest and
  best-attended festival to date. 

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Development Growth

• We add new positions this year
• Coordinator of Advising
• Europe and Film
• Middle East Studies
• Spanish Community Liaison
• Transatlantic Studies (2008-2009)

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Development Growth

• Scholarships funds increased this year.
• Thanks to many generous donors in World Studies,
  VCU, and the community, the Volkmar Risch
  Memorial Scholarship has reached endowment!

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Development Professional Training

• The Office of Language and Cultural Competence
  was established, and is now collaborating with
  community organizations such as the Red Cross,
  and the Center for Health Disparities on the
  Medical Center campus.

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Development Alumni

• World Studies Alumni were individually invited to
  a record number of events last year, culminating
  with the Alumni Terrace Reception.

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Progress on our Goals

• At last years End of Year Retreat, faculty
  identified four main themes
• Be a Leader in Presidential Initiative in
  International Education
• Support and Enhance Faculty Research
• Develop Compelling and Unique Graduate Programs
• Become a model Learning-Centered Unit

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Be a Leader in Presidential Initiative in
International Education

• Further develop Study Abroad programs and their
  incorporation into our curricula.
• World Studies participate in a record-breaking
  twelve summer programs, including Austria (2),
  France (2), Guatemala (2), Italy, Mexico, Peru,
  Puerto Rico, Russia and Spain.

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Be a Leader in Presidential Initiative in
International Education

• Further develop Study Abroad programs and their
  incorporation into our curricula.
• Development has begun of VCU semester programs
  with our partner universities in Córdoba (spring
  08) and Guadalajara (fall 08).

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Be a Leader in Presidential Initiative in
International Education

• Participate in the increased recruitment of
  International Students and integrate them more
  fully into our programs.
• SWS faculty taught in a summer residential
  program for students from Fudan, and helped
  develop a similar program for students from
  Córdoba.

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Be a Leader in Presidential Initiative in
International Education

• Take advantage of Access to Global Scholars in
  our research and teaching.
• Last year World Studies hosted
• Prof. Yong Jiang from Fudan University
• Prof. Stefania Taviano from U. of Messina.
• Prof. Yang Junlei from Fudan will joins us this
  year.

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Be a Leader in Presidential Initiative in
International Education

• Cooperate with affiliated universities to pursue
  Partner Grants and Shared Curriculum.
• Several areas of mutual interest have been
  identified, including
• film studies (Guadalajara, Córdoba)
• conflict resolution (Córdoba, Messina)
• translation (Córdoba, Guadalajara)

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Be a Leader in Presidential Initiative in
International Education

• Additionally, World Studies faculty
• visited partner campuses in Córdoba, Guadalajara,
  Messina, Sao Paolo, and Shanghai.
• hosted faculty visits from Córdoba, Guadalajara,
  St. Petersburg State University, the University
  of KwaZulu-Natal and the Indian Institute of
  Technology.
• hosted Dr. Nadia El-Kholy, Fulbright
  Scholar-in-Residence.

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Support and Enhance Faculty Research

• Seek ways to increase research leave for SWS
  faculty as College faculty leave plan goes into
  effect.
• We instituted the Research and Strategic
  Initiative Support program to provide course
  releases to help faculty advance research
  projects.

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Support and Enhance Faculty Research

• Launch Graduate Programs to stimulate and support
  faculty research.
• Significant progress was made on the development
  of graduate programs proposals.

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Support and Enhance Faculty Research

• Develop faculty/student research projects to
  showcase in the World Studies Student Research
  Conference.
• Over ninety students presented their work in the
  12th Annual World Studies Student Research
  Conference, Nov 16-17, 2006, moderated by over a
  dozen World Studies faculty members.

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Support and Enhance Faculty Research

• Further develop interdisciplinary initiatives
  among faculty.
• Jérôme Cornette and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez
  submitted a Department of Education Title VI
  grant proposal to support development of
  interdisciplinary programs in World Film Studies.

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Develop Compelling and Unique Graduate Programs

• Take advantage of broader VCU initiatives with
  which SWS can dovetail, such as Film and Media
  Studies and Public Policy and Administration.
• Increase recruitment of Research Assistants and
  Teaching Assistants.
• Develop International Internships to strengthen
  graduate programs.

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Become a model Learning-Centered Unit

• Focus on writing and critical thinking
  skills-building for our students
• World Studies will contribute to three important
  areas in the revised General Education Program
  Global and Diverse Communities, Literature and
  Civilization, and Foreign Language.

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Become a model Learning-Centered Unit

• Better integrate Adjunct Instructors into our
  operations.
• Last year we initiated a greatly enhanced series
  of support services for adjunct instructors,
  including orientation sessions, handbook
  information, and more centralized recruitment,
  hiring and scheduling.

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Become a model Learning-Centered Unit

• Take more advantage of increasing local diversity
  allowing community-engagement to strengthen our
  research, teaching and service missions.
• Last year we placed a record number of student
  interns, and debuted an internship in local K-12
  classrooms with large LEP populations.

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Congratulations!

• Weve completed
• another successful year!

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Goals for 2007-2008

• Develop graduate programs.
• Recruit needed faculty.
• Improve efficiency of operations.
• Increase development efforts.