WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Every year the campus Committee on Teaching and the Division of Undergraduate Education solicit nominations from students for an Excellence in Teaching award for faculty. Nominations are easy to submit using an online form, and they are due March 22nd. Find out about the awards and find the nomination form here.
The Language Program would like to draw your attention to a course being offered next (Spring) quarter, Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (LAAD 150, Tuesday/Thursday 4:00-5:45). This course can be used as an outside linguistics elective for Linguistics and Language Studies majors. (However, a student cannot count both this course and Structure of Spanish, Ling 182, toward the degree.) The prerequisites are Spanish 6 (or Spanish for Spanish Speakers 63) or equivalent competency, and Ling 50 (Introduction to Linguistics). (Note: the catalog incorrectly lists Ling 111 or 112 as prerequisites. Email the instructor at ezyzik@ucsc.edu if this prevents you from registering for the course.) The course is taught in Spanish, and students learn the major properties of the Spanish language from a linguistics perspective. Topics covered include: phonetics/phonology, morphology, and syntax.
There will be a colloquium by Matt Gordon (UC Santa Barbara) this Friday, March 2nd, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of the talk is “Lexical and post-lexical accentology, morphology, and weight in Muskogean: Case studies from Koasati and Chickasaw”, and you can find the abstract here.
HUGRA awards support and encourage undergraduate research in the humanities. Up to 10 awards in the amount of $500 each are given each year. There are no constraints on the expenditure of the stipend. The top proposal receives the Bertha N. Melkonian prize, an additional $500. The deadline for HUGRA applications is March 1, 2012.
Any project involving research within or including any of the humanities disciplines is eligible for consideration. Proposals must be for research performed during the 2011-2012 academic year. Previous years’ awardees are not eligible to apply.
Proposals will be judged on the basis of:
a) intellectual substance
b) promise of results
c) preparation of applicant
d) feasibility
Application includes:
I) 1-3 page research proposal, describing the research problem to be addressed, what will be done in the project, and what end product (e.g. research paper, senior thesis, project report) is expected. A timetable should be included.
II) Application form (download here).
III) A letter of support from a faculty sponsor addressing items (a) through (d) above.
NOTE: The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the letter of support is submitted by the deadline.
St. Petersburg State University and Stony Brook University offer a 4-week interdisciplinary study abroad program in St. Petersburg, Russia, from July 6th to August 6th, 2012. Faculty come to teach from Stony Brook University, MIT, USC, Moscow State University, and even UC Santa Cruz. Courses are offered in linguistics, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, cultural studies, literature, and more! Application review begins on March 15th, 2012. To learn more, see the flyer outside of the Linguistics Department office, or go here.
A correction to last week’s announcement about this opportunity: those interested should contact Beth Hockey at bahockey@fluentialinc.com.
There will be a colloquium by Mary Paster (Pomona College) this Friday, February 24th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 202. This is one of a continuing series of Distinguished Visitors talks organized by the Cross-linguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology research group. The title of the talk is “Phonologically Conditioned Morphology”, and you can find the abstract here.