News Letter
Friday, April 18, 2008
Honoring Professor Davis Lee
To honor Professor Lee, who is retiring at the end of this academic year, the EALL faculty gathered at the Cosmos Club in DC. Professor Chaves read a poem he wrote for Professor Lee, and Professor Kim-Renaud presented him a vase with the GW insignia.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Full Scholarship for One Semester of Study at Beijing Normal University (2008-2009)
To honor President Stephen Knapp's visit last fall, Beijing Normal University (Beijing shifan daxue) has generously offered a full scholarship (covering tuition and room and board) to sponsor one student from GWU to study in their undergraduate academic program, for one semester, either Fall 2008 or Spring 2009. If you wish to be considered for this honor, please submit your application to the BNU Scholarship Search Committee, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures by 5 PM on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. For details, please see the Chinese Program newsletter from the link above.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Japanese Grammar Web Page Completed
The Japanese program has completed a Japanese grammar web page called Visualizing Japanese Grammar with partial support from the Japan Foundation. It provides 66 flash animations of key grammatical concepts in Japanese. The site can be accessed from anywhere in the world. In the past 3 months, there has been access from 92 countries and over 1300 cities worldwide.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
EALL Faculty Participates in an Exhibit
Professor John Wang, who is teaching a very popular calligraphy course in the Department, is part of the exhibit 'Art&Dreams' (February 19-April18, 2008. Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 702 Eighth Street, NW). For more information, please call 202-872-3396 or visit www.umuc.edu/art.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
EALL Growing Fast
The department is growing fast! The department recently added four new full-time faculty members. The photo below shows most of the current EALL faculty members and staff (and some future candidates to the left).
Tuesday, May 21, 2007
Summer Courses Begin
Summer Courses started today. We have Chinese and Japanese 001 & 002. 001 is from today through June 30th, and 002 is from July 5th through August 15th. For more details, check this page.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
New Look EALL Web page (Test Drive)
Today the EALL faculty met at the EALL conference room for launching the new EALL Web page. If you find any mistakes or difficulties regarding this site, please let us know. Also, we will eventually have entries for the blog (links are above) for each language through the EALL Web page, so please check them as well. We hope you will enjoy this new Web page.