Humanities
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UC Santa Cruz to offer new Spanish Studies B.A. degree
Beginning this fall, students at UC Santa Cruz can now declare a major in Spanish Studies, leading to a new bachelor of arts degree.
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Steck Award winner shares stories of survival
Kristoffer Hellén traveled to Europe and Russia, to find out why two small and vulnerable ethnic groups resist assimilation, hold onto their cultures, and survive. Now he is being recognized with one of UCSC’s highest undergraduate honors.
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Linguistics professor receives Dizikes Award for teaching in Humanities
Linguistics professor Donka Farkas was presented with the 2013 John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities yesterday at the Humanities Division’s Spring Awards Celebration.
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Graduate Research Symposium awards recognize top presentations
Outstanding presentations at the Graduate Research Symposium were honored at the Awards Reception.
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History professor Dana Frank to speak May 8 in Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
UCSC history professor and alumna Dana Frank (American Studies, ’78) will speak about human rights in Honduras on May 8 as part of the Stevenson College Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series.
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Graduate students present research in annual symposium May 10
Graduate students from all five academic divisions at UCSC will present their research on Friday, May 10.
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UCSC language students to present International Playhouse
UCSC will present International Playhouse XIII–an annual program of fully-staged short theater pieces by students in the Language Program May 16-19, featuring works in French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles.
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UCSC alumna wins prestigious 2013 Guggenheim
UCSC 1993 graduate Brenda Shaughnessy has been awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship for the creative arts in poetry. She returns to campus for Alumni Weekend events, including a free public reading on April 25.
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Arts Division public event to help shape new Institute of Arts and Sciences
The UCSC Arts Division will present a day-long public event to help plan a groundbreaking new interdisciplinary Institute of the Arts and Sciences on Friday, April 26.
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Model UN competitor wins ‘verbal acclamation’ award
Kelsey Hill, a first-year history major affiliated with Kresge College, won a Verbal Acclamation Award at the UC Berkeley Model United Nations Conference held earlier this month in San Francisco.
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UCSC to hold international conference on Sikh and Punjabi Studies, March 29-30
The UC Santa Cruz Sikh and Punjabi Studies program will present an international conference titled “(Re-)Building Punjab: Political Economy, Society and Values” on campus, March 29-30.