Cori Anderson, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, will be offering a Zoom workshop to introduce basic principles of metacognition and select metacognitive learning strategies. This workshop will focus on empowering you to think about and be able to assess your own learning and will equip you with new learning tools to implement in your courses.
College of Education Open House
Thursday, November 4, 3-5 p.m.
164 Mount Vernon Street
African Studies Open House
Wednesday, November 3, 4:30pm
Fisk 201 FCGS Commons
Learn About:
African Studies Courses and Faculty
The African Studies Minor
Studying African Languages
Studying Abroad in Africa
All are welcome!
The great feminist poet, critic, and theorist Adrienne Rich warned: “We must be acutely, disturbingly aware of the language [and, I’d add: forms, narratives, tropes, genres, conventions, ideologies] we are using and that is using us.” True, English, among other things, can rescue you from being bamboozled by the givens, the taken for granted, the “way it is” (but doesn’t have to be). We make language and language makes us. Literature helps us learn and unlearn. At the same time, reading and writing literature is so much fun, an affirmation of creativity and possibility, a steamy and sometimes jarring love affair with beauty, and much else. Imagine that! Discover what English has to offer (see below)…
Professor Pfister
Chair, Department of English
Winter Session aid application is available in the Courses/Winter Session bucket of your Portal. It will be open through noon, Wed, Nov 3. If you are thinking about a Winter Session course, please apply for aid now. Applying for aid does not obligate you to take a class.
Are you a first-generation student? Need to sharpen your skills in math? Come to Math Jam for peer support!
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8-9:30pm, Vanguard Lounge, CAAS Building, 343 High Street
For more information contact Professor Ilesanmi Adeboye at iadeboye@wesleyan.edu.
The Latin American Studies Program (LAST) is hosting an Open House for Prospective Majors on Thursday, October 21 at 4:30 p.m. in the Highwaymen Common Room at the Romance Languages Building, 300 High Street. Come learn about the LAST Major!
