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Celebrate the Day of the Dead with MCL on Nov. 2

October 18, 2016 by Trysta Herzog

The department of modern and classical languages is co-hosting the annual Day of the Dead Festival with La Barraca Spanish club on Wednesday, Nov. 2 — and you’re invited! Come celebrate one of the most beloved Hispanic holidays with traditional Catrina/Catrín face painting, sugar skull decorating, papel picado art, poetry and traditional Day of the Dead desserts. Admission […]

Filed Under: Festivals, News Tagged With: calaveras, catrina, COAL, day of the dead, dia de muertos, festival, la barraca, spanish club, sugar skull

Save the Date: World Language Showcase returns March 22

September 27, 2016 by Trysta Herzog

High school teachers and their students are invited to an exciting day of language-related events for the second annual World Language Showcase on March 22, 2017. Registration details will be available soon. Help your students make transition from high school to college Your students will meet modern and classical languages department faculty members and college students […]

Filed Under: News, world language showcase Tagged With: COAL, high school, outreach, recruitment, spelling bee, tonia tinsley, Vanessa Rodriguez de la Vega

International, American students paired in new LLC

September 13, 2016 by Trysta Herzog

Students networking

This year, there’s a new LLC on campus and it’s a little different.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: COAL, cultural competency, global community, Global Studies, international students, living learning community, madeline hooper, residence life

MCL’s new Spanish professor specializes in 19th-century romanticism, naturalism

May 26, 2016 by Trysta Herzog

Dr. Heidi Backes

Dr. Heidi Backes will join modern and classical language’s Spanish faculty in the fall. Most recently, she was an assistant professor of Spanish at Drury University. Degree in modern peninsular literature Backes received her Ph.D. in modern peninsular literature from the University of Wisconsin in 2011, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on the neo-Gothic movement […]

Filed Under: Faculty Achievement, News Tagged With: COAL, heidi backes, new faculty, spanish, spanish literature

Spanish major takes nontraditional path to becoming teacher

May 10, 2016 by Trysta Herzog

In eighth grade, Spanish major Jessica Garcia watched a documentary film that would change the course of her career. Since she could remember, she wanted to be a teacher: “I was always the little kid forcing my friends to play school so I could be the teacher.” But when she saw the film “Waiting for […]

Filed Under: News, Student Achievement Tagged With: COAL, education, jessica garcia, sociology, spanish, teach for america, teaching, waiting for superman

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