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INSIGHTS DIVISION of ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Volume 11 SCHOOL of ARTSTHE ARTS AND AND PROFESSIONS PROFESSIONS Issue 3 Department of English and Modern Languages April 2008 HONOR SOCIETY INDUCTION Outstanding English Majors Recognized Eight English majors students to act on what became the newest members they’ve studied. of Sigma Tau Delta, the Mr. Benjamin offered national English honor the group some society, at an official strategies for success induction ceremony held recently in the and reminded new UMES Student Services Center. members that they have Family, faculty, and friends gathered to New honor society members (L to R) an obligation to give celebrate their achievement. Guest Shannon Schoffstall, Brittany Goodman, back to their Mr. Benjamin speakers included the group’s advisor, Shamire Casselle, Shartanique Watson, communities and to English faculty member Dean Cooledge, Marla Stewart, Nikita Williamson, Mildred their alma mater. and a UMES alumnus and former Sigma Harris, and Justin Stewart Tau Delta member, Nathaniel Benjamin. Additional photos from the Sigma Tau Dr. Cooledge quoted from the “The Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa Society by Delta induction ceremony may be seen on American Scholar,” a speech delivered to Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837, urging page six. HAWK RADIO BACK IN BUSINESS Student Managed Radio Station Returns on the Internet After nearly a year’s instructional activity Several absence Hawk Radio is back by installing Internet dozen on the air, this time as an access to the students Internet radio station. building that houses representing Student disc jockeys began the station’s studios departments broadcasting recently at and moving from the campus- www.hawkradio.org. airwaves to the wide have world wide web. signed up to In the spring of 2007, a Assistant General Jeffrey Philippe (L) and Paul Savage host shows. frozen pipe burst and “This is such a Manager Amanda Boyer in the Hawk Radio control-room They are led destroyed the AM and FM valuable hands-on edits music for air by General transmitters of the University’s student-run tool for students who are considering a Manager radio station. With the support of the career in communications,” said the Fred Stephens, a junior majoring in Division of Student Life and Enrollment group’s advisor, English faculty member business. Management and the UMES Office of Marilyn Buerkle. “It’s great to be back in Information Technology, the English business and to see the amount of Programs are streamed from noon until department was able to resurrect its enthusiasm the station is generating.” midnight, Monday through Friday. EXPANDING OUR WORLD Experimental Arabic Class Serves Students and Faculty The Department of The UMES communication and culture,” Dr. Cooledge English and course is said. “Though a critical language, Arabic is Modern Languages taught by currently offered at few institutions, so we is offering a unique Siddig are fortunate…” opportunity to our Mustafa Dr. Cooledge teaches a course designed for campus community. For the first time, a Ismail, a UMES students who are non-native course in conversational Arabic is being native Arabic English speakers; she hopes her familiarity taught this semester. Seventeen students A recent session of speaker from with conversational Arabic will help her have enrolled in the class; several English ENGL288A, Sudan. He better assist her faculty members are also learning the Conversational Arabic holds degrees Arabic language. in law, third students. She is world development, and computer “Arabic is now a also exploring science, but also has teaching experience critical language options for in elementary and secondary schools in course, designated UMES students Sudan and the United States. as such by the to travel to federal “People are frequently scared away from Arabic government,” said learning Arabic because the script looks speaking Dr. Cooledge (right interim so different, and pronunciation for Arabic countries. foreground) is one of department chair words can be difficult at first,” Mr. Ismail Gabriela nearly twenty students Chester said. “Learning any language is a Vlahovici- studying Arabic this Hedgepeth. More demanding process, but once started, it is Jones and semester than 222 million Mr. Ismail helps his rewarding and enjoyable.” Ababakar Diop, people speak the students practice their The department’s French language two other English faculty members, are language in more pronunciation skills instructor, Susan Cooledge, is enrolled in auditing the course. than twenty-two the class. It “presents an opportunity to countries. Conversational Arabic will be offered explore a distinctly different system of again during the fall 2008 semester. SUDAN IN TRANSITION English Department Chair Hosts International Conference The UMES African Language Research has been “in addressed conference participants by Project (ALRP), created under the aegis conflict with reaffirming her commitment to of the Department of English and Modern itself ever international education. “I am a citizen of Languages in 1992 and led by Interim since.” the world,” she said. She reminded the Department Chair Chester Hedgepeth, “It’s not easy students in attendance that their futures held its annual spring workshop on to have a are inextricably linked to a global campus recently. The conference focused democracy,” economy. on Sudanese politics and languages. she said. UMES has been involved in projects in “They need to The keynote address at the conference Dr. Bishai, flanked by Dr. Southern Sudan for more than ten years, understand was delivered by Linda Bishai, a senior Hedgepeth and President including efforts to train census workers how to solve program officer at the U.S. Institute of Thompson and land commissioners. A University their Peace. She is an expert in human rights delegation will be traveling there again problems peacefully.” law and has been working with Sudanese this month. community, religious, and academic The U.S. Institute of Peace, an arm of the Other topics under discussion at the leaders in preparation for elections U.S. government, has provided seed recent ALRP conference included a look scheduled for next year. money for conflict resolution training and at tribal migration in Darfur and its is offering “rule of law” advice on Dr. Bishai recounted the nation’s troubled impact on language, and an early constitutional and judicial issues. history, telling her audience that, assessment of the new conversational following independence in 1956, Sudan Arabic course being taught here at UMES UMES President Thelma Thompson (see above). ENGLISH EDUCATION NEWS Editor’s Note: This is the first of what will Q: Why do I need to take the Praxis I Q: When do I take the Praxis II test? become a regular newsletter feature about test? our English Teacher Education Program written by the program’s coordinator A: The Maryland Department of A: Passing Praxis II scores are required Associate Professor Barbara Seabrook. Education requires the Praxis tests for prior to the teaching internship during the teacher certification in the state. UMES spring semester of the senior year. UMES students are required to submit an students should take Praxis II by the application to the UMES Teacher summer after their junior year. Education Program at the end of their The two Praxis II tests that English sophomore year. A 2.75 GPA and a Education majors are required to take are passing score on Praxis I is required for Test #0041 Content and Test #0043 acceptance into the program. Pedagogy. Praxis I consists of three tests: math, Dr. Seabrook The Maryland Department of Education reading, and writing. The Maryland Photo by requires a minimum score of 164 on the Department of Education considers a Robin content knowledge test and a minimum minimum combined score of 527 on the Hoffman score of 155 on the pedagogy test. three tests as a passing score. TEACHING SENIOR NON INTERNS PREP TEACHING? Laura Zanrucha and Shannon English Education majors enroll in EDCI Ashley Jenifer, a May 2007 English Non- Schoffstall are completing their 425B, Curriculum and Instruction in Teaching graduate, is currently working as teaching internships this semester to English, during the fall of their senior an adjunct English instructor for the graduate in May. year to learn methods of teaching and College of Southern Maryland and as a planning for instruction. teacher at the Goddard School in Waldorf, Ms. Zanrucha began Maryland. her teaching As part of the requirements for this pre- internship with seven internship course, teacher candidates Students who have earned English Non- weeks at Salisbury write a lesson plan and teach a grammar Teaching degrees can be hired with a Middle School in lesson in Dr. Seabrook’s ENGL 218 class. provisional teaching license in Maryland. Tracey McGovern’s The school district will require those classroom. She will provisional teachers to complete specific spend the next eight professional education courses and pass weeks at Crisfield Praxis I and II by an established deadline High School Ms. Zanrucha to qualify for teacher certification in the partnered with state. instructor Virginia Bailey. Another English Non-Teaching alumnus After seven weeks at has chosen a different Washington High path to the classroom. School in Princess Samantha Hall, a Anne working with Laura Zanrucha (back to camera) uses December 2005 Rachel McNeil, Ms. innovative teaching techniques to teach graduate, is earning her Schoffstall will be a comma rules in ENGL 218 while