The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction and screenwriting. For fourteen years the center has invited international writers to Chapman as: Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Maxine Hong Kingston among others. Each year access tothose writers is available not
You’reinvited to the WilkinsonCollege Alumni Book Club: TheHelp, February 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Elliot Alumni House. Overview of the book to be discussed: ProfessorPat See, who lived in Mississippi during the 1960’s, shares her uniqueperspective on bestselling book and recent fi lm success, The Help. TheHelp, a novel written by American author Kathryn Stockett, explores thelives
Chapman University and Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Studies Assistant Professor, Jennifer H. Waldeck has recently published a book entitled, Business and Professional Communication in a Digital Age, a comprehensive instructional package designed to build students’ business and professional communication competence. The interactive, multimedia nature of this text emphasizes traditional and contemporary topics germane to business and
Chapman University and Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences invites you to the Public Sociology Conference entitled, “Faceless Latino/a Immigrants: Pathways to Resistance” at Chapman University on March 16 and March 17 2012. The conference aims to encourage meaningful conversations and practices between scholars, policy makers and local Latino/a communities on undocumented immigrants in
Chapman University and Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences presents, The Future of Social Science Research Methods Conference with Earl Babbie on March 21. Hosted by the Earl Babbie Center at Chapman University. The Earl Babbie Research Center at Chapman University is dedicated to empowering students and faculty to apply a wide variety of
If you’re interested in Art History, read this intriguing article in the Washington Post that portrays the relevance between humanities and education. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/how-art-history-majors-power-the-us-economy/2012/01/06/gIQAUv36hP_blog.html
Check out the review of Everyman’s Infinite Art Exhibit in the Los Angeles Times! http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/12/pst-a-to-z-everymans-infinite-art-guggenheim.html#more
A review of the Measure for Measure exhibit that features professor Micol Hebron’s work is in the online Boston Globe. Check it out! http://bostonglobe.com/arts/2011/12/07/nakadate-videos-enthrall-and-sadden/UhXSbYURgwKAnKvI4d7KPO/story.html
Chapman University’s Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences professor in the Department of English, Tom Zoellner, gets a very positive review of his new book, A Safeway in Arizonza, in the Boston Globe as follows: “ASafeway in Arizona is a masterly work of reporting, historical analysis,and sly cultural criticism. Arizona celebrates its 100th birthday next
Tavish Ryan (BFA in Graphic Design ’13) was awarded an undergraduate research grant for a design and cognitive research collaboration which will take place in Santa Barbara, CA this Spring. The study will measure cognitive recall performance on a wayshowing evacuation map designed by Professor Claudine Jaenichen for the Santa Barbara Emergency Management Department.