Graduate Workshops to Better Prepare Yourself after Graduation
Each semester Wilkinson College offers a variety of workshops for graduate students on topics related to academic, personal, and career development. Graduate Students may register for this 0 credit P/NP class through my.chapman.edu. Course number is GUS 530. Here’s a list of workshops coming up. All workshops will be in Roosevelt hall 121, Laura Scudder Conference Room.
WWII Thriller "Peace" to Premiere at Austin Film Festival
The action-thriller film “Peace” – based on the same name novel by Chapman University English Professor Richard Bausch (critically acclaimed New York Times best seller), made its World Premiere at the Austin Film Festival on Saturday, October 26. The film, based on a true event, stars actors Alexander Ludwig (Hunger Games) and Sam Keeley (Burnt)
Making Time for Pleasure Reading
By Mariam Said MFA Graduate Student Making time for pleasure reading is hard when you’re in a creative writing, literature, or rhetoric graduate program. It’s hard enough in other academic fields and careers, but the writing and reading assignments required by English classes takes a certain amount of joy out of what once may have
What exactly makes Disneyland the "Happiest Place on Earth"?
The first faculty lecture at the Town and Gown Lunch at the Forum for Fall 2019 featured Dr. Stephanie Takaragawa’s (Sociology) anthropological research at Disneyland. For over ten years she has taught an interterm class titled “Anthropology of Space and Place,” which uses anthropological theories and methods to critically examine the culture of Disneyland. Dr.
5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your College Visit During Discover Chapman Day
Discover Chapman Day is Chapman University’s annual campus-wide open house for prospective undergraduate students and an ideal opportunity for anyone looking to do a college visit. This year, Discover Chapman Day is on Saturday, Nov. 9. All potential students and their families are invited. You can learn more and register here. For those who have
Debunking the Myth
We’ve all heard it before. “There are no jobs for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences majors” Well, according to Survey results from the Association of American Colleges and Universities, in collaboration with Hart Research Associates, that way of thinking is, to put it bluntly, wrong. Graduates who majored in the arts, philosophy, religion, literature, history,
So you’re in an MFA program–now what?
Don’t be Afraid to Talk As an MFA in Creative Writing student, the thing I grapple with the most when it comes to my writing is sharing my ideas with other people, whether it’s friends, family, or strangers on the internet. I never know whether I’ve talked too much or scared them off, if I’m
Juggling Academics and Sports ... and Succeeding
This summer Chapman Baseball took home the Division III National Championship title, sweeping Birmingham-Southern College in the best-of-three National Championship Series and among those hard-working ballplayers was Wilkinson’s very own Cooper Foard (’22 Political Science Major). “It was (and still is) surreal that we won it all,” said Foard. “Traveling out to Cedar Rapids and
War and Society Student Attends Bergen-Belsen International Summer School
Tiana Taliep is an Archivist for the Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library and Archive at Chapman University since September 2017. Previously, she worked as a Processing Archivist at the New York Public Library. Tiana earned her B.A. in History from Brooklyn College, and Master’s in Library and Information Science with a certification in
So you’re in an MFA program–now what?
Balance for self-preservation Life can sometimes feel like a series of adverse events occurring in rapid succession. The MFA in Creative Writing itself is not the hard part. After all, I am at Chapman University because I want to be here and because I am capable of doing the work and want to do it