Dr. Veronique Olivier (World Languages and Cultures) was recently awarded a $14,280 grant from the Cultural Services French Embassy in the United States’ Transatlantic Mobility Program. Dr. Olivier plans to continue facilitating virtual exchanges between Caen and Chapman students during the 2023-24 academic year. Ultimately, this initiative seeks to build a bilateral partnership that will
Get ready for our Spring 2018 Language Tables! Wednesday, February 14th from 12:00-1:00pm Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese & Spanish Thursday, February 15th from 5:00-6:00pm Arabic, French, German & Spanish Tuesday, March 13th from 12:00-1:00pm ASL, French, Italian, Japanese & Spanish Wednesday, March 14th from 5:00-6:00pm Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Greek & Spanish Wednesday, April 18th
By Shoshana Feld-Sobol Strategic and Corporate Communication (’17) There are a ton of things that I love about Chapman University. But if I were to narrow it down to just a handful of my favorites, I would say that the travel course interterm program was one of the best for me. In just a month
You are invited to La Serata – an evening of Italian conversation on December 7, 2016, March 8, 2017, April 12, 2017 and May 10, 2017, 7 – 8 p.m. in Beckman Hall on the 4th Floor Patio. Join us and learn how to improve your language skills, learn about the Italian culture, speak with
By Dr. Polly Hodge Associate Professor of Spanish Department of World Languages and Cultures The news of Muhammad Ali’s death on June 3 rd sparked a wave of nostalgia in my senses. Growing up in the 60s and 70s, I witnessed his rise to popularity and power every time my father and
By SHERRI CRUZ / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER A small plane brought Chapman professor Pilar Valenzuela and student Priya Shah to the village that resides along the meandering, 1,000-mile-long Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. “You land in a little field of grass,” Shah said. “The airport was a piece of metal on
On Saturday, May 18, W ilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences , Departments of History , Languages , Peace Studies and Communication Studies and the Center for Global Education hosted a breakfast with Chapman University honorary doctorate recipient, Colonel Gail Halvorsen. In attendance were 2013 Harmon Wilkinson Award recipient Kathy McCarrell, Consul General Bernd
The Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University in conjunction with Chapman University’s Escalatte Collection is pleased to present California Visual Music – Three Generations of Abstraction, Saturday, May 18, 2013 – Saturday, June 22, 2013. The exhibition brings together work from L.A.’s vital art scene with selected pieces from the Escalate Collection that exemplify key innovations
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Languages would like to invite you to a free screening of Zaky Chan (and Arabic movie with English subtitles) on Thursday, Sept.27 in DeMille Hall, room 101, 7 p.m. This comedy/romance features Zaky, a lazy young man who decides to work for his
The faded mosquito bites dotted around Priya Shah’s ankles will disappear, making that particular reminder of her January interterm studies in the Amazonian rain forest a mere memory. “They were huge,” Shah said with a laugh, brushing at her ankles near the end of the spring semester, months since her trip to the Amazon. “But