CLA Events Calendar

• The Erosion of Writing Skills

  Texting, spell-check, and wanton neglect of grammar instruction are among the suspected culprits for the supposed decline. But what evidence do we have about the rise or fall of student writing abilities? December 4. Learn More

Upcoming Events

• School of Music Colloquium
  
  • 11/23/2009 4:30 PM
  • Location: 280 Ferguson Hall Microtonal Extensions of Equally Tempered Counterpoint with Octavio Alberto Agustin Aquino
• Fugitive Virgins and Hebrew Maidens:
  
  • 11/24/2009 7:00 PM
  • Location: Room Beth Jacob 1179 Victoria Curve Mendota Heights Off Campus Why Jewish Women Became Radicals in Czarist Russia: a lecture by Deborah Hertz
• Langston Hughes: 50 Years Since "Selected Poems"
  
  • 12/04/2009 7:00 PM
  • Location: Lind Hall Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Langston Hughes' Selected Poems with an evening of mass readings, translations, performances, music and short academic presentations
• Jazz Ensemble I and II
  
  • 12/07/2009 7:30 PM
  • Location: Ted Mann Concert Hall Jazz Ensemble I and II
• "Les Noces Chinoise: An 18th Century French View of a Chinese Wedding Procession
  
  • 12/11/2009 12:15 PM
  • Location: room 1210 Heller Hall A presentation by Ann Waltner (University of Minnesota)
• Les Bronzes
  
  • 12/12/2009 6:30 PM
  • Location: 306 Folwell Hall French, Department of French and Italian - Italian: The FFCC's fourth movie for the semester!