New Student Convocation is scheduled to take place on Monday, September 19, 2011, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. on the Faculty Club Green for all new freshmen and transfer students in the entering class of 2011. Approximately 5,000 new UCSB freshmen and transfer students are expected to attend this ceremonial induction into the University designed to promote […]
9-10 - Introductions from Department Chair, Faculty TA Coordinator, Undergraduate Adviser, plus general meet-and-greet. 10-12 - Workshop on the basics of TAing, including TA Responsibilities, Writing a Syllabus, Lesson Planning, Generating Classroom Discussion, Holding Office Hours, Assessing Student Performance. 12-1 - Potluck lunch with returning TAs. 1-2:30 - Presentations from campus resources, including CLAS, DSP, […]
Public Lecture Celebrating 225 years of Franciscan Presence in Santa Barbara Serra Hall is on the Corner of Los Olivos and Garden Streets. Visitors can use street parking and walk up the drive to the hall. Speakers: Jack Clark Robinson O.F.M. Franciscan friar and teacher of friars and member of the Academy of American Franciscan […]
See the calendar at:www.registrar.ucsb.edu/cal2012.htm On our Courses page you will find some syllabi (click the Download link), and links to the instructors' faculty pages, where there are often announcements about waiting list and "crashing" policies. hm 8/11; 9/13/11, 9/17
Women, Islamism & the Jasmine Revolution (or the so-called "Arab Spring") Thursday, October 6, 2011 * 12:00 noon * Center for Black Studies Research 4603 South Hall* Tunisian women have played a major role in the Jasmine revolution that led to the ousting of President Ben Ali, after 23 years of autocratic leadership. They stood […]
At this event the convenors will announce plans for lectures and events for the coming academic year which include lectures by Keiji Sato, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University (visiting at the Davis Center, Harvard University) on national mobilization and Barbara Junisbai, Pritzer College on ethnic conflict and Kazakhstan. All colleagues and graduate students who may […]
Learn the art of tule mat making and the historical signifance of tule inChumash life. Karen Osland, co-owner of Lavenpine Consulting, has been leading workshops on basketry using Native California plants for 25 years. Leave with your own mat made from tule. 15 E. De La Guerra Street, Santa Barbara $15 Public, $12.50 Students and […]
General Ved Prakash Malik was the Chief of the Indian Army from 1997 to 2000. During his tenure, India fought a war with Pakistan to eject intruders from the heights of the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir. In a distinguished military career spanning more than 40 years, General Malik was involved in the executing, […]
Fifty Years of Archaeology at SBTHP: A RetrospectiveThursday, October 13 at 7:00 PM Join Dr. Robert Hoover, SBTHP board president, and Mike Imwalle, SBTHP archaeologist, as they review 50 years of archaeology at the Santa Barbara Presidio. Beginning with Dr. James Deetz in 1961, the retrospective follows the history of archaeological study from before the […]
Aleksei Kulegin is the Curator of the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg. The balcony you see in this building is where Lenin delivered his first speech in April 1917 after he returned from exile. This building, formerly owned by Emperor Nicholas II’ lover, famous ballerina Mathilda Kshesinskaia, became the Museum of […]