In only its second year, the Making Learning Accessible Conference hosted at Michigan State University has doubled in size and expanded its scope. The conference, held December 2 at MSU’s Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, celebrates and explores accessibility with the goal of providing a broad range of information and ideas to help participants design universally accessible courses, websites and…
Students in an Introduction to Filmmaking class had the extraordinary opportunity to hear from an Emmy award-winning actor as well as the former President of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) who also happens to have her own Hollywood Star. Actor, Director and Producer Timothy Busfield, who won an Emmy Award for his work on the television series Thirtysomething, was joined byActor,…
Kiana Elkins, junior Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities major and Women and Gender Studies and Peace and Justice Studies minor, has taken advantage of everything MSU has to offer, including student scholarships, study abroad, and several interesting extracurricular opportunities.Why did you come to MSU?I moved back to Michigan from Florida my senior year of high school, and I…
Sometimes in our efforts to advocate for the importance of a liberal arts education, we fail to demonstrate what it means to put the arts of liberty into practice. It’s easier to speak about the values of critical thinking, ethical imagination, excellent communication, and global interconnection...
Maria Novotny is a fourth-year doctoral student in the College of Arts and Letters. A co-director of The ART of Infertility, she travels the world exhibiting stories of infertility. She fuses her academic research with community outreach by offering art and creative writing workshops to infertile individuals. In 2011, I received what most 25-year-old women don’t expect: an infertility diagnosis. I remember…
Photographs from 127 students from 39 different countries are now on display in Gallery 101 of Kresge Art Center through Friday, December 9. The photos represent the skills learned and work completed as part of a five-course specialization, Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR, offered online by Michigan State University through Coursera, an online education provider that partners…
When choosing what university to attend, the deciding factor for Jack Weyhrich was the study abroad opportunities available at Michigan State University. Weyhrich, now a second-year student with senior status and a dual major in French and Economics, spent this past summer in Paris doing an internship abroad. He worked with MSU’s Office of Study Abroad (OSA) to find a…
Joel Arnold, a recent Michigan State University graduate with degrees in social relations and policy from James Madison College and urban and regional planning from the College of Social Science; and Margaret Born, an Honors College senior majoring in comparative cultures and politics in James Madison College and Arabic in the College of Arts and Letters, are two of 12…
The College of Arts & Letters was well represented at the 2016 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference with Tamara Butler, Assistant Professor in the Department of English and African American and African Studies, receiving the Promising Researcher Award and work produced within the College presented by faculty, students and recent alumni at the national convention held in…
Acclaimed Director Iqbal Khan, most recently known for his production of Macbeth for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, visited Michigan State University last week and spoke to English and Theatre classes, taught workshops, and delivered the Leading Voices Series lecture at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts. Each morning during his trip, Khan met with a combined group of student…