FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHSS Faculty Share Their Findings RICHMOND, VA (April 20, 2007) – A symposium for the faculty of the Department of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences was held recently in the Gallery of Georgiadis Hall on the Parham Road Campus. The morning session of the program included the following presentations: Miles McCrimmon on Contesting the Territoriality of “Freshman English”: The Place of Dual Enrollment, Bev Aronowitz on Going Public in English 111 and English 112: Supporting the Learning Objectives of Communication, Information Literacy, Connectivity, and Professionalism with Students' Oral Presentations Based on Their Researched Essays, Bruce Sofinski on Differentiation in the ASL Classroom: Five Big Ideas to Guide Ongoing Curriculum & Instruction Decisions, Marty Watkin on "Our bodies were our first books": Adult Sudanese Learners of ESL and the Refugee Experience The afternoon session included: Ashley Bourne on In the great forest of nature: Crevecoeur's Divisive View of American Wilderness, Jane Rosecrans on The Myth of the Flat Earth, Ghazala Hashmi discussed Western Media and the Burqa: Covering Islam in a Post 9/11 World, Wayne Knight on Clinton, NATO and Kosovo, 1999 and David Lawrence on Preliminary Results of an Expedition to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Serving over 17,000 students annually, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College is the youngest and third largest of 23 community colleges in Virginia. The College operates three campuses serving residents in the City of Richmond and the counties of Henrico, Hanover, Goochland, Powhatan and Louisa.
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