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TV5 Network Now Available
The Department of French and Italian is pleased to announce that TV5, the International French-language television network, is now available in all campus dorms, on channel 73, 24 hours a day. Students, visitors and professionals will be able to watch TV5 at Union South, Memorial Union, Lowell Hall, the Friedrick Center and the Fluno Center for Executive Education.
Dance Classes
Continuing Education dance classes include Scottish country, swing dance, modern dance, tap, Middle Eastern dance and others. Fees range from $34-$94. Information: 263-8927.
Visual Art Classes
Continuing Education art classes include children’s book illustration, comic book art, figure drawing studio, perspective for drawing and painting, printmaking, modern gold leaf painting and watercolor. Fees: $20-$125. Information: 262-6322.
Fitness, Movement Classes
This semester continuing education classes are offered in acupressure, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method, Pilates-based conditioning, Swiss ball exercises and t’ai chi. Fees: $36-$94. Information: 263-8927.
Opera, Irish Tunes and Other Music
More than a dozen continuing education music classes are scheduled by Liberal Studies and the Arts. Topics include basic music for novices, folk and bluegrass, voice, guitar, jazz, a sample of styles, learning music by ear, piano, opera, string ensemble and the great composers. Several courses focus on Irish music instruments such as the guitar and harp, the Irish bodhran, fiddle, mandolin/bouzouki, tenor banjo and tin whistle. Fees: $57-$88. Information: 265-5629.
Learn Quichua This Summer
Monday, June 12-Sunday, Aug. 6, five days a week, morning and afternoons. Eight semester hours’ credit.
This special eight-week course is designed for people wishing to study beginning Quichua intensively. The instructors are Carmen Chuquín Amaguaña, University of Illinois, Frank Salomon, UW–Madison.
Application forms and details: Anthropology Department, 5340 Social Science, 1180 Observatory Drive, UW–Madison, Madison, WI 53706-1393, attn. Frank Salomon. E-mail: fsalomon@facstaff.wisc.edu; fax: 265-4216.
Human Services Administration
Web-based certificate program
This program, based on current theory and management strategies, is designed for the busy professional who wants to develop or improve management and leadership skills.
The program includes personal learning objectives, five core courses, four elective courses and a self-designed capstone activity for 20 continuing education units.
The Summer Institute
This five-day institute, offered in June on campus, is an opportunity to meet and network with colleagues and hear speakers share their ideas on leadership, delivery system issues and cultural competence.
Select a different workshop each day and learn more about changing roles from practitioner to administrator, team building and conflict resolution, budgeting and personnel management, the human service legal environment, outcome measurement and program evaluation, and other topics.
The institute offers 3.0 CEUs and can be taken independently or in place of the elective courses in the Certificate Program.
Information: http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/pda/hsa.
Research and Grant Management: Consulting Agreements
Thursday, April 27, 3-4 p.m., 1610 Engineering Hall.
Consulting agreements can potentially impact faculty duties and responsibilities and even research conducted at the university. The purpose of this seminar is to discuss problematic areas and wording in consulting agreements that faculty and staff should be aware of when engaging in consulting activities. A practical example from consulting activities will be presented. Intended audience: faculty and staff performing or interested in outside consulting. Presenters: Kathleen Irwin, Administrative Legal Services, and Mark Cook, professor of animal science.
Edson Lectures
Thursday-Saturday, May 4-6, The Pyle Center.
Department of History, UW–Madison. Inaugural Lecture: “Excavations on the Red Sea: New Light on Roman Trade with India.” Roger Bagnall, Columbia University; Thursday, May 4, 3:30 p.m. William Linn Westermann, “The Making of an Ancient Historian;” Friday, May 5, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Presiding: Roger Bagnall. “Ancient History at Berlin, ca. 1900,” Alexander Demandt, Freie Universitat Berlin; “The Making of a History Department: Frederick Jackson Turner’s Wisconsin Years,” E. David Cronon, UW–Madison; “Academics on the Fringes of the Woodrow Wilson Administration,” John Cooper, UW–Madison; and “Westermann’s Role in the Development of Ancient History in America,” Glen Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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UW Teaching Academy
The UW Teaching Academy carries a Teaching Ideas Network on its site at: http://www.wisc.edu/teaching-academy/teaching_ideas_network.html.
Members listed at this site are interested in working with faculty and staff who are searching for assistance with any aspect of their teaching, such as tips on effective teaching with 200-plus students, cultivating interest and commitment in non-major courses, tailoring reading and assignment loads, effective use of instructional technologies and how to make the most of small-group work. The network is an outgrowth of recommendations included in a task force report, “Perspectives on Being New and Teacher Scholar Preparation,” recently presented to the Faculty Senate.
PLATO Seeks Members
For $50 per person per year, enjoy exciting lectures, friendly discussions (10 weeks and over 15 topics) and a host of activities with this group of intellectually curious retirees or soon-to-be-retired participants. Membership application: 262-3309.
Volunteers for Weightlifting Program
Learn how to start a proper weightlifting exercise program of your own as part of a research project. The Department of Kinesiology at UW–Madison is conducting a study on the effects of weightlifting on blood sugar responses. Volunteers are needed to participate; there is no cost and all results are confidential.
Volunteers must be postmenopausal women who are not currently engaging in a regular exercise program.
If interested, contact Joel in the Biodynamics Lab, Department of Kinesiology, 263-6308.