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Prof. Jacqueline Serigos gave a virtual workshop entitled “Wrangling linguistic data with Python” at the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. 

This Fall 2020, Russian Program is offering a Soviet and Russian film course. This course investigates the development of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, from their origins to the present. Beginning with the experimental masterpieces of Eisenstein, Vertov and Dovzhenko, film shaped and responded to Soviet ideology, while Russian cinema continues to direct contemporary Russian culture, even as it reveals social contradictions. World renowned filmmakers including Eisenstein and Vertov, Tarkovsky, Zvyagintsev and Todorovsky engage in active dialogue with each other and world cinema to create a uniquely rich cinematic tradition. This course will consider major film movements, directors, trends, and genres of this tradition, with attention to their innovative techniques and ideological contexts.

The Office of the Provost has announced the recipients of its Curriculum Impact Grants for 2020-21. Of eighteen interdisciplinary projects submitted, four of those funded include CHSS faculty in their teams.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences celebrates its graduates in the Class of 2020 with a message from Dean Ann Ardis, a musical tribute from the Green Machine, and more.

The Spanish Program at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages cordially invites you to join a virtual celebration of Mason students in the Spanish graduate and undergraduate programs.

Prof. Carrie Bonilla is lead author on a book chapter published in April 2020 detailing a study of third language (L3) acquisition of Portuguese by second language (L2) Spanish speakers. She is also co-author of a study reporting on L3 Portuguese acquisition through an autonomous, online learning platform. Both chapters are in a volume dedicated to theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives. This collection is particularly appealing in the broad academic sphere of language acquisition due to the fact that there has yet to be one entirely dedicated to Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL).

This Summer 2020, the Department of Modern & Classical Languages is offering three international film courses to enhance students’ socio-cultural understanding of Japanese and Chinese cultures. During these courses, students will be able to enrich their critical, intellectual, and aesthetic values through a list of carefully selected films. Viewing and studying these films will give students an opportunity to grasp people’s perspective on self, society, and history.

Paris Irizarry, a junior majoring in both global affairs and Korean studies at George Mason, came to Mason Korea in Fall 2019 as a study abroad student. Coming to Korea was a long-held goal, which finally materialized at George Mason when his friend suggested that they go. They started attending meetings with the Korea Campus Coordinator, Grace Lee, and the rest is history.

George Mason University is committed to protecting the health of its community. Its resources include up-to-date plans and procedures, identification of student health services clinics, and attention to its study-abroad programs.