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So...What are You Going to do With That?
CALS intern Emily Morrison reflects on her time in English 111: “Possibilities of English,” a Penn State course that provides students with the opportunity to learn about how they can use their English degrees to satisfy their career goals, whatever those goals entail.
Some Things Never Change...Or Do They?: Marathon Read 2018
CALS Undergraduate Intern Emily Morrison reflects on her experience at the 2018 Marathon Read: Pages from 1968.
if (englMajor && IST): Inside and Outside the Black Box
Phil Chwistek, 2017-2018 CALS undergraduate intern, reflects on the possibilities of pairing English and technology through the lens of his own experiences as a double major in English and Information Sciences and Technology (IST).
The 2018 Community Read: Globalized Compassion
The 2018 Centre County Reads/CALS Community Read brought State College native Sunil Yapa home to celebrate his novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist. This year's Centre County Reads meaningfully engaged with the novel's themes of activism, protest, and community. The events included a writing contest and a round-table event sponsored by CALS as well as an author event with Yapa himself.
Institutionally Speaking: the 2018 CALS Spring Symposium
In this symposium, six invited external presenters and an equal number of Penn State faculty participants demonstrated innovative ways of conducting a socially committed criticism that responds to specific institutional crises by drawing inspiration from an American literary or artistic object of their choosing.