Speakers and Lectures

Thursday, April 9th

Time Event Title
11:10 am-12:00 pmFaculty Forum about Thematic Minors West Science
The Ad Hoc Report on Curriculum Enhancement recommended Thematic Minors as a way to lend coherence and depth to the BA distribution requirements. Academic Programs has worked hard this year to develop a template for Thematic Minors. Please come and share your ideas about this important potential change to the BA requirements.
7:30 pmVisiting Writer The Commons
Distinguished author Alan Michael Parker will read from and discuss his work. Parker is the author of five collections of poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, and most recently, Elephants & Butterflies, as well as a novel, Cry Uncle. He is also editor of The Imaginary Poets, and co-editor of two other volumes. “He writes a language of gleeful inventiveness, distinctly American in tune and tone” – Rosanna Warren

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