Students

On November 17, SPA207 students paid a visit to Firestone Library to see a recently acquired ephemeral collection that documents the Spanish grassroots protest movement called 15-M, after the date it started (May 15, 2011).

Jordan Thomas ’18, who is pursuing a certificate in Portuguese, was recently awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.

The Rhodes Scholarships are the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship awards in the world. Thomas is among the 32 American recipients of the prestigious fellowships, which fund two to three years of graduate study at Oxford.

Read more here.

The Junior Seminar (taught by Professors Christina Lee and Nicole Legnani) participated in a CBLI Program called “Gente y Cuentos” in Trenton on October 27th. The program, moderated by Alma Concepción, aims at making literary works accessible to anyone, regardless of his/her literary level.

For students looking to improve their Spanish and Portuguese conversation skills, language tables are an excellent way to allow them to practice speaking with instructors, peers, and native speakers.

Language tables are informal weekly meetings that give students the opportunity to discuss anything from daily life, current events, books and readings, as well as other general topics of interest. Students are also encouraged to bring up other specific topics that they would like to discuss.