03/13 - Athenaeum at 1pm - Assessment in the History Department: Outcomes for History Majors and GEPS Students

Come one come all!  Join us at 1:00pm on Wednesday, March 13, for "Assessment in the History Department: Outcomes for History Majors and GEPS Students" presented by Matthew Lungerhausen, Matt Lindaman  and Michelle Kuhl.

The panel will discuss the methods used by WSU’s history department to assess student learning among both majors and General Education (GEPS) students. Professor Lungerhausen will address the main focus of the Department’s assessment for majors, the senior thesis project. Professors Lindaman and Kuhl will discuss the way they have used Document Based Questions to assess historical thinking skills in GEPS students from Professor Lindaman’s Western Civilizations classes.

Please encourage your students and colleagues to attend.

The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Krueger Library, bluff side. For more information about the fall Athenaeum events please visit: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

03/06 - Athenaeum at 1pm - Introduction to Tai Chi and Chi Gong

Please joins us at 1:00pm on 6 March 2013 for our Library Athenaeum titled Introduction to Tai Chi and Chi Gong, by Brice Wilkinson, Retired Professor, Winona State University.

An experiential introduction to the science of Tai Chi. It has preventive medicine, every day you give yourself a self administered acupuncture treatment. It is a dance to many, a weapon system to some, they way of enlightenment for a few. If you can walk you can play Tai Chi. Oh yes, it reverses the laws of aging.

The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Krueger Library, bluff side.  For more information about the Library Athenaeum please visit our website at:

http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/#six

02/27 - Athenaeum at 1pm - The Exploitation of Disability in Dramatic Works: From Shakespeare to Seinfeld

Please join us at 1:00pm on Wednesday, February 27, for "The Exploitation of Disability in Dramatic Works: From Shakespeare to Seinfeld" presented by Daniel S. Skoglund, a graduate student in the Department of English.

The topic of Disability Studies has garnered recent attention from numerous academic fields. In the study of English literature, with a particular focus on dramatic works, critics have attempted to assess the way in which dramatists have employed disability within these texts. Generally, disability is only utilized as a character-making trope that is intended to elicit humor, pity, and fear. This discussion attempts to assess how such works manage to induce these emotions as well as trace their presence from the medieval and early modern dramatic works of writers like Shakespeare, to their presence in postmodern works like Seinfeld.

The Library Athenaeum is free and open to the public. The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Krueger Library, bluff side. For more information about the fall Athenaeum events please visit: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/