The UB Arts Collaboratory invites applications from students from all disciplines to be part of a new interdisciplinary experiential class in the Spring semester 2023. We are delighted to announce the Working Artists Lab course: “The Folger Shakespeare Institute Comes to Buffalo! Shakespeare and Buffalo: Questions of Race, Class, and Culture” offered by the UB Arts Collaboratory and the Department of Theatre and Dance.
We’d like to extend an invitation for students to join this class and collaborate across disciplines with UB faculty and librarians, students, and community partners including Buffalo’s leading theatre companies, as well as distinguished scholars and professional artists. Interested students are encouraged to complete and submit the attached Spring 2023 Working Artists Lab student application as soon as possible. Seats are limited.
Class will meet on Fridays 2:00 – 4:20pm at the Center for the Arts. Registration is for 3 credit for the undergraduate course or 1-3 credit for the graduate course. No pre-requisites. Upon acceptance, students will be asked to provide their student number so they can be force- registered into the class. For more see attached call for student applications.
This Working Artists Lab course presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students from all disciplines to witness, research, create, and participate in the production process of live art, centering on Shakespeare and the city of Buffalo and the questions of race, class, and culture. The class will host visiting artists, scholars, performers, directors, arts managers, theatre companies, archivists, librarians, and educators, affording a wide array of partnerships with our students, leading to the production of artistic and scholarly collaborations. Our course aims to foster a company of artists and scholars with a shared purpose to work and learn together. Come join us!
Thank you for your support of the UB Arts Collaboratory and looking forward to engaging collaborations!
Community Organizing and Development Minor & Electives available to ALL MAJORS
For questions about whether these courses will count toward your university requirements, please speak to your academic advisor.
SW130LEC Black Lives Matter: Building Racial Justice and Solidarity T/R 3:00-4:20PM | Seated Instructor: C. Brockington This foundational course examines historic and contemporary anti-Black racism and white supremacy in the United States. Students will analyze policies and strategies to identify, challenge, and transform the values, structures, and behaviors that perpetuate systemic racism, white supremacy and anti-blackness. Students will also engage in self-reflection, develop self-awareness, and participate in critical analysis of systems of privilege and oppression, as well develop personal strategies for becoming antiracist and facilitating change in communities and society. *Course with a racial justice focus.*
SW140LEC Power to the People: Intro to Organizing & Advocacy Strategies T/R 10:00-11:20AM | Hybrid Instructor: L. Merriman This course focuses on the nuts and bolts of organizing and the strategies that inform advocacy with an emphasis on the roles social capital has on networking effectively across groups and systems. Because the skills and tasks of organizing and advocacy are predominately to catalyze and agitate for change, students will examine relevant policies and learn how to identify and map the distribution of power they promote particularly as they influence access to service and support in neighborhoods and communities.
SW150LEC Social Media in Social Change T/R 6:00-7:20PM | Remote Instructor: M. Schwartz This course will familiarize students with social media and social networking as they influence community change. Specifically, students will be introduced to the fundamental terms and concepts of social media and networking, including various interfaces, tools, and platforms that may be leveraged to promote community change and development. Students will also explore existing scholarship and best practices, as well asissues of social justice, trauma and adversity, social disadvantage, and human rights as they apply to the democratization of technology.
SW230LEC Theories & Policies of Community Organizing M/W 10:00-11:20AM | Seated Instructor: L. Lewis This course will build upon the Introduction to Community Organizing and Development course to provide students with an understanding of the ways in which the history of community organizing and development informs community theory and policy across urban and rural settings. With an emphasis on group development theory, students will be introduced to the major theories and policies that impact neighborhood/community capacity, including theories of poverty and development, inequality, human rights, urban and rural community development, neighborhood organizing, restorative practice, social movements, community transformation, social capital. A particular focus is the intersection of these theories and policies within this framework that can create social capital, and foster entrepreneurship, social innovation, and cross-sector collaboration.
SW309LEC Developing Leadership in Communities M/W 6:00-7:20PM | Hybrid Instructor: J. Bieron This course focuses on development of leadership skills and strategies that foster community engagement and strengthen the natural leadership of residents within communities. Students will examine theories of leadership and the ways in which they influence organizational structures that promote community well-being. This course will explore the mechanisms that support opportunities for collaboration across social, political, legal, and financial systems and the communication patterns that influence success.
SW401LEC Black Men: A Historical and Contemporary Discourse 1619-Present W 9:00-11:50AM | Seated Instructor: C. St. Vil
Join us for an exclusive event for undergraduates in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences who are interested in graduate school and learning more about research opportunities.
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Learn more about research opportunities, career pathways in the biomedical sciences, and graduate school options.
Tour our downtown building at 955 Main St and meet current graduate students.
Receive free snacks and a t-shirt for all attendees!
Getting here UB Stampede shuttles will be provided from South Campus. Students will be picked up from Main Circle starting at 3 pm and returned to South Campus at the end of the event.
Are you interested in educational equity, economic justice, public health, and global human rights? Do you want to learn key policy and leadership skills to help make a difference in communities, schools, and multiple levels of governance? Do you want to earn a UB minor in this content? If so, then ELP 200 is for you. This course introduces undergraduate students to what leading critical politics and policy scholars have to say about K-12 educational equity concerns, policies, and leadership practice. Students also will explore how their identity and views of leadership matter to developing policy and building inclusive social environments – in this case, schools and local communities. Course material largely pulls from the discipline of education, but the course also introduces students to engaging in interdisciplinary scholarship from disciplines such as gender studies, law, public health, and social work. Coursework provides students with opportunities to develop critical sense-making about policy and leadership in a way that empowers them to become advocates on global, national, and local issues.
Open to all majors, this minor provides students the opportunity to study through coursework and experiential learning, topics such as: race, gender, and class inequality; homelessness; immigrant and refugee education; K-12 educational reform and higher education access; school-community partnerships; health equity and violence prevention.
Benefits:
• The ability to use knowledge from educational leadership, policy, and the social sciences to address justice issues.
• Awareness of how social and economic inequality affects educational systems, policy and intervention strategies.
• Best practices and hands-on skills for working in diverse educational and related contexts.
It will prepare students interested in studying social, political, and economic contexts of education, policy, and leadership. It will also prepare students for careers in education, policy, non-profit, non-governmental organizations, and related professions.
To finish this minor you must complete 18 credit hours, including 4 required courses and 2 electives.
CONTACT: Melinda Lemke, PhD
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy malemke@buffalo.edu | 716-645-1090
I want to bring your attention to the following new course offered by the math department this spring which REPLACES MTH 309 (Linear Algebra) for all requirements.
***NEW COURSE: MTH 323 – Honors Linear Algebra***
Instructor: Sarah Muldoon
Lecture: TR 12:30 – 1:50 Park 145
Recitation: W 4:00 – 4:50 Park 250
This course covers the same content as MTH 309 – Linear Algebra, but in a smaller course setting (max 30 students) with more of an emphasis on concepts and underlying theory. We highly encourage this course as a replacement for MTH 309 for honors students and/or math majors/minors.
The UB Arts Collaboratory invites applications from students from all disciplines to be part of a new interdisciplinary experiential class in the Spring semester 2023
“The Folger Shakespeare Institute Comes to Buffalo! Shakespeare and Buffalo: Questions of Race, Class, and Culture” Fridays 2:00-4:20pm at the UB Center for the Arts Earn 3 credits. TH480 and TH513. No prerequisites. Collaborate across disciplines with UB faculty, students and community partners! Get involved with Buffalo’s leading theatre companies as a collaborator! Participate in the creation, research, and production processes of live art leading to the upcoming national event in Buffalo: The Folger Institute Weekend Workshop! We invite you to complete the Spring 2023 Working Artists Lab student application to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime experience while earning academic credit. Course Description This once-in-a-lifetime course presents a unique opportunity for students from all disciplines to witness, research, create, and participate in the production process of live art, centering on Shakespeare and the city of Buffalo and the questions of race, class, and culture. The class will host visiting artists, scholars, performers, directors, arts managers, theatre companies, archivists, librarians, and educators, affording a wide array of partnerships with our students, leading to the production of artistic and scholarly collaborations. Our course aims to foster a company of artists and scholars with a shared purpose to work and learn together. Come join us!
The story of “Shakespeare” in America is more than a history of books and performances. It is also a study of politics and society—of race, class, gender, and their intersections, of “culture” in the fullest sense of the word—all of which is deeply inflected by the real and imagined past of particular places The class will examine the Shakespearean textual, performance, and physical scene in Buffalo from the late 1800s to the present day and will investigate questions of race, class and culture in Shakespeare texts in performance. Planned field work includes sessions with distinguished members of Buffalo’s professional theatres, exploration of the archives and collections, as well as field trips to explore artistic and historic sites in the city of Buffalo. The work in our class will lay the foundation for our Working Arts Lab student’s special participation in the Folger Institute Workshop on “Gilding the Guilt: The Gilded Age, Craft Production, and the Construction of Cultural Capital” on April 27-30 here in Buffalo. This is a rare and by-invitation opportunity is available only to those in this class!
About the Folger Shakespeare Institute and the Folger Weekend Workshop The Folger Shakespeare Library, based on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, is the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. The Folger Institute is a dedicated center for collections-focused research and advanced study in the humanities at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Through its multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural programs and research fellowships, the Institute establishes scholarly communities, fresh research approaches, and new teaching agendas for early modern fields. The Folger Weekend Workshop in Buffalo, “Gilding the Guilt: The Gilded Age, Craft Production, and the Construction of Cultural Capital” will feature distinguished scholars and artists addressing Shakespeare in relation to African-American culture, frontiers / la frontera, and Indigenous reception and adaptation, including the archive, and illuminating the conversations from page to stage. You can access a video describing the Folger Weekend Workshop in detail here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcior3gmdGc. The University at Buffalo has been a member of the Folger Institute Consortium since 1992. About the UB Arts Collaboratory and Working Artists Lab – CAS The UB Arts Collaboratory, an initiative of the College of Arts and Sciences, brings UB and Buffalobased artists together to spark innovation and share their work with the world. The Working Artists Lab (WAL), led by Professor Maria S. Horne, creates a space for UB students to learn and experience what it’s like to be out in the world as a working artist-scholar, over the course of a semester and while earning academic credit. This course integrates academics with real-life experience, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration and multi-modal learning, and preparing the young scholar-artist to enter the profession. The lab brings together UB students, faculty, and visiting artists to develop new projects and collaborate across disciplines while engaging with the artists and community where we live and learn. WAL hosts renowned scholars and artists, as well as luminaries from the Buffalo community and the University at Buffalo.
Application Form “The Folger Shakespeare Institute Comes to Buffalo! Shakespeare and Buffalo: Questions of Race, Class, and Culture” Instructions: Complete form and send it via email to artscollaboratory@buffalo.edu Upon acceptance, students will be asked to provide their student number so they can be forceregistered into the class. To avoid disappointment, apply early. Seats are limited and we implement rolling admissions. Application will remain open until seats are filled. Name: Email: Phone: Department: Major/Minor: Academic Level: Fr So Ju Se Grad Anticipated Graduation Date: Pronouns: Personal Statement (brief statement indicating why you are interested in participating)
As we begin a new academic year at the University at Buffalo, we are excited to connect with and learn more about the future class of Graduate School of Education students—including students like you!
Join us for one (or many) of our virtual events from September 26 to October 3 to learn more about all aspects of Graduate School you might not already know. Applying to graduate school can be daunting, so we are hosting a week on how to navigate the admissions process and life as a graduate student. Use the button below to register for one, or all of our events.
Hidden Curriculum: Grad School 101 Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. ET This webinar will provide you with a detailed look at the process of searching for, applying to, and enrolling in the graduate program that is right for you
Hidden Curriculum: Helpful Tips for Letters of Recommendation Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. ET We’ll go behind the scenes and discuss the process of choosing the best references for you to write letters of recommendation.
Hidden Curriculum: Resume Writing for Grad School Sept. 29 at 1 p.m. ET This webinar will provide you with a detailed look at the process of writing a professional resume.
Hidden Curriculum: Writing your Statement of Interest Video recording with Live Q&A on Sept. 30 at 6 p.m. ET View our video recording on the tips and strategies for writing your personal statement or statement of interest. Join our live Q&A session to ask any questions that were not addressed in the video.
Hidden Curriculum: Funding For Grad School Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. ET You are invited to join us for an Admission and Financial Aid Webinar at UB’s Graduate School of Education where we discuss ways to finance your graduate education.
Interested in working on a research or creative project? Come learn about undergraduate level research and creative opportunities at UB. Mentored research or creative projects WILL EARN you Honors Experience Credits and add to your resume and knowledge base no matter your major or academic program. Research is for all majors. Workshop will cover: -HOW TO FIND A PROJECT or OPPORTUNITY -How to turn your work into HONORS EXPERIENCE CREDITS -DISCUSS FUNDING $$ -Honors College Research and Creativity fund application overview and deadlines -ELN Research work and conference funding application overview and deadlines Join UB Honors and UB’s Experiential Learning Network (ELN) on either Wednesday September 21st, 1-2pm in 128 Capen Hall or Thursday September 22nd, 2-3pm in128 Capen Hall
