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Volunteer For Better Boulder Better World!

Better Boulder Better World is CU's annual day of service. Students, staff and faculty are invited to choose from a variety of projects that emphasize environment, community gardening/farming, youth, creativity, cross-cultural connections, poverty recovery and more. Learn first-hand about wonderful programs and fascinating people making an impact in the Boulder/Denver region and connect with your fellow CU community members. For more information visit our website.

Volunteer During Better Boulder Better World!

Better Boulder Better World is CU's annual day of service. Students, staff and faculty are invited to choose from a variety of projects that emphasize environment, community gardening/farming, youth, creativity, cross-cultural connections, poverty recovery and more. Learn first-hand about wonderful programs and fascinating people making an impact in the Boulder/Denver region and connect with your fellow CU community members. For more information visit www.colorado.edu/vrc/bbbw/

CHA's Year-End Party

The Center for Humanities and the Arts invites you to join us to celebrate the accomplishments of humanities and arts faculty and graduate students, to meet next year’s CHA Faculty Fellows, hear about new initiatives, meet our advisory board, and mingle with members of the administration who have supported us over the year. Refreshments will be provided. Wednesday, May 1 3:30-5 p.m. (remarks and announcements at 4 p.m.) Macky 201 We look forward to seeing you!

Property disposal training on Tuesday April 23, 9: a.m.–12 p.m.

In Module 2 of the Departmental Property Managers Certificate Training, learn how to properly dispose of your department’s surplus property. Discover your options: disposal, trade-ins, donations, transfers, etc. Marine Street Science Center - Computer Training Room W179 – RL6 Register by email to ABSTraining@colorado.edu. Completion of all three sessions will lead to a Departmental Property Manager (DPM) certification if completed within two years. Training and certification is sponsored by ABS, OCG, and Property Services.

Maymester Core Course: HEBR 2350/ JWST 2350. Introduction to Jewish Culture

Come and explore the development of Jewish culture as it moves across the chronological and geographical map of the historic Jewish people with an emphasis on the variety of Jewish ethnicities and their cultural productions. Taught in English. Approved for Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum: Human Diversity. This is also one of the required introductory courses for the Jewish Studies major and minor.

Maymester core course: RUSS 4811 Introduction to 19th-Century Russian Literature

The great writers of 19th-century Russia made an enormous contribution to world literature, and have influenced modern thought, writing and film. In this survey course students will be introduced to such writers as Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and the major literary movements and social debates of the 19th century their works reflect. Course taught in English. Core: Literature and the Arts

GlobeMed's Run for Life 5K

Put on your running shoes! GlobeMed at CU is putting on a 5K Run For Life fundraiser. Join others on a moderate 3.1 mile course through CU-Boulder's beautiful South Campus. And don't forget, you can use this race to qualify for the top BolderBOULDER heats. Early Bird Public prices only $20 Reserve your spot.

GlobeMed's Run for Life 5K

Put on your running shoes! GlobeMed at CU is putting on a 5K Run For Life fundraiser. Join others on a moderate 3.1 mile course through CU-Boulder's beautiful South Campus. And don't forget, you can use this race to qualify for the top BolderBOULDER heats. $12 student early prices Register today.

New Fall 2013 Core Course: RUSS 2241, The Vampire in Literature and the Visual Arts

This course will pursue the question of why the vampire will not “die,” but instead continues to appeal to modern and post-modern imaginations. Through a wide range of readings, art, film and critical analyses we will trace the evolution of the literary vampire from a terrifying creature of lore into the Romantic and highly sexual being of popular Western culture. Approved for Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum: Literature and the Arts.

Radical Nationalism in Contemporary Northern Europe, [SCAN 3301]: Fall 2013 New Core Course

This course explores the recent rise of neo-Nazism, white separatism, Islamophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment in the Nordic countries. Recognizing that radical nationalism is an aesthetic, social and intellectual movement in addition to being a political cause, our survey in this course will be multidisciplinary. We will consult scholarship from sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, criminology and political science, as well as music, literature and film. No prereqs. A&S core requirement: ideals and values.