2008 Forensic Team photo
Press Release: SPEECH/DEBATE TEAM
The speech and debate team just finish competing at the 2008 national championship speech and debate tournaments during March and April. competing against the best speech and debate teams from across the USA. The highlight of the national tournament season was WINNING THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP (Division # 1) at the National Forensics Association National Championship Tournament. We are proud to be ranked in the "elite eight" in individual events and in the top 20 in parliamentary debate in (open division) nationally. In the last six years Beach Forensics has brought home 7 national championships in speech and debate events.
Ryan L. Smith, MA
Journalism students Taryn Grows, Geoff Kutnick, Monica Bolds, Adrian Marquez, Armando Vazquez-Ramos
Anthropology Professor Hector Neff
Professor Hector Neff, Anthropology is on hand to explain some of the equipment being used for research, analysis and teaching.
Pictured above is Sandra Bermann, President of the American Comparative Literature Association, Chair of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Marjorie Perloff, plenary speaker, Emerita Professor from Stanford and Scholar in Residence at USC, Haun Saussy, ACLA Vice-President, Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University.
The conference featured more than 400 panel sessions,1,200 papers, 40 linguistic traditions and literary representations from the classical to the postcolonial global and interdisciplinary building bridges across cultures. A true example of how the world is our college. Event Photo Gallery
Pictured above are Mayor Bob Foster; Women’s Studies Department Chair, Wendy Griffin; 7th District Councilperson,Tonia Reyes Uranga; CSULB President F. King Alexander; 3rd District Councilperson, Gary DeLong. The College of Liberal Arts would like to congratulate and honor the Women’s Studies Department for receiving the City of Long Beach Proclamation From Mayor Bob Foster presented to the Department of Women’s Studies at California State University, Long Beach in Celebration of Women’s History Month.
Anthropology student Anthony Vasquez visits China
Professor Scott Wilson took a group of students to China for the Shandong Province Field School, CSULB . They are producing an 8 minute film. This film looks at how visually impaired student Anthony Vasquez learns Chinese, and has his first experience visiting China. More
The meeting opened with Native American chanting and an inspirational song by Georgiana Sanchez, lecturer from the American Indian Studies Program. Dean Gerry Riposa welcomed the faculty saying, “Today’s retreat on peace could not be more appropriate. The value of peace sits squarely in the Liberal Arts ethic, along with equality, equity, and social justice. We know these values.” Chanting by Cambodian Buddhist Monks followed. Retreat
Cambodian Buddist Monks
Message From the DeanBienvenidos:
I am glad to see you back. I hope you had a productive summer and you are ready for a challenging but gratifying year. We continue to be a university of choice with 4,100 new first-year students attending this fall, as well as a three percent spike in transfer students who have moved into our upper division courses. Along with attracting more students over the last twelve months, the College has set records in enrollment targets achieved, classes taught, fellowships awarded, books and articles published, donor gifts received, and students graduated.
Over the summer the College, under the leadership of Assistant Dean Michael Blazey, orchestrated a major set of office moves that have affected approximately eight departments. We appreciate the patience of our faculty to help make this move a positive experience in an atmosphere of scarce space.
For this year, while we will continue to push for our goals to provide valued degrees and to enrich the teacher/scholar model, we will establish the College's identity by organizing our efforts within the thematic vision: The World is our College. You will hear more about this vision today and throughout the year as we work together to define and implement this theme. For now, let me say that our vision will operate in concert with the President's goal of internationalizing the university. In the College of Liberal Arts, we will direct our teaching, research, and special events toward a global perspective and toward applied research in our local, national, and international communities.
Our goals are ambitious, but our prospects are exciting. We look forward to working with everyone to achieve these goals.
¡Venceremos!
Click here for CLA 2008 GRAD PHOTO GALLERYalso special posting for Geography grad photos courtesy of Professor Jim Woods, GIS Lab Manager, Geography. See
Geography Department Photos click here
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Brook Hundtoft -- Comparative World Literature and Classics
Comparative Study of Funerary Architecture from Etruria and Anatolia
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Adrian Abella and Gena Granger -- Anthropology
LA-ICP-TOF-MS Analysis of Ceramics Sherds from Playa Vista, CA
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Courtney Odom --- Human Development
Globalization: California's Future
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Mary Ngo --- Geography
Exploitation of pregnant Mayan Women as Natural resources Guatemalan Baby Farming
SEE GENERAL PHOTO GALLEY LINK BELOW courtesy of Professor Jim Woods, GIS Lab Manager, Geography
http://www.csulb.edu/~jwoods/CLA/CLA posters_2008/index.html
The College of Liberal Arts celebrates the partnership between California State Universities Long Beach and Dominquez Hills and the Historical Society of Long Beach,and Drs. Karen Quintiliani and Sue Needham for the formation of the Cambodia Community History and Archive Project
Please join the Department of Women's Studies in celebrating this year's honorees; Flossie Horgan, Executive Director, Bolsa Chica Land Trust; Tulynn Smylie, Executive Director, LB Women's Shelter; Mary Vasquez, Volunteer Coordinatior, Sexual Assault Crisis Agency; Alexandra Torres Galancid; W.I.N.T.E.R. (Women in Non-Traditional Employment Roles) to video/photo gallery
Pictured above is Lewis Ringel, Moot Court Director, Political Science; Alex Guillermo, College of Business; Political Science students: Michelle Le; Siobhan Kennedy; Jillian Martins; Nick Carabetta; LA Times Supreme Court correspondent, David Savage; Political Science Students, Ted McNamara; Mason Taylor; and Muhammad Ataya (photo courtesy of Jeff Chiow).story
May 15 2008 - CLA Student Research Showcase 11-2PM
May 22 - Economic Forecast Conference (Advanced Tickets required 985.8135)
July 2008 Hector Neff will be taking students to Guatemala to work at La Blanca - a large early deposit with an earthen pyramid.
July 2008 - Paul Scotton will be taking a number of students to Mycenae Greece for archaeological work on this world-famous bronze age city.
