Classical & Modern Languages
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Hailey Alvis awarded $3500 for Student Research
March 17, 2023Congratulations to Hailey Alvis (BA Spanish ’23, Spanish MAE ’24) who was just awarded $3500 from the Office of Student Research to fund her Summer 2023 TruScholars project, “Revamping L2 Assessment Practices.” In collaboration with her mentor, Dr. Stacy Davis, Hailey will examine the benefits of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) regarding innovative ways to […]
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Elizabeth Narajo Hayes Earns Academic Innovation Award
January 30, 2023Joanna Hubbard, assistant professor of biology, and Elizabeth Naranjo Hayes, assistant professor of Spanish, were the fall 2022 winners of the Truman Academic Innovation Award. Hayes was recognized for building intercultural competence through proficiency-based projects. This proficiency-based assessment is one of five that she uses in her lower-division language classes, where she gives students a […]
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Truman CML students – Masters of Arts in Education-Spanish – are back to school!
January 18, 2023Miranda Forbes, Emma Guenther, and Natalie Vance are currently representing our program in their student teaching internships in Clayton High School, Fort Zumwalt North High School, and Pattonville High School respectively. Well wishes for an amazing time teaching Spanish. We are proud of the new generation of amazing second language instructors! #GoBulldogs
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CML Foreign Language Festival
December 8, 2022On Thursday, November 10, the Classical and Modern Languages department was able to resume the tradition of the Annual Classical and Modern Languages Foreign Language Festival. Several high schools were invited to participate in a wide range of activities, such as Italian through Music and Italian Hand Gestures, French & Food, Writing in Japanese and […]
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CML Planetarium Shows
November 15, 2022Pre-MAE and MAE future language teachers worked hard, practicing for over a month, to deliver two engaging planetarium shows for our annual CML Language Festival held on Thursday, November 10th: “El viaje por el sistema solar” and “Le voyage à travers le système solaire.” Many thanks go to graduate students Miranda Forbes (MAE-Spanish) and Wolf […]
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Truman alumnus Brian Jacobs’ visit
November 14, 2022Truman alumnus Brian Jacobs, B.A. Music/German ‘15, MAE Music Education ‘17, dedicated part of his last visit to campus to spend time with MAE and pre-MAE language students talking about the joys and challenges of language instruction. After Truman, Jacobs went on to receive a Graduate Certificate in Teaching German from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln […]
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Truman FLAM Award Winners
October 11, 2022Truman State was well-represented last weekend at the Foreign Language Association of Missouri (FLAM) annual conference held at Washington University in St. Louis, October 7th – 9th. Alumna Kathleen Placke and Claire Viviano each won scholarship funds to attend the conference (both Spanish MAE). Kathleen also gave an engaging PD workshop on the PACE model […]
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Amanda Smith to present at Sigma Delta Pi “Best Practices” Session at the 105th AATSP Annual Conference in Salamanca, Spain, 2023
October 10, 2022Congratulations to Senior Spanish major Amanda Smith – also President of Truman’ State’s Sigma Delta Pi Capítulo Rho Rho – who has been chosen to share about the “Best Practices” of our university’s National Spanish Honor Society Chapter. This is an enormous accomplishment as Smith has been selected out of a handful of college students […]
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Miranda Forbes wins GIASR grant
October 3, 2022Congratulations to Miranda Forbes (BA Spanish; BS Linguistics ’21, Spanish MAE ’23) for winning a $750 grant from the Office of Student Research. Working closely with her mentor Dr. Stacy Davis, her Grant-in-Aid-of-Student-Research (GIASR) project will investigate how the tenets of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can be implemented by professors in language classrooms at Truman […]
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Amy Norgard published a chapter in edited volume “Women in Classical Video Games”
September 13, 2022Amy Norgard, associate professor of classics, published a chapter in edited volume “Women in Classical Video Games” (eds. Draycott and Cook, Bloomsbury), which was released on Sept. 8. Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient […]