College Centers and Services

Center for Language Services

Language Instruction

During the 2014-2015 academic year, the center taught beginning- and advanced- level classes in 39 different languages.

During that year, CLS offered 141 different class sections.

New languages to be added to the CLS FLang curriculum for the 2015-2016 academic year are Hiligaynon and Urdu.

Language Certificate Program

On March 4, 2015, five years after the inception of the Language Certificate Program, the College of Humanities celebrated the issuance of the 1,000th BYU Language Certificate to Taylor Drennan. Thank you to all who participated in the celebration! For a full account of the event, go to http://humanities.byu. edu/1000-language-certificates/

Our beloved Michele Price has accepted a position with the Chinese Flagship. Her dedication was key to the success of the Language Certificate Program. A new Language Certificate coordinator is joining the Center. Please help us welcome Molly McCall to the Center for Language Studies.

Language Testing

Last calendar year, CLS supported college language assessment initiatives by providing a total of 1,231 OPIs and WPTs in 15 different languages. Tests were given to graduating language majors, students in study abroad programs, student interns, Language Certificate applicants, residents of the Foreign Language Houses, applicants to the SLaT MA program, participants in various research projects, and students in departments conducting curriculum reviews.

Language Total Majors Minors Other

Arabic 13 6 3 4 Chinese 67 45 20 2 French 109 55 29 25 German 85 68 12 5 Italian 26 14 8 4 Japanese 58 50 8 0 Korean 26 20 6 0 Portuguese 94 27 28 39 Russian 122 89 4 29 Spanish 659 228 185 246

Total BYU Language Certificates as of July 2015: 1,259!

The center hosted the second annual ACTFL Proficiency Assessments Summer Institute on June 9-12, 2015. Over 100 language professionals from all over the United States participated in the four-day workshops in English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Seventeen BYU faculty took advantage of this professional development opportunity and participated in the workshops. Following the training received in the workshops, many of the BYU faculty plan to go through a vigorous certification process to become certified ACTFL testers.

Other Activities

The ARCLITE Lab recently received the 2015 “Access to Language Education” Award presented by the Computer Aided Language-Learning Consortium (CALICO). The Esperantic Studies Foundation, and Lernu.net. Ayamel, (a stylized form of the initials for “International Media Library”), was initially funded within the context a project funded by a grant from The Language Flagship in conjunction with partners at the American Councils for International Education. The system is being used in courses in French, German, and Russian and work is underway to make

Humanities Center

We’re entering our fourth year and have, as always, much to report—thanks both to the excellent support we continue to receive from the college and the excellent work of our faculty. Here are a few highlights for the coming year: • Our annual theme this year is “The Work of Art,” and, as ever, we will hold both a lecture and a symposium on this subject. • We will hold weekly colloquia, as always—Thursdays at 3:00p.m. in JFSB 4010. This year, we will its functionality available for media currently available through the Office of Digital Humanities. In addition, initial pilots are underway in Spanish and German in courses offered by BYU Independent Study. A pilot is also planned for this fall in high school Spanish courses throughout the state of Utah’s Dual Language Immersion Program. The ARCLITE Lab also completed this year a significant project with the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a federally funded research and development center. The project was carried out for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) and evaluated the natural language processing of metaphorical language on the web in English, Russian, Persian, and Mexican Spanish. The BYU team’s contribution reached a level of effort of over $373,000 for a 20-month period and was commended by one of the principal investigators at IDA: The “team had a major role in the success of IDA’s metaphor work and they deserve special gratitude and thanks. There always was something extra for excellence with no effort performed to minimum specifications.”

vary these meetings somewhat, modulating between presentations from individual faculty members on work in progress and more general “state of the field” discussions from our research groups. • We have “Conversations” meetings—on provocative, cross-disciplinary scholarship or pertinent topics of broad concern—scheduled for October 23rd and December 4th. • We are launching a group in the “applied humanities” dedicated to employing humanities skills to

solve problems in the world. This group begins with a group of faculty, students, and members of the public dedicated to collecting, translating, and analyzing family histories in Cambodia, a country ravaged by genocide a generation ago. • We sponsor several vital research groups, with discussions forming around the creation of new ones and other, existing groups planning symposia. • Faculty with CFS may continue to apply for oneyear research fellowships to assist with the completion of large projects. • Our third annual ORCA Symposium, featuring excellent undergraduate research, will be held on October 16th. • We now sponsor a book manuscript workshop, where a faculty member brings in two scholars— one from our college and one from another institution—to assist with the completion of a major project. • On September 11th, we will welcome Gaurav Desai of Tulane University, who will run a workshop on how to write for funding agencies that award external grants. • Plus, there are always other possibilities—and more things we’re doing. If you have an idea, please talk with Matt Wickman or one of the Center Fellows.

Office of Digital Humanities (1163 JFSB)

International Cinema

The Digital Humanities and Technology (DigHT) minor continues to set new records in enrollment, minors declared, and degrees granted. We continue to revise and update our curriculum and assessments to focus on technological and analytical skills that students can use in all humanities disciplines. Faculty who are considering a technology-based (or technology-enhanced) research or development project should contact us. We may have a student or two that could earn course credit working on your project.

Dennis Cutchins knows from his research on Cormac McCarthy that the directorship of International Cinema is “No Country for Old Men,” and having finished his three-year term he will be stepping aside to make way for Daryl Lee (French & Italian) to the International Cinema co-directorship with Matt Ancell (CAL). Daryl has taught courses on French and Italian cinema, urban culture and cinema, crime film, and film theory. He’s been a fan of the IC since his first year at BYU in 1984. Other staff changes during this last year include the hiring of Marie-Laure Oscarson as the new assistant director. She has taught French courses, loves cinema, and in a former life wrote an MA thesis on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s trilogy Blue, White, and Red. She is a Francophile by birth and a Scandinavian by adoption. The incomparable Anne Hart is our student assistant. She recently graduated and is starting the Comparative Studies MA program. Our team of terrific student projectionists round out our IC team.

HCOLL 290R, our 1.5 credit course on International Cinema, is back on the books, so please promote it among your students! This course is an exceptional opportunity to take advantage of the unique programming of the IC. It meets from 4:00p.m. to 5:30p.m. on Tuesday evenings and includes the IC lecture series. This is a chance for students to watch great films, listen to great lectures, and become “cinema-literate.” We’ll continue our Tuesday lectures this year, and invite all of you to attend. We’d like your help in filling our seats even more, so please consider a few ways to promote the IC’s offerings—advertising lectures and offering extra credit to students to attend lectures, coming with your students, or maybe just pulling up the schedule online in class every once in a while. We depend on you to educate and encourage your students regarding the program. Check out our new website (ic.byu.edu) and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to find out about our weekly schedules, lectures, and some fun contests. A few highlights from our 2015–2016 season include: • IC celebrates 50 years of humanities at BYU with an IC directors’ series featuring favorite films from past and present directors. This series will be a cinematographic treasure not to be missed. • This semester also features stand-out films from this past year’s international film festivals including: o Force Majeure (Swedish, 2014): up-and-coming

Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s exploration of family that challenges the stereotypes associated with masculinity and fatherhood. o Two Days and One Night (French, 2014): the

Dardenne brothers’ latest film about the clash of community solidarity and personal interests.

French actress Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose) even got an Oscar nod for her performance. o 1001 Grams (Norwegian, French, 2014): another droll, understated comedy directed by Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories, 2004) in which scientist Marie’s life is ruled by exactness until she travels to France for a conference where she meets more than methodical discipline. o Beats of the Antonov (Arabic, 2014): tells the story of the Blue Nile people in Sudan who strive to nurture their identity and find solace in their traditional music as they endure the brutality of civil war. This documentary is the winner of the

Best Feature Documentary Award at the Cordoba

African Festival (FCAT), 2015. • Other films include new and old classics like Pan’s

Labyrinth (2006) and Rear Window (1954). Be sure to pick up a semester poster in the plaza when you go to lunch. Posters will also be available outside the IC Office (3182 JFSB). During the semester you can find movie times and descriptions on our recorded message at 801–422–5751 and at our website http://ic.byu.edu. Get a Fan Card at the IC office, attend IC regularly this semester, and get a coveted IC T-shirt!

Humanities Publication Services

The Humanities Publication Service (part of the Humanities Center) can help you achieve your publishing goals. Our services fall roughly into two areas: 1. The Faculty Editing Service will copy edit your manuscript before you submit it for publication, so that the book or journal editor who decides whether to publish your manuscript can get to the substance

of your argument without tripping over mechanical problems. 2. The Humanities Publication Service helps faculty members prepare journals and books for publication with a full range of production services. Periodicals produced through our service in 2014 (in whole or in part) included the following:

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment

The Folklore Historian

Literature and Belief TESL Reporter

AMCAP Journal

Journal of the Western Archivist In addition, we did final editing on book manuscripts, formatted book manuscripts into pages, and created indexes. Email mel_thorne@byu.edu to get a more complete description of how the HPS can help you. And remember: thanks to financial support from the College of Humanities, faculty in the college can use these services without charge.

Humanities Advisement and Careers

Much to report since last year!

New Hires: This last year we hired Rebecca Brazzale and Danny Damron. Rebecca works with our Comparative Arts and Letters and Spanish folks where she’s already developed mutually beneficial relationships with the department that have improved our student interactions. She’s been a great addition. We also added Danny Damron as the college internship coordinator. His background in international education and internship development is making a big difference in how we support and think about experiential learning in the college.

Cathryn Schofield and her student team have integrated a peer advising model in the center, which means much of the academic processing now happens with our student employees, freeing up the full-time folks to provide more in-depth and personalized advising. They’ve been able to focus more on the post graduation preparation of our students. Our center stands as the only integrated career and academic advising office on campus due largely to the efforts of Cathryn and her gifted students. Under Sherami Jara’s direction, the Translation and Localization Club now offers internships and multiple career events. She partnered with Roger McCarty in the Marriott School to pilot the first non-Marriott School On Campus Internships at the University, with student participation from across campus. With grassroots support from students, Rebecca Brazzale jumpstarted the Humanities to Business Club, and we expect this coming year the club will do great things.

Now comes the sad part: Cathryn Schofield decided to pursue professional opportunities in California. We’re very sad she’s leaving. She has been a tremendous force for good as we’ve transitioned to a fully integrated career advising and academic processing office. Her personality made our office an exciting and fun place to work, and her competence gave us all the confidence that no matter the issue, Cathryn would know exactly what to do. We will miss her dearly, and we pray for her greatest success and happiness wherever she decides to go.

LDS Philanthropies and the College of Humanities

LDS Philanthropies & the College of Humanities Matthew B. Christensen mbchristensen@byu.edu 4019 JFSB (o) 801-422-9151 or (m) 801-822-3343

By assignment from the Board of Trustees and in concert with President Kevin J. Worthen, LDS Philanthropies (LDSP) is specifically tasked to work with all past, current, and prospective donors in coordinating all donations to the priorities of the First Presidency—which includes BYU. My role is to be the lead in all efforts for working with donors and raising funds for the College of Humanities— particularly the dean’s priorities. Specifically, I work with donors at the “major gift” level ($25K and above). Because our generous donors are often approached for various worthwhile projects across campus and the Church, the correlation of donor engagement is an imperative function of LDSP.

In his remarks to members of the President’s Leadership Council last fall, President Worthen acknowledged our commitment to the donor inclination model (donors giving to areas for which they feel the most passion). But then he said that, in our work with donors at BYU, he prefers to call it the donor inspiration model. We encourage donors to be mindful of the inspiration they may feel as they consider making a donation.

Occasionally faculty will come to my office to ask for my help to get a project funded. I love hearing about the research and welcome anyone to stop by and share. In order for me to actively pursue donors on these kinds of projects the dean has asked that certain channels be observed in order to make sure our efforts and interactions with donors and potential donors are coordinated and strategic.

1. An initiative must first be approved by your respective department chair.

2. The chair will then present the project to the dean.

2. Once the dean approves the project we can begin taking steps to approach donors.

Because trust and inspiration are so critical in all donor engagement, raising money sometimes takes time. Unfortunately there is not a secret file of dozens of wealthy donors who are just waiting for me to show up and ask for money. When we discuss raising money for projects, please first consider people connected to you who may have an inclination to the prospective project. But be sure to connect with me and follow the channels outlined above before approaching anyone about a donation.

Contributing to the success of students is the number one reason donors give to BYU in general and to the College of Humanities specifically. Donors never tire of hearing success stories about student experiences in scholarship or research. If you know an exceptional student-related story please consider sharing it with me.

The next year looks promising and will be filled with incredible experiences that will allow the college to continue to move forward in new and innovative ways.

Center for Teaching and Learning

Dr. Taylor Halverson is the CTL consultant assigned to the College of Humanities. The consultant’s role is to provide resources and individualized support to faculty members on all aspects of teaching and learning, training on pedagogical theory and practice, and, where needed, assistance with integrating technology into teaching and learning. Taylor focuses his teaching, research, and professional work on helping others become lifelong learners. He does so through several core areas: a) improving teaching and learning; b) educational technology, including technology integration into teaching and learning; c) innovation, design, and creativity, including entrepreneurship; d) ancient studies, including Biblical, Book of Mormon, and other scripture studies. He completed PhDs at Indiana University in instructional systems technology and Judaism & Christianity in antiquity. His master’s degrees are in instructional systems technology (Indiana University) and Biblical studies (Yale University). Taylor also holds a BA in Near Eastern Studies from BYU. Please see the CTL website for more information on Taylor.