Student Panel on Foreign Language Uses Beyond the Classroom

By John Paluch & Elisa Baena, Forum Co-chairs

Date and time

Thursday, November 17, 2016 · 6 - 8pm CST

Location

Kresge Centennial Hall Room 1515

1880 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208

Description

What can you do with your foreign language skills while at Northwestern?

Join our student panelists as they talk about their experiences abroad. Come to listen, learn and question!

  • Sharon Fan, History & Economic majors, German minor, Chinese & German, Internship at KPMG in Hong Kong and Roland Berger in Shanghai.
  • Danielle Elliott, Journalism, Buenos Aires, Spanish, Journalism Residency.
  • Irene Jiang, RTVF & MENA, Morocco & China, Arabic, Chinese, Undergraduate Research Project.
  • Kelly Jin, Economics & Piano Performance, Seoul, Korea, Internship.
  • Alex Krauska, Linguistics, Rabat, Morocco, French, Italian, Portuguese & Arabic, Medill, Morocco World News, Summer Internship Grant Program (SIGP).
  • Coretta Lemaitre, SESP: Social Policy, Freiburg, Germany, Arabic & German, Volunteer with Refugees.
  • Kali Robinson, Calais, France, Medill Course on Refugee Crisis in Europe.
  • Liane Grace Thornhill, Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, Pre-SLP &Linguistics , Spanish minor, Madrid, Spain, Spanish, Internship.
  • Jaclyn Zhou, Journalism & Asian Languages and Cultures, China, Chinese, Undergraduate Research.

Light supper provided (Pizza & Pop)
RSVP required, no cost to students, but registration required!

The Forum for Languages and Cultures in the Buffett Institute
http://buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/languages-cultures/


Organized by

Given the centrality of foreign languages to an education in our globalized world, the Forum for Languages and Cultures will support local and global initiatives that offer opportunities for students, faculty and staff in all of our colleges and schools to participate in language and culture-based activities focused on expanding the study of foreign languages and cultures beyond the classroom.  http://buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/languages-cultures/

paluch@northwestern.edu & e-baena@northwestern.edu

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