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Hello! Nextweek is our first Japanese Conversation Class (JCC). It will be on this Thursday, February 13th, 2014, from 12:45PM to 2:05PM in our usual room VC 10-165. Before the activities, we will first give an overview of our future events because we couldn’t do it last week.

Please share this email with your class and invite them to our event! We have wonderful events planned for the semester; our biggest performing arts show of the year is coming up on March 6th and begins at 6PM. Be sure to save the date!

Event Information:

Event: JCC #1
Place: VC 10-165
Date: Thursday, Feb. 13
Time: 12:45PM-2:05PM

Accounting                        会計学（かいけいがく）

Actuarial Science 　　　保険数理学（ほけんすうりがく）

Arts　                               芸術（げいじゅつ）

Biology              　　　　 生物学（せいぶつがく）

Economics                         経済学（けいざいがく）

English                 英文学（えいぶんがく）

Finance               金融学（きんゆうがく）

Graphic Design    グラフィック・デザイン

Journalism                         ジャーナリズム

Mathematics                     数学（すうがく）

Medical Sciences 　　　医療科学（いりょうかがく）

Philosophy                        哲学（てつがく）

Political Sciences              政治学（せいじがく）

Psychology                        心理学（しんりがく）

Undecided                          未定（みてい）

The Conversation Partners Program matches native and nonnative speakers of English for informal conversations. It is a great way for nonnative students to gain confidence in English, for native speakers to gain experience in communicating across language barriers, and for both native and nonnative speakers to expand their cultural knowledge, make friends, and build a network of professional contacts. To participate, you should be willing to commit to meeting your partner on a regular basis throughout the semester. If you have meet at least seven times, you will receive a certificate at the end of the semester—a great way to enhance your resume.

For more information and to sign up, see https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/conversation. The sign-up deadline isMonday, February 10th.

Please encourage especially your native students to participate, since generally more nonnative than native students sign up. Please feel free to circulate the announcement above and/or the attached flyer.

Thank you!

We hope that everyone had a great Winter Break and is ready for school again! To engage the new semester, we will be hosting our first event of the semester. Our Welcome Party is this Thursday, February 6th, 2014, from 12:45PM to 2:05PM in our usual room VC 10-165. We will give an overview of our future events and have fun games for all to enjoy. And of course, there will be Japanese food and snacks!

Please share this email with your class and invite them to our event! We have wonderful events planned for the semester; our biggest performing arts show of the year is coming up on March 6th and begins at 6PM. Be sure to save the date!

Event Information:

Event: Welcome Party!
Place: VC 10-165
Date: Thursday, Feb. 6
Time: 12:45PM-2:05PM

I am writing to inform you of the upcoming Baruch College Spring Semester Study Abroad Fair. The Spring Semester Fair will be held on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 from 12:00 noon to 2:30 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room (1-107) on the ground floor of the William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus. Someone from the Study Abroad Office will be bringing flyers for the fair by departmental offices, and I would be very grateful if one or more of them could be posted. I would like to warmly invite you and the other members of the department to come to the fair, and I would be grateful if you could encourage your students, and the students of your colleagues, to do the same.

Well over three hundred students attended the Study Abroad Fair last spring. These fairs offer a wonderful opportunity for program providers to speak to Baruch students about the study abroad programs available to our students. This year, exchange students from our partner universities who are studying at Baruch this term will be staffing tables to give Baruch students even more authoritative information about campus life abroad. The Study Abroad Fair also gives Baruch faculty members the chance to learn more about the programs our students attend. Understanding the kinds of academic and cultural experiences our students have abroad will help you gain a better sense of how study abroad might be more thoroughly integrated into a student’s overall college career.

If you have any questions regarding the details of the fair, please contact Nathaly Martinez, Study Abroad Coordinator by phone at (646) 312-2090, or via email at [email protected].

We look forward to seeing you at the fair.

With all good wishes,

Richard

Richard Mitten, Ph.D.

Study Abroad Director

Baruch College

Weissman Center for International Business

One Bernard Baruch Way, Box J-0810

New York, NY 10010-5585

Tel:  (646) 312-2076

Fax: (646) 312-2071

Web site: http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/centers/weissman/study-abroad

Chuo University, one of the host universities of the CUNY Kakehashi program in 2013, will make a reciprocal visit to New York from March 4 to March 11, 2014. We are planning several events to welcome them from Saturday, March 8 through Monday, March 10.

– March 8, 2014 (Sat; 11am-6pm; LaGuardia CC & Manhattan)
Welcome Event at LaGuardia CC and a half-day sightseeing with CUNY students
– March 9, 2014 (Sun; 11am-6pm; Manhattan)
A half-day or full-day sightseeing with CUNY students
– March 10, 2014 (Mon; 10am-4pm; @LaGuardia CC)
Community Presentation Event and Group Presentations about Japan and the U.S.

We are looking for student volunteers who can participate in these events. There will be a lot of opportunities to interact with Japanese students from Chuo University and make new friends from Japan. If you are interested, please sign up athttp://bit.ly/lagccEventReg. Everyone is welcome to join (even if you are not a member of CUNY Kakehashi 2013). See the back of the attached flyer for more information about each event.


Tomonori Nagano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
LaGuardia Community College
31-10 Thomson Avenue (B-234FF)
Long Island City New York 11101
Tel: 718-482-5484 / [email protected]
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/tnagano/

Upcoming career opportunity for Japanese-English
bilingual students!

DISCO International, Inc. presents:

—New York Career Forum 2014 —
Date: February 21 & 22, 2014 (Fri. & Sat.)
Place: The Altman Building (New York, New York)
http://www.careerforum.net/event/ny/index.asp?ref=201421&lang=E

The Career Forum is for anyone who is:
– Japanese-English bilingual (must posses at minimum a
conversational level or higher in both Japanese and English)

and
– looking for a full-time or internship position

Unlike other job fairs, companies will be holding interviews
at their booths and in private interview rooms during the
two day event. Registration and attending the event is free.

For online registration and more info regarding the above,
please go to:
http://www.careerforum.net/event/ny/index.asp?ref=201421&lang=E
(Travel scholarship is available for the New York
Career Forum. Currently accepting applications online.)

If you have any questions, please feel free to
contact us at [email protected].

We look forward to seeing you in New York!

Sincerely,

CareerForum.Net
DISCO International, Inc.
[email protected]

The Japan Foundation presents the “KAKEHASHI Project – The Bridge for Tomorrow” as part of the Youth Exchange Program with North America promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA).

Students from CUNY campuses joined this program in May, 2013. From Baruch College, 5 students join in the program! Check out the clip made by Brian Caraveo, participant of the program.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3132Ej3UBks

Learn how to assemble the perfect Princess’ outfit at Lolita Fashion: Costume or Culture? This panel discussion and fashion show on Wednesday, February 5, 6:30pm. Japan’s playful and avant-garde take on Victorian-era clothing, known as Lolita, has created a vibrant fashion subculture that started on the streets of Harijuku and has spread overseas. A panel discussion moderated by Gwynn Galitzer, performance artist and Founder of Dirty Bird Productions, and featuring  former Kawaii Ambassador Misako Aoki, Carolyn Dee, author of the popular Lolita blog F Yeah Lolita, andChristina Gleason, author of the blog Ramble Rori, and founder of the first Northeast USA alternative fashion conference, RuffleCon. Baby, the Stars Shine Bright will show a collection of Lolita fashions direct from Japan chosen specifically for this event.

This event is followed by a meet and greet wine reception with Misako Aoki.

LECTURE

Lolita Fashion: Costume or Culture?

Wednesday, February 5, 6:30 PM

Tomomi Sekiya

Program Officer, Lecture Programs

333 East 47^th Street New York, NY 10017

Phone: 212-715-1229

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.japansociety.org