Friday, October 19, 2012

  • International Education Week Photo Contest - 1st International Education Week Photo Contest

    Online

    “1st Annual International Education Week Photo ContestEvery year, UCF celebrates International Education Week as a collaborative effort initiated by the U.S Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education, to promote programs of international education and exchange between the United States and the rest of the world. The UCF International Services Center is excited to announce a call for …

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  • Scholastic Bookfair

    Teaching Academy: 117

    The Student National Education Association at UCF will be hosting a Scholastic Bookfair to raise money for a community project

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  • Broken Bonds, Broken Lives and Positive Psychology: Strategies for Resilience and Inner Strength - A Continuing Education Event offered by the School of Social Work

    FAIRWINDS Alumni Center

    This daylong event will feature Charlene Messenger, Ph.D., a licensed school psychologist and mental health therapist. She will present a morning workshop on "Broken Bonds, Broken Lives" and an afternoon workshop on "Positive Psychology: Strategies for Resilience and Inner Strength." Both workshops offer three contact hours of continuing education for social workers. Open to students and members of the public. …

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  • Osama - Hitt Library Diversity Week Movie

    John C. Hitt Library

    A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother (whose husband and brother dead are killed in battle) lose their jobs. The Taliban forbids women to leave their houses without a male "legal companion." With no one left to support the family and not being able to leave the house, the mother disguises her daughter as a boy. Inspired by a true …

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  • What’s Race Got to Do with It? - Hitt Library Diversity Week Movie

    John C. Hitt Library

    Chronicles the journey of a diverse group of students participating in a 15-week intergroup dialogue program at U.C. Berkeley. As the students share personal stories, debate hot topics, and confront one another about the role race plays in their lives, they make discoveries about their preconceived ideas and assumptions, and in so doing, help us begin to disentangle our own.

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  • LGBTQ and Ally Alphabet Soup

    SRC Auditorium

    This is our weekly "brown bag" lunch for LGBTQ and Ally students to connect and talk about hot topics at UCF and in the LGBTQ and Ally community. Come and go as you please! Bring your lunch!

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  • A Jihad for Love Film Screening - Intersections of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Religion

    Nicholson School of Communication and Media

    Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month at UCF, the Film department and LGBTQ Services are collaborating to explore the intersections of faith, gender identity and sexual orientation through documentary story-telling. Though the lived experiences of gender and sexual minorities intersect with all world religions and philosophies, this film series specifically considers the varying realities of LGBTQ+ identity in the religious context of …

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  • Osama - Hitt Library Diversity Week Movie

    John C. Hitt Library

    A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother (whose husband and brother dead are killed in battle) lose their jobs. The Taliban forbids women to leave their houses without a male "legal companion." With no one left to support the family and not being able to leave the house, the mother disguises her daughter as a boy. Inspired by a true …

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  • What's Race Got to Do with It? - Hitt Library Diversity Week Movie

    John C. Hitt Library

    Chronicles the journey of a diverse group of students participating in a 15-week intergroup dialogue program at U.C. Berkeley. As the students share personal stories, debate hot topics, and confront one another about the role race plays in their lives, they make discoveries about their preconceived ideas and assumptions, and in so doing, help us begin to disentangle our own.

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  • Women's Soccer vs. East Carolina

    Track & Soccer Stadium

    Come out and watch Women's Soccer take on the East Carolina Pirates!Special Appearance by Knightro.

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  • The Exit Interview - A Comic Look at Existential Uncertainty and Metaphysical Isolation

    Orlando Shakespeare Theater

    $12 student tickets a half hour before the show/ $10 off all advance tickets - The Big Three—Religion, Sex and Politics—are the big targets of hilarity in one of the funniest and smartest contemporary comedies in years. Dick Fig is getting the hatchet from an unctuous HR pawn at a nameless university. His exit interview gets off to a rocky …

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  • Race - A Gripping, No-Holds-Barred Courtroom Drama

    Orlando Shakespeare Theater

    $12 student tickets half hour before show/ $10 off all advanced tickets - Fresh off Broadway, this high-voltage drama tackles the most incendiary topic of our time. Three attorneys, two black and one white, are called on to represent a wealthy white man charged with assaulting a young black woman. With the palpable tension of a fierce cross-examination and no …

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