The 4th TRI-ENNIAL UMUC-KOREA

FACULTY CONFERENCE

2005

 

 

1.  Date and Time:  April 22, 2005, 9am-5:30 pm.

 

2.  Place:  Fountain View Room (Dragon Hill Lodge, Yongsan).

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3.  Conference Theme:  "TEACHING AND THE PROFESSIONAL LIFE.” 

 

This once-every-three-years UMUC-Korea Faculty Conference is organized as a faculty gathering to explore ways to enhance the professional, intellectual, and personal life of the working professors at Maryland. 

 

Under the auspices of "UMUC Presents," this Conference will focus on the issue vital to all teaching professionals: How do we, the faculty at UMUC-Korea, carry on with our professional life as researchers, as writers, and as seekers of new knowledge and benefactors in community service commensurate with our teaching mission?

 

The Conference consists of the following events: 

 

4. Schedule of Events:

 

[9:00-9:30] COFFEE AND DONUTS.

 

[9:30-9:40]  OPENING THE CONFERENCE:  Mr. Joe Cothron, Ed.S., Director of Education, EUSA, USFK

 

[9:40-10:00] SINGING of the “UMUC-Korea Faculty Anthem”: Leader:  Prof. Keith Johnston  (Music).

 

 [10:00-10:30] THEMATIC BEGINNING:  "Once Again, All Together!”:  Dr. Sally Blomstrom  (English & Speech).

            

 [10-30:11:00] THEMATIC SPEECH (I) “The Return of Possibility, Joy, Wisdom, Virtue, and Common Sense to the Schools of the World”:  Prof. Dick Dowling (History)

 

[11:00-11:30] ACADEMIC FORUM (I) “Plagiarism:  Detection and Solution”:  Prof. BJ Gleason (Computer Science).

            

 [11:30-12:00] ACADEMIC FORUM (II) “Classroom Attendance:  Problems and Solutions: a Panel Discussion” Leader:  Prof. Ron Roman (English)

Panel Members:  Dr. Duane Vorhees (American Studies); Prof. John Hoernig (English & Speech)

 

[12:00-12:20]  Q & A Session on All Morning Presentations

 

[12:20-1:00] LUNCH (Note:  This is a 40-minute Lunch Session)

 

[DIVERTIMENTO DURING LUNCH] “Tie-Making with Dye:  An Art Demonstration”:  Prof. HY Kim*  (Fine Arts)

 

[1:00-1:30 ] THEMATIC SPEECH (II) “Ethics and Social Responsibility”:  Dr. T. Lennart Wahlstrom (Business Management)

 

[1:30-2:00] ACADEMIC FORUM (III) “The End of the World Scenarios”:  Dr. John Wallis (Science & Mathematics)

 

[2:00:-2:30]  AESTHETIC NOTES (I) “A Composer’s Creative Process”:  Prof. Keith Johnston (Music) 

 

[2:30-3:10] POLITICAL FORUM:  “Docto Islands:  Whose Territory?  A Panel Discussion”:  Leader: Prof. Pong-su Kim (English Literature).  Panel Members:  Haksun Kim (Korean Language), Yun-sik Kim (Public Administration)

 

[3:10-3:50] AESTHETIC NOTES (II) “Poetry Reading”:  Dr. Duane Vorhees (American Studies); Prof. David Norris (English)

 

[3:50-4:20]  ACADEMIC FORUM (IV) “Teaching Korean to Americans vs. Teaching English to Koreans:  a Comparison”:  Dr. Eun-mi Seo (Korean Language)

 

[4:20-4:50] ACADEMIC FORUM (V) “The Great American Myth:  Democratic Capitalism, Past and Present”:  Dr. Larry Lustig (Philosophy)

 

[4:50-5:20]  ANECDOTAL RECOLLECTION (IV) “My 30 Years with Maryland:  a Reminiscence”:  Prof. Dave Garretson (Economics & Political Science)

 

[5:20-]  Q & A Session on All Afternoon Presentations.

 

[END OF CONFERENCE]

 

 

Presented by

Jon Huer

For “UMUC Presents”