CAMPUS CURRENT
Wang Secures Global Opportunity for HMC Students NEW EIGHT-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM
Through on-campus support and key relationships
devel- Ruye Wang
oped during his fall sabbatical in China, engineering Professor Ruye Wang secured an oppor- tunity and helped launch a new study abroad program in Beijing, China. Participants in the eight-week summer program will study Chi- nese language, history and culture at Peking University. They will also attend an introductory engi- neering course taught by Wang.
Offered in collaboration with the China Studies Institute (CSI), all courses will be taught in English and course credits can be officially transferred back to HMC. Wang first became acquainted with staff and faculty at the
China Studies Institute at Peking University while on sabbatical. His conversations with CSI Director Dr. Youli Sun inspired the idea for the collaborative program. “We agreed to try to set up a new program for students at HMC and elsewhere to take courses of interest in English, while staying on the Peking University campus in the summer,” Wang said. “Also, since most HMC students cannot afford to study
abroad without earning credits in technical courses, we decided to have a balanced curriculum consisting of a technical course (Introduction to Electrical Engineering), a social science course (Modern History of China), and a language course (Chinese).” Returning from sabbatical, Wang shared his vision with
President Maria Klawe and Dean of Faculty Bob Cave, who expressed their support. He discussed the program specifics with Study Abroad Director Rhonda Chiles, who worked diligently with CSI staff to bring the idea to fruition and set the program in place in time for Summer 2011. Professors Chang Tan and Richard Olson in the Humanities,
Social Sciences, and the Arts Department encouraged students to participate in the program. The HSA Department voted to allow credits from the program’s Chinese history and language courses to be transferrable to HMC. Officially launched, Wang hopes the new summer Chinese
Studies program will grow so more HMC students can experi- ence Chinese culture and language and prepare themselves for future careers in a progressively globalized environment. —Koren Wetmore
Faculty News
REMEMBERING TWO BELOVED FACULTY MEMBERS
J’nan Morse Sellery Professor of Literature Emerita J’nan Morse Sellery died April 27. The first tenured female professor at HMC (1980) and mentor to many female faculty and students, she arrived at HMC in 1970, was chair for one year of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and was a faculty member until her retirement in 2005. In addition to her love of English, she pioneered HMC’s Media Stud- ies program, which resulted in student-made, multi-screen image and sound projections that inspired critical thinking and creative expression. The course, now entirely digital, is taught by Rachel Mayeri, associate professor of media studies. Sellery was also a driving force behind the development of the Women’s Studies Program at The Claremont Colleges and served
as its coordinator. She presented at meetings around the world on literature and women’s studies topics. She served on the editorial board and was senior editor of Psychological Perspectives, an international journal of analytical psychology. For several years, Sellery worked at the research affiliate Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University where she studied the “Gendered Voices” of Western Canadian writers Aritha van Herk and Robert Kroetsch.
10 Har vey Mudd College SUMMER 2011
KEVIN MAPP
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