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Retirement Celebration for Chun-ling Hsu, Faye Kleeman, and Terry Kleeman

April 26, 2022

On April 25th 2022, the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations held a retirement celebration in honor of: Chun-ling Hsu , Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese, Faye Kleeman , Professor of Japanese, and Terry Kleeman , Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies. Each of them has a long dedicated teaching,...

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Online Japanese Calligraphy Workshop

Oct. 23, 2020

The Japanese Language Program invited Ms. Nodoka Epel as a guest instructor to teach Japanese calligraphy via Zoom on Wednesday, October 21, 2020. After learning its history and the current trend in Japanese calligraphy, students and community members practiced calligraphy together.

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The 33rd CO/WY Japanese Speech Contest

Nov. 11, 2019

The 33rd Colorado/Whyoming Japanese Speech Contest was held on Saturday, November 9th at First Baptist Church of Denver. Students from JPNS 1010 through JPNS 4110 competed for their skit/speech presentations. Our CU representatives left great results at the contest. Way to go, everyone! Pic1: College I Skit from JPNS1010 (Fourth...

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Mona Attwa Received Best Should Teach Gold Award for 2019

Sept. 23, 2019

Congratulations to Mona Attwa for being selected as one of this year's winners of the Best Should Teach Gold Award for for excellence in teaching and for outstanding contributions to improving higher education at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Best Should Teach initiative was established in 1996 and is...

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Reception for Paul W. Kroll on the Occasion of His Retirement

May 1, 2019

The Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations celebrated Professor Paul W. Kroll on the occasion of his retirement on Tuesday, April 30th. He has been with the departement since its inception and has contributed to the success of the department tremendeously as a scholar, administrator, teacher and mentor. We enjoyed...