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Volume 3, Issue 4, November 2006
| MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN |
Colleagues and Faculty friends,
Welcome to the November edition of Humanities Faculty News. I hope you like the new web-based format. Let editor Dr Richard Phillipps know what you think of it. A print-friendly version with longer stories and more pictures is still available. I am pleased to be able to share with you the activities of our students, graduates and staff. Again in 2006 we continue to see success for many Humanities students and I wish those graduating students all the very best in their future career endeavours.
As the holiday season is upon us I would like to take the opportunity to wish all the Faculty staff and students as well as all our readers season's greetings and a very safe and prosperous New Year. I look forward to seeing everyone in 2007 and sharing in our future achievements.
| BOND COLLEGE TO OPEN IN 2007 |
| VERONICA BOULTON NAMED AS PROJECT MANAGER | ||
Veronica Boulton, Faculty Executive Officer of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been appointed project manager for the establishment of the Bond College. She will be seconded to this task for four months from November 20, 2006. During this period Dr Bill Krebs will be the Acting Executive Officer.
The Bond College will provide a matriculation program, which will also function as a foundation program, leading into the various Faculties which comprise Bond University. It will constitute the equivalent of years 11 and 12 in the education system and will provide guaranteed access to Bond University for those students who pass the course.
Articulation with and recognition by other Universities will be negotiated.
The Bond College will be open to domestic students as well as to international students, and have its first intake in May 2007. It will operate on the basis of the Bond University system of three semesters a year, with two semesters equalling a full year in the public education system.
The college will be located within the university precinct with students able to share in the university ethos and the university facilities. It will operate with the distinctive Bond University education style, with small class sizes and individual attention, and will offer a University-like ethos for students who prefer this degree of freedom. | ||
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| HUMANITIES STUDENTS ASSOCIATION NEWS | ||
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From Jenni Graham, HSA Publications Director—jgraham@student.bond.edu.au
The new HSA kicked off its term of office in Week 5 with BONDY 500, which saw 14 carloads totalling 75 people race around the Gold Coast in search of clues and challenges, with each team revving their engines to be first across the line.
From boys in bikinis to girls in pink to Bond Bandits, prize for the best theme (four tickets to Dracula’s) was heavily contested.
Matt, Walter, Christine and Paige, who were dressed in the theme “On the Way to Wonderland”, took out the prize, despite fierce competition. | ||
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BONDY 500 WAS WELL SUPPORTED AND GOOD FUN| BOND STUDENTS TOP NATION AT SPEECHMAKING IN JAPANESE | ||
 Bond’s Japanese language students have done well in the Gold Coast Annual Speech Competition, held at Griffith University.
In Year 1 Japanese Tanah Sullivan came first. In Year 2 Japanese Sally Andersen was first, Linda Wang second, and Jenny Kelly third. In Year 3 Japanese Nicholas Cripps was first. | ||
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| NICK JONSSON WOWS LONDON | ||
He is currently operating as part of Chameleon PR’s team of senior PR professionals with a minimum of six years’ consumer and consumer tech experience, as a strategic PR consultant. Nick is spending half of his time working on accounts such as Browzar and Enterprise Insight and the rest on leading the company’s new business drive.
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Bond University | WHAT STAFF ARE UP TO ... |
| GREG BOYLE EARNS DSc TO ADD TO HIS TWO PhDs | ||
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Professor of| JACINTA'S ART SCORES ITS FIRST PUBLIC VIEWING | ||
The Bondstock Inaugural Art Show was held in the Princeton Room last month. Jacinta Veitch submitted eight canvasses in “artography”, digital photography (some of which are pictured). “Positive feedback quickly overcame my feelings of apprehension of my first public viewing,” she said.
“I have been dabbling in artography of late and my work comes under the name of ‘AZIZ…..simplicity in surrounds’. If readers are interested in my work they may email to azizpics@bigpond.com.” | ||
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| BUDDING SPORTS REPORTERS HELP SPECIAL OLYMPICS | ||
About half the Sports Journalism class from the May semester teamed up again in September and October to produce a series of full colour newsletters during the Special Olympics National Games on the Gold Coast.
The eight-strong volunteer group provided all the pictures and stories for four four-A4-page newsletters, all produced to tight deadlines within a two-week period. For instance, the Games’ opening ceremony was at the Gold Coast Exhibition and Convention Centre on Monday, October 2, and the copy and picture deadline was the following morning at 9am. | ||
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| LIBRARY DISPLAYED PSYCHOLOGY POSTERS | |||
The poster display is a celebration of the production and presentation of the students own substantial creative work under the guidance of a faculty supervisor.
Chatting over morning tea in the library, the 062 student cohort took the opportunity to discuss their posters with the Psychology academic staff. Professor Raoul Mortley presented the Dean’s Award for the best poster to Edith Saedt for "Perception of Terrorism and Locus of Control" - supervised by Assistant Professor Katarina Fritzon.
Creating the posters is challenging. Many students use a single powerpoint slide, getting final printing and laminating done at Clancy’s. Some links for creating poster presentations are included below:
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/IndexStart.html
http://www.aas.duke.edu/trinity/research/vt/postertips.html
http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/ltci/TGuides/epd/index.html
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Chair of | MIKE LYVERS ATTENDS IACCP CONFERENCE IN GREECE | ||
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I was very fortunate to attend the 18th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) on the island of Spetses, Greece.
In addition to hearing many interesting talks and symposia, I presented the findings of research projects carried out with my postgraduate students Fred Thorberg, Alana Dobie, Joanna Huang and Priya Reginald, entitled “Mood and Relationship Correlates of Heavy Smoking Across Cultures.”
Our research indicated that the psychopathological correlates of heavy smoking (such as anxiety and depression) as commonly reported in research conducted on Westerners may not apply to Asian countries where heavy smoking is more socially accepted. | ||
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By | ROSITA OBSERVES THE DAY THE DENTIST CAME TO TOWN | ||
Pengelatan Primary School, in Bule-leng province, was only one of many that received dental care, free of charge, through voluntary community efforts.
A well-equipped dental van drives out from a hospital in the provincial capital, Singaraja, and visits the more remote schools. | ||
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When Bond Associate Professor of | DR PING VISITS IRAN FOR BOOK ON POWER | ||
 Assistant Professor of International Relations Jonathan Ping is home after conducting field research in the Islamic Republic of Iran. His current book project expands his Hybridisation theory of the Middle Power concept through a comparative study of five states: India, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran and Uzbekistan.
This work entailed visits to three cities in Iran – Shiraz, Esfahan and Tehran. Near Shiraz, Dr Ping visited the Achaemenid Empire ruins of Pasargadae (546 BC) and Persepolis (518 BC). In Esfahan he studied the Iman Square complex which includes two mosques and the 16th Century Ali Qapu Palace. Because of the concurrent Israeli-Hezbollah war he was unable to enter the University of Shiraz or the University of Esfahan.
In Tehran he viewed the political structures of the later Persian/Iranian monarchies, as well as the former United States of America Embassy (now named the US Den of Espionage) which was stormed by University of Tehran students after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. | ||
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HSA TO APPOINT POSTGRAD LIAISON PERSON
The Humanities Students' Association has advertised a new position: a postgraduate liaison officer to look after their interests. At present, postgraduate students make up 40 per cent of Bond’s student population. ANY OLD BOOKS FOR A WORTHY CAUSE? The Students’ Association is working with a man named Polydor Mutombo to collect old books. These will be forwarded to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa. Anyone with unwanted books they would like to donate (from children’s fiction to dictionaries and adult literature) can drop them off at the HSA office—or contact us via email and we will organise to pick them up. BONDMATES HELP STUDY ABROAD STUDENTS SETTLE IN Anyone wanting to help Study Abroad students settle in can be a BondMate by emailing hsa@staff.bond.edu.au
IDEAS FOR IMPROVING TEACHING SOUGHT
The Humanities Faculty Teaching and Learning committee met earlier this month.
It consists of the Dean (chair), Masako Gavin (Deputy Chair), Jonathon Sargeant, Mike Grenby, Anne Cullen, and Wayne Murphy.
“Dr Jonathon Sargeant of Education (pictured) will be our representative on the central Teaching and Learning committee,” the Dean, Prof. Raoul Mortley, said.
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICANTS VISIT BOND It’s quite an experience, spending the day in the company of Australia’s top 40 or so students, according to Joy Cameron-Dow, Teaching Fellow in the Journalism program. Three staff were on each interviewing panel, a dozen staff in total.
Joy was an interviewer on the Saturday. Assistant Prof. Phillip Fourie from Counselling was the other Humanities staff member.
About 40 of these high school leavers visited Bond as finalists for eight Vice-Chancellor’s scholarships (where all fees are rebated) or five corporate scholarships (where companies pay 50 per cent of their fees). Some tried for both.
AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE TAKES OFF Associate Professor of English Bill Krebs has launched a shorter version of his six-week Australian Experience study tours. Two programs are now available—one of six weeks and the new one of four weeks.
In 2007, the longer program is from June 3 to July 14 and visits Darwin, Alice Springs via Katherine Gorge and on to Uluru, Kata Tjuta (the Olgas), Watarrka (Kings Canyon) then Canberra and Sydney after classes on the Gold Coast.
The shorter program is from July 15 to August 11 and after classes at Bond, goes to hinterland and coastal sights, then explores the Queensland coast including Hervey Bay, Fraser Island and the Great Barrier Reef, with some days on Heron Island.
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