Film Series Examines Voting Rights in America
Alma College is sponsoring a Voting in America film series leading up to November’s presidential election.
Posted: Sun, September 16th, 2012 at 12:00AM
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Spring Term at Alma is a one-month immersion on a single academic topic that offers learning experiences not typically available during the more traditional 15-week fall and winter terms. For example, during Spring Term 2012, students observed lizards in Bermuda, studied modern economic development in India, performed dance in Taiwan, examined renewable energy in Europe and investigated medicinal plants in the Amazon rainforest.
Graduate Profile
Maureen O’Connell
Graduation: 2010
Major: Spanish
Thanks to her Alma College experience, Maureen O’Connell felt prepared to zap culture shock as she ventured to Colombia after graduation.
The 2010 graduate, who teaches English through a Fulbright Scholarship, says the skills she learned as an undergraduate while working as a teaching assistant in the Spanish labs have helped her immensely.