
Department News
- Interning as a Professional Writer
Thu, May 3 2012
There are plenty of jokes about English majors, all revolving around the idea that they don’t have marketable skills for the professional environment. However, students in the SOU English Department, particularly those with a Professional Writing concentration, are discrediting these … Continue reading - CS 346: Computer Forensics is the Bomb!
Tue, Apr 17 2012
In Merlin, OR, near Grants Pass, students in the CS 346: Computer Forensics class attained hands-on experience while searching a mock crime scene with the help and expertise of the Oregon State Police bomb squad. OSP rigged a car donated by … Continue reading - Professor Published By Textbook Company Pearson
Fri, Apr 13 2012
Pearson Inc, one of the leading textbook publishing companies in the US, recently released Psychological Science: Modeling Scientific Literacy by SOU’s own associate professor of psychology, Mark Krause. With co-author, Dan Corts, Krause helped produce a textbook for general psychology courses that breaks … Continue reading - Communication Student Lands Prestigious Internship at Smithsonian
Thu, Apr 12 2012
Robert Ellis Cochran, a major in human communication at Southern Oregon University, was awarded an internship position with the Natural History Research Experience at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, for the summer 2012. Not … Continue reading - Around the World in eMDA — April 11, 2012
Sat, Apr 7 2012
The College of Arts & Sciences and the Center for Emerging Media & Digital Arts (eMDA) celebrates the opening of the Ashland Independent Film Festival with a rip-roaring, globe-trotting Campus Connections on Wednesday, April 11 at 12:30 p.m. in the … Continue reading - Communication Instructor Experiments with A New Approach to Textbooks
Mon, Apr 2 2012
In Alena Ruggerio’s COMM 210 Public Speaking last term, every student’s dream became a reality: a free textbook. Using Flat World Knowledge —an organization that offers free textbooks across various subjects—she decided to “experiment,” as she puts it, by choosing a … Continue reading - Southern Oregon Math League Provides Competition for Local High School Students
Mon, Mar 19 2012
A now retired SOU math professor, Ron Steffani, along with the help of local high school teachers, created something novel to the southern Oregon area during the 1971-1972 academic year: a math league. The Southern Oregon Math League (SOML) was … Continue reading - Narrative, Mechanism and the Digital Thread…coming to the Schneider, March 16
Mon, Mar 12 2012
The Schneider Museum of Art presents Narrative, Mechanism and the Digital Thread, an exhibition by artists David Bithell, Ali Momeni and Jenny Vogel. In installations, kinetic objects and 2-D prints, all three artists use a variety of digital technologies, performative … Continue reading - Percussion & Contemporary Music Concerts Coming Up
Mon, Mar 5 2012
March is the month for concerts, beginning with two directed by Terry Longshore, a professor of music and the director of percussion studies. The first is Steve Reich’s ‘Music for 18 Musicians,’ featuring the SOU Contemporary Music Ensemble on Friday, March 9 … Continue reading
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