UMBC Summer & Winter Blog
Chris Peregoy has been capturing photographs through both traditional and digital formats for over 30 years, often blending the two to create truly unique pieces. His work has been seen and recognized across the world, throughout North and South America, Europe, and Japan. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts InterArts grant and two Maryland State Individual Artist Grants. […]
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For Summer Session 2016, we hit the streets and began polling students (online and in-person) on various aspects of campus life. Our first question: “Why is it a good idea to take courses during Summer Session?” We received numerous great responses, but with nearly 52% of the votes, the #1 reason why students believe it’s a good idea to take a Summer […]
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The rise and fall of ancient Greece has provided the bases of many things we take for granted in the modern word. For example, the first historians and mathematicians developed their crafts in reaction to the the shift to empirical thinking and reasoning. Additionally, the democratic political and judicial system was used to organize society, while poetry, theater, and […]
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We, as millennials, are a HUGE wave of future entrepreneurs who’ve made ‘doing good’ a priority. As a result, social entrepreneurship is on the rise. Thanks to the Alex Brown Center at UMBC, you can master your social conscious business skills this summer in ENTR 340: Innovation, Creative Problem-Solving and & the Socialpreneur. With the guiding help of professor Gib […]
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Have fun this summer, and knock out an Arts and Humanities (GEP) credit by enrolling in ENGL 272-Introduction to Creative Writing- Scriptwriting. The course will cover script writing for different mediums like TV, radio, and drama, with an emphasis on film. You must have completed ENGL 100 with a ‘C’ or better. This course is considered a general education requirement for the Arts and Humanities. […]
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