Graduated from Cleveland State University Magna cum Laude: 3.78 GPA
Projects and Papers:
Took Courses:
-10-101Graduated from Cleveland State University Magna cum Laude: 3.78 GPA
Projects and Papers:
Took Courses:
-10-101Spring 2008 – Spring 2010
Subjects: Anthropology, Art History, English, Linguistics, Mathematics, Photoshop, Physics, and Study Skills.
The Tutoring and Academic Success Center offered two types of tutoring sessions, walk-in tutoring and appointment-based weekly tutoring, Alma did both types of tutoring as well as Supplemental Instruction and Structured Learning Assistance when those programs began.
-10-101One of the great benefits of the Film & Digital Media program was the ability to do professional work around the Cleveland area in conjunction with courses. Most of these are featured elsewhere in my CV.
In Alma’s Advanced Video and Audio Editing class, she was given video footage from a summer arts and education program organized by the Cleveland Foundation and she got to edit those hours of footage in to a 2-3 minute montage of interviews and performance. This was then assembled with other similar pieces and presented to the students and foundation donors as a produced DVD in the program at an event, which Alma supported technology for.
Alma ingested and logged DV tape and edited the piece using AVID DV Pro.
-10-101Directed by Dr Michael Mauldin
The Laramie Project documents the lives and reactions of a Wyoming community as they are immersed in the aftermath of the brutal murder of Matthew Sheppard. It contains the moving interviews by witnesses, family and friends and transcripts of court proceedings.
A scene in the play portrays the jarring descent of the national media on to the quite town of Laramie, many productions send all cast members armed with news paraphernalia storming through the audience. This, in addition to a greater integration of digital media in to the play, necessitated a cross-department outreach in Cleveland State University’s production. Alma was involved in a production of this play in high school as a member of house crew, and when she heard that my university was going to be producing it, she was compelled to be even more involved. When Alma heard of the need for a liaison between the Theater Arts department and the School of Communication, she worked with the faculty involved to develop an Independent Study course.
-10-101Studying Latin in high school became a popular thing to do, the year after Alma started. She had the benefit of small classes and having the same classmates year after year. Alma found that she was interested in far more than declensions and conjugating, the similarities and differences in language and the culture all proved so compelling that she later got a BA in Linguistics and wrote numerous papers on psycholinguistics.
It makes sense then, that Alma would apply for a program like University of Dallas’s Latin in Rome. She was accepted and participated during the Summer of 2003. During three weeks in Rome, Alma studied Latin and earned an A in University of Dallas course CLL 1305: Latin Grammar Review.