We were very pleased to see that our Faculty of Humanities (人文学部) was ranked 43rd in Japan for numbers of graduate students finding employment in 2010. In fact, we were the highest ranked faculty in Kyushu!
On July 22, a TV crew from RKB visited our campus to film one of our students, Yuka Sakaguchi. Yuka is a member of Kitakyushu City’s soccer club’s cheerleading team, and RKB are producing a programme about her life. While on campus they joined Malcolm Swanson’s seminar class to film Yuka as a student. The programme will [...]
English students from the ESS circle and Prof. Woolbright’s seminar took part in a Reading Marathon on July 4th at the Nishi Nihihon Shinbun Building in Kokura. They read parts of the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
ウールブライトゼミの学生をはじめ、英語科の学生が参加しました。
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reading Marathon
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On June 19, the Baiko Gakuin University ESS held its 2010 Mackenzie Cup speech contest. The two speeches available to students were John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama’s inaugural addresses. Two of our 1st-Year students, Satoko Murata and Akiho Tsuji took part. Here are the results:
1st place: Shinichi Miwa (Yamaguchi University)
2nd place: Satoko Murata
3rd place: Akiho Tsuji
Congratulations [...]
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On January 21, 2010, we held our final English Lecture for this year. We called it “A Festival of English” because of the variety of activities it covered.
We started with our Zion Cup winner of the 1st Year competition, Kanako Mine, who presented her speech on “Learning from the Past.” That was followed by a [...]
On October 15, we were fortunate to host some visitors from Vancouver Island University in BC, Canada. This was the university our students have studied at during the last two summers. Visiting us this time were:
Ralph Nilson, President of VIU
Graham Pike, Dean of International Education
Theresa Meyer, International Education Coordinator
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Our 4th Zion Cup English Contest was held on Saturday, October 17. The previous day, a semi-final contest had been held, and the best 3 students in each year group selected.
Results
Year 1 students
1st place – Kanako Mine – Learning from the past
2nd place – Rin Shouen – Friendship
3rd place – Mami Adachi – JAM Project
Year [...]
Twelve students from our “Bunka Koryu” course are currently studying at Vancouver Island University in Canada for the next 3 weeks. You can follow their progress on our Travel Blog. They are being accompanied by Malcolm Swanson, and will return on September 13.
Students at Vancouver Airport.
On July 22, we were fortunate to see a solar eclipse. This was the first total eclipse in 46 years, and in Kitakyushu we were able to experience around 90% of a total eclipse. The next time one will come to Japan will not be for another 26 years!
View of the eclipse from Kitakyushu
On Saturday, May 30, Seinan’s ESS member, Mami Adachi took 1st place in the 21st Mackenzie Cup Recitation Contest at Baikou Gakuin University in Shimonoseki. Mami, a 1st-year English Department student, performed Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.
Mami Adachi and Mika Ikeda with other contestants
