This semester, the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race will hold its second annual creative writing contest with the prompt, “La Felicidad en 100 Palabras.” Happiness in 100 words. Each participant must be enrolled in at least 1 Spanish course, and submissions must be in Spanish. The submissions will be placed into 3 categories: 100-.
WSU Faculty Senate discussed during a Thursday meeting a proposal to add another UCORE category called equity and justice. Adding an equity and justice UCORE category will help clarify the content of certain courses, said Clif Stratton, UCORE director and history professor. “Many of these courses that might become equity and justice courses are already being offered.
The School of Languages, Cultures and Race is hosting a creative writing competition through their Spanish Program titled “Mi Ciudad en 100 Palabras” (My City in 100 Words).
The competition gives an opportunity for students to write expressively in Spanish about something personal that reminds them of a city they have visited or lived in.
I have seen competitions like this in Latin America, said Vilma Navarro-Daniels, the assistant director of Undergraduate Studies and Marianna M. and Donald S. Matteson Distinguished Professor of Spanish and American Studies and Culture.
Her country of Chile has two competitions, one for Santiago and one for Valparaíso. She said she doesn’t know why we shouldn’t have a contest like that here.