The Film & Television Society provides a medium for students to direct, produce, and develop scripts for their original film and television productions.
The Film and Television Society (FiTS) has been a student –run organization within the Department of English & Modern Foreign Languages since 2014. The organization grew out of its former partnership with the Calliope Literary and Film Society, which was established in 2006. The organization offers internship opportunities in the film and television industry in the U.S. and abroad; the creative sp
05/16/2015
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04/24/2015
Apply for the Lexus Verses & Flow HBCU Scholarship. You could be awarded $5K.
What are you waiting for?
Apply now!
LEXUS HBCU SCHOLARSHIP - Lexus Verses and Flow The Verses & Flow Scholarship will award students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for academic excellence & community involvement.
04/08/2015
ATTENTION STUDENTS:
Apply for the 2nd Healing Stories Creative Writing Contest co-sponsored by the Department of English at Howard University and Tuckson Health Connections.
The deadline is April 15th. Click the link below to apply!
Tuckson Health Connections | Healing Stories Creative Writing Contest It is with great pleasure that we announce the Second Annual “Healing Stories Creative Writing Contest” sponsored by Tuckson Health Connections in collaboration with the Department of English at Howard University.
03/24/2015
Attend this weekend event in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts: New Voices, New Plays. This event will showcase the talents of our writing students - they will produce their very own plays and star in those by fellow playwrights.
Hope to see you there!
03/23/2015
The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program is for teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Projects may include short-term seminars, curriculum development, group research or study, or advanced intensive language programs.
Click the link for more details!
Fulbright-Hays--Group Projects Abroad Program The Fulbright-Hays--Group Projects Abroad Program provides grants to support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies by teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Projects may include short-term seminars, cur…
03/17/2015
ATTENTION WRITERS!
Although the deadline has passed for Summer 2015, check out this great internship opportunity with the Daily Press.
By the way, it pays too!
Daily Press Internship Programs The Program
03/12/2015
The Department of English and Modern Foreign Language has selected Jeff Hobbs’ The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left for the Ivy League, as the 2015 Annual Read-In book. The Read-In will take place Wed., March 25 and Thurs., March 26.
In 1988 the Department of English & Modern Foreign Languages initiated the Hampton University Read-In. Its purpose was to offer all segments of the Hampton family an opportunity to focus on one particular book for study and discussion.
Learn more by clicking the link below.
Hampton University : English : Academic Program Hampton University’s Department of English has selected Jeff Hobbs’ The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left for the Ivy League, as the 2015 Annual Read-In book. The Read-In will take place Wed., March 25 and Thurs., March 26.
03/10/2015
Congratulations to our members accepted to the Creative Mind in Cannes program: Tommie Collins, Veronica Maccari and Briana Nealey.
These students will work in Cannes, France for two weeks as film interns working with the best of the best in film and television industries. Out of 1,000 applicants, three were selected from our Home by the Sea.
FiTS salutes you on your accomplishment and relishes in this opportunity with you.
03/10/2015
Eleanor Earl, Film Studies Program Coordinator and FiTS Advisor provided her film students the opportunity to make documentaries to express their views on race cases.
Check out this article from the Washington Post that also shares how other professors are using the classroom to have these important discussions.
Professor Earl, you rock!
How colleges are teaching Ferguson, Trayvon, etc. Professors are using race cases in classrooms in sometimes novel ways.
In need of funding for your next project, check out Funds for Writers for the numerous grants available to striving artists.
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Grants Blog post at FundsforWriters : Grants are the free money everyone wants. Here you'll find grants that cover a simple conference fee or a six-month retreat to write and get[..]
03/05/2015
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Retool Your School The 2015 HOME DEPOT RETOOL YOUR SCHOOL Campus Improvement Grant Program is Back!
The Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages will host a mandatory mixer Thursday, January 29th. From 4-6PM in the Harvey Library Meeting Room (to your left from the entrance), meet other majors and minors and network. All departmental organizations will be present, including the revival of one. Hope to see you there!
