Author Shannon Gibney to Speak

What a powerful experience lies in store for us! Join celebrated local author Shannon Gibney for a reading and discussion of her work, Dream Country. 2:30 pm, Thursday, December 6, 2018 Student Center 101 All are welcome!!

Free Performance of Moliere’s Scapin

Image Credit: Ten Thousand Things publicity. Miss the free tickets to Frankenstein? You’ll be glad to know that Ten Thousand Things is performing Moliere’s Scapin next week at Metropolitan State! Friday, October 5, 2018 7:00 pm Student Center 690 E 7th Street, Saint Paul Seating is limited and on a first-come first-served basis Ten Thousand Things…

Three Tickets Left for the Guthrie’s Frankenstein!

[Edited to add: The tickets have all been claimed!] Dr. Durant’s senior capstone majors are headed to the Tuesday, September 25th, performance of Frankenstein – Playing with Fire at the Guthrie Theater: “Adapted by Minnesota playwright Barbara Field from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (celebrating its 200th anniversary this year), this captivating retelling of the classic tale…

CFP: On Media

Got a paper or a media project of which you’re particularly proud?  Consider submitting your work to a scholarly journal that specializes in undergraduate research. For example, Process: Journal of Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Scholarship,  publishes papers, media projects, and special issues. You can find out more about their general submission requirements on their website. Also note…

Job Opportunity

Metropolitan State University’s Career Center has an established relationship with Andersen Windows. On March 13, 2018, the Career Center will sponsor a free bus trip to and from Andersen (near Stillwater) for students interested in exploring possible employment there. Andersen is now hiring, and we’re told that they like to employ Metro students, to promote…

Student-Designed Independent Study (SDIS)

Yeng finds himself  with a 1-credit shortfall just as graduation is looming. Yikes! Anna is expecting a  baby during the semester. She figures that she’s going to miss too much class to even bother registering for courses.  Aaliyah is making excellent progress toward her degree. She doesn’t don’t want to lose momentum over the summer,…

Paying YOU for Grad School

Okay: admit it. The Harry Potter staircase at Christ’s Church College, Oxford University, seems a pretty good place to stand and spin fantastical daydreams. The author’s daughter, pictured in the photo, contemplates attending graduate school at Oxford, some day in the misty far-off future. Unless she miraculously lands a rare-as-a-unicorn Rhodes Scholarship, however,  she’s more…

Scariest Thing Ever?

BOO! It’s an English major. Is that the scariest major you’ve ever seen? Don’t worry: though specters of coffeeshop serving might give you a  moment of dread, the myth of the unemployable English major needs to be put to rest — finally, and with a stake in its heart! Today’s changing employment landscape actually provides…

Gender Studies at Metro State

  Welcome to Gender Studies at Metropolitan State University! Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program offering the B.A.  as well as the popular minor. A committee of dedicated faculty and advisors from many different departments voluntarily serve on the Gender Studies Advisory Committee, which directs the major’s and minor’s academic content. As a student pursuing…