What's New on the Wellesley CWIS? Winter 1999 by Rebecca Schaefer General Interest Interactive Campus Map http://www.wellesley.edu/CampusMaps/index.html Click on the map and find out more about buildings on campus, look at archival photos, print a PDF map, and get directions for handicapped parking. Summer School http://www.wellesley.edu/SummerSchool/index.html Look for this year's courses, download an application, view a scheddule, and discover all you need to know about the Summer School. Admissions http://www.wellesley.edu/Admission/index.html The Admission site was fully re-designed. Prospective students can take a virtual tour, download an application, or find answers to commonly asked questions. Library AMICO image database http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/art-electronic.html The AMICO collection is a database of images of works of art from major museums in the U.S. and Canada. These images can be copied and used for academic purposes. The search function of the database allows searching by creator, title, type, materials/technique, date, subject, owner name, owner place, and keyword. Full Text databases http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/fulltext.html Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, Middle English Compendium, the Brown Women Writers Project and the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language have all been added to the list of full-text databases to which Wellelsey subscribes. All four are accessible only to Wellesley computers, or home computers via connection to a proxy server. Descriptions of each database are included on the full-text database page. Literature Online http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/fulltext.html Literature Online, the full-text service to which the Library subscribes, adds new content at irregular intervals. Two recent notable additions are a database of early English prose fiction and an annual bibliography of English language and literature. "The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature aims to list monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world. The bibliography consists of 77 volumes beginning in 1920 and issued annually in printed volumes." Reference Online http://www.wellesley.edu/Library/Research/refbks.html Reference Online is the Library's virtual Reference Collection. Some new additions include: Biomedical Journal Title Search, Terms of Environment (both under Acronyms and Abbreviations), Inventors Hall of Fame (Biography), CancerWebs On-Line Medical Dictionary, PharmInfoNet Glossary (both under Dictionaries/Thesauri), FastWeb (Grants & Scholarships), and APA's Citing Electronic Sources (Style Manuals). Internet Research Pages Economics Internet Research page http://www.wellesley.edu/Internet/econ.html Recent additions include the Smart Library on Urban Poverty, EconDataNet, and Nouriel Roubini's site on global financial issues, entitled "What Caused Asia's Economic and Currency Crisis and Its Global Contagion?" Roubini is currently Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs. International Relations Internet Research Page http://www.wellesley.edu/Internet/int-rel.html Recent additions include an index to International Associations, searchable by subject area, name, or geographical location, and the National Security Archives, which contain documents and compilations dealing with U.S. foreign policy, military, and intelligence. Political Science Internet Research Page http://www.wellesley.edu/Internet/polsci.html Recent additions include the Pew Center for Research on People and the Press, Polling Report.com, Election Statistics, the Clerk of the House site, and a site providing biopraphical and historical information on each President of the United States. Sociology Internet Research Page http://www.wellesley.edu/Internet/soc.html Recent additions include the General Social Survey, the annual survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center and ARDA, the American Religion Data Archives. Population/Migration/Demographics Internet Research Page http://www.wellesley.edu/Internet/migrate.html The ILO Migrant Labour Data Base has been added, which provides information on national labor laws, labor standards, and labor migration statistics, and is maintained by the International Labour Organization. Administration Religious Life http://www.wellesley.edu/RelLife/index.html The Office of Religious Life updated its pages to include a religious holy day calendar for 2000, and the new chaplains and advisors who have joined the religious life team. Office of the Dean of Students http://www.wellesley.edu/DeanStudent/homepage.html The Office of the Dean of Students has updated its pages. Information and an application for the Student Multicultural Research Program for the summer of 2000 is available at: http://www.wellesley.edu/DeanCollege/studgrant/multinfo.html Online Exhibits Village Works http://www.wellesley.edu/DavisMuseum/VillageWorks/index.html The companion site to the Davis Museum's exhibit. "Village Works: Photographs by Women in China's Yunnan Province is the first public exhibition outside Yunnan Province, China of pictures created in 1992-93 during a Women's Reproductive Health and Development Program, supported by The Ford Foundation. In an experimental 'photovoice' approach to assessing the needs and resources of mountain villages in southwest China, 62 women were given auto-focus, auto-rewind cameras and asked to record one year of their daily life, work and health conditions." Academic Chinese Department http://www.wellesley.edu/Chinese/index.html The Chinese Department re-designed their pages along an artistic theme. "Helen Lin was the first professor of Chinese courses at Wellesley College, beginning her career at Wellesley in the fall of 1966. She had eighteen students her first year here, and her office was housed in one room at the top of Green Hall; it had a telephone, but no desk." Economics Department http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/index.html The Economics Department pages include, in addition to course offerings, PDF copies of working papers authored by faculty, and the Economic Student Board home pages. Russian Department http://www.wellesley.edu/Russian/rusdept.html The re-designed Russian Department site contains an on-line gallery of Russian-related pictures, sounds and video clips, as well as material for department courses and links to russian newspapers and tips on how to "russify" your computer. The menu choices (of course) appear in Russian, and there is a beautiful Wellesley graphic on the home page. Art History 101 http://www.wellesley.edu/Art/101/index.html Only accessible by campus computers. The Art History 101 web site makes accessible all the images that students are required to memorize for the class. Each lecture is associated with 2-4 images, and students can find them through links from the syllabus, or navigate through all of the images so that they can study for exams. Classical Chinese Fables http://www.wellesley.edu/Chinese/Chinese_Fables/index/ This site uses Quicktime movies to improve the listening comprehension of intermediate and advanced students of the Chinese language. Students listen to 15 classical fables, each illustrated with several drawings by a Chinese artist. French Poets http://www.wellesley.edu/French/Homepage215/title_page.html The site, entirely in French, includes the text of 19 key poems that students will study in French 215. The works of Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud are read aloud in high-quality audio files. French in Action Digital audio Sample page: http://www.wellesley.edu/~kenny/French/101/09/fia-09.html Only accessible by campus computers. Wellesley collaborated with Yale University Press, publishers of the introductory text book French in Action, to digitize all 66 hours of the audio program. The audio for each lesson was chunked into as many as 40 subsections (which correspond with the workbook exercises), and then compressed into mp3 files. The project made the audio program more easily accessible, and improved the sound quality of the recordings. Civilizations of Latin America http://www.wellesley.edu/Spanish/Span273/span273.html The Spanish 273 class page organizes a series of links to existing web resources on Latin America. There are pages for each of the five themes of the course (the pre-Columbian epoch, the conquest, colonization, independence, and the 19th century), a page with syllabus and project assignments, and a page with current information about Latin America today. Supreme Court Watchers http://www.wellesley.edu/Writing/Supwatchers/index.html In addition to the course information and schedules for this Writing 125 class, the course web site features several digitized movie and audio segments that students can watch so that they may better understand the Supreme Court cases that they are studying during the semester. Golf http://www.wellesley.edu/Athletics/pe/Golf/golf_home.html This site is primarily aimed at students, but contains information relevant to anybody interested in golf. The site features general information such as laws and etiquette, as well as class information and instructional pages. The site is designed to provide several different forms of information in order to reach the widest audience possible, with QuickTime digital video clips, photographs, and diagrams, as well as textual descriptions. Privacy and Law http://www.wellesley.edu/Writing/Privacy/index.html This Writing 125 course web site contains brief digitized movie clips from The Conversation and The Net for students to view so that they can prepare themselves for class discussion in advance, and so that they can have a better background with some of the issues concerning privacy that they deal with during the semester. American Politics http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/tb/American_politics/index.html In addition to course information and schedules for this Political Science class, students will also be able to use the course web site to prepare for exams with online lecture notes and exam questions, answer class surveys, and review their assigned readings with online study-guides about federalism, interest groups, public opinion and the media, the presidency, congress, and the judiciary. Tropical Ecology http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Courses/308/tropical_ecology_home.html This course web site is a preview of the fish, plants, and coral that students study and then go see during Wintersession in Belize. Each page has a hidden definition so that students can learn to recognize the different species. They may also quiz themselves using the QuickTime slideshow, which shows the fish and coral in random order. Microbiology http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Courses/209/209.html The course web site for Biology 209 (Microbiology) is a resource both for students interested in the sciences at Wellesley and for students currently enrolled in Microbiology. It contains basic course information with a digital video clip about viruses, course and lab syllabi, links to PowerPoint presentations by students, and a web research page. Environmental Science http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Major/envisci/envisci_home.html The newly redesigned Environmental Science site provides easily accessible information about a fairly complex program of study, and features ease of navigation as well as links to other departments so students can plan their major. It also contains a listing of previous Wellesley Environmental Science alumnae and their current activities. Molecular Biology http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Courses/MolecularBio/MolecularBioHome/molecularbio.html This site is a resource/research website for students and faculty of Molecular Biology. The page contains information about Wellesley College's program, including course offerings, faculty research topics, equipment and library resources. It also has links to Bioinformatics (an emerging field within Molecular Biology), Post-Graduate resources, and online periodicals. Neuroscience http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Major/Neuro/Neuro_home/neuroscience.html The recently established Neuroscience major put up a web site featuring information about requirements for the major, faculty research, student projects and resource links relevant to the field. Calculus IIA http://www.wellesley.edu/Math/Math120sontag/math120home.html The course website for Math 120 includes a course syllabus complete with homework assignments accompanied by solutions to selected problems. To enable students to view and print out the math symbols contained in problem sets and solutions, the professor's TeX files have been converted to Adobe Acrobat PDF format and require Acrobat 3.0 or higher (ideally 4.0). The site also includes a Java program that allows students to explore the Sierpinski triangle and will be used in a problem set concerning infinite series, a major theme of the course. Student Organizations Latin American Concerns http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/lac/index.html "The Wellesley Latin American Concerns Club is comprised of all races and is united in the goal of promoting awareness of global and Latin American issues in the Wellesley community and beyond. We are committed to promoting cultural events to promote awareness, volunteering in areas of related issues, and heightening awareness of current Latin American political and social situations." Wellesley Association of South Asian Cultures http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/wasac/wasachome.html WASAC represents the South Asian Community at Wellesley. "Our main goal is to educate the College community about issues facing our community, as well as provide a support system for students of South Asian descent." The WASAC website features a calendar of events, as well as links to South Asian newspapers, and information about the group's efforts to create a South Asian studies program. Wellesley's Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends (WLBTF) http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/wlbtf/frames.html WLBTF's web site provides information and resources for the Wellesley community through links to people (peer resources) and other web sites. Wellesley's Words on Wheels http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/wwow/ Wellesley Words on Wheels is a program that partners Wellesley students with preschool or kindergarten students whose reading skills are not at the level of their peers. There is information about the program and a registration form on the website. SBOG http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/sbog/index.html The SBOG pages have a calendar of SBOG-sponsored events, as well as an archive of past events. The site includes forms in which you can suggest events, provide feedback on events, or list your event on the SBOG calendar. Zeta Alpha Society http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/za/mainpage/home.html The ZA webiste address three audiences: its own members, alumnae of the society, and people who wish to rent the house. Shakespeare Society http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/shakespeare/shakes_home.html "The purpose of the Wellesley College Shakespeare Society is to promote the study, understanding, and enjoyment of the works of William Shakespeare. Through public lectures, full-length drama productions, wine and cheese faculty receptions and other activities, the Shakespeare Society brings the Bard to the Wellesley College campus." The web site contains a history and a calendar of events for the society. Class of 2001 http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/2001/index.html The class of 2001 is maintaining a site so that its members who are studying abroad can keep in touch with their classmates. Tupelos http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/tupelos/index.html The Tupelos, an a capella singing group, were named indirectly after the Tupelo tree by way of Tupelo Point, a piece of campus that juts into Lake Waban. Their web page has a history and pictures of the group, as well as scheduling and concert information. Asian Baptist Student Koinonia http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/absk/index.html Wellesley ABSK is a group of Wellesley students committed to Jesus Christ and each other. Their web site features a history of the group, an events calendar, as well as pictures and video clips of past activities. Wellesley College Choir http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/choir/Enter/enter.html The choir recently re-designed their site. Look up concert schedules, hear sound clips, and live vicariously through the pictures of the choir trip to Italy in 1998. I also highly recommend the Brianisms in the scrapbook. Wellesley College Dancers http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/dancers/index.html The Wellesley College Dancers, a diverse group in terms of dance style and experience, maintain a web page with clips from their performances and information on their fundraising gifts. Interviewer on the Web http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/interviewer/main/index.html The Interviewer is a student-run publication focusing on interviews and issues of concern to students. The articles are published on-line and old issues are kept in an archive on the site. Mezcla http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/mezcla/index.html "Mezcla is an organization devoted to the academic, political, and social interests of the American students of Latino descent at Wellesley College." The website features schedules, Latino news and links, and an on-line salsa lesson. Wellesley College Orchestra http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/orchestra/orchestra/opening.html The web pages have information on how to join, support, and listen to the Wellesley College Orchestra. A concert schedule is included. Peer Advocates http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/peeradvocates/quotepage.html The chief objectives of the Peer Advocates are to educate people about the problem of sexual assult, to provide resources, and to promote events which celebrate womens' strength. The website serves as a resource for safety and sexual assult issues. Water Polo Club http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/waterpolo/waterpolo.html The Water Polo team is a club sport that welcomes participation from anyone. On the web site you can find out more about water polo at Wellesley, learn about the game itself, meet the team and view the team's schedule. Hellenic Society http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/hellenic/home.html The Hellenic Society, dedicated to all things Greek, has a website detailing their activities during the semester. The picture gallery, filled with sunny Mediterranean scenes, is an antidote to a New England winter. For a history of these listings, go to the Wellesley CWIS What's New Archives. Webmaster - - webmaster@wellesley.edu Information Services Date Created: March 8, 1998 Last Modified: March 10, 2000 Page Expires: December 31, 2000