HUX Welcomes New Program Coordinator

The Humanities External M.A. Degree Program at CSUDH is pleased to announce Dr. Elena Christova has been appointed as Program Coordinator, replacing Dr. Joanne Zitelli, who is now the Acting Associate Dean of the Division of Extended Education.

Dr. Christova has been an instructor in the HUX M.A. program since 1998. She holds a doctorate in comparative literature from UCLA, and has published Bulgarian translations of Steinbeck and Faulkner as well as a screenplay. Her teaching experience includes college courses in literature, composition, and the humanities.

She is currently trying to figure out how she could have gotten so far behind before she even walked into the office. {g}

 

Congratulations to Dr. Christova, and please invite her to join in here!

The CSUDH program is one of the most asked-about graduate DL programs, and it would be great to have a Program Coordinator available to answer potential student's questions.


Bruce

 

Thank God! For a minute . . .

. . . I thought I might read, "The HUX program at CSUDH is pleased to announce that Dr. Armando Arias has . . ."

(Sorry, gang, it's an inside joke. For a background, see the "MIGS" forum.)

Nonetheless, I join in congratulating Elena Christova on her appointment. Her credentials and experience are both outstanding, and I'm sure she will be as valuable an administrator in the HUX program as she has been an instructor.

Damn . . . Bulgarian translations of Steinbeck and Faulkner? Esoteric, but very impressive!

 

question

Hi Nicole.

Just a short question: your website names your program "Master of Arts in the Humanities", is that also the official degree presented on your final transcripts/diploma ?

Would you be allowed just to put "M.A." on your business card with the degree, or is there some other official short form you would have to use?

Thanx,

Trigger

 

Re: question

I've never seen one of our diplomas, but I believe it lists the degree as you've said, Master of Arts in the Humanities. (Tom? Bill?)

The proper abbreviation is M.A. If you chose to list your degrees on a business card, that would be the appropriate designation.

 

Re: question

I'm not Nicole, but I am a graduate of the program. My diploma reads:

"Master of Arts" (large print, centered)
"humanities" (small print centered immediately below where one's major would go).

"With all rights and privileges pertaining thereto." (Nobody has told me what they are yet.)

So yeah, it's an M.A. in interdisciplinary humanities in the same way that an M.A. in history or an M.A. in English lit are "M.A."s. So why not put "M.A." on a business card if you want to?

 

that´s all i wanted to know...
thank you

(i´m not too familiar with the dozens of possible short form of the american university degrees...)

 

Re: Re: question

Bill's right--and it's a gorgeous diploma, BTW. Purple, gold lamination, and all on something that looks more sheepskinnish than the average diploma--and with four signatures (including, in my case, Gov. Gray Davis and CSUDH President James Lyons, who served as president of local Jackson State University before transferring to CSUDH, and whose wife was one of my fellow students in a graduate-level Jesuit theology class a couple of years ago; she finished her M.T.S. before heading out to Carson).


Cheers,