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B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas |
Prof. Carpenter has been teaching at CCSF since 1995.
Prof. Carpenter's educational philosophy and goals are to share with students the rich cultural heritages of Asia, to foster global understanding and tolerance, a lifelong interest in learning, and the critical thinking skills and cultural awareness required of all citizens in the 21st century.
Prof. Carpenter has served on the City College Art Gallery Committee. She also recently served a term as the Diego Rivera Mural Docent Coordinator, where she developed a semester-long curriculum for docents.
Prof. Carpenter's published work includes: "A Yangzhou Poetic Gathering and Modern Chinese Painting: Zheng Shan (1810 –after 1899)," in When Art Met History (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, forthcoming); New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection, exh. cat. (Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2007); “A Landscape Painting and Its Sources,” in Traditions and Transformations (Lawrence, KS: Spencer Museum of Art, 2005); "Traveling among Streams and Mountains and Chin Period Landscape Painting," Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas, 1994; "American Social Realist Thomas Hart Benton," in Shijie meishu (World Art) 1990/4: 25-29 (Chinese).
Prof. Carpenter enjoys travel with friends and family as well as attending cultural events and performances in the Bay Area, especially museum art exhibitions, the San Francisco Opera, and the San Francisco Symphony. She serves on the board of Maine Coon Adoptions, an East Bay cat rescue group.
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B.A., Fu-Jen Catholic University; M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A., College of Chinese Culture, Taiwan; M.A., San Francisco State University; Ed.D., University of San Francisco |
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B.A., University of California, Berkeley |
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B.A., Doshisha University, Japan; MA, San Francisco State University; Ed.D., University of San Francisco |
Ms. Grant's favorite line from her students is “I can tell you must love to teach.” She was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. She strongly values human interaction and communication. Facilitating cross-cultural understanding is most rewarding for her.
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Doctor of Education |
Professor. Inomata has been teaching at CCSF since 2009.
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Interdisciplinary Studies Department B.A., M.A. in English, University of Punjab (Pakistan); M.A. and Ph.D. in English, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; graduate-level courses in political science, history, and comparative religions; Fulbright scholar; recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities awards; several publications |
Prof. Jabbar has been teaching at CCSF since 1968:
Full-time: from 1968 to 2003 in English and Interdisciplinary Studies Departments
Since 2003: Professor Emeritus, Interdisciplinary Studies and Social Sciences Departments
Education is the only equalizer. To build a truly democratic and egalitarian society, community colleges, with their open-door policies, embrace all segments of society to provide high-quality education. Community college students often don't have the luxury to be full-time students. They have to juggle jobs, family responsibilities, activism for reform, and studies simultaneously. They deserve all avenues of support and incentives to achieve their educational goals in a supportive environmment that, at the same time, upholds high academic standards.
Member and Chair of the Personnel Committee, English Department, for several years
Chair, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, for 6 years
Member and Chair of several hiring committees
Faculty Advisor to several students' clubs: General Union of Palestinian Students; Muslim Students Association; South Asian Cultural Association
Book: "Reading and Writing with Multicultural Literature" -- a textbook for English 1B, humanities, and similar courses -- was first published in 2010. The second edition came out in 2011.
Chapter in a book: "A Mirror to Our Faces: The Short Stories of Khushwant Singh," Chapter 10 of "Sikh Art and Literature," ed. Kerry Brown (Routledge, 1999)
Articles:
"Solving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," "The Journal of America," American Institute of International Studies, January 5, 2009.
"Beyond Stereotypes: E. M. Forster's Vision of Global Unity in 'A Passage to India'," "Humanities Journal" (Spring 1989)
Review of "The True Subject: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz," "Journal of South Asian Literature," Michigan State University, Vol. 26, 1991, Nos. 1 & 2, 156-170
"Varieties of Love in D. H. Lawrence's 'Women in Love'." My lecture is available as audio cassette No. 0-A from Cassette Productions Unlimited, Pasadena, California 91105.
Extracurricular: Chair, Board of Directors, Central Asia Institute, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization that opens and operates schools in remote regions of neglected areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Hobbies: Tennis, walking, activism for political and social justice
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B.A., National Taiwan University |
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Dip. Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University ; L.R.S.M. Royal Schools of Music, London, England ; M.A. in Music, California State University at Los Angeles; M.Div. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. |
Joshua is a returning tenured professor. He has been teaching at CCSF since 1972. He has been retired since June 30th, 2009. While he is traveling wide and far to pursue his passion for performance and music education, his love for CCSF and passion for choral and vocal music has prompted him to continue at CCSF as part-time professor of solo voice and choir.
Learning is hardwork but it can be fun. Joshua tries to make the lectures fun and creative. He goes out of his way to reach out to those students who need him most. He encourages his students to review/study while in class and stay ahead of him by reading ahead. He encourages his students to get involved with what they learn through field trips and attending concerts. He maintains an online site to assist his students in reviewing extensively illustrated lectures, doing review quizzes and assignments to prepare for the tests. Teaching sessions and concerts are announced in class the attendance of these allows students to learn by experience. Students could review course content, tests, listening samples and lecture notes in this site. Power Point files of his lectures are also published in his text. CDs and DVDs are beautifully produced for the students after concerts and made available to them for future reference. Friends and relatives of his students from around the world can view concerts through the world wide web.
Professor Law's specialties include Solo Voice, Music Theory, Choir, East Asian Music and Keyboard. He was formerly the chair person of Asian Studies Department and a member of the executive council of the Academic Senate for many years. Joshua is an active member of Asian & Pacific Islander American Student Success (APASS). He is also currently serving as faculty advisor of World Music Club and a few years back, he revived the Chinese Culture Club (CCC) of CCSF and assisted in letting CCC assist his successful Karaoke singing contests. He produces the popular twice-yearly World Music Showcase Concerts and Karaoke contests for many years since the early nineties. Each semester, he directs City Oratorio and Orchestra, a City College Community Chorus and performs Oratorios by great Composers such as Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn. These concerts and contests have always been extremely well supported by the CCSF community as well as citizens of San Francisco. For example, The Handel's Messiah performance from City College Choir and orchestra which Professor Law directs can be viewed by following this link: www.youtube.com and search video by us using Joshua's full name as one word, i.e. joshuatlaw.
Professor Law is a well-known Baritone Soloist and Choir director among Christian churches of many denominations all over Asia as well as North America. Having been directing choirs and orchestra for the communities and churches for many years, Joshua felt the need to explore and acquire relevant understanding of theology in order to sharpen his church work skills. Due to his excellent background in music and theology, he has been a frequent speaker in conferences and workshops on music in the US and also abroad in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Brazil, as well as S. E. Asia and Europe. He performs regularly as a Baritone soloist in concerts, directs choral/orchestral concerts and many music and video productions. He has served for over 20 years in four local Christian churches as music and worship director. He is active in many professional organizations such as MENC (Music Educators National Conference), NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing, ACDA American Choir Directors Association, MACCC (Music Association of California Community Colleges) and FACCC (Faculty Association of California Community Colleges). He is serving on the boards of CPAA (Chinese Performing Artists of America) and CGST (China Graduate School of Theology) .
Mr. Law published J. Law's Music Slide Rule, Insight Press, 1995, J. Law's Music Slide Rule, Keyboard Edition, and A Study Guide to Music of East Asia, McGraw Hill, 1992. He has written and published numerous articles on music, church music and singing, which have been published in many Chinese and English journals and magazines. View his website at http://www.dorean.info
Joshua likes sport fishing, camping, and traveling and he spends a lot of time arranging music for himself to performs duets, trios and quartets with himself. He has produced many songs where he is a "one-man-band" which he uses to perform life with himself as vocal and instrumental soloist in concerts and churches.
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B.A., Lewis & Clark College |
Professor Lee has been teaching at CCSF since 2000.
Professor Lee's instructional/educational philosophy and goals: To nurture reading , writing and the analytical skills of his students; To share knowledge, experience and expertise of course subject matter/curriculum; To stimulate identification with and involvement in local community, national society, and global community\affairs (civic, socio-political and cultural) relative to the density and unity of human society.
Professor Lee is a member of the Chinese Historical Society of America and is finishing a two-volume manuscript at this time.
He enjoys reading, classical music, and gym exercise.
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B.A., Dalian University of Foreign Language, China; M.A., Pacific University, Fresno; M.A., California State University, Fresno |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Chair, Music Department B.A., Towson State University |
Professor Lim has been teaching at CCSF since 2000.
He is a member of the World Music Club.
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B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A., National Taiwan University; |
Professor Liu has been teaching at CCSF since 2008.
She is interested in weaving technology with learning theories and hands-on practice experience to promote language teaching/learning.
She believes that everybody can learn. She is also a firm believer of “learning by doing.” In particular, she believes that motivation and positive attitude will get us wherever we want to go.
She is a member of European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL) and the Chinese Language Teachers Association of California (CLTAC).
Professor Liu's publications:
Liu, Hsin-Yun. 2006. “Revised Definition of Numeratives in Mandarin” in proceedings of NACCL-18: 413-431.
Hsueh, Su-Ling and Hsin-Yun Liu. 2005. “That which I do, I understand” in: Bridges: A publication dedicated to teaching the final learning objectives, Curriculum (19): 7-14.
Liu, Hsin-Yun. 2003. A Profile of the Mandarin NP: Possessive Phrases & Classifier Phrases in Spoken Discourse. Muenchen: Lincom Europa.
Liu, Hsin-Yun. 1995. “Zur Syntax”, in: Kutscher, Silvia / Johanna Mattissen / Anke Wodarg (eds.). Das Mut'afi-Lazische (= Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Arbeitspapier 24 (N.F.)) Köln: Universität, pp. 97-111.
Hsin-Yun Liu, Martin Dlugosch, Huey-Shyu Kao (et al. Translators). Studieren und Leben in Deutschland. Ein Leitfaden für chinesische Studenten. Sankt Augustin: China-Zentrum, 1995, Wenzel-Teuber, Katharina (ed.).
Professor Liu's conference presentations:
•FLANC Fall 2008
Presented the topic “Fun Grammar activities with SMARTBoard” on Nov. 8, 2008, UC Berkeley
•CCCFLC Fall 2008:
Presented the topic “Technology and Authentic Materials in the Foreign Language Classroom” on Oct. 24, 2008, CCSF
•DLI SWAP 2008, presented “Meaningful Tasks for Listening Comprehension:
Olympic Torch Relay 2008” on June 11, 2008, Monterey, DLI
•DLI Language Day 2008, workshop “Teaching Ideas for Educators”:
Co- Presented: “Designing individual homework with Microsoft
PublisherTM” with Amgad Ishak on May 16, 2008, Monterey, DLI
•FSD “Holiday program 2007”
Presented “SMARTBoard & Fun grammar learning” on Dec 26, 2008, Monterey, DLI
•NACCL-18
The 18th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL -18), 23-25.06.2006, presented the paper: “Revised Definition of Numeratives in Mandarin” on 24.06.06 at the Western University, Bellingham, Washington
•FSD “Holiday program 2005” (28.12.05-06.01.06), co-presented the paper “that which I do, I understand” on 29.12.05 with Su-Ling Hsueh
•EACL-1
The 1st Meeting of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, presented “Mandarin numerative: revised definition of classifiers and reclassification., EHESS Paris, June 10-11, 1999.
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B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University |
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Social Sciences Department |
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B.A., State University of New York; M.A., San Francisco State University |
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Chair, Philippine Studies Department B.A. in Philosophy, De LaSalle University/OLAS |
Professor Paz has been teaching at CCSF since 1993.
Professor Paz's educational philosophy: "Education is preparation for life. Education is also lifetime learning. Thus, it is not just specific knowledge and training in one field, but a rich, broad mix of science, philosophy, arts and letters. Pedagogy and Learning are both empowering and liberating. The teacher becomes a better teacher because s/he learns from and inspired by one's students. Students become better and more learned persons because teachers impart not only knowledge, but also inspiration, conviction, ideals, and values."
Professor Paz is Fil Am Student Club Advisor, Advisory Board Member of APASS, MESA/STEM, Mentoring and Service Learning, and FAA.
He has published as follows: "Placement Testing in the Filipino Language" in "Case studies in foreign language placement: Practices and possibilities" by Hudson, T. and Clark, M. (Eds.), National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaii; for 10+ years, wrote a regular column "Let's Talk Filipino" in internationally circulated Philippine News.
Professor Paz is Vice President, Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL); Member, Association of Asian Studies, and Lifetime Member, Foreign Language Association of Northern California.
He enjoys running, walking, reading.
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B.F.A., National Art Institute of China; M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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B.A., Aoyamagakuin University; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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B.S.F.S., University of the Philippines; Ph.D., University of Santo. Tomas, Manila; M.A.,University of Hull, Yorkshire(U.K.).M.A.,(Asian Studies); M.A. (Geography), University of California, Berkeley |
Prof. Sardalla has been teaching at CCSF since 1978.
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B.A., University of Japan, Tokyo; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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B.A., Aoyamagakui University; M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A., Western College of Miami University, Oxford, OH; M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A., Shanghai Foreign Language Institute |
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B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University; M.A., University of San Francisco |
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B.A., Kyoto University of Foreign Studies |
Professor Wright has been a member of the CCSF faculty since 1986.
She believes in providing a classroom environment that reflects the real Japan. "I feel that students get the most out of learning when they are allowed to interact and help each other in a supportive atmosphere."
In her leisure time, Professor Wright enjoys cooking, home improvement and listening to music.
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Biography is unavailable at this time.
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B.A., National Taiwan Normal University; M.A., San Francisco State University |
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Ph. D. Candidate in Education, New York University, New York, New York. |
Professor Grace Yu has been teaching in Asian Studies Department, Foreign Languages Department and English As A Second Language Department since 1977.