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This course is for you if you are interested in understanding and analysing how English ‘ works ’ in a wide range of contexts , including the media , fiction , academic writing and everyday conversation . The vice provost also serves as the provost 's contact person for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation ( CIC ) , the academic arm of the Big Ten Conference , and the University Faculty Senate in issues relating to faculty affairs . Thai Yai is the Thai term while Shan is used in Burma and Western academic writing . We urge our visiting scholars not to sign a lease without consulting with either their academic host , the Office of Student Legal Services , or with Nita Levison , Coordinator of International Programs . A poster campaign was used in the first six weeks of the Fall academic session to increase student awareness of the danger of date rape . The academic leitmotif of the journey is : " The Mind of the South : Conflict , Commerce and Constructions Since 1861 " . Some native-speaking students also have difficulty making distinctions between oral and literate discourse , and thus they " write like they talk , " missing both the forms and the formality of academic writing . Students registering for more than one academic session must therefore be prepared to pay a fee in their second and subsequent years which may be increased by the previous twelve months ' inflation . What kinds of histories are being imagined in new forms of experimental academic writing , in media productions that probe histories of government sponsored ecological devastation , and in tourist imaginaries that celebrate nature as a sublime object of visual fascination ?