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Deanna Young,
Adjunct Instructor
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Design (EPICS)
Department
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Colorado
School of Mines
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Golden, CO 80401
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Phone: (303)384-2044
Fax: (303) 273-3919
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E-mail: dyoung(at-sign)mines.edu
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Office:
Meyer Hall 443
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Deanna taught French at
University, High
School, and Junior High levels for over 30 years. She is
currently
team-teaching EPICS at CSM. Deanna works as a volunteer victim
advocate for the Boulder Sheriff's Department and teaches a course for
seniors on chronic disease self-management.
An accomplished
flutist and singer,
Deanna often performs chamber music in the Boulder area. She has
been a member of several choruses including the Colorado Symphony
Summer
Chorus at Aspen and Vail. She also has been performing in
musicals
since 1996. Deanna recently played Mother Superior in Nunsense and Mrs. Paroo in The Music Man at Jesters Dinner
Theatre in Longmont. She also recently participated in "5 Plays
in 5 Hours" at Nomads Theater in Boulder.
She completed improvisational theater training at the Bovine Metropolis
Theater.
Résumé
Education
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MA in French Literature plus coursework
toward PhD, University
of Rochester, 1966
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Teaching Assistantship, Department of
Languages and Linguistics,
Rochester, 1964-1966
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Colorado, New York State, and Michigan
Teaching Certificates
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Sorbonne University, Paris. Studies in
French history, culture,
and literature, 1962-3
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BA in French, Cum Laude, Phi Beta
Kappa, Kalamazoo College,
1962, French Major with minors in Philosophy, Spanish, and German
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Miscellaneous coursework in French and
Spanish at UNC, CU,
Regis College, 1977-present
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Trained in Total Physical Response
Story-Telling (TPRS)
Teaching
and workshop experience
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Colorado School of Mines, Adjunct
Instructor, EPICS Department,
2001-present
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Boulder Valley School District,
1978-2000. High School French,
all levels including AP
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University of Rochester, NY (first and
second year French)
and University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (experimental
televised
Level 2 French class)
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Organized Boulder District-wide Foreign
Language Day with
contests and competitions
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Gave a poetry-writing workshop and TPRS
(storytelling) workshop
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Attended many conferences and
workshops, including CCFLT
(Colorado Conference of Foreign Language Teachers) and AATF (American
Association
of French Teachers) conferences
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Organized and participated (with my
students) in a series
of France travel-homestay exchange programs with Paris, Perros-Guirec
in
Brittany and with Céret in the Pyrénées Orientales,
1980-2000
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Member of AATF and CCFLT since 1978
(national and Colorado
French teaching societies)
Awards
and Honors
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Awarded National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship
to study Molière plays in Paris, 1995
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Twice Nominated Colorado Foreign
Language Teacher of the
Year. My students received numerous awards at UNC Foreign Language Day,
including those for commercials, skits, poetry recitation, cultural
entertainment,
extemporaneous speaking, show and tell
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Awarded two grants from Foundation for
Boulder Valley Schools:
one for developing French Minitel telephone system for students' use,
1993,
and second in 1997 to purchase extensive authentic reading materials
for
French classes
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French Government Assistantship to
teach English in French
schools, 1962-1964: Lycée Balzac, Paris, École Normale de
Filles, Grenoble
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SR Light Scholarship for summer study
at the University of
Caen, France, 1959
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