How to Survive at ASC?
Useful Tips, Skills, and Know-How for Academia
A Three-Part Online Seminar for BA Freshers

Part. 1.
Thursday, Oct 8 at 4:45 pm by Filip Boratyn
Navigating ASC’s administration and online spaces with special focus on USOS and ASC website.

Part 2.
Thursday, Oct 29 at 4:45 pm by Anna Kurowicka
Studying at university vs studying at school; academic etiquette and communication with lecturers; online and irl class participation; uses and abuses of phones in class; inclusive vs discriminatory language;

Join Zoom Meeting
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Part 3.
Thursday, Nov 5 at 4:45 pm by Ludmiła Janion
Tips on how to prepare for and benefit from different types of classes: lectures, seminars and workshops, tips for active participation in class; the purpose of the reading list; practical tips for studying for exams; the uses and abuses of Wikipedia; reading, listening, and note taking.

2 OZN for each seminar

News

Competition for Student Research Grants

March 27, 2025

The American Studies Center is pleased to announce a competition for student research grants. The grants will support students’ work on their MA theses and BA papers. As the research must be related to a BA paper or an MA thesis, 3rd year BA students and MA students of all years will have a priority.

News

Dean’s Day on April 30

March 24, 2025

We kindly inform you that, in accordance with Order No. 1 issued by the Head of the Teaching Unit on March 19, 2025, April 30, 2025, has been declared as a dean’s day (a day off from teaching).

News

Meeting with the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Quality of Teaching and Learning

March 21, 2025

On March 26 at 6:30 PM, we invite you to an open online meeting with the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Quality of Teaching and Learning, Prof. Maciej Raś. During the meeting, we will discuss topics important to students and those interested in studying at the University of Warsaw.

News

ZIP 2.0 Integrated Teaching Development Program for the ASC Undergraduate Program

March 20, 2025

We would like to inform you that as of January 1, 2025, the University of Warsaw is implementing the “Integrated Teaching Development Program – ZIP 2.0,” co-financed by the European Social Fund under the European Funds for Social Development 2021–2027 (FERS) program. Its goal is to adapt the educational offer to the needs of the economy and labor market, as well as to support green and digital transformation.

American Studies Colloquium Series

April 3: Gatekeeping, Paranoid Professionalism, and Redefining Literacy: How US Librarians Fought, Found, and Loved Comic Books

March 20, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the third lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025 Spring semester! In this talk, we will look at how US librarians fought against comic books as though libraries were the last line of defense in a vital war. We will examine the existential threat that librarians perceived comics to pose in the mid-century and the gradual, nervous thawing of that opposition in the 1970s and 1980s.