(Posted 12-16-99)
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UNCG SPANISH LANGUAGE WEB
SITE RECEIVES MORE AWARDS

GREENSBORO--A Spanish language Web site developed by faculty and staff at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro has received two more Web excellence awards.

Dr. Karen Rauch's Web course on Spanish civilization received the honors from Majon International's Web Select and from M daille d'Or for Web Site Excellence.

Rauch is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages. Rauch's site: www.uncg.edu/rom/courses/klrauch/civ/art.htm

The "Spanish Civilization" site was developed by Rauch in collaboration with UNCG's Division of Continual Learning. The course covers Spanish civilization from prehistoric times to the present. The course component to receive the awards is a companion site for the course which describes Spanish artists and artworks through the ages.

Majon Web Select is a recognition service to further develop and encourage creativity, quality design and usefulness in purpose for Web site owners and creators. Rauch's site received the Seal of Excellence Award.

Among some of the criteria M daille d'Or looks for is a Web site's ability to convey enthusiasm for its subject, whether the site is usable and useful, has reasonable download times, is up to date and straightforward.

"Karen's course is undoubtedly one of the first graduate-level Spanish courses in the country to appear online," said Dr. David A. Fein, head of the Department of Romance Languages at UNCG. "We are proud of her pioneering efforts, and the six awards she has won are all well deserved. The Majon Web Select ‘Seal of Excellence Award' is mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, and several of the other awards are international in scope. Karen's course represents a major contribution to the distance education initiative at UNCG."

Rauch came to UNCG in 1996. Her areas of concentration include Enlightenment and Romantic literature of Spain; Colonial and Modern Latin American Literature; and feminist and psychoanalytic literary criticism. She is currently writing a book titled "Mothers and other Strangers: Spanish Romantic Discourse and the Maternal Imaginary." She received her master's degree from Duke University and her doctoral degree from the University of Virginia.

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