Bill Sewell
Associate Professor
Department of History, Saint Mary's University
At the Yungang Caves Shanxi Province, PRC
• The sections contained on this site are:
2. Accessing Dr. Sewell's online course materials for the first time
4. Transliterating Asian languages
5. Contact and background information
• For those interested in Asian Studies in Atlantic Canada (ASAC), please click here.
1. Current course listings can be found at: http://www.stmarys.ca/academic/arts/history/current_courses.html
2. Accessing online course materials for the first time:
1. Go to http://www.smu.ca/conted/online and click on "Log In."
2. Login to Blackboard using your student "s number" and your password. Click on the hyperlink for the class you are enrolled in.
N.B.: Students should check on the compatibility of their browser by clicking on "Check Browser" on the "My WebCT." If you have problems, email the coursemaster at coursemaster@smu.ca or call (902) 420-5024 (Online Course Development Center).
3. Other SMU links:
1. To access the SMU History department website, including relevant handbooks and the department's style manual, go to http://www.stmarys.ca/academic/arts/history/.
2. To find a foreign language conversation partner at SMU, please contact Shawn at 420-5687 or Suzan at 420-5262 (or fax 420-5122).
3. For the Saint Mary's Asian Culture Society (SMACS), click here.
4. Transliterating Asian languages: properly transliterating words from Asian languages into English sometimes requires the use of macrons. To do this you need to install the correct fonts on your computer.
1. Japanese and Korean words can bedisplayed in fonts which can be downloaded at http://koreaweb.ws/brevefonts/ttreadme.html
2. Chinese words can be displayed with tone marks in the TimesPinyin font which can be downloaded at http://www.namkung.com/zev/TimesPinyin.html (Macintosh platforms only).
3. Other Chinese fonts can be found at: http://www.mandarintools.com/
4. Vietnamese fonts: http://www.saigon.com/~vietdict/index.html
Some online dictionaries can be found at http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html. Others are:
1. http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php (Chinese)
2. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html (Japanese)
Lhasa, 1986
(On the roof of the Jokhang Temple; the Potala Palace is in the background.)
5. Contact and background information:
1. Bill Sewell's office is MN (McNally North Wing) 204. He can be reached there by phone at (902) 420-5755 or by email at Bill.Sewell[at]smu.ca. (The @ is spelled out here to prevent spam engines from lifting my address off of the web.) Messages can also be left in his mail box in the departmental office (MN 209a) or faxed to (902) 420-5141. His mailing address is:
MN
204
Department of History
Saint Mary's University
923 Robie Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 3C3 Canada
2. To reach the department secretary in the History Office (MN 209a), contact Ms. Marlene Singer at (902) 420-5756 or history[at]smu.ca.
3. For a list of courses previously taught by Bill Sewell at SMU (including grade summaries), click here.
4. For a summary of Bill Sewell's education and publications click here.
6. Other materials:
1. For Bill's Recommended Light Reading List (novels, biographies, popular history, etc.), click here.
2. To see the "earth by night" go to: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg. (To see a view of the August 2003 blackout in North America, go to: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s2015.htm.)
