ABOUT GBC
Welcome to Great Basin College!
Great Basin College values you! Valuing what we have in common and our differences means we will foster a college climate of mutual trust, tolerance, informed discourse and always seek to promote GBC as a "safe space" to explore new ideas and perspectives with opportunities for you to grow, learn and be successful in a friendly, supportive campus environment. GBC enriches people's lives by providing student-centered, post-secondary education to rural Nevada. GBC students enjoy outstanding academic programs, smaller class sizes, and excellent faculty who really care about our students. We are GBC!
ADMISSIONS
ACADEMICS
For High School Students
STUDENT SERVICES
GBC ONLINE
Great Basin College is "The Gold Standard in the Silver State" when it comes to long-distance education and online education delivery. GBC offers hundreds of classes and a diverse array of certificate and degree programs fully online and fully affordable!
COMMUNITY
Great Basin College wants to be your choice for higher education. GBC offers associate and baccalaureate level instruction in career and technical education and academic areas. About 4,000 students are enrolled annually online from across the country and on campuses and centers across 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada's largest counties. We border Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and California. We are GBC!
INFORMATION
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RESOURCES
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Whitney Zulim
Argentum Editor
E-mail: argentum@
gbcnv.edu.
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GBC's Argentum
Argentum is Great Basin College’s art and literary magazine devoted to highlighting the excellent artistic expression of its students, faculty and staff. Community members are also encouraged to submit work. Contributors 18 and under need a parent or guardian signature.
Argentum 2023
The digital version of Argentum 2023 is here!
Writing
- Nonfiction up to 1,500 words
- Fiction (poems, short stories) up to 5,000 words in most genres including:
- Crime / Detective / Mystery
- Drama
- Fable / Fairy Tales / Fantasy
- Historical Fiction
- Horror
- Humor
- Legend / Mythology / Tall Tale
- Science Fiction
- File name: LastNameTitle.rtf
See the Submission Guidelines PDF for complete details.
Art
- Art inspired by this year’s theme in any medium that can be photographed in color
- Cartoons
- Drawings
- Paintings
- Sculptures
- Ceramics
- Jewelry
- Fabric Art
- Glasswork
- Graphic Design
- Architectural Design
- Any other medium that can be printed for publication
- Files: JPEG or TIF (PDFs are not accepted)
- Provide the specific medium (e.g. acrylic on canvas)
- Size no smaller than 1.5MB (4 to 5MB is preferred)
- File name: LastNameTitle.jpg
See the Submission Guidelines PDF for complete details. If you need assistance photographing your work for submission, please contact the GBC Continuing Education office at 775.327.5300.
Multimedia
- Multimedia inspired by this year’s theme in any of the following:
- Videos
- Podcasts
- Sound Collages
- Original Song Compositions
- Blogs
- Journal entries
- Other art and writing-based digital technologies
- File Size: no larger than 50 MB
- File Name: LastNameTitle.mp4
- Blogs, journal entries, and other writing-based digital technologies need to meet the writing requirement submissions.
- Submission formats include MP3, MP4, or website links.
See the Submission Guidelines PDF for complete details.
Prizes and Awards*
- $250 for 1st place
- $100 for 2nd place
- $50 for 3rd place
*While everyone in the GBC community is encouraged to submit work to Argentum, only GBC students enrolled in Summer 2022, Fall 2022 and/or Spring 2023 classes are eligible for prizes.
Three (3) total submissions per person will be considered.
We are no longer accepting submissions at this time. Please check back in the fall for more information on the 2023-2024 edition!
View the Submission Guidelines, Judging Criteria, and Photography Tips PDFs for complete details. Please contact the editor via email at argentum@gbcnv.edu if you need assistance.
For More Information Contact
Whitney Zulim
Argentum Editor
E-mail: argentum@gbcnv.edu
Why Great Basin College
Great Basin College wants to be your choice for higher education. GBC offers associate and baccalaureate level instruction in career and technical education and academic areas. About 4,000 students are enrolled annually online from across the country and on campuses and centers across 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada's largest counties. We border Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and California. We are GBC!
