Monthly Archives: January 2012

Win a Trip to Rome (UT faculty led program)

Information Session

Rome Institute of Liberal Arts Summer courses

June 18-July 13, 2012

Rome, Italy

The Thomas Jefferson Center is pleased to announce two summer courses offered in Rome by our affiliated program, the Rome Institute of Liberal Arts. Spend mornings studying great books, and explore the museums and other cultural riches of Rome and the surrounding countryside in afternoon and weekend excursions.

This summer, two courses will be offered: “Beauty and the Sacred,” with readings from Plato, Dante, and Hegel, and “Empire and the Soul,” with readings from Plato, Thucydides, Livy, and Machiavelli. Both courses may be taken for UT credit, and “Beauty and the Sacred” meets the UT Visual and Performing Arts requirement.

The Jefferson Center will offer a full scholarship to RILA.

To find out about the program, to meet students who have attended in the past, and to get application and scholarship information, please attend our information session:

Tuesday, January 31, 3:30 pm

MEZ 1.210

You may also visit http://www.rilarts.org/ or email Jefferson center co-director Lorraine Pangle at lorrainepangle@austin.utexas.edu

Lorraine Pangle

Professor of Government

Co-Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas

University of Texas at Austin

https://webspace.utexas.edu/lsp226/lorrainepangle/index.html

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/coretexts

Echo Literary Magazine Accepting Submissions

This is just another reminder that the Echo Literary Magazine is accepting submissions of poetry, prose, and photography. We publish Echo this semester, so time is running out to your writing. If you submit you will have a good chance of being published in this year’s magazine!

For more information check out http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/lahonors/student-organizations/echo.php or just submit to echolitmag@gmail.com

European Studies FLAS due Feb. 6

The European Studies undergraduate FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) is a Fellowship awarded to undergraduate students who are pursuing 1) European Studies coursework and 2) an approved modern foreign language at UT at the intermediate or advanced level.

Approved languages are: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Modern Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian/Croatian or Swedish. (English, French, German, and Spanish are not approved languages for this undergraduate fellowship.) We also strongly encourage students studying non-European languages-such as Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Russian, and Turkish-to apply for FLAS fellowships when a contemporary application of those language skills will significantly enhance their work as distinctly European Studies scholars. Students may NOT be native speakers of the language nor possess fluency equivalent to educated native speakers in the language for which the award is sought.

There are academic year and summer FLAS scholarships available. For more details and to download an application, go to the European Studies FLAS page.

Deadline is February 6, 2012.

Congratulations to Pinto Carver Essay Prize Winners!

Thank you to everyone who submitted an essay for the Pinto Carver Essay contest.  We received many well written essays and after careful consideration selected the following winners:

First Prize: Ayesha Akbar  “A Reminder”

Second Prize: Andrew McMahon “Writing (is an Attempt to always be a Child)”

Third Prize: Kalyan Venkatraj “(Re) Inventing the Wheel”

LAHSO Meeting This Monday!

The Liberal Arts Honors Service Organization (LAHSO) is having a meeting on Monday night (the 23rd) to welcome folks who may have missed the fall introduction and to discuss the upcoming semester and its projects.  We’ll be in Mezes 1.202 at 8:00 p.m., and pizza and drinks will be served.

Headliner’s Foundation Scholarship

I’m pleased to announce that Headliners Foundation of Texas applications for the 2012-2013 school year have been posted. http://headlinersfoundation.org/scholarships

Students with an interest in journalism, communications, or media are encouraged to apply. Deadline is February 24th.

For those familiar with our scholarship program, you will notice that we have doubled our scholarship awards from $3,000 to $6,000 per year to better reflect the true cost of an education. The downside is that we are unable to offer as many scholarships as in the past. But in addition to these larger scholarships, we continue to offer a few smaller ones with specific designations as you will read online.

Headliners Foundation is one of the most prestigious scholarships in the state, not just because of the money awarded, but because of the recognition we provide. Students are invited to our awards luncheon in Austin each  fall. In addition, this year we will identify other ways to mentor our scholars throughout the year.

ART Classes Unrestricted!

With two hours to go before the close of the fourth class day, you may have

just felt the earth move under your feet and the sky tumble down (it IS the

year 2012 after all!): A few seats for non-art majors have been opened up in ALL sections of the following restricted studio art courses:

-ART 303K

-ART 303L

-ART 304K

-ART 304L

**These courses will not count towards your Visual and Performing Arts requirement**