Meeting Information: General meeting, Featuring Speaker: Farhana Khanja
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11/18, 7:30 pm
Place: BUR 108
Description:Join your fellow non-traditional pre-med majors for an evening chat with a current medical student about the ins and outs of medical school! We will have discussion, free food, and Smartypants giftcard giveaway. We hope to see you there on Tuesday, November 18th, in BUR 108 at 7:30 pm.
If you would like to apply for a $3,000 UT Austin scholarship to study abroad between fall 2015 and summer 2017, the deadline to apply to the First Abroad Scholarship is DECEMBER 1, 2014.
Attend the workshop for application tips:
First Abroad Application Workshop
When: Monday, November 24 from 4-5pm
Where: BUR 116
Description: Calling all first-generation college students with less than 60 hours earned at UT. Join us for tips on how to win this year’s First Abroad Scholarship for $3,000. The application is simple, no recommendations are required, and you can select your study abroad program AFTER you win the award! The deadline to apply is December 1, 2014. Recipients have up to two academic years to select a program and participate. For example, students are awarded in February 2015 and may use the scholarship any term between fall 2015 and summer 2017. Link to application: http://world.utexas.edu/abroad/funding/scholarships/planning
Thank you,
Margaret
Margaret Storm McCullers
Curriculum Integration & Special Projects Coordinator | Study Abroad
International Office
The University of Texas at Austin
Phone: (512) 475-8769
Email: mccullersm@austin.utexas.edu
Informational meeting for the Rome Institute of Liberal Arts (RILA). This is an exciting opportunity to spend a part of your summer studying the great books in Rome and earning transfer credit to UT. The meeting will be Wednesday, November 19, at 5 PM in Waggener 403b
The Jefferson Center has a number of $2,000 scholarships available to make this program more affordable for UT students.
The program itself consists of a month long class that takes place in the heart of the Eternal City. Students will live in Rome and will have ample opportunity to explore its many celebrated sights, with all their charms and wonders. will study in the historic and centrally located Collegio Romano, where Galileo once had an apartment. It’s also close to many of the major sights: it’s a two minute walk from the Pantheon, a five minute walk from the Vittorio Emanuele Monument and the Capitoline Hill, and a twenty minute walk from the Colosseum.
Regular class meetings, in which the texts will be studied and discussed intensively, will take place four times per week in the mornings. Students will be enrolled with students from other American universities, and will have the chance to study with them and to get to know them.
RILA offers a choice of two courses, both of which earn UT credit. Each class is discussion intensive, and involves the study of a selection of great books that have particular relevance to Rome and its history. Empire and the Soul is an introduction to the basic problems of political philosophy with particular attention to the Roman Republic and the emergence of the Empire. In it, you’ll study works by Livy, Vergil, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare. This course carries upper level government credit. Beauty and the Sacred covers some of the great reflections on the meaning of art and its relationship to the divine. Its texts include Plato’s Symposium, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics.
As part of both classes, students will tour many of the museums, churches, and ruins, guided by experts in Rome’s art and history. On two occasions, classes will actually take place in the Vatican Museums, and will be followed by tours. There will also be excursions to cities surrounding Rome, including Siena, Orvieto, and Tarquinia. The tours supplement the readings: students will see how the thinkers they read grappled with the same basic human problems as Rome’s great historic leaders and as the artists whose work they’ll view. While Rome is almost indescribably beautiful, its deepest wonders only truly open up when one starts to understand the thought that inspires them.
For more information on the program and the scholarship opportunities offered by the Jefferson Center, please attend the meeting, or if you can’t make it, contact Dr. Erik Dempsey, by email at ed6335@utexas.edu. He will be teaching the Empire and the Soul class. You can also visit RILA’s website at:
Dr. Erik Dempsey
Lecturer, Department of Government
Assistant Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas
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