Duties could include: Writing short blurbs about upcoming sporting events for the print edition or Chronicle Sports blog, The Score, and handling incoming sports listings in the database. Perks would include access to some games around town and, obviously, the experience and contacts for a résumé. If interested contact:
Mark Fagan
Sports Editor, Austin Chronicle
mfagan@austinchronicle.com
512.454.5766
If you are an LAHer with an unpaid summer internship, we have some funds available to help defray your costs. Typically, we can award a student about $1,000 to help cover living expenses while you are gaining experience in the working world.
If you would like to be considered for summer funding, please send an e-mail to Dr. Carver at carver@austin.utexas.edu describing your position and your summer budget.
JOIN TEACH FOR AMERICA FOR EVENT FEATURING FOUNDER WENDY KOPP
Join us for a live, interactive online event featuring Teach For America’s CEO and Founder, Wendy Kopp. Wendy launched Teach For America twenty years ago to address a great injustice in America – the disparity of educational opportunities provided to low-income children and their wealthier peers. Learn more about this pressing social issue while hearing first-hand from Teach For America’s founder and CEO.This event will be hosted online; you can watch it from any computer with internet access.
Achieving Educational Equity: A Conversation with Wendy Kopp
Thursday, April 29 – 7 PM CT
Register prior to the event here: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=205483&s=1&k=44FBAEE22F614741971905373944EA27
(You’ll receive a confirmation link to use at the time of the event)
This is a great opportunity for students to learn about the pressing social issue of educational inequity in our country directly from a successful social entrepreneur.
Look up Summer and Fall 2010 courses in the Course Schedule
If you are taking summer classes at UT remember that summer courses are divided by first session (f), second session (s), whole session (w), and a nine week session (n).
http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/106/
http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/109/
* registration hint: if classes are closed under one section look to see if it’s cross-listed and try to register under the cross-listing.
When to register and add/drop periods for summer and fall
Summer: http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/106/whentoregister/
Fall: http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/109/whentoregister/
Check course descriptions
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/resources/syllabi/index.php
Check on Professors’ Course-Instructor Surveys
https://diia.webhost.utexas.edu/cis/results/
Schedule Construction and professor reviews for free
Check your Credit by Examination or sign up to take placement tests (from SAT II, AP, etc)
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/mec/
Need to take the TX Government Only test to pair with your AP Government? Here’s a supplemental online text-book on Texas Politics
texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/
Taking classes over the summer in transfer? Check transferability
http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/ate/
note: make sure to double check with Stacey or Linda to verify degree applicability
Update your personal information include your cell number! (email, address etc.)
https://utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/index.WBX
UT Calendar for fall 2010-2011
http://registrar.utexas.edu/calendars/10-11/
Figure out your gpa
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/academic-concerns/gpa-calculator.php
April 19th
3 pm – “The Haitian Revolution: Causes and Consequences”
John Garrigus – UT Arlington
Quadrangle Room at the Union
6 pm – Human Rights Panel – Garrison 0.102
Thomas Griffin – Human Rights Lawyer
Carolle Charles – Baruch College, New York – Scholar of Women’s and Gender Empowerment in Haiti
Bill O’Neill – Human Rights Lawyer, UN affiliate
April 20th
1 pm – Rapoport Human Rights Clinic
“The Organization of American States Obligations to Haiti”
Quadrangle Room at the Union
2 pm Donna J. Barry: Partners in Health Director of Advocacy and Policy
“Health and Human Rights in Haiti”
Quadrangle Room at the Union
6 pm – Aid & Development Panel – Santa Rita Room at the Union
Dan Beeton – Center for Economic and Policy Research
Jemima Pierre – Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UT
Hyppolite Pierre – Author of Haiti, Rising Flames from Burning Ashes: Haiti the Phoenix
Timothy Schwartz – USAID Consultant
April 22nd
6 pm – Keynote Speaker
Jocelyn McCalla – Senior Adviser to Haiti’s Envoy to the UN
“Towards a New Partnership with Haiti”
Belmont 328
April 26th
2 pm – “Haiti: Duvalier to Preval” – Quadrangle Room at the Union
Jean-Germain Gros – University of Missouri, St. Louis
6 pm – “National Identity and Ethos: Vodou in the Haitian Context”
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith – Wisconsin-Milwaukee University
*FREE ADMISSION
Hosted by: Texas Global Health Project
For more information contact: texasghp@gmail.com
For a full schedule see: www.texasgph.org
Psychology is offering more sections than ever this summer including some taught by their award-winning instructors:
PSY f353K Psychopharmacology Schallert
PSY s332 Behavioral Neuroscience Salinas
(both of these are on the science alternates list for Liberal Arts students)
PSY s333D Introduction to Developmental Psy Repp
PSY s341K Positive Psychology W. Domjan
And the best part is – –
prerequisites for all upper-division courses will be waived this summer!
Psych does not anticipate ever doing this again, so if you are working toward a minor in Psychology, this summer is a good time to get these courses.
The Liberal Arts Student Division is looking to hire at least one peer advisor for the summer. Interviews will begin in early May. Because of the long training process, they prefer candidates whose graduation dates are later than May 2011.
Job Description
Peer Advisors act as the administrative “front line” for the advising suite for undeclared Liberal Arts students. They provide accurate information to the students, faculty, and staff who rely on the Student Division for information on University and College policies and procedures. Peer Advisors are responsible for providing accurate information over the phone, through email, and in person to students, faculty, and staff.
Qualifications
Currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate student at UT
Customer service experience
Detail-oriented
Good communication skills
Fast learner
Ability to handle confidential information
Ability to work 15-20 hours per week in summer/fall
$10/hr. Position will carry forward into fall semester. Turn in cover letter and resume to GEB 2.200 by 5/3/10, or email to maggie.wilhite@austin.utexas.edu. Call 471.4271 with your questions.
The College of Liberal Arts introduces SummerStay, a new program for students taking coursework in residence this summer. To participate, you will select two courses in the same summer session from a cluster of related courses. Each cluster features an additional meeting time for bonuses, including faculty visits, outside speakers, and community events.
Why should you consider summer coursework through the SummerStay program?
Consider the SummerStay option if you are thinking about taking classes this summer. For information about the program and to apply, please see http://links.utexas.edu/bonqnpb.
The sign up book for LAH lower-division honors courses is now available in the LAH office. Seats are limited as we need to save seats for the incoming LAH class. Come in soon to sign up.
We have lots of courses to choose from:
ANT 302-Cultural Anthropology (fulfills a Social Science Requirement)
ARH 302-Survey Ancient through Medieval Art (fulfills a Visual and Performing Art)
CH 301-Principles of Chemistry I (for students seeking careers in Health professions)
CTI 302 Classics of Social/Political Thought ( NEW COURSE fulfills a Social Science requirement)
ECO 304K Introduction to Microeconomics (fulfills a Social Science requirement)
GOV 310L-American Government (fulfills a legislative Government Core requirement)
GRG 304E-Environmental Science: Changing World (fulfills an alternate Science requirement or social science you choose!)
HIS 315K- US History 1492-1865 (fulfills a legislative US History Core requirement)
HMN 316- Ancient Philosophy and Literature (New course)
MUS 302L Introduction to Western Music and MUS 307 History of Rock Music (fulfills a Visual and Performing Arts requirement)
PHL 304- Contemporary Moral Problems and PHL 310- Knowledge and Reality (fulfills a Liberal Arts Culture requirement)
PSY 301- Introduction to Psychology (fulfills a Social Science requirement)
SOC 308- Culture and Society in the US- (fulfills a Social Science requirement)
SPN 610D-Intermediate Spanish (2nd course in the new Spanish sequence for students who have had some previous Spanish or place out of SPN 508K)
A Comedic Murder Mystery by Billy St. John