Monthly Archives: October 2015

Queer Students Alliance || Queer Texas Conference

Queer Students Alliance exists to foster leadership within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities at the university. In addition to advocating for LGBTQ students and hosting community-wide events, the Alliance acts as an umbrella group for all LGBTQ organizations at the university. As such, our Queer Texas Conference is an event to help people in and outside of the University of Texas to discuss, embrace, and learn about various issues regarding LGBTQ identities. The conference this year is November 21, and throughout the day there will be great interactive and informational workshops given by advocacy groups and individuals from all over Texas! In light of the recent Supreme Court decision regarding marriage equality, our theme for the conference this year is Completing the Ring – Marriage Equality and Our Future Activism. We are hoping to make workshops available that address the need for activism beyond marriage equality that can support a myriad of identities and intersections. To make this event a success, we are still looking for groups and individuals to give workshops. If you or someone you know has a topic they would like to present on, please have them fill out the attached workshop proposal form. We will contact you if your workshop is approved!

To ask further questions or get in contact about this event, feel free to contact Queer Students Alliance at texasqsa@gmail.com. Again, thank you so much for your time in reading this message and we look forward to hearing from you!

Film Screening: By the River of Babylon

This coming Thursday I’ll be screening a documentary film for the College of Communications Senior Fellows program, about the impending death of South Louisiana’s wetlands and its music, called “By the River of Babylon: An Elegy for South Louisiana”. I made the film over the past 7 years, and it played on the PBS/World Channel program “America ReFramed” this past summer.

It’s aimed at viewers who have some sense that Cajun/Creole Louisiana is a special place, but who may not have visited there or know much about these issues in particular. Students who are studying or planning to make documentary films might be interested and they’re welcome to join us.

The screening will take place at 12:30 in the Belo Center for New Media, which is right across from the honors dorm quad, up on the 5th floor (BMC 5.102), and it will be free. There’s a lot of good music in the film, and enough science to understand the problem in the wetlands, and afterward there will be a discussion of the process we went through to make it, and a little time for Q&A.

Don Howard

Associate Professor and UT3D Director

Department of Radio/Television/Film, UT Austin

The Americas Project Faculty Workshop with David Kornhaber

Please join us for The Americas Project Faculty Workshop with David Kornhaber, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, on Wednesday, October 28 from 4:00-5:30 at the Carillon (AT&T Center).

We will meet to discuss David’s work-in-progress, an essay entitled “Adapting Despair: Tony Kushner, George Bernard Shaw, and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures.” David has also provided us with a copy of the unpublished play.

Please rsvp to jhcox@austin.utexas.edu at your earliest convenience, and Jim will send you the essay and play.

We will have food and drinks aplenty.

Hope to see you there,

Jim Cox and Cole Hutchison

Spring Career Planning & Internship Credit Courses

LIBERAL ARTS IN THE WORKPLACE

LA 101M, Unique #28975 | Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00 PM, FAC 18, 7-Week Course: January 27 – March 9, 2016

This career planning course is for students interested in learning to articulate the value of their major in whatever career path they pursue. Students will identify potential careers, understand their career-related strengths, write targeted resumes, practice interviewing, learn networking techniques and develop a strategic job or internship search plan.

Eligibility: open to Liberal Arts juniors and seniors who have taken at least 12 credit hours in their major.

How to Apply & Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at noon

This courses has a two-step application process. Review application details and access the application form here.

Course Details: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/lacs/students/courses/liberalarts-career.php 

WEB-BASED INTERNSHIP COURSES

LA 320wb, Unique #29025  |  Three-credit, upper-division course open to all eligible students with eligible internships

LA 110wb, Unique #28990  |  One-credit, lower-division course open to all eligible students with eligible internships that require credit

Description: The Liberal Arts web-based internship courses are designed to complement your internship experience. Assignments will be completed each week and uploaded to Canvas. Assignments include journals, reports, resume writing, evaluations and a final paper. Course communications are also managed via Canvas or by email.

Eligibility: College of Liberal Arts students, regardless of major, who meet the following requirements: You have a 2.25 or higher GPA; You have at least sophomore status (30+ hours) by the start of the course; You are registered with BTT Gateway; You are in good academic standing at UT Austin; and If you have taken any of the LA internship courses in a previous semester, you earned a passing grade in each course

Explore the internship site/program eligibility criteria here.

Hours Requirement:  You must intern a minimum of 10 hours per week for a minimum of 12 weeks during the 14-week semester.

How to Apply & Application Deadline: Friday, January 22, 2016 at 4:00 PM
Review the three-step application process and access the application forms at: LA 320wb or LA 110wb.

Course Details: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/lacs/students/courses/internship.php 

QUESTIONS?


Contact Caleb Luna, internships@austin.utexas.edu or 512-471-7900.

Design courses open to non majors spring 16

The major restricted DES courses below will be open to non majors, depending upon available seats.  Please check with Linda about the course registration process.

DES 308 would be a great class to take for potential major change applicants. 

DES 308   INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN THEORY/CRITICISM                               

ART 3.218

Gorman

TTH      11:00-12:30 PM  *Current course schedule lists a different, incorrect time.  TTH 11-12:30 is correct and will be updated soon.         

20450

Either section of DES 309 would be a great class to take for potential major change applicants.  

DES 309   INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN

ART 2.212

Catterall                                  

MW      8:00-11:00 AM

20455

DES 309   INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN   

ART 3.218

Catterall                                  

MW      2:00-5:00  PM

20460

DES 336  History of Design 

ART 3.218

TTH 2:00-5:00 PM

20480

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS

Deadline Monday, October 19, 2015!

Applications are now being accepted for merit-based, research and study abroad scholarships for fall 2015!

See if you are eligible on the Liberal Arts scholarship website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/Scholarships-and-Awards/  

You may also be eligible for these special scholarships:

Are you a Liberal Arts student with a 3.0 GPA (or higher) from any of these counties in Texas?

Franklin

Camp

Delta

Hopkins

Lamar

Red River

Titus

Upshur

Wood

You may be eligible for the  “Styles – Franklin County” scholarship: 

http://www.utexas.edu/coHi la/student-affairs/Programs/scholarships-hidden/Styles-Franklin-County-Scholarship.php

Applications are now being accepted!!  Deadline October 19, 2015.

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Are you a Liberal Arts student with a 2.5 GPA (or higher) from any of these counties in Texas?

Shelby

Sabine

Panola

St. Augustine

Nacogdoches

You may be eligible for the  “Strong – Shelby County” scholarship: 

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/Programs/scholarships-hidden/Strong-Shelby-County-Scholarship.php

Applications are now being accepted!!  Deadline October 19, 2015.

Study Abroad Scholarship

The Senate of College Council’s Academic Enrichment committee gives out a $1000 scholarship to any student, in any major, which goes toward a study abroad program.  The application is due November 5th. For more information concerning this scholarship click here

If you have anymore questions, feel free to email me back at stewfurth@gmail.com

EVS Internal Transfer Fall Info Sessions

Want to major in Environmental Studies?

Information about the EVS internal transfer application can be found on our new and improved website. The application will be available next semester, but applications for non-major seats in EVS 311 (Field Seminar in Sustainability) will be available online starting November 1st. I will host some more info sessions in the spring leading up to the internal transfer application.

Dept. of Art + Art History potential internal transfers

BFA Design, BFA + BA Studio Art, BFA Visual Art Studies and BA Art History will be options for potential internal transfers applying only in spring semesters for fall admission.

The department will be opening the change/add major portal on December 2, 2015, for spring 16 applications for fall 16 admission.

The deadline to apply is March 1, 2016.

Important change/add major information can be found here:

http://www.utexas.edu/finearts/aah/admissions/undergraduate/change-addition-major

New Course: AMS 370 The History and Future of Higher Education

The History and Future of Higher Education

EDA 391S and AMS 370

Julia Mickenberg (American Studies) and Rich Reddick (Educational Administration)

mickenberg@austin.utexas.edu                  richard.reddick@austin.utexas.edu

This experimental and experiential course examines the university in American life, past and present, as a means for imagining its possible futures.

This course is a prototype for the type of research-based learning community that we hope to foster through a new Innovation Center on campus. Working collaboratively, undergraduates and graduate students will conduct original research on the role of colleges and universities in American life, past and present. Students will also engage with members of the university community and beyond through guest speakers, and a culminating conference during which class members will present their research to the public. Students will be active players in all aspects of the course. Admission requires permission of instructors. Qualifies for writing and independent inquiry flags.

 

Likely course texts:

Andrew Delbanco, College: What it Is, Was, and Should Be

Zadie Smith, On Beauty

Lucas, C.J. American higher education: A history

Additional readings as assigned

 

Requirements:

Active participation

Two short papers

Research paper

Reading/research diary

Public presentation