Daily Archives: October 14, 2016

UT Law Week, Next Week: October 17-20

UT Law Week offers a series of presentations, workshops and events culminating in the annual Law Fair. If law school is in your future, or if you’re applying to law schools this year, Law Week is the best way to connect with law school professionals and to learn what you can do to develop a competitive application. Law Week events are open to all UT Austin students! 

 

LAW FAIR

October 20, 2016, 12 pm – 3 pm | Texas Union Ballroom | Open to all students

 

UT Law Fair is an annual event that brings representatives from 100+ law schools to campus to recruit UT students. UT Law Fair is one of the largest school-sponsored law fairs in the nation! This is a unique opportunity to learn a great deal about many different law schools all in one day. Oftentimes, the person at the booth is the same person who will be reading your application down the road! Business casual dress is recommended.

 

Participating Law Schools: Download the “UT Liberal Arts Law Fair” App – which includes fair and workshop details – in your Google Play Store or Apple Store.  

Don’t have a smartphone? Visit the Law Week page here to view the list. 

 

LAW WEEK PRESENTATIONS

 

RSVP for Liberal Arts Students: This event is open to all UT Austin students. Register to attend these presentations in BTT Gateway: Login to your account > click [Career Events] from the top navigation bar > search for the event > click [Register for Event].

 

Tips and Strategies from First-Generation Lawyers: October 17, 2016, 12 pm – 1 pm | FAC 18 Library | RSVP Required

This panel will feature UT alumni turned attorneys who were the first in their families to attend law school. They will discuss their majors, undergraduate study, law school admission, law school as an academic setting, and practicing law.

 

Insiders Perspective on Law School Admissions: October 18, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | CLA 1.302B| RSVP Required

Please join us for an Admissions Panel with admissions committee members from The University of Texas at Austin, University of Southern California, New York University and Northwestern University for what promises to be an engaging discussion on how to be a competitive applicant. Q&A will follow.

 

The Lawyer’s Journey: From JD to Practice: October 19, 2016, 12 pm – 1 pm | FAC 18 Library| RSVP Required

Have you ever wondered what a lawyer really does? If so, this workshop is for you! Hear from an intellectual property lawyer working in big law, an environmental attorney working at a government agency, and the director of the human rights legal clinic about the different paths you can pursue with your law degree.

 

Financing Your Legal Education: October 20, 2016, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | UNB 3.128 Sinclair Suite| RSVP Required

Law school is an important investment in yourself and in your future. Making informed decisions about how to finance that investment will affect your future financial circumstances. It is important to know all your options and to prepare accordingly. This session will focus on understanding the costs of pursuing legal education, describing the financial aid application process, reviewing the available financing options and identifying ways to be financially prepared to achieve your goals. 

ACC 366P ACCOUNTING PRACTICUM

The Department of Accounting is really trying to increase enrollment in ACC 366P – Accounting Practicum, a service learning course in which UT students help low-income families prepare their taxes.  In the coming spring 2017 semester, this course will be available to non-business students through our Enrollment Control Petition (ECP) process.  The online ECP will be open the last week in October for students to submit.  In addition to this video, attached are a number of items to learn more about this course and help promote this incredibly worthwhile opportunity to your students.  Not only do students benefit from the intrinsic rewards associated with giving back to the Austin community, but they can also become certified tax preparers through this experience! 

 

ACC 366P ACCOUNTING PRACTICUM

Prerequisite: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework

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LAH 350 DOCUMENTARY FILM AND INQUIRY Course Description

DOCUMENTARY FILM AND INQUIRY

Course Description

EDP 369K & LAH 350

Ricardo C. Ainslie, Ph.D.

T-Th 11:00 – 12:30, SZB439B

The primary focus of this course is teaching students to make short documentaries on their chosen topics. Documentary projects will also be the vehicle for exploring methodological issues over the course of the semester in relation to qualitative methods and the use of media as a tool. We will also learn about the elements that make documentaries effective as a means for communicating ideas and issues.

 

Students will develop and carry out 20-minute documentary video projects around topics that they select. In the process, they will learn about interviewing, filming with video cameras, lighting, and sound, in addition to learning the basic elements of editing. The projects will be selected from idea proposals submitted by students. Working collaboratively in teams (occasionally, students chose to do solo projects), your team will conceive of the project, research it, film interviews related to it, and edit your material into the 20-minute documentary. I will provide ongoing consultation on your project and the documentaries will be screened at the end of the semester. No previous experience with documentary work is required.

 

The primary thesis underlying this course is that documentary film is an example of qualitative approaches to inquiry, including ethnography, interviewing, and narrative description. It is a unique methodology that can help us examine and understand the meaning of social incidents and controversies, cultural transformations, and other questions of interest.