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Mindfulness Training Series

1).  BREATHE: A Mindfulness Training Series. A free, six-week workshop series for students.  Students will learn mindfulness meditation and various practices designed to reduce emotional distress, improve attention, and address stress patterns. This workshop series is appropriate for any student interested in learning about meditation and those wanting to develop emotional resilience to manage anxiety and stress.  We will have a required information session for students to attend October 6th.  Details on flyer.

Information Session:

Tues., Oct. 6, 2-3:30pm, CLA 0.124

Workshop series held Tuesdays, Oct. 13-Nov. 17, 2-3:30pm, CLA 0.124

RSVP for the information session at tinyurl.com/UTBREATHE

2). Mindfulness Meditation Lunch Hour Group.  A drop-in group for staff, faculty, and students to practice mindfulness meditation together.  No experience necessary; brief instruction on meditation will be provided.  Group will meet biweekly on Fridays at 12:10 beginning on Sept. 11.  Meetings in Harry Ransom Ctr, 3rd Fl. Tom Lea Room.  More info on flyer.

Location: Harry Ransom Center, 3rd floor, Tom Lea Room

Biweekly on Fridays: 9/11, 9/25, 10/9, 10/23, 11/6, 11/20, 12/4

Time: 12:10-12:50 pm

 

Contact Alicia Enciso Litschi, Ph.D. with any questions at 512-471-4003

 

 If you’re curious, the following two videos summarize some of the current research on mindfulness meditation, providing some background on why it’s such a hot topic in counseling and psychology these days.

Animation on Scientific Power of Meditation:  https://youtu.be/Aw71zanwMnY

Meditation Changes Your Brain, TEDx Talk:  https://youtu.be/m8rRzTtP7Tc

Student Conduct Board Recruitment 2015-2016

We are actively recruiting student members for the Student Conduct Board for the 2015-2016 academic year.

The Student Conduct Board offers the opportunity for students to be actively involved in promoting academic integrity and the student Honor Code on our campus. Students will share with faculty the responsibility of changing our culture to one where academic integrity is not merely an aspiration but an embedded reality of what it means to be a Longhorn. Since Fall 2013, students charged with academic violations have the option of having their cases heard by the Student Conduct Board, a panel of students, faculty and staff who are responsible for making decisions on academic related judicial cases.

 Students with a strong commitment to upholding the highest standards of academic integrity on our campus are encouraged to get involved. This prestigious opportunity is open to undergraduate and graduate students and the application deadline is September 10, 2015.  Successful candidates will be appointed by President Fenves to the Student Conduct Board.

Funding for UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS is available!

Application Deadline: Thursday, September 17, 2015.
Information session:  Thursday, September 10, 2015, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in FAC 328

The Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) program, sponsored by the Office of the VP for Research, provides support for specific scholarly research projects conducted by full-time UT undergraduate students enrolled in any department. These fellowships (up to $1,000) are intended to cover costs associated with independent research projects proposed and written by student applicants and undertaken with the supervision of a university tenured or tenure-track faculty member, lecturer, senior lecturer or full-time research scientist/engineer. Supervisor must be able to serve as Principal Investigator if IACUC, IBC or IRB approvals are needed.  Other restrictions apply.

Information and application form are available at the Vice
President for Research website:
http://www.utexas.edu/research/resources/awards-fellowships-grants. Early application is recommended. We are unable to accept late submissions due to tight review schedules. Please direct questions to liza@austin.utexas.edu or 512-471-2877.

Finance Express

Financial Express, located in the FAC lobby, is a one-stop location that integrates staff from the offices of Financial Aid, and Tuition & Billing. This is designed to provide students with the information they need in one location, and mitigate the back-and-forth between the offices on campus.

Financial Express Services

FINANCIAL AID

·         Revise unreleased aid

·         Reinstate aid

·         Report enrollment changes

·         Learn how adding/dropping class impacts aid

TUITION BILLS & FINANCIAL BARS

·         Discuss ways to pay bills

·         Prepaid Tuition plans

·         529 College Savings Plans

·         GI Bill & Hazelwood Exemption

·         Discuss refunds and add bills

·         Apply for short-term tuition or cash loans

·         Get guidance on past due tuition bills or tuition/cash loans

Dates

Financial Express will be open from August 17 through September 4.

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Students can also find assistance in the same places they have in the past.

·         Online at CASH (Check Aid Status Here)

·         Email: ask@finaid.utexas.edu

·         In person at the Office of Financial Aid (in SSB)

ARC course available for upper-division non-majors: History/Theories of Landscape Architecture

ARC 342E, History/Theories of Landscape Architecture I (Antiquity to 1700), will be available to upper-division non-majors; the only pre-req for non-majors is the consent of the instructor. The instructor is Landscape Architecture professor Mirka Benes. Interested undergrads should contact Professor Benes directly at mirkabenes@utexas.edu. A course description is available at https://soa.utexas.edu/courses/fall-2015/historytheories-landscape-architecture-i.

ARC 342E HIST/THEORS OF LANDSCP ARCH I 

00810

MW

10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

GOL 3.120

BENES, MIROSLAVA

open

New RHE Course: Screenwriting: Life Stories

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Hi Advisors –

Please see the information below (and flyer attached) about a new RHE class being taught this fall.  Applications are still being accepted.

Questions?  Evan Roberts (evanroberts@austin.utexas.edu)

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SCREENWRITING: LIFE STORIES

RHE 328

INSTRUCTOR: EVAN ROBERTS

FALL 2015, WED 6-9

Apply: goo.gl/AXQs8X

This course is an introduction to ethnographic/documentary fieldwork and the screenwriting adaptation process. Students will conduct oral history interviews with an individual and adapt their life story into an 8 page short film script.

First, writing teams will conduct a series of interviews outside of class, learn the basics of how to get “good tape” and transcribe their recordings. Next, teams will use these transcripts as source material for fictional stories and workshop their scripts in class.  Students will engage in short interview projects to learn the craft of interviewing, as well as writing exercises where they use existing oral histories to practice adapting the essence of a real life experience into a three-act structure. Through in-class writing exercises and writing assignments, students will explore the process of adaptation and find their “take” on the essence of a situation in one person’s life.

Students will explore the basic dramatic principles of story, character and structure as well as analyze the structure and mechanics of scripts and short films and present their findings in class. Since much of the work of screenwriting is done before the actual drafting, this class will focus on the process of screenwriting: from the initial premise, to treatments and step-outlines, then writing the first draft.  The craft of screenwriting is learned through the critical examination of other screenplays and films, ie:  we watch movies to learn how to write movies, read screenplays in order to write screenplays.  This workshop, then, will also hone your critical and editorial skills, and the application of those skills to your own writing.

The semester culminates with a pitch presentation, in which you and your writing partner reveal your collaborative creative process and bring us into the world of the film in a clear, concise, engaging visual presentation. The panel will consist of Deans, friends of the college, and local filmmakers. Each film project competes for the potential to get their film funded and produced by the College of Liberal Arts film production team and local filmmakers. Students will retain a writing credit on the finished short film.

LAH Study Abroad Scholarships for Spring 2016

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The LAH Study Abroad Scholarship application for Spring 2016 is now open.  To apply, submit your application online through the study abroad online scholarship application, Global Assist.   After selecting “Get Started,” the website will prompt you to set up an online profile and show you a list of scholarships which criteria you meet. If you are applying for a study abroad program not affiliated with UT, please enter program code 300999.

The application requires a one-page statement of your study abroad plans. The statement should include where and what the student will be studying, the projected cost involved, and the role that study abroad and the mastery of a foreign language plays in the student’s academic and career goals.

The deadlines are 5:00 pm November 1 for Spring.

 

$$$ Get PAID to learn Slavic languages $$$

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Both the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) AND the Center for European Studies offer both graduate and undergrad Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships to study any of these languages during the academic year and/or summer. Apply to both centers and double your chances! Already being enrolled in a less-common language, such as Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, or Serbo-Croatian, can increase your chances at getting one of these competitive scholarships even more! Applications for Summer 2016 and Academic year 2016-17 open in November.

CREEES even offers additional scholarships to students interested in studying abroad or conducting research in Russia, Poland or the Czech Republic… enroll today! Seats are still available for:

SEL 506 • First year Ukrainian (44276)

Dr. Oksana Lutsyshyna • MTWTH 2-3/3:30pm • CMA 3.108

S C 506 • First year Serbian/Croatian (44210)

Dr. Tatiana Kuzmic • MTWTHF 1-2pm • UTC 1.142

POL 506 • First-Year Polish (43990) 

POL 312K • Second-Year Polish (43995)

CZ 506 • First-Year Czech (43905)

CZ 412K • Second-Year Czech (43910)

SEL 506 • First-Year Uzbek (44277)

Apply Now to the Peers for Pride Program

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There’s still time to apply to be a part of Peers for Pride this year and work towards intersectional LGBTQIA justice on campus AND get WGS/SW/TD course credit! This year we’ll be revisioning the program, so it’s a great time to get involved. Come and join us! More information below, and let me know if you have any questions.

Want to (learn to) facilitate performance-based conversations about LGBTQIA justice?

Apply now to become a peer educator with Peers for Pride and to take two courses for credit along the way!

In Peers for Pride we learn and perform LGBTQIA justice, including racial and gender justice, and give workshops around UT. Students in the program take a class in the fall and in the spring. We have a great time together while we make a difference on campus. No experience required!

The class this fall 2015 is WGS335/SW360K/TD357: Confronting LGBTQ Oppression, F 11:30-2:30

Taught by Dr. Kristen Hogan, Education Program Coordinator, Gender & Sexuality Center

Together, we’ll make a difference on campus by:

   * Using theatre for dialogue to enact LGBTQIA justice;

   * Naming how LGBTQIA oppression is interconnected with racism, sexism, classism, & ableism;

   * Making campus safer for (& among) LGBTQIA folks.

Apply now: tinyurl.com/PfPFall2015

Here’s how it works:

During the fall we learn about LGBTQIA people’s identities, naming of systems of oppression, and advocacy. At the end of the fall and the beginning of the spring we work together to create a series of performance-based workshops on LGBTQIA justice. And, in the spring, we put our knowledge to work across campus by facilitating these workshops in classes, for student organizations, in dorms, and at open trainings to make the campus safer for and among LGBTQIA folks.

Let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to seeing your application!

Best,

Dr. Kristen Hogan

Invitation for LAH students to apply for Spark Magazine

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My name is Lauren Hodges and I’m the head copy editor for Spark Magazine, a student-run fashion and lifestyle publication here at UT. We’re currently looking to add talented and experienced writers to our staff and would love to have LAH students apply. Working for Spark is a wonderful way to gain real-world writing and publishing experience (and we’re open to students of all majors- pursuing a career in fashion definitely isn’t required).

The application will be due at the end of August, with positions assigned shortly thereafter. For more information and a look at the work we’ve done so far, please see our website, http://www.sparkmagazinetx.com/.

Here’s the link to the application:

http://goo.gl/forms/17Lnxg6uGm

Thank you so much for your help! If you have questions, feel free to get in touch with me laurenhodges011@gmail.com or our Writing Director, Katherine, at kkykta@gmail.com.