Category Archives: Courses

Info Session: BA/MA 5-Year Program for WGS

Attention First Year Students, Sophomores, and Rising Juniors,

 

If you are interested in the 5-Year Integrated BA/MA Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, please register for the info session using the link below.  A recording of the session will be sent to all registrants.

Wednesday, March 2nd 2022 at 4:00 PM CST 
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtdu6hrTgsH9AMAs9lzwWmMSScgzFlIAUu

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

 

The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies offers an integrated program to enable currently enrolled, highly motivated undergraduate students with strong intellectual capacities to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies and a Master of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies within a five-year period.

The Integrated BA/MA (WGS) program serves to highlight the intellectual rigor of the WGS program; promote opportunities for undergraduate students to pursue advanced study; improve student preparation for competitive PhD programs; and improve job market opportunities for Liberal Arts graduates.

With special permission, WGS BA students begin taking graduate courses in their Junior year.  A 3.0 GPA or higher is required.

In the spring of their Senior year, they apply to the 5th Year through the online Apply Texas graduate school application (note: there is a different program code and deadline).

Bridging Disciplines Programs – Spring info sessions & application deadline

The Spring 2022 Bridging Disciplines Programs (BDP) application deadline will be on Thursday, March 10th at 8:00 am. Students can learn more about BDP certificates by viewing a pre-recorded or live online BDP information session. The first live Zoom info session is coming up this Friday, February 18. If students are ready to apply, they can find the BDP application on the BDP website. For students who are not quite ready to apply this spring, please know that we’ll have another application deadline in Fall 2022, in early October.

If you are not familiar with the BDPs, our programs offer undergraduates at UT the opportunity to pursue an interdisciplinary certificate to complement their major. BDP certificates integrate coursework with internship and research experiences and can be individualized to suit students’ goals. Students choose from one of 16 different interdisciplinary themes. You can view a list of all BDP topics, as well as more information about our programs, on our website.

Spring information sessions for McCombs minors

McCombs currently offers 20 minors, 12 of which are open to non-business students. Check out the list of the dates and times for Texas Business Options Information Sessions for the Spring 2022 semester.

All students are welcome to attend the online sessions. Zoom meeting IDs for each session are available on the front page of their website: txbusinessoptions.com

The TBO team can be reached via email at BusinessOptions@mccombs.utexas.edu or by phone (512) 232-6748.

Women in STEM

What is WiSTEM?
Women in STEM, is an initiative launched by the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement  (DDCE) in 2021. WiSTEM connects students, educators, and professionals to the worlds of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) through recruitment initiatives, supportive structures, and educational services designed to promote the success and advancement of women, girls, and gender minorities in STEM fields. WiSTEM strives to recruit and retain women and gender minority STEM students and to provide a supportive community that encourages the success of women and gender minorities at The University of Texas at Austin. All students are welcome to join in!

WiSTEM Focus
WiSTEM will work to fulfill the critical need to educate and expose students to transdisciplinary, holistic experiences that increase the sense of belonging, STEM identity, and STEM self-efficacy and will engage our university community of over 12,000 current undergraduate and graduate women and gender minority students in STEM majors with career and leadership programming and role model and mentor engagements. Women in STEM (WiSTEM) will also focus on K12 outreach and STEM education reaching 12,000 K12 students plus 12,000 families, educators, and community partners annually.  Initiatives under the WiSTEM umbrella include:

WiSTEM Canvas Community

Each academic year, WiSTEM creates an online community in Canvas. STEM students will be automatically invited to this community and it will appear in your Canvas dashboard once you accept the invitation. This is a really convenient online portal for information, announcements, and opportunities. Take some time to browse Canvas and connect with others in your field of study! The WiSTEM Canvas Community serves as a way to connect students with opportunities, information, and ways to engage in their communities of support. Weekly posts on Mental Health Mondays, Wellness Wednesdays, and Thankful Thursdays serve as regular reminders on the importance of self-care. Anyone can join our community through this link! If you have accepted the invitation and decide you no longer want to be a part of the community, email wistem@utexas.edu to be removed.

Opportunities for campus and community programs/events/initiatives:
Company Opportunities & Workshops
Research & Graduate School Opportunities
Student Orgs, Scholarships, & Leadership Opportunities

WiSTEM Social Media

WiSTEM Launch Party

January 2022
More details coming soon!

Invite Others to Join the WiSTEM Canvas Community:
Share the link for others to join in: https://utexas.instructure.com/enroll/9YWEBG. All STEM students, all genders, welcome!

More Questions?
Feel free to reach out to wistem@utexas.edu with questions or connect with WiSTEM Student Programs Director, Ana Dison, anadison@utexas.edu

2022 Hertog Fellowships

The Hertog Foundation offers highly competitive fellowships to outstanding students at universities across the world. We are pleased to open applications for our 2022 fellowships.

Hertog applicants are academically accomplished with interests in politics, public policy, and the liberal arts. For our 2021 cohort, we received over 1,000 applications and admitted 234 fellows. The average GPA of ourapplicants was 3.7. Our fellows major across the curriculum, with concentrations in the humanities, the social sciences, and STEM.

  • Humanities at Hertog – Study a great literary work over winter break with four online seminars on Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Achebe, and Tom Wolfe.
  • Our flagship Political Studies Program is our most competitive program, bringing together 36 outstanding students for a six-week course of study in the theory and practice of politics. 
  • Students can explore key constitutional debates in a one-week residential seminar taught by Yale Law professor Akhil Reed Amar on his new book The Words That Made Us.
  • For students with internships and other obligations, our online Summer Courses are ideal. Sessions are held in the evenings each week to allow students to meet other commitments.

Learn more at HertogFoundation.org

Longhorn SHARE Project

The application is NOW OPEN for students interested in becoming SHARE Peer Support Specialists, beginning with training in Spring 2022.

What is Peer Support?

Peer support is not the same thing as peer mentorship, peer education, or clinical counseling! Those are valuable roles that can share some characteristics with peer support, but the ‘participants’ and ‘facilitators’ in peer support spaces typically have similar lived experience(s) with mental health, recovery, identity, and/or trauma and freely share their emotions, struggles, ideas, and healing processes with each other. Peer facilitators simply have more training to ensure that these conversations are healthy, safe, and nonjudgmental.

Peer support minimizes the power imbalances and formal structures that can make other types of support feel intimidating, inaccessible, and/or too clinical for all needs. Peer support isn’t a replacement for therapy (peers are not licensed professionals) but it can be therapeutic and validating to be share space with someone who “gets it”. It’s also a great way for students to build social confidence & emotional awareness, learn about themselves and others, and get information about other resources when peer support isn’t enough.

INTERESTED?? Program Overview & Activities

Participation in the Longhorn SHARE Project is a three-semester commitment – one semester to develop peer support skills followed by two semesters of on-campus peer activities.

Spring 2022: Learning & Skill-Building

  • HED 370K: Foundations of Peer Support & Social Wellness
    • Course content will cover common mental health and social concerns of students; active listening, group facilitation, and other interpersonal skills; how to create accessible, trauma-aware, anti-oppressive spaces; how to respond in a crisis and set healthy emotional boundaries, and more!
  • Mental Health First Aid training & certification (one 8-hour training on a weekend)

Fall 2022 – Spring 2023: Peer Support Activities

  • Group check-ins & skills practice – 1 hr/week
  • Peer Support Activities – Variable, up to 4 hrs/week. May include the following:
    • Co-facilitating a peer support group on a topic of your choice
    • Meeting with students individually to listen, share resources, and problem-solve
    • Leading workshops or one-time discussion circles
    • Offering support during campus events containing sensitive or intense content
    • Others TBD!

Who We’re Looking For:

  • Students from any UT major or field of study – graduate or undergraduate!
  • Must not intend to graduate until Spring 2023 or later.
  • Prior work or leadership experience (especially in mentorship, tutoring, or other peer-based leadership roles) is desirable, but not required.
  • You don’t need to have it “all together” to apply for this program! Folks who have been through hard things (e.g. mental health struggles, trauma, recovery, ableism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, surviving violence or difficult family dynamics, grief, impostor phenomenon, etc.) have wisdom and experience that could benefit others a peer support setting and help reduce stigma.
  • A GPA of 2.5 or higher is recommended, but not required.

Texas Intelligence Academy 2022

The University of Texas at Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project would like to announce the Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA) 2022 program, an intensive academic program focused on intelligence and national security in Washington, D.C. on May 22 to June 1, 2022.

 

The TIA offers a competitively-chosen group of UT-System undergraduate students the opportunity to learn about U.S. intelligence through lectures by distinguished scholars and practitioners, moderated discussions, simulation exercises, and visits to intelligence-related sites and facilities in the Washington, D.C. area. Selected students are housed in the District of Columbia and study at the UT-System’s Archer Center, one block from the White House. All travel, lodging, and program expenses for the TIA are provided by the Intelligence Studies Project. 

 

The deadline to apply is November 30, 2021. More information can be found here.

Research Opportunities in the Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab

The Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab has research opportunities available.  Academic credit through and LAH 358Q or HMN 358Q can be arranged.

 

Topics to research include: criminal justice, religion and race, global minority discrimination.  You can also get involved with research components such as python, machine learning, and databases.

 

To learn more about the lab, go to their website: https://pre-lab.org/  For information about getting involved with research, contact Dr. Amy Liu  amy.liu@austin.utexas.edu