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)

In fall 2010 you will see a lot of changes to the language sequences in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish. Here’s a run-down of what you can expect:

INTENSIVE COURSES: All first-year sequences are moving to an intensive format (a la Arabic). Students will reach Intermediate proficiency at the end of one year and therefore meet the COLA language requirement in just two semesters. The course numbers for this sequence will be: ARA/HEB/PRS/TUR 601C and 611C

BRIDGE COURSES: For fall 2010 only, HEB and PRS 611C will be offered as a bridge course to get students in 507 ready to take the upper-division courses in the language. Enrollments in Turkish are small enough to avoid this extra scheduling. The Arabic sequence is already intensive and so the changes are in course number only.

COMPLETE SEQUENCES:

– Arabic: 601C, 611C, 621K, 621L, 531K, 531L (Intensive ARA I thru VI)

– Hebrew: 601C, 611C (Intensive HEB I and II), 325 (Adv Conv & Comp), 321 (Adv Grammar)

– Persian: 601C, 611C (Intensive PRS I and II), 322K, 322L (Intermediate PRS I and II)

– Turkish: 601C, 611C (Intensive TUR I and II), 320K, 322L (Intermediate TUR I and II)

If you have any questions, please contact Kim Dahl kimberly.dahl@austin.utexas.edu.

A message from Tim Ashlock, academic advisor for French, Italian, and German:

· Beginning Fall 2010, all three languages are moving to a three-semester sequence as follows: 506, 507, 612.

· There will be multiple sections of ITL, FR and GER 612 in Fall 2010. (Note: the course schedule will still say that a B or higher in 507, 508K or 604 is required in order to take 612. However, this will NOT be enforced. A student must earn a C or higher in 507 or 604 in order to take 612.)

· The last time ITL, FR or GER 312L will be offered is Fall 2010. There will be limited sections available, but we should be able to accommodate all students currently taking 312K.

· 312K will NOT be offered in Fall 2010.

· 312K and 312L will both be offered in Summer 2010: 312K in first summer session, 312L in second summer session.

· It’s possible that we may offer 312K and 312L during subsequent summer semesters, but nothing has been decided as of yet. To be safe, please advise students for now on the assumption that it will no longer be possible to take 312K and L at UT Austin.

· Students will still have the option to take the two-semester sequence: 604 and 612.