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Fall 2019 Registration Guide

General News

It’s almost time to register — WOOO! But before you can register for next semester’s classes, you have some housekeeping to do. Find out how to get your holds removed and where to find the best courses for you next semester.

Registration Schedule
***Friday, April 12, 7AM: Honors First-Years (Privileged Registration)***

April 15Monday90 or more hours (credits) earned
April 16Tuesday70 or more hours (credits) earned
April 17Wednesday50 or more hours (credits) earned
April 18Thursday30 or more hours (credits) earned
April 19Friday0 or more hours (credits) earned

Registration is open from 7AM-12AM.

Sophomores, worried about registering without privileged registration? Read these Peer Advisor words of wisdom.

If you’re not sure when you register, you can check your earned credit hours in GWeb using the following path: Student Records & Registration Menu > Student Records Information Menu > Transcripts > View Unofficial Transcripts. Make sure you’re looking at overall hours earned for the accurate total!

Urgent Hold Information

Check your record via GWeb regarding holds prior to your scheduled registration time. Any hold on your account will prevent access to registration. You can view any holds on your account by looking at: Student Records & Registration Menu > Student Records Information Menu > View Administrative Holds.

Make sure to check now and again in the days lead up to registration. Check early, and check often! BADLY TIMED HOLDS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE. DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU:

Fall Registration Advising

All honors students are encouraged to see a Program Manager before registration. Make sure you are prepared with a tentative course schedule using the Fall 2018 Schedule of Classes and Honors course descriptions. As new course information and revisions become available, we will update the website. Please re-check the information on the Schedule of Classes and the Honors site before you register to ensure that you’re up-to-date!

Please use our wide selection of dates to your advantage – plan on meeting with an advisor at a time that is most practical given your registration date. Students may discuss registration (and remove an advising hold, if applicable) by one of the following options:

  1. Attend an advising party in the Honors Townhouse Club Room:
    Wednesday, April 10th from 4 -6pm (pizza!)
    Thursday, April 11th from 10am-12pm (bagels!)
    Friday, April 12th from 12:30-2:30pm (pizza!)
  2. Make an appointment with an advisor online at honorsprogram.gwu.edu/make-appointment.

Spring Hike with the UHP

Events

Already getting sick of the city life? Eager to explore beyond E and K streets? Love the smell of the Shenandoah river in the morning? Hike with the Honors Program!

On Sunday, April 7th, the Honors Program is hosting a $7 hike with the honors community and certified TRAiLS guides. We’re going to Old Rag. The Old Rag hike is a trademark favorite for DC hikers and features challenging rock scrambles and stunning views of the Shenandoah valley. Located in the heart of Shenandoah National Park the mountain trail has a fun 2 mile section of scrambling and sliding through and around granite boulders on the way to the summit.

We will be meeting at 8:30AM at the Honors townhouse and breakfast will provided before we get on the bus. We will hike the 9 mile loop that extends around Old Rag which features narrow passageways, rock scrambles, and gorgeous views of the Shenandoah valley. Lunch will be provided. After completing the 9 mile circuit we will drive back to campus arriving approximately at 6:00 PM.

Sign up here by 4/2!

2019 Ziffren Lecture ~ "Love Your Neighbor: Jews, Christians, and the Meaning of a Very Elusive Commandment,"

Events
Love Your Neighbor: Jews, Christians, and the Meaning of a Very Elusive Commandment

Thursday, March 285:00-7:00 pm
Marvin Center, 301

Description: The biblical mandate to “love your neighbor as yourself” is frequently held up in Jewish sources as “the great principle of the Torah.”  Yet its meaning is elusive: just what is the verse asking for?  Does “love” refer to emotion, action, or some combination of the two?  If the Bible has emotion in mind, what kind of emotion are we talking about?  Surely people aren’t called to love their neighbor in the same way they love their spouse or their children, so what kind of love *does* the Bible ask for?  We’ll explore the ways an array of traditional Jewish thinkers and modern biblical scholars has wrestled with these questions.  We’ll also probe the very different ways Jews and Christians have often heard the Bible’s charge, and we’ll ask what we might learn about these two religious traditions and the relationship between them from their contrasting approaches to this all-important verse.
 
Speaker Bio: 
Rabbi Shai Held–theologian, scholar, and educator–is President, Dean, and Chair in Jewish Thought at Hadar.  Previously, he served for six years as Scholar-in-Residence at Kehilat Hadar in New York City, and taught both theology and Jewish law at the Jewish Theological Seminary.  He also served as a campus rabbi at Harvard University.  A 2011 recipient of the prestigious Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education, Rabbi Held has been named multiple times to Newsweek’s list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America and to the Forward’s list of the 50 most influential Jews in the world.  He holds a doctorate in religion from Harvard; his main academic interests are in modern Jewish and Christian thought, in biblical theology, and in the history of Zionism.  Rabbi Held’s first book, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence, was published by Indiana University Press in 2013; The Heart of Torah, a collection of essays on the Torah in two volumes, was published by JPS in 2017.  He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of love in Jewish theology, spirituality, and ethics, to be published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

2019 Strasser Prize Winners Announced!

General News

Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Strasser Writing Prize competition!  We have one first place winner, and two runners-up!

1st Place:

Claire Vanderwood

“Orazio Gentileschi ’s Depiction of Danae”

Runners Up:

Joseph Gill
“Performative Poetry: Examining British Ideals of Masculinity Before and After the Great War”

Christopher Vito

“The Criminal Justice Dilemma: Balancing Values of Human Rights & Collective Security in a System of Legal Justice” 

Senior Requirements Info Session – Spring 2019 Edition

General News

Calling all Juniors!

Yes, you!

Come by the Club Room on Thursday, April 4th from 5:30 to 6:30pm for an info session about Honors senior requirements. Honors faculty will be on deck to talk about the ins and outs of writing a thesis (from finding an advisor to picking a topic to actually writing the thang) and advisors will be there to discuss all things UHP requirements. There will be lots of opportunities to ask questions and eat (Captain!) cookies.

Juniors are highly (highly (highly!!!)) encouraged to attend. If you can’t make it to this info session, you can make an appointment to talk senior reqs.

First-Year Small Group Advising – Spring 2019 Edition

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Welcome back!

Spring break is over and the finish line is in sight! Now it’s time for one last round of first-year small group advising sessions. 

For this round, we’ll be prepping for fall 2019 registration, talking through your upper-level Honors requirements, walking through the major declaration process, and more.

All first year Honors students are expected to attend a session so make sure to sign up soon to get your preferred time slot! Meetings start Monday, March 25th and will be held in District House. RSVP for spring small groups here.


CANCELED: Join Professor Aviv for an evening at the Freer Gallery

General News

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED

For those who are interested in cognitive science, biology and the mental lives of animals, join professor Aviv for an evening at the Smithsonian featuring one of the world’s leading primatologists Frans de-Waal who will discuss his recent book: “Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves.” The event will start on Monday, April 29, 2019, at 6:45 p.m. 

Email Professor Aviv at aviv@gwu.edu if you’re interested!

Movie Night with Professor Trullinger

General News

Professor Trullinger will be hosting a showing of Monty Python’s Life of Brian on March 29th at 7pm.

Meet us in the Club Room that evening for snacks and a show!

RSVP here.

As a top-notch satire of religious and political groupthink, Monty Python’s Life of Brian might be one of the more astute films ever made about political theology, that is, the way that politics and religion intersect and inform one another. The film follows the birth and life of Brian, who just so happens to be born next to the manger where Jesus makes his arrival–and so begins a series of comical misunderstandings of Brian for the Messiah. Whether it’s religious authorities such as the Pharisees, the Roman imperial forces occupying Judea, counter-imperial revolutionaries plotting to overthrow the Romans (but who can’t agree on anything), Brian is constantly pulled in a number of sociopolitical directions, when all he wants is to live his life. Although the film depicts Jesus positively and from a distance, it sparked protest from some Christians (even ones who hadn’t seen it), prompting the Pythons to advertise it as “so funny it was banned in Norway!” Join us in the Honors Townhouse at 7:00 PM on March 29th for some healthy laughter about organized religion (or maybe organizations of all kinds), and a discussion afterwards about political theology.

Paid summer opportunities – Yleana Leadership Academy

Job/Internship Opportunity

The Yleana Leadership Academy is interested in recruiting both grads and undergrads for a transformative SAT summer camp that is part SAT boot camp, part higher order thinking skills development, part leadership academy, part on-campus college experience, and part traditional summer camp. We are looking for people who would be willing to work hard and have an amazing time creating a summer camp experience for kids. It’s a ton of work but a LOT of fun!
We’re hiring for five different positions within our organization this summer; click the link below for more information about that position.
Supporting Teacher/Counselor: http://bit.ly/yleana-supporting-teacher
Operations: http://bit.ly/yleana-operations
Master Teacher/Mental Wellness Counselor: http://bit.ly/yleana-mtmwc
Master Teacher/Counselor: http://bit.ly/yleana-master-teacher
Program Leader: http://bit.ly/yleana-program-leader
2019 Employment Dates: June 15 – August 12, 2019
Interested in applying?
Fill out our form here: http://bit.ly/yleana-hiring-application
Please be prepared to take a diagnostic test, composed of pieces of the SAT, as part of the hiring process
Questions? Email workwithus@yleana.org
Priority Application Deadline: March 1, 2019

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