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Energy: Wind Power & Nuclear Reactor Tour!

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Students in Prof. Kung’s “Energy” class were challenged to design and construct turbine blades that would produce the most power. The designs were put into a head-to-head competition and the winning designs are pictured below!

 

Elek, Aaliyah and Max’s winning design lifted 50 metal washers!

 

Shamari, Shivani, Zaid and Hannah’s winning design bested all the other designs this semester!

 

As cell phones and cameras aren’t allowed in the reactor room itself, UHP students pose in the hallway of University of Maryland’s Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building after the reactor tour. You can take a virtual tour of the reactor here!

 

Spring 2023 Registration Guide

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It’s almost time to register! To help prepare, check out these tips and reminders.

Early Registration Date: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 9AM-11:59PM EST

Early registration is for your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semesters!

Regular Registration Schedule

Priority Registration
Date Day Category Eligible
Nov 10 – Jan 16 All Degree-Seeking Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students:
November 14 Monday 90 or more credits earned

(use your transcript to find your total credits)
November 15 Tuesday 70 or more credits earned

(use your transcript to find your total credits)
November 16 Wednesday 50 or more credits earned

(use your transcript to find your total credits)
November 17 Thursday 30 or more credits earned

(use your transcript to find your total credits)
November 18 Friday 0 or more credits earned

(use your transcript to find your total credits)

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!

Waitlists

The option to add yourself to the waitlist becomes available on November 21st when general registration opens. More on waitlists here.

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! More on holds here.

Upper Level Honors courses

Remember that if an Honors course is cross-listed, you can sign up for any open section. To ensure that the non-Honors section counts as an Honors requirement, please ask a Program Manager to submit a petition in Degree Map.

In order to maximize the availability of seats for all students, students cannot be enrolled in more than one upper-level Honors seminar (HONR 2047: Self & Society and HONR 2053: Arts & Humanities) per semester without pre-approval from a Program Manager. [Note, however, that this restriction does not apply to the non-“HONR” section of cross-listed courses – just remember to submit the correct paperwork to a Program Manager to ensure that your Degree Map gets appropriately updated.]

Upper Level Course Substitution

If you are planning to utilize the upper level course substitution option, please submit the course substitution request PRIOR to registration.  For any questions please contact the program manager.

Cross-listed courses

Remember that if an Honors course is cross-listed, you can sign up for any open section. make sure that you enroll in a class with the exact CRN listed on our course description website – many sections have similar course designations and titles, but only sections with specific CRNs are considered Honors equivalents.

Summer Course: Ethnographic Method for Researchers, Journalists, and Documentary Filmmakers

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New Summer Course with Dr. Kerric Harvey!

Titled: Ethnographic Method for Researchers, Journalists, and Documentary Filmmakers

Designed for as a multi-audience crash course for budding social science researchers, documentary filmmakers, and investigative journalists, this six-week summer class provides a hands-on approach to ethnographic best practices as an invaluable way of understanding “other people’s worlds” well enough to explain and describe them accurately to a third party through a variety of storytelling vehicles. Also useful as a way to help prevent outsider bias and character stereotyping in dramatic films. Early in the session, students will choose a specific political, cultural, or societal subgroup to explore, using material drawn from classic ethnography, newly developed rapid assessment techniques, and participant observation. Pitched to graduate level education but accessible to undergrads who have an interest in this area, this course employs a robust combination of knowledge discovery methods, including case studies, small group exercises, field labs, and both virtual and in-person classroom discussions. No prior experience needed. Fulfills the “Required Elective” category for JMC and PCM undergrads as well the being an approved SMPA graduate program elective.

2022 Summer Session One: May 16, 2022 – June 25, 2022

Honors Senior Thesis Options

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UHPers!  If you’re heading into your final year at GW, now is a great time to be considering how you plan to complete your Honors Senior Thesis! To help you in this planning process, we hosted two info sessions in preparation for the 2022-2023 academic year: 

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Session 1: During the 2022-2023 academic year, the UHP will be piloting a new option that will allow students to complete their senior thesis by engaging in a self-directed service or entrepreneurial project.  If you are interested in next year’s “non-traditional” thesis option you can learn more by watching the recording below of an earlier info session hosted by Prof. Kung and Dr. Wendy Wagner of the Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service.

Session 2: In the second session, Jasmine, Brianna and Prof. Kung discussed the various options that UHP students have for completing their thesis and talk about choosing a thesis topic, finding an advisor, and navigating all your senior requirements.  You can learn more by watching the recording below of an earlier info session.

Click here for more information on the Honors senior thesis requirement. 

Short-Term Abroad Program in Greece!

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Interested in a short-term abroad program?  The Art of Living: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Western Thought, offers the extraordinary opportunity to study ancient Greek philosophy in Athens and on the Greek islands of Santorini and Crete. We will visit the Oracle at Delphi that pronounced Socrates the wisest human being, and we will have class near the jail cell where the Athenians forced Socrates to drink hemlock. We will walk through the ruins of Aristotle’s Lyceum, and we will visit the stunning archeological sites of Akrotiri and Knossos on the islands of Santorini and Crete, which may have inspired Plato’s Atlantis myth. Before coming home, we will set sail from the Piraeus to get a sense of the place where the Athenians defeated the Persians and fought the twenty-seven-year Peloponnesian War with the Spartans. This exciting program will introduce you to ancient Greek philosophy and take you to some of the places where the history of philosophy began!
There will be an in-person information session hosted by Prof. Mark Ralkowski on February 18, in Rome 569, from 4:00-5:00pm.
Professor: Mark Ralkowski – mralkow@gwu.edu
Application deadline: March 1, 2022
Overseas dates: May 17-28
Start your application here:
Check out a video of past programs here!

Personal Finance for the Greater Good with Professor Lusardi

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New Year’s Resolution: improve your relationship…. with money

It’s not too late to sign up for Professor Lusardi’s “Personal Finance for the Greater Good” course in the spring.

The course will teach you the following:
1. How to take care of your finances
2. What a credit score is (your GPA for personal finance) and how to build a good credit score
3. Managing student loans
3. The importance of building and maintaining a buffer stock of savings
5. The value of investing in education and in financial markets

There are no prerequisites for the course. All students are welcome!

See copy of the syllabus here! You can also click here to read about Professor Lusardi, a world-renowned professor in personal finance. And did you know that, in 2021, she was included in the Clarivate list of the most highly cited researchers? Check out the work she does here: www.gflec.org

Summer Arts and Humanities Courses

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Summer registration is open, and we’ve got some Arts and Humanities courses for you this summer! Three of them, in fact. They are:

Professor Caroline Smith’s “Women Artists in DC” (CAH 2001W), which meets on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 3:30 – 6:30PM ET.

Professor Leigha McReynolds’ “Time and Space in Science Fiction” (ENGL 3810W), which meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11AM – 2PM ET.

Professor Philip Troutman’s “Amsterdam: Sustainable City” (HIST 3101W), which meets on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12AM – 1:30PM ET.

Please note these are all cross-listed with University Writing (UW 2020W) sections. You can register for either section and it will satisfy the honors Arts and Humanities requirement.

Once you complete the course, you will need to fill out Honors Course Petition form and submit it to our Forms & Documents page. Then we will get that fixed in DegreeMap.

Let us know if you have any questions. Enjoy!

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