Attention UHPers: New Fall 2015 Course Added!

We’re so pleased to announce that our new and high-achieving Program Officer, Mary Rothemich, has volunteered to offer a Self & Society (2048W) course this coming Fall!

While many of you have met Mary and see a spunky, Zumba and chocolate-loving adviser, you may not know that she has an intense interest in Animal Sociology. In her spare time at American and Catholic Universities, she worked with preeminent researchers to develop a theory on the social relationships of squirrel communities.
“There are so many that live among us, even in Washington, D.C., that it is irresponsible for us to ignore the very real behavioral patterns they exhibit,” Mary writes of “Social Squirrels,” the course description for which will be available online shortly.
Mary hopes to spread awareness on each college campus where she has worked, and involves testimonies and studies conducted by other DC-based scholars, such as “Red Squirrels: Where and Why?” and “Roadkill: An Existential Crisis“.
Class activities will include observing squirrels around campus at play in trees, in mating rituals, and their patterns of food hoarding.
If you wish to enroll in “Social Squirrels,” please send an email to uhp@gwu.edu and be sure to copy Mary (rothemich@gwu.edu). All you need to apply a very short personal statement of interest! The CRN for this five-credit course is 412015. 
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Happy April Fools’ Day!  This course, of course, will not be offered by the UHP.  You can find all of our (real) courses for the coming semester here, or you can giggle at last year’s April Fools’ Day post.

UHP Community Brunch

Persian kitten sitting near a basket of breadsThe answer to this kitten’s prayers is here!
The UHP will be having another community brunch on Saturday, April 11 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm in the Club Room on Foggy!
Come eat delicious food catered from Au Bon Pain and hang out with your friends, classmates, and professors! Last chance for free breakfast food from the UHP for the semester, so don’t miss out and make this kitten even more sad.

Food for Thought with Professor Obler

Please join us for this week’s Food for Thought with Professor Obler. On Thursday, April 9th at 12:00 PM she will be discussing the question of “Quilt or Art?”
With the opening of the Textile Museum, it seems like a good time to think about the fiber arts. Prof. Obler will present some of her current research–on the artist Al Loving’s fabric assemblages and how they draw on African-American quilting traditions–as a way to start a conversation about art and quilts.
It will be an event you do not want to miss!! Get your free ticket here http://gwhonors6.youcanbook.me before it is too late!

Fall 2015 GPAC Additions/Subtractions

CCAS STUDENTS: The Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies has made several late G-PAC decisions that may impact your class selection for summer or fall. Courses have been added to various categories at the recommendation of departments; others have been removed, having been judged as not meeting the learning goals established by the Columbian College faculty.


These changes may impact your Fall 2015 registration, so please review carefully.

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There haven’t been any changes made to Honors courses, but many other departments/courses are affected. If you have questions about approved courses, please contact ccasug@gwu.edu directly. UHP Program Officers are also available if you have questions about rearranging your schedule.
 

For the full list of approved courses, view the Academic Advising website.


Added to Arts:

  • CAH 1090 “Art History I”
  • ENGL 2210 “Techniques in Creative Writing”
  • TRDA 2195 “Global Dance History”
  • TRDA 3246W “History of the Theatre II”

Added to Humanities:

  • ENGL 3446 “Shakespearean London”
  • ENGL 3910 “Disability Studies”
  • HIST 2050 “History of Jewish Civilization” also Global/Cross-Cultural and Oral Communication
  • REL 2201 “Judaism”
  • REL 2301 “Christianity”
  • REL 2501 “Hinduism”

Added to Natural or Physical Sciences with lab:

  • BISC 1007 “Food, Nutrition, and Service” also Local/Civic Engagement
  • BISC 1008 “Understanding Organisms through Service Learning” also Local/Civic Engagement

Added to Oral Communication:

  • ENGL 3620 “American Poetry I”
  • ENGL 3481 “The Eighteenth Century II”
  • FREN 2005 “Language, Culture, and Society I”

Removed from Arts:

  • TRDA 1017 “Movement Awareness”
  • TRDA 1025 “Understanding the Theatre”
  • TRDA 2185 “Trends in Performance”

Removed from Local/Civic Engagement:

  • BISC 1005 “Biology of Nutrition and Health”
    BISC 1006 “Ecology and Evolution of Organisms”

Removed from Oral Communication:

  • PHIL 1153 “The Meaning of Mind”
  • PHIL 2136 “Contemporary Issues in Ethics”

2015 Strasser Winners Announced!

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

1st Place:

Jacob Greenblatt
Freshman
“Buddhism & Environmental Ethics”
Written for Origins with Prof. McManus

Runners Up:

Brooke Talbot
Senior
“Memorializing Disease: The Public Contribution to the FDR Memorial Wheelchair Statue”
Written for  Prof. Gamble’s Epidemics in American History class
Lacy Myrman
Sophomore
“’Us’ and ‘Them’”
Written for Prof. Dworkin’s Individualism class
The first place winner will receive a $100 gift cards and the runners up will each receive $50 gift cards. Congratulations!

UHP Research Showcase

You are invited to celebrate the research of your peers at the University Honors Program Research Showcase!
Enjoy brief, casual talks and ask questions Thursday, April 30th from 1pm to 3pm in the Club Room of the Honors Townhouse.  Let your fellow UHP’ers know how proud we are of their dedication and willingness to take a risk in order to contribute and disseminate original work as active scholars!
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And if you have research you’d like to present, let Catherine know by Friday, April 3rd to be included in the program!

Summer Course with Prof. Christov

Looking for classes to take this summer? Check out HIST 1121, Europe’s War of Ideas, 1750-Present with UHP Professor Theo Christov. Course details are below!
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Course dates: 5/18-6/27
MTW 4-5:30 PM
3 Credits
What were the ideas that made people fight, from the French Revolution to the worldwide uprisings of the 1960s and the Arab Spring? This course will study key texts on freedom and slavery, tradition and progress, state authority and revolutionary violence that changed the modern world

Passover at GW!

Looking for a family to spend Passover with??
Come to the Seder at The Melrose Hotel
Friday April 3rd and Saturday April 4th
Jewish Colonials Chabad cordially invites you to our Seders at GW. Our Seders are not only delicious (think Brisket dinner) but the reading of the Haggada is actually entertaining and meaningful. The first night we’ll be in The Melrose Hotel on Pennsylvania Ave. the second night in The APT. For more info and to reserve your seat: www.jewishcolonials.com/seder.