HONORS UPDATE

March 16, 2007

 

Welcome back from spring break!  Hope you had a good one.

 

Important dates - March 19:  Summer school registration begins.

                             March 21:  Last day to register for 2^nd block classes

 

We hope to have our fall honors course offerings posted on our website by the end of the day next Friday, March 23.

 

Summer Honors Course:  Ms. Karen Evans is offering GHUM 200-4102, Poetry, LEC 31862, for Cluster 2 credit this summer.  If you have questions, contact her at evanskd@jmu.edu.

The Scholar Ship is a semester-long academic program aboard a dedicated passenger ship that traverses the globe as an oceangoing campus. Students and staff from around the world come together to form a transnational learning community designed to develop their intercultural competence and leadership skills.  Deadline for the September 2007 maiden voyage is April 30.  www.TheScholarShip.com

 

The Phoenix Project is a state-wide non-profit that offers an 8-week summer opportunity for civic leadership/training.  It seeks to build a partnership between Virginia higher education and VA's most distressed communities that adds civic capacity to communities, strengthens the mission of universities, and provides a powerful context in which to prepare nonprofit and civic entrepreneurs for tomorrow's VA.  Flyers are available on the bookshelf and coffee table in the Honors lounge.   http://www.phoenixproject.org/

 

FRESHMAN CLASS

Brown Bag, March 21, 12:20-1:10, Taylor 404:  Dr. Beth Eck, Associate Professor of Sociology, will present "Male Elephants and other analogies: Single men, stigma, and accounting for life outside of marriage."      

 

Symposium, March 21, 4:45-6:00, ISAT 159, Wellness Passport event:  Drs. Katherine A. Schwartz and Bill Wightman, Associate Professors, School of Art and Art History, "Understanding Images: Art and Visual Culture."

 

SENIOR CLASS

Formatting workshops will occur March 26-28.  Plan to attend one session if you are graduating in May.  Bring your project to be checked.

 

Monday, March 26, 11:15-12:05, Taylor302

Monday, March 26, 12:20-1:10, Taylor302

Tuesday, March 27, 4:00-4:50, Taylor302

Wednesday, March 28, 2:30-3:20, Taylor302

Wednesday, March 28, 4:45-5:35, ISAT 159

 

 

 

 

Enjoy your weekend!

Mary Kay Adams