HONORS UPDATE

OCTOBER 27, 2006

 

SPRING HONORS COURSES will be listed on our website and are attached to this email:  http://www.jmu.edu/honorsprog/

Freshmen should make arrangements to meet with their advisors before registering.

 

Remember:  You must be registered for at least one honors course each semester until you finish your requirements.  You may take more than one, but it is recommended that you NOT take more than three in one semester.

 

Registration:  You will be given a registration time a window of 48 hours in which to complete your registration for spring courses.  Check your time on e-campus so that you will know when to do it.  Have all decisions about classes made, fines paid, and holds and overrides taken care of before you begin the process so that you can complete your registration during your window.  The registrar's website http://www.jmu.edu/registrar/ has important information and dates to know before you begin, especially if you have never gone through this process before.  If you miss your assigned time, you will need to wait until all students have registered before you are allowed to register, and you may encounter classes that are already closed because they are full.  The course adjustment period, beginning November 18 and lasting through the early part of the spring semester, is a time you may make adjustments to your schedule.

 

Honors Option:  Students may use the Honors Option to earn honors credit for any non-honors upper level (200 or above) JMU course not regularly offered as an honors course.  Honors students may attempt honors options for their honors electives.  Within the first two weeks of class, the student should secure an Honors Option Application (print it out from the Honors Program Handbook on our website, p. 43; read about it on

p. 20), meet with the professor, negotiate a contract following the examples on page 20 in the Handbook, and return the completed application to the Honors Office.

 

BEFORE YOU REGISTER . . .Consider a new course offered this spring semester with Spring Break in London! 

NO PREREQUISITES FOR REGISTRATION.  Sign up through e-campus.

Art History 489: Neoclassicism in England and America introduces students to the discipline of architectural history by examining works beginning with ancient Greece and Rome to the Renaissance to English and American Neoclassical developments.  Students will spend Spring Break in London visiting sites, museums and galleries of architectural and historical significance.  During the semester, students will also participate in a fieldtrip to visit neo-classical monuments in Virginia (including Jefferson's Monticello).

Some highlights of the London trip:

• Seven nights' lodging and breakfast in the heart of London
• Transfers between Heathrow and central London
• Local transportation
• Day trip to Bath, including transportation, guides, and visits to the Roman Baths, the Pump Room and the Royal Crescent
• Day trip to Greenwich, including transportation, guides, and visits to Inigo Jones' Queen's House, Christopher Wren's Old Royal Naval College and the Royal Observatory
• London site visits including St. Paul's Cathedral, Chiswick House and Syon House

For details:  Please visit the Web site www.jmu.edu/international/abroad/jmu_arth489

 

SENIORS WHO ARE FINISHING PROJECTS THIS SEMESTER

By November 3: Submit the exact title of your project, your full name, and the project advisor's full name and highest degree to the Honors Program office.  A few of you who are finishing the project this semester are not planning to graduate until May '07.  Please inform us of this when you submit this information, otherwise we will assume you are graduating this semester.

 

JUNIORS WHO ARE CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN 499A

By November 10:  Submit your senior honors project proposal to the Honors Program office.

 

The Southern Regional Honors Conference invites you to attend the conference and submit proposals for papers/posters for their 2007 SRHC, March 29-31 in Charlotte, NC, at the Charlotte Center City Hilton Hotel.  Several documents are attached to this Update (and will be posted on our website) giving forms and information about this conference.  If you are interested in obtaining funding for this conference through JMU's Honors Program, you must submit your proposal to our Honors Program office no later than Jan. 19, which is prior to the deadline to submit proposals to SRHC.

 

The Furious Flower Poetry Center is sponsoring a performance by poet and jazz singer, Jayne Cortez and her band the Firespitters.  It will take place on Friday, November 10, at 7pm in Wilson Hall.  See the Furious Flower website: 

http://www.jmu.edu/furiousflower/index.html   The Honors Program will pay for up to 40 students to attend the event.  You must sign up by Friday, November 3, to reserve one of these free tickets.  The signup sheet will be posted on the bulletin board just inside the back door of the basement of Hillcrest House.  (Follow the sidewalk between the library and Hillcrest around the side of the house; enter the back door.  Do not go to the Honors Program office on the main floor.)   Students will receive the tickets at the door of the event on Nov. 10.

 

Fugue, the creative arts journal sponsored by the JMU Honors Program, has extended its submissions deadline until Thursday, November 2.  Any JMU student can submit original creative work, such as art, photography, poetry, prose, plays, and music.  Freshman Honors Scholars will receive 5 HOP points if their work is selected for the journal.  For more information, log onto http://orgs.jmu.edu/honorspub/fugue or e-mail jmufugue@gmail.com.

 

 

Deadlines:  For the Washington Center for Internships & Academic Seminars, the deadlines are Nov. 13 (early) and Dec. 8 (regular) for the January seminar.  Deadlines are Feb. 1 (early) and April 1 (regular) for the May seminar.  For information see:  : http://www.twc.edu/students/seminars.shtml  

Contact:   seminars@twc.edu 

 

Scholarships for Undergraduate International Business Students:  

The Global Leadership and Service Project in Nicaragua is Dec. 26- Jan. 4.  See

http://www.ibhs.biz     Contact Robert Hogner, Civic Engagement Director, at rhogner@fiu.edu for applications, which are due Nov. 14.

 

Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews: Study abroad for a year or a

semester at one of the three oldest universities in Britain.  Most subjects available.  Applications are due Feb. 1, 2007.   For more information contact

Dr. John J. Butt at buttjj@jmu.edu

 

From the WashingtonCenterfor Internships & Academic Seminars

The Inside Washington '07 (Dec. 30-Jan. 12) and Leaders on Leadership '07 (May 12-19) Academic Seminars are accepting applications.  The January seminar coincides with the swearing-in of the new 110^th Congress and will explore the topics "The New Congress" and "Politics and the Media."  For applications, email seminars@twc.edu or see the seminar page website: http://www.twc.edu/students/seminars.shtml.  You may opt for either a 1 week or 2 week length for the January seminar.  Prices are:  one week - $1,295 or two weeks - $1,695 and include housing.  Food, transportation and personal expenses are not included.  Deadlines for the January seminar:  November 13 (early, guaranteed space) and December 8 (regular).  Deadlines for the May seminar: February 1 (early, guaranteed space) and April 1 (regular).

Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN)as an alternative to the semester-long PLEN internship in Washington (see last week's Honors Update), the same organization is offering its 25^th annual Women & Public Policy Seminar in Washington, DC, January 2-7, 2007.  Our Women's Studies program can assist with travel expenses.  This seminar brings participants behind the scenes of official Washington, introduces participants to women policy makers and allows participants to observe the system at work.   Online registration will soon be available at http://www.plen.org/programs/publicpolicy.html.  The registration deadline has been extended to November 22, 2006.

FRESHMAN NEWS

Brown Bag:  November 1, Dr. Jennifer Coffman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, will present "Arts Exchanges: Staunton Meets Rural Kenya."

 

Honors Symposium:  November 1, Dr. Ari Kohen, Assistant Professor of Justice Studies, will present "The Moral Hero: a Vision Quest."

 

Signups for Brown Bag Seating will begin again this week and last through the end of the semester.  Signup sheet is on the bulletin board just inside the basement (back) door of Hillcrest.

 

JUNIOR NEWS

If you have entered the Honors Program as a Senior Project Only student, you DO NOT

need to register for any honors courses (other than the 499A,B,&C), but you are welcome to take them if you wish.

 

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I hope your semester is going well!

 

Mary Kay Adams

Associate Director of the Honors Program