Political Science Advising NewsletterMarch 9th, 2009 |
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Important DatesPOLITICAL SCIENCE ADVISING OFFICE HOURS:
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In This Issue:Fellowships/ Scholarships/ Grants Internships
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Info Sessions
Each week, the UW Career Center offers workshops addressing career-related topics (how to write a resume and cover letter, how to have a successful interview). With the exception of the two-days "Dependable Strengths" seminar, all workshops are free. Details about the workshops and the weekly calendar of events can be found here . You may also check out internships and career positions on HuskyJobs . All UW Career Center workshops are held in Room 134 Mary Gates Hall unless otherwise noted. Approximately 50 minutes long, workshops are generally held during the afternoon at the UW Career Center throughout Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters. See calendar for dates and times.
***** In an effort to reach students who are not able to get into our walk-in appointments and need to get assistance asap, the Career center is offering a new service: JOB CHAT ***** This session begins with a current brief update on the job market for UW students followed by a Career Counselor addressing attendees' quick questions about job or internship hunting including interview strategies and job search techniques. So if you haven't been able to schedule an appointment, make it to Walk-ins (M-F, 1:00 - 4:00) or catch one of our workshops, this one's for you! The job chat will be held most Fridays at 2:30pm (Check our online calendar to be sure) at the UW Career Center, 134 Mary Gates Hall This week's job chat: Friday, March 13th from 2:30-4:00pm Also check the latest Career Center newsletter here. Fellowships/ Scholarships/ Grants
Martin and Anne Jugum Scholarship in Labor Studies: Year's Tuition for Undergraduates Deadline: June 8, 2009 Named after longtime International Longshore and Warehouse Union member and leader Martin Jugum and his wife Anne, this scholarship of one-year full tuition is awarded to outstanding undergraduates who exhibit a commitment to labor research or practice. Scholarship winners must demonstrate high academic achievement and be enrolled for Autumn Quarter of the upcoming academic year. Students may apply directly or be nominated by a faculty member. http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/resources-jugum.html Labor and Employment Relations Association Scholarship: $1,000 for Undergraduates Deadline: June 8, 2009 Devoted to the encouragement of research in all aspects of the field of labor studies, the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) generously funds an annual $1,000 scholarship for students who are committed to pursing a profession in labor and/or labor management. http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/resources-lera.html Best Undergraduate Paper in Labor Studies: $250 for Undergraduates Deadline: June 8, 2009 Each year, the Bridges Center awards $250 to the best undergraduate paper written on a labor-related topic during the current academic year (2008-2009). Papers may focus on any dimension of United States or international labor, including class relations, social conditions, working-class culture or politics, work and gender, work and race/ethnicity, unions, and comparative labor relations. http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/resources-paperprize.html
For information on these awards, application processes, required application materials, and more, visit http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/ or contact Andrew Hedden, Program Coordinator Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at (206) 543-7946 or pcls@u.washington.edu
Conferences/ Talks
The University of Washington NELC SA (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Student Association) is calling for abstract submissions for a conference intended for graduate and upper division undergraduate students from various departments at the University of Washington. We welcome papers from all disciplines and time periods relating to the Near and Middle East. The conference, which is scheduled for Thursday, May 14th, 2009 on the University of Washington campus, will feature student presenters at both graduate and undergraduate levels and will provide a friendly forum to practice presenting a conference paper. Please send abstracts (250-300 words) with full name, academic program/year, and paper title by attachment to nelcsa@u.washington.edu no later than Friday, April 17th, 2009. For further information please e-mail nelcsa@u.washington.edu .
The Rotaract Club of the University of Washington, Health Sciences is a Rotary-sponsored service club focused on local and international community service with a health focus. This group is open to both graduate and undergraduate students from any discipline who have an interest in improving health. Non-students ages 18-30 are also welcome. Meeting's Speaker: Pat Lewis, Bead for Life When: Tuesday, March 10th from 6:00-7:00pm Where: Health Sciences Building, Room T-739 Who: UWHS Rotaract members and anyone interested in learning more about the club Also on the agenda:
For more information: Please contact Jen Osborn club president (uwhsrotaract@gmail.com) or visit our website
Courses
MGH 251, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30pm- 4:50pm SNL: 19161 The aim of this class is to move beyond prevalent mono-racial discourses by examining identity and experiences from a mixed race/mixed ethnicity perspective. This course was developed by students who recognized the lack of this perspective within academia, as well as their classrooms. Some of the topics to be discussed include: the history of racialization, processes of "othering", acceptance and the politics of claiming, the role of education in racial formation (and vice versa), legal/health ramifications for (and of) mixed identities, white and non-white mixed identities, and hybridity. To facilitate group discussions we will be reading personal narratives and theory, as well as using popular media to provide us with a gateway into progressive engagement with these issues. The course will be student-facilitated and discussion based; engagement with readings will be critical to contributing to a productive dialogue. If you have any questions, or would like to know more about the class, please email mixed101class@gmail.com
Are you interested in a funded opportunity to engage in an intensive summer research experience in the Arts & Humanities with 20 students and 4 faculty? The deadline to apply for the Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities is FRIDAY, MARCH 13 at 5pm. This year's theme is "Shifting Empire: Critical Imperial Studies in the Americas and Beyond" and faculty include Kiko Benitez (Comparative Literature, Southeast Asian Studies) Rick Bonus (American Ethnic Studies, Southeast Asian Studies), Chandan Reddy (English), and Ileana Rodriguez-Silva (History, Latin American Studies). Please visit http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/sinst/ for program description and application. If you have any questions about the application process or the Institute please contact Jennifer or Jentery at urp@u.washington.edu , by phone 206.543.4282 or stop by and visit us in MGH 120.
ATM S 101: Weather (5 credits; SLN 10559) MTWTh 10:30-11:20, KNE 220 (Th. or Fri. quiz sections vary) Prerequisites: None. Open to all undergraduates Designed to to develop your understanding of the weather and related atmospheric phenomena: global weather patterns, highs and lows, clouds, thunderstorms, tornados, hurricanes, rainbows. Examples drawn from current weather in Seattle and around the world. The course is appropriate for all students, including non-science, liberal arts majors and fulfills 5 credits of the Natural World (NW) distribution requirement. ATM S 211: Climate and Climate Change (5 credits; SLN 10568) MTWTh 10:30-11:20, JHN 075 (Fri. quiz sections vary) Prerequisites: None. Open to all undergraduates An introductory course about Earth's climate: - Investigate the current climate system using observations and simple models - Use Earth's climate history and the evolution of atmospheric composition, environment, and life as a context for understanding current climate change - Learn the climate science of modern environmental problems such as increasing greenhouse gases and ozone depleting chemicals - Understand the issues in the debate on how to respond to global warming
CHID 250: Theory Schmeory / Instructor: Stacey Moran Tues/Thurs 1:30-3:20 (and sections) Fulfills CHID Group A Reading and understanding theoretical texts can be frustrating and intimidating for students; often it is characterized as either unnecessary or as a temporary detour for accomplishing more concrete, activist goals. This course attempts to demystify theory in a variety of ways in a non-threatening environment. We will explore a number of different theories from western philosophy, beginning with Liberal Humanism and including Materialism, Psychoanalysis, Hermeneutics, Semiotics, Postmodernism and Poststructuralism. Through primary and secondary readings, we will break down, organize, and map out this heady stuff in order to gain an overarching view of this animal called Theory. We will tame the beast, so to speak, and leave the class armed with a basic workable understanding of various perspectives that the student can apply in the future. Students with all levels of experience are encouraged to join in this "theory for dummies." CHID 270 (fulfills CHID Group C) Classics of German Literature and Thought: Frankenstein read Goethe. Shouldn't you? Brigitte Prutti triest@u.washington.edu This course introduces students to some inspiring, provocative, and inventive literary writers and thinkers in the German cultural tradition. Readings range from 18th century sentimentalism to contemporary postmodernist fiction. We will ask what it means to awaken one night after uneasy dreams to find oneself transformed into a giant insect; we will envision a workaholic Prussian writer at the sandy beaches of turn-of-the-century Venice; we will ask why Greek tragedy had to be reinvented in 19th century Germany of all places etc. We shall begin to understand why Frankenstein was moved to tears while reading German fiction. Among the texts on our reading list are Franz Kafka's famous fantastic tale The Metamorphosis, Thomas Mann's equally famous modernist artist novella Death in Venice, Friedrich Nietzsche's path-breaking essay on the Birth of Tragedy, and the first internationally successful 18th century German novel, Goethe's acclaimed Sorrows of Young Werther. We will also consider other interesting examples of shorter prose fiction by renowned 19th to 21st century writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann (The Thirtieth Year), Georg Büchner (Lenz), Peter Handke (A Sorrow Beyond Dreams), Judith Hermann (Summerhouse, Later), Joseph Roth (Stationmaster Fallmerayer), and Adalbert Stifter (Rock Crystal). Class is conducted in English.
This Spring quarter General Studies will again be
offering reading and writing support for multilingual ("ESL") students through
two Studio courses. These 2-credit (C/NC) workshops, offered through a
partnership with English
Language Programs and the Expository Writing Program, are taught by an
experienced instructor from the English Language Program. The courses will
provide students with English language support in reading and writing while For general course information, please contact Jennifer Evans at jenetic@u.washington.edu.See below for a more detailed description of the multilingual/"ESL" studio.
Are you a non-native speaker of English who is looking for additional support in your writing course? If so, these new studio courses offered by the Academic English Program and the Expository Writing Program might be just what you are looking for!If you will be taking a writing course (like English 111, 121, 131, or 197/8) and would like additional ESL support, please consider signing up for General Studies 391J or 391K, 2-credit (C/NC) studio courses that meet two days a week for 50 minutes. These studio coursers are designed to support English language learners who are concurrently enrolled in a writing course and want to continue developing their ability to understand and produce academic writing. In the studios you will build advanced vocabulary skills, focus on reading skills to help you comprehend and analyze complex texts (specifically those from your writing class), and review and analyze grammar structures, focusing on how they apply to organization and produce different effects in academic writing.There will be two sections of GEN ST 391 offered this Spring: 391K from 10:30-11:20 TTH and 391J from 12:30-1:20 TTH.
Instructor: Steve Wilson SLN 17715 Meets M 6:00-8:50PM in SWS 38 Open to graduate students/ Juniors and Seniors: Contact the instructor ( wilsonst@u.washington.edu ) for permission Course Description: This course introduces students to the study of African American families from a historical, socio-cultural, and political perspective. Students will be introduced to various theories for understanding African Americans families and the various debates that characterize the interpretation of these theories. Using a life course perspective, the course will examine the diversity among families within African American communities, and the effect of larger demographic, political, and social changes on African American family functioning. The course addresses traditional Eurocentric thought around prevention and treatment strategies and policy implementation, and will present culturally relevant views as challenges to these perspectives. This course will also focus on strategies and intervention practices from an Afrocentric perspective and effective practices in African descent communities. Through the integration of theoretical and practice content on African American families and the larger social, economic and political systems, students will develop knowledge needed for effective and accountable social work practice with African American families. About the instructor: I am a clinical social worker in private practice. I began working with children and families in 1979 in the San Francisco Bay area and have since worked in multiple settings, including outpatient and inpatient psychiatric; schools; foster care; juvenile corrections alternative schools; substance abuse prevention and treatment; and homeless youth. In addition I provide consultation on cross-cultural treatment issues for a number of agencies throughout the Puget Sound region. This consultation focuses mainly on work with families of African descent. I have been on the faculty of the University of Washington School of Social Work since 1998. I am currently a doctoral student at Smith college school for social work.
ENVIR 450 B: Alaska Comes of Age: Politics, Economics, and Environment in 20th-century Alaska 5 credits Instructor: Brooks Miner, Biology SLN: 13209 Course website: http://courses.washington.edu/env450b/ As one of the last regions of the United States to be settled by European descendants, the so-called "Last Frontier" of Alaska occupies a hallowed place in our national psyche. Alaska has always represented the American West in its purest form, but in recent decades it has become an archetypal battleground in the environmental conservation movement. How did things end up this way? Why has the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge become the pièce de résistance of both the environmentalists and the developers? On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Alaska statehood and 30 years after oil started flowing through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, in this course we will undertake an integrative examination of 20th century Alaska from an interdisciplinary perspective. We will focus on how the actions of economic developers, grassroots citizen organizations, and state and federal governments led to transformations in the relationship between people and the lands and waters they inhabit. In this course, students will reflect on their personal background and draw connections with the Alaskan experience to deepen their understanding of both their own and our society's relationship with the natural world. Twentieth century Alaska will serve as a case study for the American environmental legacy, allowing students to grapple with challenging questions about our nation's future in the context of a landscape that has both sustained and transformed American ideals. Topics to be covered will include: - Global conflicts manifest in Alaska: WWII and the Cold War - The atomic age in Alaska: nuclear weapons testing and Project Chariot - Native rights in Alaska: the historic settlement act and its discontents - The oil age in Alaska: Prudhoe Bay and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline - The modern environmental movement in America: Alaska's central role. ENVIR 450 C/D: Coffee: From the Grounds Up ENVIR 450C or ENVIR 450D, DA. Join some of the world's leading experts and practitioners as they explore the social, political, and ecological lessons that can come from a crop that, more than any other, connects the world's richest and poorest nations - coffee. And earn credit. The Program on the Environment is offering a 1-2 credit course during Spring Quarter 2009 connected to the lecture series - Coffee: From the Grounds Up. See details re: series and course at http://depts.washington.edu/coffees/ . ENVIR 450 F: Growing Stuff: The Ecology of Resource-Extraction Ecosystems 5 credits Instructor, Steve Harrell, Anthropology, stevehar@u.washington.edu A field- and classroom-based look at three kinds of ecosystems intensively managed by humans in order to extract resources. We will examine aquaculture, dairy farming, and biofuel production as examples of the ways in which humans manage ecosystems for resource extraction, paying attention to the energetics, ecosystem sustainability, politics, policy, and culture involved in such systems. For each unit, we will follow a template of study as follows: Week A: Introduction to the theory and basic facts of a particular kind of resourceextraction ecosystem Week B: The particulars of such systems in Washington Saturday B: A field trip to investigate such systems and talk to the people involved in them. Week C: Post-mortem, relating our field findings to the questions posed in weeks A and B. There will then be a written assignment due based on a problem that we have seen in the field and discussed in the classroom. 3 required Saturday field trips
Internships
Since 1968, the non-profit organization Presidential Classroom has been the leader in civic-education bringing more than 120,000 of the world's best high school students to Washington, D.C., for the ultimate leadership experience, bettering their knowledge of the political system as they explore the inner workings of government. For the program to run successfully, Presidential Classroom brings 12 of the best college students to Washington D.C., for their SUMMER programs. Students gain valuable work experience in a fast paced and challenging environment that gives them the unprecedented access to with students and instructors (from around the world), Members of Congress, Senior Military Officials and International/National leaders and Washington insiders. The internship takes place from June 20 – August 3, 2009 Once in Washington, Presidential Classroom is an ALL-INCLUSIVE internship, which will provide free housing in Washington DC, free meals, a stipend and eligibility for 6-14 college credits (dependent on their college working with Presidential Classroom). Students will benefit from interacting with top governmental and non-governmental officials , being addressed at The Department of State, Floor of the House of Representatives and various advocacy organizations, acting as the liaison to congressional offices & arranging hundreds of Capitol Hill appointments, instilling students with the Presidential Classroom Core Values, managing seminars, facilitating the Future World Leaders Summit (a simulated mock United Nations). More information about the internship and the application can be found on the Presidential Classroom website. Questions about the program should be addressed to intern@presidentialclassroom.org The deadline to apply is by Friday, March 20, 2009. Other
Dear Students, For the past two years, PSA, the Political Science Honor Society at the UW, has edited and published The Orator, an undergraduate journal of political science articles written by UW students. Last year, The Orator was named in the top ten undergraduate journals nationwide! Though a political science journal by name, The Orator is open to submissions from any major, provided they are in some way related to politics or political issues. The Orator is now accepting submissions! The first and second deadlines have passed but we have one more deadline on March 20th. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, so the sooner you apply, the better!
For the last two issues, click here The application form must be filled out and turned to the Political Science Advising Office, Smith 215, with the submission attached. We at PSA look forward to reading your papers! Questions? Contact PSA at nupsa@u.washington.edu .
The Tolo Chapter of Mortar Board is pleased to announce that we are now accepting nominations for this year's Excellence in Teaching Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize professors for exceptional contributions made towards the education of University of Washington undergraduates. As leaders of our campus community, Mortar Board wishes to annually commend and support an extraordinary professor who we feel has proven him or herself to be particularly dedicated to the intellectual success of undergraduates. The Tolo Chapter of Mortar Board, a national college senior honor society, was founded in 1909. It is the oldest honor society on the University of Washington campus. Mortar Board recognizes college seniors for their achievements in scholarship, leadership and service. The winning professor will receive a plaque, a framed certificate with their name, honorary membership in this year's Tolo chapter, and will be formally recognized by the UW community. Below you will find the link to the nomination form with instructions. The form is simple and takes only a few minutes to fill out. Nominate your favorite teacher now! Criteria for submitting nominations: 1. Any lecturer, senior lecturer, adjunct professor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor, or professor emeritus may be nominated. Teaching Assistants, and those who are working towards their Ph.D. do not qualify for this award. 2. Only undergraduate students (full or part-time) may nominate professors for the award. Students should nominate only one professor. 3. Nomination forms may be accessed at: http://uwmortarboard.org/awards.aspx . Completed forms may be submitted • online using the Catalyst Web Survey, or • as a hard copy form, in a sealed envelope, to the Mortar Board Mailbox #136 in the HUB SAO Office, Room 207 4. Nominations are due Friday, March 21 2009 by 11:59 PM. Questions? Email the Teaching Award Chair @ jamesa5@u.washington.edu
Student Fiscal Services offers workshops to help Non Us Resident and international students understand the tuition accounts or scholarship issues in relation to taxes. This class is offered free of charge. March 10, 2009 Two sections offered: 1:30pm - 2:30pm 3:00pm - 4:00pm HUB 209A
What does it mean to be a lesbian, gay, bisexual or a transgender (LGBT) student, staff, or faculty member on your campus? Campus Pride seeks undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty, and administrators who identify as LGBT people to participate in the National LGBT College Climate Survey. The survey is housed under the Q Research Institute for Higher Education (QRIHE), the national center for the scholarly study of LGBT people in higher education. The Research Director is Dr. Susan R. Rankin of The Pennsylvania State University and Associate Research Director is Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld of Iowa State University. Institutional Review Board approval has been granted nationally for this study. In accordance, participation is confidential and data specific to individual higher education institutions will not be identified in the final analysis. Once completed, any participant will have the opportunity, if chosen, to register for $500 cash and a free cruise aboard RSVP Vacations. Go online to http://www.campuspride.org/research to take the survey.
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