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GE Meet & Greet
The Center for Excellence in Teaching in conjunction with the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences will be hosting the bi-annual GE Meet & Greet. This is a chance for students to chat with general education professors in a casual setting before registration for Fall classes. Students can learn from professors what their classes will be like, what to expect, etc. So drop by, have a coffee or tea on us, and take the guesswork out of choosing GE classes!
Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location: LiterTEA Coffehouse (near Doheny Library)
Teaching International Relations Program
To those who have not had a chance to stop by the CALIS Office, classes are still available.
If you want to sign up for a class, we have classes that can work with any schedule. Hurry over to the CALIS Office, located in THH 252 before they all fill up!
TIRP is run by CALIS ~ Center for Active Learning in International Studies
Both are nationally recognized outreach programs sponsored by the School of International Relations.
For more information. contact CALIS at tirp@usc.edu ~ 213-740-7794 ~ Taper Hall 252
Fight on!
CALIS Staff
Summer Research Opportunities in the College
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Problems Without Passports (PWP)
USC students have the opportunity this summer to participate in six
Problems Without Passports (PWP) courses that combine problem-based or
inquiry learning research exercises with study in a foreign country,
Washington D.C., or Los Angeles. Check out the Summer 2011 courses and
past student experiences on college.usc.edu/pwp.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF)
You want to do research in the summer but you don't know where to start? Check out SURF. Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) is USC
College's commitment to supporting undergraduate research in
collaboration with USC Faculty.
The SURF program provides funding to undergraduates for participation
as a research assistant in a faculty member’s project, or who wish to
pursue a scholarly research project of their own choosing (sponsored and
supervised by a faculty member). SURF allows all students to be mentored
one-on-one by USC faculty, and introduces students early in their
academic careers to the process of serious scholarly inquiry.
Any student in good standing, with at least one USC College major, may
apply for a research stipend of up to $3,000 to support a summer
research project of their choosing or to apply to tuition expenses
towards a Problems Without Passports course.
Now what ?
Check out SURF for more details. Applications for Summer 2001 are available. We added and extra tool on our website to
start the process. In addition to your own search for a research project
and a faculty member, you can post your interest(s) on the SOAR-SURF Board. Faculty who are searching for student researchers will be using this tool to find students for their project. It works both ways too ! If you find something on the faculty postings
you would like to work on, you can contact the faculty member.
For questions, email surf@college.usc.edu.
Summer Course in Italy—GERO-499: Nutrition, Genes, Longevity and Diseases
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Spring 2011 Course Spotlight—POSC-352: Politics of Southeast Asia
If you are still looking for a POSC course, here is one that may be of interest to you. POSC 352, Politics of Southeast Asia, is being taught this Spring 2011 on Wednesday evenings form 5-6:20 pm. The instructor for the course, Dr. Jinhee Choung has given a description of the course below. The class will fulfill an upper division COMPARATIVE POLITICS category or an upper division POSC Elective, and there is no prerequisite for the course.
This course provides an introduction to the history, political institutions, and economic development of Southeast Asia (SEA). Reading and discussions are divided into three sections. Section 1 reviews the history of the region, including: the pre-colonial period, the different forms of colonialism, the impact of World War II and the struggles for independence, nationalism, and communism. Section 2 is a survey of nine of SEA’s eleven states (Brunei and East Timor are excluded): Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, and Laos (in a slightly varying depth). In Section 3, drawing on the tools of comparative politics, we consider the impediments to democracy and economic development and why some states in SEA have been able to overcome these obstacles while others have not. We examine the impact of authoritarian leaders, political institutions, developmentalism, and the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis on SEA’s political and economic landscape in the present.
Dr. Jinhee Lee Choung
Lecturer, Department of Political Science
University of Southern California
Practical Politics Opportunity for USC College Freshman
If you are interested in politics, this freshman seminar is the best opportunity you may have in years to experience and participate directly in the political system in California. For the first time ever, USC students will draft an actual bill, go to Sacramento to testify and lobby for it! Only 25 students will be allowed in the course. Come and learn California politics from the inside. While the students will determine what bill they want to design, we think that an environmental/global warming bill might be politically possible to succeed.
FSEM 180 seminar will investigate the workings of practical politics in California. We will consider the problems facing Californians, choose an issue and consider solutions, assess the potential impacts of the draft legislation, and address the positions of interest groups so as to build coalitions. Under the direction of a retired State Senator and politician-in-residence at USC College, students will directly participate in California politics. With the personal help of state officials and staffers, we will design a draft bill, actually introduce it to the legislature, testify in front of the Senate Committee, lobby Senators and follow it through the full legislative process. Students will leave the seminar with practical experience and the networks to give them a competitive advantage in developing their own careers. Students can learn more about the specifics of the course at: http://college.usc.edu/fyi.
Sincerely,
Professor Nina Rathbun and Sen. Kevin Murray, USC Politician-in-Residence
Spring 2011 Course Spotlight—POSC 323: Civic Engagement and Leadership - Citizen Politics in 21st Century Los Angeles.
What does it mean to be a community leader in 21st Century Los Angeles? How do politicians, advocates and other political actors get the attention of the city’s general public? If you wanted to run for office in Los Angles, where would you start? How are neighborhood activists shaping the future of Los Angeles? What would a more just, more livable Los Angeles even look like?
These are some of the questions that we will take up in PS 323: Civic Engagement and Leadership – Citizen Politics in 21st Century Los Angeles. The emphasis of PS 323 is on the practical side of politics. Thus the course will feature conversations with public officials, political activists and leaders from the non-profit, business and faith sectors. The course’s guest speakers will share their expertise and discuss their participation in the city’s political process. Among the course’s topics and issues will be: neighborhood democracy, political campaign management, youth incarceration and educational equity, the elimination of ‘food deserts,’ affordable housing, the engagement of business in local politics, and transnational political organizing.
POSC 323 will give you the chance to
- Discover the many different ways to ‘be political’
- Dngage with community leaders about the rewards and challenges of
- Active citizenship
- Build your own leadership and advocacy skills.
POSC 323 is designed for majors and non-majors alike. There are no prerequisites for participation in the course.
Sign up for POSC 323 and find out what it takes to be a good citizen in a city like Los Angeles.
Summer Archaeological Excavation for Students in Rome, Italy
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Spring 2011 Course Spotlight—POSC 499: Politics and Film in Latin America
Professor Nora Hamilton is teaching a special course in Spring 2011. The course, POSC 469, 2-4:50 W, will fuflill an upper division POSC course in Comparative Politics or can be used as a POSC upper division elective. Professor Hamilton is a specialist in Latin American politics and this is a one time only feature class that you may be interested in taking. There is no prerequisite for the course.
Course description
A young mother discovers that her adopted daughter was taken at birth from a woman who was then killed during Argentina’s ”dirty war”….
In the midst gun battles between revolutionaries and government troops, children in a Salvadoran village attempt to maintain a normal childhood during El Salvador’s civil war…
A young woman seeking to earn extra money gets caught up in the Colombian drug trade….
A youthful Che Guevara takes an epic motorcycle journey through South America that will change his life….
By focusing on individuals and families caught up in historic events, Latin American filmmakers provide new insights into the political and social reality of Latin American politics and society that cannot be obtained through simply reading about them.
This course will examine issues of Latin American contemporary politics through these – The Official Story, Innocent Voices, Maria Full of Grace, and The Motorcycle Diaries -- and other films. Students will also draw on assigned articles and other sources that provide a context for understanding Latin American politics and the specific issues under study.
Spring 2011 Course Spotlight—CHEM-201: Chemistry in the Environment, Energy and Society (GE IV)
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G.E. Student-Faculty Meet & Greet
Thursday, November 4, 3:00-4:00pm – LiteraTea
Tired of GEs you're not interested in?! Ratemyprofessor.com not cutting it anymore?! Take the guesswork out of choosing your G.E. classes!
Join us next Thursday at LiteraTea for the bi-annual G.E. Student-Faculty Meet & Greet. You will have the unique opportunity of chatting with general education professors in a casual setting before you register for your classes. Learn from the professors what their courses will be like, what they expect-- all over a FREE coffee or tea of your choice from LiteraTea.
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