Scholarship Money!!!

From Our Buddy Dora Cisneros at the ICC:

There is a possibility of more scholarship money being made available to us. In order to inform students about the possibilities, we will need a list of all your students with names and emails. Please submit this list no later than Wednesday, March 28th. We will send out emails on Thursday to all students regarding the application process.

Thank you for your assistance.

Dora M. Cisneros
Office of International Affairs
Study Abroad Unit
Box 45004
Lubbock, TX 79409-5004
Tel. (806) 742-3667

Questions

Please bring any program questions you have to class in writing. It's frustrating to continue to hear questions like "what classes will be offered" and "what are the start and stop days" when I've answered each of those during at least three different class meetings.

Maybe if you all took notes, you'd have that info stored somewhere for yourselves other than in my head.

One more time:

We follow the university academic calendar. We'll start on May 30th. We'll take the period from June 30 to July 8 off. We'll meet for the first day of the second half on July 9th. (That's the only deviation from the university calendar- they will start on the 10th.) We'll end on August 8th. If you need to leave early for graduation, do it. If you can't be a part of the coursework for some period of time during the summer, go for it. If you miss too much of the coursework or cannot keep up, you'll fail. Don't ask me to calculate the moment of failure for you. I won't.

The basic courses offered will be Con Docs, Urban Theory, and Studio V. If you want anything other than that, bring it to my attention and start making it happen yourselves.

I think we can make these two courses serve as elective courses if you've taken them with someone else. Diversity Elective? I don't know. You ask what has to be done to get that through. Writing Intensive? I don't know. The urban theory will be writing intensive already. Why don't you try to get to take that version as an elective? Like I said, you've got to make these boutique needs workout. I'll help but you all are going to have to band together in groups that need things and go up to ten as a group to get what you want.

Anyone on the 10th Floor who says they're waiting on me for anything about your schedules or anything else about this program is barking up a dead tree. I've negotiated my part with the Chair of Instruction (Peters) and passed on teaching assignments to my colleagues Kerenza, Kuhn, and Jesse. If someone up there says I am holding something up you get their name, what they say I'm not doing, and the day and time it was said, and pass it on to me in an email. I'll see to it that they can't say that again ASAP.

Wednesday

Bring your new Montreal map to class on Wednesday.
We'll start with a review of "Les Langues de l'Cité", briefly discuss how you are organizing yourselves in securing a domicile, and do a little more history and geography.
We'll be in class from 5:30 until 7:00. Show up on time and leave quietly and without a scene if you have to do so before we finish. Thank you.

No Class Today

When we return from Spring Break Kerenza Harris will bring a presentation on issues and qualities in French culture. (Her title is better than that but I can't find it.)

There will be no class on Wednesday March 7th. Expect to have class at least through the second week of April. Do contact me about any questions you have about specific rental issues.

Don't make any commitment you don't feel sure you can uphold or you don't feel safe about.


Have a Great Spring Break.