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Important Deadlines
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Upcoming Events
"On The Same Page" Events this Week!
You are invited to attend any or all of the following free events. Remember, you can get twice as much education for your money if you take advantage of wonderful opportunities such as these.
The Starship and the Canoe, Revisited: Alvy Ray Smith (Pixar) and authors Kenneth Brower and George Dyson in conversation about the classic double biography of astrophysicist Freeman Dyson and his non-conformist son.
Tuesday, September 24, 5:30, 315 Wheeler. Catered reception to follow.
Wednesday, September 25, 7:00 p.m. Wheeler Auditorium. Catered reception to follow. Thursday, September 26, 3:30 p.m. Catered reception to follow. There will be two more On the Same Page events in October. If you can't wait to see details, check out our website.
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Global Poverty & Practice Minor Information Session!
The GPP Minor introduces students to the theoretical frameworks, methods, and practical skills necessary to engage with global poverty and inequality in imaginative and effective ways.
The "Practice Experience" is a central component of the Minor in which students partner for a minimum of five weeks, with non-governmental or community organizations, government agencies, or other poverty or development programs, on various dimensions of poverty action - from community health and food security to economic justice and grass-roots political power. This real world experience, which can take place domestically or internationally, allows students to connect theories and practices of poverty action. Fellowship funding is available to support students' practice experiences.
The deadline to declare the Minor this semester is Thursday, October 17th. There are no prerequisites to declare.
The Declaration Form and additional information about the Minor can be found at: http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/gppminor.
Our Information Sessions will provide an overview of the Minor and demonstrate how students from all disciplines can benefit from it.
Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will be held in Blum Hall 100A/B, on the following dates:
Thursday, September 26th, 10am - 11am
Tuesday, October 1st, 12pm - 1pm (105 Chavez)*
Wednesday, October 2nd, 5pm - 6pm
Friday, October 11th, 11am - 12pm
Tuesday, October 15th, 12pm -1pm
*Held in the Transfer, Re-entry, and Student Parent Center (105 Cesar Chavez). This session will have a special emphasis on completing the Minor as a Transfer student, but all students are welcome to attend.
Contact GPP Minor Advisors at [email protected] with any questions or meet with an Advisor during the following drop-in hours in 100H Blum Hall:
Monday, Wednesday: 10:00am - 12:00pm; 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Tuesday, Thursday: 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Friday: 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Cal Intern Open House
Did you ever wonder what it's like to work at companies like Google, Box, or LinkedIn? Now you can find out from the best source -- your fellow Cal students!
**Swag, free food, and resume drops included!
Box.com, PBL and TBP will be hosting a Cal Intern Open House on Thursday, September 26th from 7-9 pm in 145 Dwinelle. The list of student speakers will include past tech and non-tech student interns from Box, Google, Cisco, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.
At this event, student speakers will give insight and share stories on their work experience at these companies. Additionally, some will be able to speak about open job opportunities. The event is meant to be a casual, fun, and informative way to learn about career opportunities in tech.
Don't miss out on this rare opportunity to get an inside look at what it's like to work at some of the coolest companies in the Bay Area. Email kao.carolyn@gmail.com or [email protected] if you have any questions!
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Writing Against the Movies
You are all cordially invited to attend a workshop next Friday, September 27th on the "Berlin School" filmmakers by German screenwriter and author Oliver Sch�tte. The talk is titled "Writing Against the Movies: The Berlin School as (Anti-) Auteur Cinema". The lecture will provide a deeper look at the narration of several key films and will argue that the "Berlin School" is not, in fact, an auteur cinema. Excerpts from the films "R�uber" (Robber), "Marseille", "Jerichow" and "Gespenster" (Ghosts) will be shown.
Oliver Sch�tte has been a screenwriter for film and television since 1986. He won the German Screenwriting Award in 1988 for his first screenplay, "Koan". Since 1990, he has worked as a Script Consultant. From 1995 until 2008, he was the director of the Master School Drehbuch, an institution for the education of screenwriters, script consultants and producers in Berlin. Today he works as a script consultant for production companies and writers, as a lecturer in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Poland, and as a writer. Oliver Sch�tte is the author of "Die Kunst des Drehbuchlesens" and "Schau mir in die Augen, Kleines". He is a founding member of the German Film Academy.
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Save Your Semester Workshops
(for all L&S students).
This workshop focuses on College policies and procedures students can make use of in saving their semesters, such as P/NP, the exceptional change petition process, incompletes, and withdrawal. We do discuss other resources, but this is NOT a study skills workshop.
Tuesday, October 29, 4pm-5pm, 262 Evans Halland
7:30 pm-8:30 pm, 105 Chavez
Wednesday, October 30, 6:30pm-7:30pm, Unit 1 All Purpose Room
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Funding for Research on Diplomacy and Culture
The "Diplomacy and Culture" Colloquium sponsored by the Institute of International Studies at U.C. Berkeley announces five research grants to support work on the theme of the colloquium.
Eligibility and Awards: UC Berkeley Faculty, Graduate Students, and Undergraduate Students are eligible for one-time grants of up to $3500 to support travel and research expenses on the topic of "Diplomacy and Culture." This may involve humanistic and/or social scientific approaches to the intersection of cultural production and the political practice of diplomacy--understood in their broadest terms.
Application Process: Please submit a two-page double-spaced description of your project and proposed research + a one-page budget. Submit applications to Professor Timothy Hampton, c/o Department of Comparative Literature, 4125 Dwinelle Hall #2580. Electronic submissions may be made to [email protected].
Deadline: Applications are due on October 11, 2013. Awards will be announced on October 21, 2013.
Follow-up: Recipients will be required to present a 20-minute version of their project and/or research results to the "Diplomacy and Culture" Colloquium at a public event held at the Institute of International Studies in spring 2014. Also, a brief written report on the work will be required for reporting purposes on the Colloquium's activities. Any publications emerging from the grant should acknowledge the support of the Institute of International Studies.
Funds may not be used for equipment or salaries, as per university regulations.
Since 1987, the Berkeley Undergraduate Journal (BUJ) has published academic research papers written by Cal students in the humanities and social sciences disciplines. Today the BUJ is run entirely by Cal undergraduates (and offers a Decal about editorial skills) and operates under the guidance of the Office of Undergraduate Research.
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Research Workshops
Workshop: Workshops | September 25 | 9-10 a.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Information Session | September 25 | 4-5 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Workshop: Workshops: grant proposal writing | September 26 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Workshop: Workshops | September 30 | 4-5 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
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Call for Undergraduate Research Papers
The Berkeley Undergraduate Journal (BUJ) is now accepting research papers written by UC Berkeley undergraduate students in the humanities and social sciences disciplines. The submission deadline for our Fall 2013 issue is September 25th, 2013 online. For more information on submissions requirements and processes, please see
http://learning.berkeley.edu/buj/. Questions about submissions should be directed to Mary Crabb at [email protected].
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UC PPIA Fellowship
Application deadline is November 1, 2013.
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APPLY NOW!
The Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA) Fellowship Program at the University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy is accepting applications for the summer of 2014.
Program Information
The Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute is an intensive seven week academic training program for college juniors. The summer institute prepares undergraduate students for graduate studies in public policy, international affairs and law. Participants complete coursework in economics, statistics, policy analysis and law; and visit local, state and federal government agencies and non-profit organizations. Each year we select 30 students to participate in the program from across the country. Through GSPP's partnership with Berkeley Law School, ten out of the 30 students are admitted as UCPPIA Law Fellows due to their interest in pursuing joint degrees in public policy and law.
Benefits PPIA Fellows Receive: * Assistance with travel expenses to and from the Summer Institute * Summer Stipend * Room and Board
* A minimum $5000 fellowship from a consortium graduate school where the PPIA Fellow is accepted
Eligibility Criteria (http://gspp.berkeley.edu/academics/ppia-junior-summer-institute/fellowship-eligibility-criteria-guidelines)
* Applicants must be U.S. citizen, permanent residents or meet California State AB-540 guidelines (Must have attended a California high school for at least 3 full years and you must have graduated from a California high school). * Applicants must apply during their junior year of college * Applicants must have a demonstrated interest in policy issues most affecting historically underserved communities, including African Americans, Asian Americans/South Asians, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Latinos/as and a commitment to working on these issues, as shown by past and/or current service. Application The application deadline is November 1, 2013. For more information, please visit our website at: http://gspp.berkeley.edu/ppia/index.html
For the online application and to apply, visit: http://www.ppiaprogram.org/app/
Please contact Isaac Castro, Student Services Advisor, [email protected] / (510) 643-6961, if you have any questions or would like additional information.
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Courses of Interest
ISF 189: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research Methods
ISF 189.3
Tuesdays, Thursdays 12:30-2PM
201 Wheeler
Prof. Renate Holub
CCN: 45550
This course offers an introduction to interdisciplinary quantitative and qualitative research methods. It will enable the students to deepen and clarify their research topics and to tailor their methodological approaches to their disciplinary inclinations. They will build a grounded bibliography on their research topic and acquire the skills to survey the basic conceptual and theoretical arguments on their particular topic. By the end of the semester, they will have written a critical survey of the literature on their topic which will serve as the introductory chapter to the thesis. Students who write honors theses will also contact faculty on campus who have expertise in the students' research area.
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Meet the new ISF Director!
Professor Peter Sahlins (History) has been appointed the new director of ISF and will serve in Fall 2013 as a Faculty Advisor. His office hours this semester are Tuesdays 11-12 and 2-3 and Thursdays 9:30-11 (259 Evans Hall), and Tuesdays 9:30-11 (3214 Dwinelle Hall) or by appointment. You may also reach him at: [email protected] and at 510-664-4315.
Professor Sahlins has been a faculty member of the History Department at Berkeley since 1989, where he teaches a range of courses in early modern and modern European and French history. He is the founding director of the France-Berkeley Fund (1990-2001) and the founding director of the Paris Study Center (2002-2005). Between 2006 and 2008, Sahlins was Director of Academic Programs at the Social Science Research Council in New York (see his full c.v.)
http://history.berkeley.edu/people/peter-sahlins
Professor Sahlins is the author of four books and several dozen articles on a range of topics, including the history of national identity in early modern France, rural rebellion and popular culture in the 19 thcentury, immigration and nationality law before and after the French Revolution of 1789, and the history of animals and zoos. His first book, Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees (University of California Press, 1989), explored issues of national identity and territoriality between the 17 thand 19 th
centuries in Catalonia.
In 1994, he published Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in 19th century France (Harvard University Press), a study of forests in southern France that took up issues of management and resistance later addressed in the field of Environmental History. In 1998, he co-authored, with the French historian Jean-Francois Dubost, Et si on faisait payer les Etrangers? Louis XIV, les immigres, et quelques autres (Flammarion), a study of immigration policy and immigrants in the late seventeenth century. And in 2004 he completed Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After (Cornell University Press) that combined a legal history of French naturalization law between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries and a social history of immigrant groups in France.
He has more recently turned to the history of animals, specifically the representational uses of animals in science, medicine, literature,visual culture, and political iconography in the early reign of Louis XIV. His recent article on the royal zoos of Louis XIV can be downloaded here:
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ISF Faculty Advisor Office Hours
Peter Sahlins
259 Evans, 510-664-4315,E-mail: [email protected]
Office Hours:
Drop-in and by appointment. Contact Prof. Sahlins directly to schedule.
Tuesday 11-12 and 2-3 (259 Evans); Thursday 9:30-11 (259 Evans);
Tuesday 9:30-11 (3214 Dwinelle) or by appointment.
Earl Klee
Rm 267 Evans, 642-1344, E-mail: [email protected]
Office Hours (drop-in): Mon, Tue, Wed, Thurs, 1-3:30
Gary Wren
Rm 239 Evans, 642-2087, E-mail: [email protected]
Office Hours:
Mondays: Tuesdays: 10:00-12, 1-3, 4-5
Thursdays 10:00-12, 1-3
Robert Ehrlich
Rm 259 Evans, 642-0660, E-mail: [email protected]
(Office hours are drop-in & by appointment. Contact Prof. Ehrlich directly to schedule)
Tuesdays 3:15-4:15, Wednesdays 11-12, Thursdays 3:15-4:15, Fridays 1:30-3
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Changes to the ISF major
The following changes to the major are detailed in the new ISF Student Handbook (see .pdf below) and on the revised ISF web site: http://ugis.ls.berkeley.edu/isf/
1) We will no longer be identifying "Areas of Concentration." Instead, the title of a student's self-selected program will be called a "Program of Research": it will be made up of a "Course of Study" that includes all the relevant courses taken or to be taken and a Senior Thesis. These changes are reflected on the revised web pages, in the new Student Handbook, and on the revised application form.
2) Prerequisite Requirement. Previously, students were required to be enrolled in one of the two prerequisites chosen from three lists of courses in three categories: Global Regions, Pre-1600 Courses, Modern History courses. Now, students and their advisors (both Patrick and the ISF faculty advisors) will approve the two prerequisite courses proposed by the students that fall into two of these three categories. We intend to remain quite flexible, although occasionally a syllabus review might be necessary. This is an interim procedure until a more thorough revision of the prerequisite requirement will be made.
3) Core Methodology Courses. In addition to our offerings this term, we will be listing a number of courses that can be counted as a second ISF 100 series course. So far, these include:
-History 186: International and Global History Since 1945 (Dan Sargent)
-History C187: History of Human Rights (Stefan Hoffman).
To read about these new changes, check out our brand-new, revised ISF Handbook:
http://ugis.ls.berkeley.edu/isf/resources/files/HANDBOOK-13-14.pdf
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Internship and Employment opportunities
CalJobs
Whether you are looking for part-time employment as a student or that first career position after you graduate, CalJobs is your gateway to job search success.
Part of Callisto, CalJobs provides access to over 26,000 jobs and internships a year. These listings cover the private, non-profit, and public sectors, and are posted by employers who have specifically targeted Cal students and alumni.
CalJobs listings include:
* Full-time jobs
* Part-time jobs (both on and off campus)
* Internships and summer opportunities
* Temporary jobs and projects
To access CalJobs, login to Callisto, click on Jobs, Internships & OCR Interviews on the top menu, and select CalJobs.
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Featured Article
September 18, 2013
Employers and Public Favor Graduates Who Can Communicate, Survey Finds
By Dan Berrett
Washington
Americans adults and employers want colleges to produce graduates who can think critically and creatively, and can communicate orally and in writing, according to the results of a public-opinion survey released by Northeastern University here on Tuesday.
Respondents were far less interested in having students receive narrow training and industry-specific skills.
In fact, nearly two-thirds of adults and three-quarters of employers agreed with the following statement: "Being well-rounded with a range of abilities is more important than having industry expertise because job-specific skills can be learned at work."
The survey results, which were described in the presentation "Innovation Imperative: Enhancing Higher Education Outcomes," support the conclusions of a poll of employers that the Association of American Colleges and Universities released earlier this year. That poll found broad support for the idea that students should learn to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems, or what the association described as "a 21st-century liberal education."
Many single data points in the survey could be used as evidence of academe's failures-or of its indispensability. But Joseph E. Aoun, Northeastern's president, said people should not seize on individual findings in the service of a tidy narrative.
"Don't focus on only one dimension," he said at a news conference at which the results were released. "Look at the totality of the survey."
Contradictory Opinions
The totality of the results reflected a certain ambivalence.
For instance, while nearly three-quarters said a college degree was more important today than it was for their parents' generation, 62 percent said colleges were doing only a "fair" or "poor" job of preparing graduates for the work force.
Nearly nine respondents in 10 said the American system of higher education needed to change in order to remain competitive with other countries' systems. But the importance of global competition extended only so far: The share of respondents who said students needed more opportunities to gain "global experience" by working or studying abroad (42 percent) was far less than the percentage who favored other experiences, such as internships (79 percent).
The question of who was responsible for preparing future workers also produced a mixed response: Thirty-six percent of respondents said employers do; 35 percent thought it was graduates; and 29 percent answered colleges.
Questions about online learning and massive open online courses, or MOOCs, produced divergent and occasionally contradictory opinions.
Slightly more than half of the respondents believe that MOOCs will fundamentally transform how students are taught, but just 27 percent think the online classes are of the same quality as traditional, in-person education. And yet more than half of the respondents predicted that in five to seven years an online education would be seen as of equal quality to a traditional one.
The ambivalence reflected in the results may suggest a larger sense of disequilibrium in the public, Jeffrey J. Wilcox, corporate vice president for engineering at the Lockheed-Martin Corporation, said at the meeting. "I think what you see in the survey is angst over the pace of change," he said.
The survey, the second that Northeastern has commissioned, which was conducted this year by FTI Consulting. Findings were based on 1,000 telephone interviews of a representative sample of American adults. More than 260 employers were also polled. The margin of error was 3.1 percent.
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