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Welcome In 1984, the faculty of Washington and Lee University created the University Scholars Program in order to provide extra challenge and opportunity for some of our best prepared, most able students. The program combines broad yet intensive studies in the liberal arts with independent study leading to a thesis. The selective admissions policies of Washington and Lee result in an able and motivated student body; within it lies a much smaller group whose even greater drive, maturity, and ability help them to benefit from a special program that offers additional opportunities and challenges requiring additional effort. The University Scholars Program builds on the personal attention made possible by Washington and Lee's traditional emphasis on teaching and low student-faculty ratio. It includes students of widely varied backgrounds, talents, and interests who nonetheless have in common active and curious minds, as well as an enthusiasm to explore ideas among themselves, with faculty, and with distinguished visitors to the campus. University Scholars Offering for 2007-2008 (1) There are no courses in the fall term that are explicitly labeled UNIV, however the following three courses will carry University Scholars credit: ANTH 290A: Childhood. Professor Goluboff (satisfies Social Science Requirement) CHEM 196: Nuclear Power: Energy and the Environment. Professor Settle (satisfies Natural Science Requirement) FREN 397: La France Sous L'Occupation. Professor Fregnac-Clave. (Satisfies Humanities Requirement)
(2) In the Winter term there will be at least the following courses carrying University Scholars Credit: UNIV 202/203: Scientific, Political, and International Response to WMD. Professors Settle and Strong. (can be used to satisfy either the Social Science or the Natural Science Requirement, but not both) UNIV 203: Democracy and de Tocqueville. Professor Connelly UNIV 201: Explorations and Expeditions in American Literature. Professor Warren UNIV 202: Remote Sensing, Environmental Risk Management and the Petroleum Industry. Professor Miranda (visiting from Petrobras and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). (intensive six week course) INTR/PHIL 342: Legal Ethics. Professor Cooper. (satisfies the Humanities Requirement)
(3) In the Spring Term there will be at least the following 3 credit courses carrying University Scholars credit: UNIV 203 (might be listed as POL 396): Leadership in the Developing World: Gandhi, Mendela, Menchu. Professor Dickovick. UNIV 201: Philosophy and Sex. Professor Bell ENV 395: Ethics and the Conservation of Biodiversity. Professors Hurd and Cooper (can be used to satisfy either the Humanities Requirement or the Natural Science Requirement, but not both)
(4) In the Spring Term there will be at least the following 6 credit courses carrying University Scholars credit: English 294/Biology 230: Topics in Environmental Literature/Field Biogeography and Species Conservation. Professors Warren and Knox. (Satisfies the Humanities and Natural Science Requirements) UNIV 202/ART 380: Science and Art. Professor Uffelman. (satisfies Humanities and Natural Science Requirements) UNIV 203/REL 295: American Indians and the National Park Service: Perspectives on the Land. (Includes field trip southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico). Course taught by Professor Markowitz. (satisfies Humanities and Social Science Requirements) UNIV 201/INTR 296: Global Stewardship. Professors Carey, Delaney, Eastwood and Dickovick. (includes field trip to Barbados). (satisfies both Humanities and Social Science Requirement) CLAS 288/ REL 295: The Grandeur that was Rome: The Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Early Christianity. Professors Benefiel and Brown. (includes three week filed trip to Italy) (satisfies HUmanities and Social Science Requirement) Econ 385/386: The Environment and Economic Development in Amazonas. Professor Kahn. (includes three weeks in Brazil) (satisfies Social Science and Natural Science Requirements) |
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