The Bi-Weekly Advising Bulletin – Weeks 7-8, Winter Term 2020

Happy advising days! Advising Days began as on Monday, February 17. NOTE that the deadline for Scrunch is at the end of this week, 5 p.m., Friday, February 21. Also, the Spring 2020 registration priority times have been posted to students’ records and are currently listed on The Hub.

Remaining Winter Term Deadlines:

· Monday, February 17, Advising Days Begin (through Feb. 25).

· Friday February 21, Ten-week Course Late Drop and S/CR/NC Deadline (5:00 p.m.)

· Monday, February 24, Registration for Spring Term Begins (through March 29).

· Friday, February 28, Second Five-week Course Late Drop and S/CR/NC Deadline (5:00 p.m.)

Decision Time for Sophomores

Advising days in the winter for sophomores marks a time of transition to a major. Your conversations with sophomore advisees at this time should begin with how this transition is working for them. Although these students will receive an advisor in their major sometime after the ten-week add/drop deadline in the spring, they will continue to work with their liberal arts advisors during this transitional time. (I will handle advising during this transitional time for students whose faculty advisors are going on leave in the spring trimester). The timing and process of the assigning of major advisees to their departmental advisers can vary by department. This page in the Advising Handbook provides further insight into how this works. Any chairs wishing to get more advice on how new major advisees ought to be assigned, may wish to contact me (amontero).

A priority during this transition time is planning the completion of the Sophomore Writing Portfolio. All portfolios are due May 15, 2020. Inquire again with your sophomore advisees concerning their progress. Most of this work should not be left for spring trimester, especially with the added commitment of starting a major and working with a department. Sophomores have to juggle summer plans, including employment and internships, as well as fellowship applications and other opportunities. The Writing Portfolio can be all too conveniently put on the back burner. It should be on the front burner and in full cook mode by now.

For those sophomore advisees who have yet to commit to a major, you will want to have them prepare a Major Decision Sheet for several options and have them run through their thinking with you on each one. Choosing a major can be stressful and anxiety-producing for many students, but it ought not be. Try to encourage your advisees by reaffirming that their choice of major does not necessarily foreclose the professional options they would like to keep open. Use Pathways as a tool to reinforce this principle with your advisees.

On the other end of the spectrum are students who are not only decided on a first major, but they have a second major in mind as well. The first thing to consider with these students is the burden of fulfilling the requirements of two majors, including two comps processes. This will have an impact on students’ plans for going off-campus or taking leaves, graduating early, and even doing certain internships/externships. In all cases, students wishing to declare a second major must obtain the approval of the chairs of both major departments. See the Rules and Regs on Double Majors.

Your advisees may also take this time to discuss possible minors. In most cases, students interested in particular minors ought to discuss them with the directors of these minors and/or the chairs of departments with a disciplinary minor. Chairs and program directors will have the most accurate information about their minors. Academic advisers are not expected to provide specific guidance on minors.

New Courses for the Spring!

ENGL 225: ‘Public Offenders’: Pre-Raphaelites and Bloomsbury Group

Two exceptional groups of artists changed aesthetic and cultural history through their writings, art, politics, and lives. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began in 1847 when art students united to create “direct and serious and heartfelt” work; the Bloomsbury group began with Cambridge friends sharing their insistence on aesthetic lives. Critics said the PRB “extolled fleshliness as the supreme end of poetic and pictorial art,” and the Bloomsbury Group “painted in circles, lived in squares and loved in triangles.” We will study Dante Rossetti, Holman Hunt, John Millais, William Morris, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Vanessa and Clive Bell. Taught by Prof. Susan Jaret McKinstry.

ARBC 212: Colloquial Egyptian Arabic

In this course we will focus on acquiring conversational and listening comprehension skills, and building vocabulary in Egyptian Arabic, the spoken dialect of Egypt and one of the most widely understood dialects across the Arab world. Building upon the foundation of Modern Standard Arabic, we will focus upon points of grammatical and semantic convergence and divergence, and work to develop strategies for fluidly navigating our ways between and within these two linguistic registers. We will study the language systematically, but we will also incorporate a range of written and audiovisual materials–music, films, television and web series–as well as other popular culture from the region. Prerequisites: Arabic 205 or equivalent. Taught by Prof. Sahar Ramadan.

ENGL 239: Democracy: Politics, Race, & Sex in Nineteenth Century American Novels

An important preoccupation of nineteenth century America was the nature of democracy and the proper balance of individualism and the social good. An experiment in government, democracy also raised new questions about gender, class, and race. Citizenship was contested; roles in the new, expanding nation were fluid; abolition and emancipation, the movement for women's rights, industrialization all caused ferment and anxiety. The course will explore the way these issues were imagined in fiction by such writers as Cooper, Hawthorne, Maria Sedgwick, Stowe, Tourgee, Henry Adams, Twain, Gilman, and Chesnutt. Taught by Prof. Beth McKinsey.

AMST 254: The 1930s: Social and Cultural Impact of the Great Depression

Through cultural manifestations--literature, painting, movies, radio, design, historic preservation, and music--we will trace progress from shock and despair to hope in the ‘30s and see how Americans of all races and classes coped with the disruptions and opportunities of economic cataclysm, political shifts, new social programs and expectations, and technology. Materials will include texts on the New Deal, labor, the Great Migration and race relations; fiction, essays, and plays by Steinbeck, Nathaniel West, James Agee, Thornton Wilder, Meridel LeSueur, Hurston, and Wright; popular movies and music; and photography, painting, Art Deco, and the 1939 World’s Fair. Taught by Prof. Beth McKinsey.

The following new couses were advertised in the last issue of the Bulletin:

HIST 143: Modern Italy in the Mediterranean World, with Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor Michael Ebner.

Italy’s path to modernity has been conditioned to a significant degree by its position in the Mediterranean. This course examines the history of the modern Italian nation-state from its formation during the nineteenth century up to the present day, paying special attention to Italy’s engagement with the Mediterranean Basin. Looking at trade, culture, immigration, and colonialism in Libya and East Africa, the course stresses the extent to which Italians have shaped, and been shaped by, the Mediterranean world and its peoples. 

HIST 252: Fascism in Europe, 1914-1945, with Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor Michael Ebner. 

This course examines the history and historiography of European fascism from its origins through World War II, looking at national case studies including Italy, Germany, Spain, and France. Adopting a comparative perspective and offering conflicting historical interpretations, the course explores the differences between fascism and right-wing authoritarian movements, the fascist style(s) of rule, and fascism's ideological make-up. The course also covers the way fascists seized power, consolidated their rule through apparatuses of terror, won adherents through foreign and domestic policies, and manufactured consent through propaganda, cultural initiatives, and mass participatory politics. 

SPAN 376: Mexico City: The City as Protagonist

This seminar will have Mexico City as protagonist, and will examine the construction of one of the largest urban centers of the world through fictional writing, cultural criticism, and visual/aural culture. We will critically engage the fictions of its past, the dystopias of its present, the assemblage of affects and images that give it continuity, but which also codify the ever-changing and contested view of its representation and meaning. From Carlos Fuentes to Sayak Valencia, in the company of Eisenstein and Cuarón, among others. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or above. Prof. Silvia López.

The Global and Regional Studies Minors Fair

All are invited to the upcoming Global and Regional Studies Minors Fair on Thursday, February 27th, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. in LDC 3rd Floor Lounge. Students can learn more about languages and area studies at Carleton. Meet SDAs and faculty in a variety of programs and departments.

The PE Requirement

Advisers, if you have seniors heading into their final term at Carleton, make dead sure that they have completed or can complete their fourth required PE course. Remember, a PE “activity” is not the same as a “PE Course.” A PE course is transcripted and will appear in Progress Towards Degree and the Transcript view in the Hub. Also, under current policy, PE courses are transcripted just as any course would be. So a PE that is dropped is shown with a DRP on a student transcript.

As a rule of thumb, it is a good idea to make sure that sophomores have completed at least one PE by the end of the second year. Failure to complete the PE graduation requirement is the leading cause of non-grad status. There is no excuse for this! Make sure that ALL of your advisees have a plan for the PE graduation requirement.

The Career Center’s Internship Poster Session, Thursday, February 13, 2020

The Financial Literacy Hash-Mark Survey

As all advisers know at this time, CEDI’s Action Team on Financial Literacy is collecting student opinions concerning the financial skills they believe they need to develop and how we may be able to deliver support for these at Carleton. If you have not already done so, please place a single copy of this hash mark survey on your doors or hand the sheet to each advisee as you meet with them during advising days to fill out. The task should take no more than 1-2 minutes. Once you have met with all of your advisees, please campus mail the sheet to Al Montero, Dean of the College Office, Laird 148. Thank you! (If you need another electronic copy, please email me – amontero).

A Reminder: “The Match” – A CS Preregistration Pilot Program

Based on long-standing enrollment challenges and long waitlists -- and accompanying concerns that the students most negatively affected are often from demographic groups traditionally underrepresented in the field -- the CS department is beginning an ECC-approved pilot preregistration program this term.  The department expects this pilot to run for multiple terms, starting in a limited fashion in Winter 2020 and expanding in future terms.  The goal is to maximize the number of interested students who are able to enroll in a single CS class, while minimizing the number of students simultaneously taking multiple CS classes (instead encouraging them to take a Carleton-like range of courses from many different departments and programs).

Students will be receiving multiple emails from the CS department outlining the details of the system, but the department also wants to make sure that advisors are aware of the key features of the system as well:

-- students interested in any CS classes numbered 202 and above will have an opportunity to indicate their interest, including their preferences among CS classes, in a Google Form submitted before Advising Days.  (Due 2/10 5pm.)

-- using a program modeled after the National Residency Matching Program (http://www.nrmp.org/), the department will match those students to a single CS class (capacity permitting), in which a seat will be saved.  Students will know their matched course before Advising Days (by 2/14), so they should come to advising meetings prepared to discuss whether to take advantage of their match.

-- any seats unclaimed by the Match will be available for normal registration during the regular priority time slots, as usual. For students who are matched to seats in the match, there is no obligation to register for the matched course; they can either choose to claim that seat during priority registration days, or simply let the permission expire.

For any questions from advisors (or students), please contact David Liben-Nowell (dln@carleton.edu) or Anna Rafferty (arafferty@carleton.edu).  They are always happy to help.

Time to Set Up Advising Notes for Major Advisers

Advisers may use the adviser note function in OnBase to leave confidential information for the next adviser. All advisers of sophomores should take some time before the end of the final exam period this term to identify sophomore advisees who would benefit from such reports if their major advisers received them. Notes left by liberal arts advisers are not read by students and are only visible to active advisers. For a primer on how to use this function in OnBase, you can consult a video of a demonstration that was done for the 2017 Annual Advising Workshop. You may view the video here. Fast forward to minute 38.15 to see the full demo of the notes function with OnBase.

If you are the adviser of a first-year student and you will be on leave next year (for fall and winter/whole year, etc.), you should also consider filling out an adviser note for your advisees before they are reassigned to a new liberal arts adviser for most of their sophomore year. That can wait until the end of the spring term.

Other Housekeeping Tasks for Advisers of Sophomores

Once sophomores declare their majors, departments will take some time to assign new advisers. That period can represent a kind of “no-person’s land” for students who will become briefly adviser-less. If you anticipate that your approval or signature may be needed on a petition (e.g., OCS program approval), please handle that business with your advisees BEFORE they officially declare their majors. If you and your advisees agree that it is best to have a major adviser sign such petitions, then make certain that the petition process will permit enough time for new major departments to assign a major adviser in the required time period. Many advisers of sophomores find it useful to organize exit interviews with all sophomores to cover all of the bases before the student declares a major and the liberal arts adviser loses access to the student’s records.

Off-Campus Studies

Please remind students who are planning to study off campus next year (2020-2021) about the Carleton and non-Carleton program deadlines, information sessions, and program representative visits. All deadlines and information available at: https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/ocs/programs/carleton/

 

Application deadlines for Off-Campus Studies programs taking place in 2020-2021 are coming up! Ask your advisees about their plans -- they will need your approval to participate in these programs.

 

Application deadlines are as follows:

1.     Carleton Seminar December Break 2020 -- April 6

2.     Carleton Seminar Winter 2021 -- April 20

3.     Carleton Seminar Spring 2021 -- April 20

4.     Carleton Global Engagement -- March 15

5.     Non-Carleton Programs (application for approval) -- April 16 (Academic Year/Summer/Fall Term-Semester Be certain that your advisees will have an adviser to sign off on these by the deadline!!!

Navigating Workplace Cultures

 

This event takes place on Thursday, February 20th from 5:30-7pm in Alumni Guest House. This is a re-entry event for students who went on OCS seminars who would like to know how to incorporate the OCS experience into their careers. It is an interactive workshop on how to bridge cultural and communication gaps to be better prepared and get more out of their Carleton experience, study abroad, internships, graduate school, or first job. Please encourage students to attend to learn how to highlight these experiences to employers! Dinner provided.

Passport Day! Wednesday, April 8th, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Sayles-Hill Upper Atrium

This is an event offered to students, staff, and faculty who need a new passport or to renew their current passport. The Rice County Office will be here to administer the processing, but you must come prepared with the following: completed application, certified copy of birth certificate and a photocopy of the front and back OR previous US passport, valid MN driver's license (if out of state driver’s license we must have second ID-college ID works), copies of front and back of all ID's (no double sided). Cost is $145 (one check or money order for $110 made out to U.S. Dept of State, and an additional $35, cash, money order, or check, to Rice County Recorder; photo taken on site for an additional $15.) Expedited service is an additional $60.

Office of Student Fellowships

 

As you work with your advisees, please remember that there are resources to help you match advisees to fellowships at https://apps.carleton.edu/fellowships/advisors/ , including a link to send notice of a promising student to me. 

 

Rising and graduating seniors have received brochures outlining the national and international fellowships open to them and notifying them of upcoming information sessions. Please encourage promising students to consider these opportunities!

 

Thank you to all advisors for referrals and recommendations this term and best wishes for the remaining weeks!

Student Health and What Advisors Should Know

The Office of Health Promotion will once again offer Happy Hour spring term.  Happy Hour teaches students mental well-being strategies, rooted in the science of Positive Psychology. It meets one hour per week, weeks 2-10.  More information and a link to register can be found here: https://www.carleton.edu/health-promotion/mental-health/happy-hour/

Professional Development and the Career Center

MPC CAREER FAIR

The biggest career event in February is the Minnesota Private Colleges' Job & Internship Fair on Thursday, February 27th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Minneapolis Convention Center. More than 260 employers from Business, Communications, Education, Government, Healthcare & Science, Non-Profit & Social Services, and Technology & Engineering fields will be there. Career fair prep session for students on Tuesday, February 18th at Noon.

PRE-CAREER FAIR RESUME REVIEW WITH RECRUITERS

On Wednesday, February 26th (the day before the MPC Career Fair), the Career Center has arranged for 8 recruiters to provide expert reviews of Carleton students' resumes. Students can sign up via the Tunnel for a 15-minute appointment to meet virtually with one of those recruiters to review their resume and gain insights directly from those who review applications and make hiring decisions. https://apps.carleton.edu/career/about/events/?event_id=1000031574&date=2020-02-26

INTERNSHIP FUNDING DEADLINE - February 24 at 11:59 p.m.

The second (of five) internship funding deadlines is Monday, February 24.  If students have an internship and need funding to support summer expenses, please encourage them to apply. The Career Center can fund internships in political work, environmental sustainability, social justice, and research (plus a lot of other areas). Please apply!

NAVIGATING CULTURE AT WORK

Please encourage your advisees to join us in an interactive workshop on how to bridge cultural and communication gaps while innovating for the future! Thursday, February 20 (5:30 - 7:00 p.m.; AGH Meeting Room). RSVP through the Tunnel.  

RECOMMEND A CARL FOR AN ON-CAMPUS PEER LEADER POSITION

Do you have a student looking for leadership experience?  Recommend a Carl for a Peer Leader position!  Peer Leaders work in a variety of offices on campus.  As a Peer Leaders students gain critical leadership skills and professional competencies across industries.  The nomination form takes less than 1-2 minutes.  Thank you for your time and recommendations!

30 MINUTES

Students meet 1:1 with an alum in the Career Center

· Week 7 (February 17 - 21)

· Environment | Monday, February 17, 1:30-4:00p.m. – Amanda Jarrett Smith ’08 (English) Climate Change and Energy Policy Coordinator, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

· Info. Systems/Tech | Monday, February 17, 1:30-4:30p.m. – Morgan Jones ’13 (Computer Science) Software Engineering, Slack Technologies (Virtual)

· Healthcare | Monday, February 17, 2:00-4:00p.m. – Drew Riley ’05 (Women & Gender Studies/SOAN) Continuous Quality Improvement Coordinator, Oregon Health Authority (Virtual)

· Environment | Tuesday, February 18, 10:00a.m.-12:00p.m. – Jenny Fink ’12 (Art History) Asset Manager, EDF Renewables North America (Virtual)

· Environment | Thursday, February 20, 4:00-6:00p.m. – Izaak Sunleaf ’15 (Math) Manager, Energy Finance Technology, Open Energy Group (Virtual)

· Business/Finance | Friday, February 21, 8:30-11:00a.m. – Andrew Ziller ’09 (Economics) Director of Strategy, UnitedHealth Group(Virtual)

· Week 9 (March 2 - 6)

· Business/Finance | Wednesday, March 3, 1:30-3:30p.m. – Michael Wenderoth '93 (History, Political Economy concentration) Executive Coach, IE (Spain) and Stanford Exec Ed (In person)

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NOTE: This is the last issue of the Bulletin until first week of spring term. If you have any questions/concerns regarding advising, know that you can always email me (amontero or call x5883).

Useful Quick Links

The Advising Handbook

Forms and decision trees (https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/doc/advising/forms/ )

Whom to contact (https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/doc/advising/directory/ )

The Graduation Requirements on the Registrar’s Page

Academic Rules and Regs of the College

Off-Campus Studies Programs

The Career Center page with resource links for advisers