October 3, 2011
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Honors College Travel Stipend Scholarship
The Honors College Dean’s Office would like to remind you about an opportunity for students
enrolled in any of its programs/majors to receive financial assistance for conference
participation. Such students may apply for the Honors College Travel Stipend Scholarship to
receive travel funding. However, priority will be given to those who are presenting a paper at a
conference and whose paper already has been accepted. The application process also is open
to Honors College students who believe they will benefit significantly from attending a
conference related to their intended field of study, especially for research contributing to work
on a senior thesis. More information about the scholarship is available at
http://www.baylor.edu/honorscollege/index.php?id=78070.
Application Deadline: Noon February 1 (for travel completed by February 16-May 31, 2012).
Honors Accounting, Fall 2011
As has been done in the recent past, all students wishing to take ACC2303-Honors and
ACC2304-Honors must complete a short online application. Here are the links for both courses:
For ACC2303 Honors: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ACC2303H
For ACC2304 Honors: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ACC2304H
Baylor in Turkey and Greece 2012 - May 30-June 27, 2012.
Honors Program students are strongly encouraged to consider a variety of semesterand study-abroad opportunities. For honors program students, Baylor in Turkey and Greece
2012 has a special appeal since both GTX 2301 and GTX 2302 are available for honors credit.
Under the direction of Dr. Douglas Henry, Associate Professor of Philosophy in the
Honors College and Master of Brooks Residential College, BiTG will take place from May 30June 27, 2012. Participants will travel to the birthplaces of Western civilization and culture,
where they will walk the “dusty plains of windy Troy,” journey across the wine dark sea of the
Aegean, and climb to the top of the Acropolis to see the Parthenon in Athens. The trip will
include visits to Hagia Sophia, the storied Byzantine church that was a center of Christian
worship for a thousand years, to Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire,
and to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque. We'll argue with one another in Athenian agora, seek the
oracle at Delphi, and visit the archaeological sites of New Testament Christian churches at
Ephesus, Pergamon, and Laodecea.
Baylor in Turkey and Greece 2012 has been designed specifically with Honors College students
in mind, combining visits to sites of utmost cultural, historic, political, and intellectual worth
with an engaging set of courses that meet a wide variety of degree plan needs. Further
information is available online at homepages.baylor.edu/douglas_henry/BiTG or by email
inquiry at [email protected]. The complete list of courses available for honors credit
includes:
BIC 2320 Social World I
BIC 3358 Biblical Heritage and Contemporary Issues
BIC 4389 BIC Capstone: The Modern Odyssey
GTX 2301 Intellectual Tradition of the Ancient World (will count for Honors)
GTX 2302 Medieval Intellectual Tradition (will count for Honors)
GTX 4v99 Great Texts of the Near East
MUS 1220 Introduction to Music
PHI 1321 Introduction to Philosophy
PHI 3310 Classical Philosophy
EVENTS: TWO-WEEK FORECAST
INTEREST MEETING: Baylor in Oxford: Summer 2012
Tuesday Oct 4 3:30pm, Morrison Hall 105
A range of five-week courses led by Baylor professors at Oxford University. Students will live
and study at Christ Church, one of Oxford's most prestigious colleges, and will make extended
trips to several sites in London, the Lake District, and Scotland. Students can apply for
scholarships.
Academic Integrity Tutorial – Available online this Thursday, October 6
All new (freshman and transfer) students must complete an online Academic Integrity Tutorial
before they will be able to register for Spring classes. Visit
http://baylor.edu/students/new/index.php?id=84659 for more information. Contact
[email protected] with questions.
Lecture: “Dante's Exile and the Path of Salvation: Paradiso XV-XVII” by Prof. Giuseppe
Mazzotta
5 p.m. Thursday, October 6 in the Alexander Reading Room; Reception to follow.
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