In this issue:

- Advising Updates

- Research Assistants Needed

- Seniors, Apply to the Campaign Corps

- Beyond the Classroom Now Accepting Applications

- GVPT Study Abroad Programs

- Senior Summer Scholars

- Scholarships

- Events around Campus

- Internship Opportunities

ADVISING UPDATES

Walk-In Hours for Spring 2007

Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday :1pm -5pm

Tuesday : 1pm-3pm

Friday : 9am-12pm

If you would like to meet with an advisor at a time not listed above, you can email advising@gvpt.umd.edu to schedule an appointment.  Please include times you are available to meet in the request email.

College Advising - Official Audit Time

Attention BSOS Students - February 12-23 is OFFICIAL AUDIT TIME

All BSOS majors with 80-89 credits WILL BE REQUIRED to complete an official audit.  The audit can be completed via the web or in-person. 

To use the web audit tool, visit: http://www.bsosadvising.umd.edu/audit/

To complete your audit with an advisor, please begin the 1st of 2 steps with your departmental advisor.

When registration comes, don't get surpised by a registartion block! Complete your audit during Official Audit Time!

Undergraduate Research Assistants for UMIACS/CIDCM Collaboration

The CIDCM research department and the Univ. of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies are hiring 2 or 3 dedicated undergrads.  They are looking for students with a good knowledge of the English language and are comfortable with computers.  There is an opportunity to make up to $800 per month for the next 3 months.If the students are successful, there will also be a chance for placement over the summer with the project.

For more information, or if you are interested in applying for the position, contact Karmin Cortes via kcortes@gvpt.umd.edu

Attention Seniors

Campaign Corps is a national grassroots program dedicated to politically empowering young people.  Each year, they train talented recent college graduates and place them on targeted, progressive Democratic campaigns.  Participants receive a stipend and free housing during the campaign, with all travel expenses paid.

Formerly known as Participation 2000, Campaign Corps has been bringing young people into the political process since 1988.  Campaign Corps receives hundreds of applications a year from recent college graduates across the country.  Once accepted, staffers come to Washington at the end of July, for a week-long Campaign School, where they learn the basics of political campaigning  - voter targeting, field organization, fundraising, and press strategy - from the country's leading democratic operatives.  Then participants are immediately sent to targeted campaigns, where they're paid to work side by side with candidates and other political professionals for the last three months of the campaign.  Graduates of the program have gone on to hold key positions with organizations like the Service Employees International Union, League of Conservation Voters, Democratic committees and with numerous Democratic members of the House and Senate.  If you are interested in applying, visit www.campaigncorps.org for an application and deadlines.

Beyond the Classroom Applications
Do you want to make a difference in your community—from the local to the global levels?
Are you looking for a real-world opportunity in the non-profit sector that enables you to develop your professional and leadership skills before graduating?
Beyond the Classroom is now accepting applications for the fall 2007 semester!!

Download an application by going to our website, www.btc.umd.edu/application.html. For best consideration, applications are due by Wednesday, February 28th.

The Beyond the Classroom (BTC) Living & Learning Program is an interdisciplinary, campus-based living and learning program dedicated to equipping upper-level undergraduate students (i.e., sophomores, juniors, and seniors) with the educational and professional leadership skills to understand and to contribute constructively to civic engagement and social change in a global context. Students address significant civic and social issues (e.g., civil rights, democracy, education, environment, gender justice, human rights, hunger, labor, poverty, security, sustainable development) through exciting internship, community service, and civic learning experiences with nonprofit, nongovernmental and government organizations in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Through its integrated academic, experiential, and service components that offer students real-world opportunities, Beyond the Classroom enables students to develop and to realize their potential for civic leadership at the local, national, and global levels.

*Take charge of your education and go “beyond the classroom” to realize your potential for civic leadership. For more information, visit our website at www.btc.umd.edu or contact Director Jim Riker at jriker@umd.edu with any questions.

GVPT Study Abroad Programs

The GVPT Department would like to highlight some of Europe's best study abroad programs through the University of Maryland.  If you are interested in any of the programs below, we strongly recommend that you visit the GVPT Undergraduate Advising Office before applying for more information.

Graduate Programs in European Studies

The College of Europe, the first ever institute of post-graduate European studies is offering graduate academic programs in EU International Relations and Diplomacy, European Economic Studies, European Interdisciplinary Studies, European Legal Studies, European Political and Administrative Studies, and Specialization in European Law and Economic Analysis.  Study with more than 400 students from over 45 countries on the College’s two campuses, Brugge, Belgium and Warszawa, Poland.  Basic requirements for admissions are a completed university degree and knowledge of English and French.  For more information on this program, contact Apitchaya Pimpawathin in 1155 Tydings Hall. 

England: Oxford - Honors Programme in British Law, Politics and Society

Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, its origins going back to the eleventh century. For over eight hundred years this ancient university has been an international center of scholarship. Inter­national summer programs have been organized by the University of Oxford since the 1880s. This Mary­land program, offered in conjunction with Oxford University, offers high-level courses to an informed and curious audience of graduate and undergraduate students.

The program offers an in-depth look at British law, politics, and society. During the three-week program (4 credits), students will have the opportunity for con­centrated study in small seminar groups, taught by Oxford University faculty members. A general lecture series by prominent figures from the University of Ox­ford and elsewhere will also be offered. The program will allow students to take two course modules: one required two-credit course in “Law and Society” and one two-credit course of the student’s choosing.

Application Deadline: Thursday, March 1, 2007

Program Dates: Summer 2007 (exact dates TBD)

Visit http://www.international.umd.edu/studyabroad/1029 to view application, fees, and more information about the program.

University of Kent

GVPT students at the University of Maryland are eligible to apply to study for a year at the University of Kent in England. Exchange students are enrolled as full-time students at Kent, so applicants are expected to be self-sufficient and highly motivated. As the University of Maryland does not maintain a permanent faculty presence in Britain, students handle their academic and personal lives quite independently. As a result, exchange students have a unique opportunity to truly assimilate into the British culture. The University of Kent is located in Canterbury, a small medieval city south-west of London. Canterbury is known for its cathedral, as well as its ancient streets and walkways, packed with second-hand bookshops, craft shops, pubs and restaurants. Located only 56 miles from London, Canterbury is an easy base for travel around England.

Applicants must be GVPT majors and must maintain at least a 3.0 GPA. Students must also plan to study abroad during their junior year.

Application Deadline: March 1, 2007

Visit http://www.international.umd.edu/studyabroad/725 to view application, fees, and more information about the program. 

European Union Today - Study Tour

CDS International, in collaboration with the Carl Duisberg Centren in Cologne, Germany is pleased to announce the European Union Today Study. The study tour will take place from June 3 - 17, 2007 and will be conducted entirely in English.

Participants on the European Union Today Study Tour will spend two weeks exploring the history and recent events that make the EU the institution it is today. This will be a great opportunity for European Studies students "to put faces on the places" they study at their home institutions.

Study tour participants will not only get to see the European Parliament, the European Commission and the center of it all, Brussels, but they will have the opportunity to speak with actual representatives from the European Parliament, the Polish representation to the EU, and the German Marshall Fund. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss topics important to the European Union such as the impact the EU has beyond Europe, EU-U.S. trade relations, and integration of new member states into the European Union.

An added bonus to this study tour is a three-day seminar in Cologne that will allow students and academics well versed in European Studies to learn EU history and recent events from a European perspective. Participants new to European Studies will be able to learn the ins-and-outs of the EU from the individual courses, the sites visited and a meeting with their European peers. Participants will also be treated to several historically and geo-politically significant cities. These include Cologne and Düsseldorf in Germany, Brussels and Bruges in Belgium and Maastricht in the Netherlands.

To view the study tour brochure, please visit: http://www.cdsintl.org/fromusa/eutoday.htm For more information contact Melissa Graves at mgraves@cdsintl.org

FEE: $2300* (does not include airfare)
DEADLINE: March 30, 2007
 

Scholarship Opportunities

The GVPT Departmental Website, www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt has a newly updated section devoted to scholarships. Interested students can click here.   The deadline for most departmental scholarships is March 9, 2007.

Campus and Local Events

Internship Opportunities

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