Degree Audits Now Working

Thank you for your patience while we resolved the technical problems with the degree audit software.  You may now access degree audits through the Gibson online portal.

Emancipation to Obama, Course with Service Learning

This spring, Professor Roseanne Adderley will offer HISU 3700 (CRN 10600), African-American History, Emancipation to Obama.  This is a 3000-level History course, but no pre-requisites are required, and as such is open to all, including first-year students.  This course counts as a U.S. History course in the History major and also counts as an elective in African & African Diaspora Studies (ADST).

HISU 3700 also includes a service learning option, which counts toward either the first- or second-tier graduation requirement.  Community partners for this class include the Amistad Research Center (the largest African-American focused archive in the United States), and Project VOTE New Orleans (a grassroots voter registration/political enfranchisement organization).

Anyone interested in African-American history, U.S. history, archival work, politics, or community organizing should definitely consider HISU 3700.

Contact Professor Adderley at adderley@tulane.edu for details.

Spanish Courses with Service Learning, Spring 2010

Interested in fulfilling your service learning requirement through a Spanish class?  For Spring 2010, the following Spanish classes will have a Service Learning component (optional or required—consult the course catalog):

100- and 200-level courses fulfill the First Tier Requirement

SPAN 1010-01                   Vanegas

SPAN 1010-02                   Caballero

SPAN 1020-01                   Kennedy

SPAN 1020-04                   Kennedy

SPAN 2030-03                   Boudet

SPAN 2030-05                   Bruckner

SPAN 2030-09                   Corley

SPAN 2040-03 (H)            Reed

SPAN 2040-08                   Reed

300-level course fulfills either the First or the Second Tier Requirement

SPAN 3300-01                    Zighelboim

400- and 600-level courses fulfill the Second Tier Requirement

SPAN 4120-01                     Shea

SPAN 4520-01                     Davis

SPAN 6010-01                     George-Hirons

Sign up now for the appropriate SPAN section.  Only these sections will have the option to participate in these exciting projects!

Students may opt to participate in Service Learning in these sections even if they have already completed their graduation requirement.

Tutoring Services Increased Ahead of Finals

Final exams are fast approaching, and the Tutoring Center is increasing their services to help you prepare.  In addition to regular tutoring hours, which will continue until December 6, the Tutoring Center is sponsoring a Calculus review session, Chemistry review sessions, and tutoring in the Residence Halls.

Calculus (MATH 115) Review Session
Friday, December 4, 2009
11:00AM
Tutoring Center

Chemistry (CHEM 107) Review Sessions

Professor Burin
Sunday, December 6, 2009
3:00PM – 5:00PM
Tutoring Center

Professor Herman
Monday, December 7, 2009
1:00PM – 3:00PM
Tutoring Center

Professor Jacobsen
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
1:00PM – 3:00PM
Tutoring Center

Residence Hall Tutoring Sessions
Friday, December 4- Josephine Louise, Ballroom, – Math, Physics, Chemistry
Saturday, December 5- Josephine Louise, Ballroom, -Math, Physics, Chemistry
Monday, December 7- Sharp, 1th Floor – Math, Physics, Chemistry
Tuesday, December 8- Monroe, 4th Floor- Spanish, Physics, Chemistry
Wednesday, December 9- Sharp, 1th Floor- Spanish, Italian, Physics, Chemistry
All Residence Hall Tutoring Sessions are from 4:00pm – 7:00pm.

Questions?  Call 314-2140 or 865-5113, or visit http://tutoring.tulane.edu.

Happy Thanksgiving

The Academic Advising Center will be closed Thursday, November 26, and Friday, November 27, for the Thanksgiving recess.  We will reopen on Monday, November 30, and be ready to assist you.

Have a safe and happy holiday weekend with friends and family.

EBIO and EENS Majors Week: Nov. 16-20

This week we celebrate the majors offered by the departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth & Environmental Science (EBIO and EENS, for short).  If you have an interest in either of these fields of study, be sure to meet a faculty member this week to ask questions, or attend one of these events:

BBQ at Boggs: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Career Day: Thursday, Nov. 19, 12:00-2:00 p.m., Boggs

For more information about these events, contact Andrew New at anew@tulane.edu or 504-865-5724.

Lecture: Love, Money, and Television in Niger, West Africa

Intensive Newcomb will be hosting their first Gender and Sexuality Studies faculty lecture of the year, featuring Dr. Adeline Masquelier with a talk entitled  “Love, Money, and Television in Niger, West Africa.”

In Niger young men and women looking for moral instruction and training in the language of love avidly watch Latin American televised dramas. Through their increasing exposure to television serials, Nigerien youth have come to understand romantic love as the ideal basis for marriage. They want to marry for love thereby deliberately positioning themselves in contrast to elders whose marriages were traditionally arranged. Developing alongside this ideology of marriage-as-love is the realization that one cannot survive on love alone. In an era of growing poverty, romance is routinely undone by finance. While Nigerien youth speak of love as the stuff that dreams are made of, money more often than not dictates the terms of courtship and marriage.

Monday, November 16
7:00 pm
Anna Many Lounge
Caroline Richardson Building

Refreshment will be provided. Email lmabrou@tulane.edu for more information.

“How to Register” Video on Gibson

With priority registration for the Spring 2010 semester upon us, take a moment to familiarize yourself with the new registration interface.  The log on screen for Gibson online now includes a video tutorial that reviews the new the schedule of classes and the new process to enroll in your spring courses.

And don’t forget about the registration station in the Pederson Lobby of the LBC.  Computer terminals will be available from 8:30am to 5:00pm on November 12 and 13, and again from November 16 – 20, and representatives from the Office of the Registrar will be on hand to assist you with the new interface.  Space will be limited, so bring a prepared list of courses.

Ich bin ein Berliner: German & Sociology Majors Week

This week we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  What better time, then, for the German and Sociology departments to host their respective majors week.  Spend some time this week considering the momentous occurrences of 1989 in Eastern Europe, how German culture has change, and how societies in Germany and around the world have understood communism and its aftermath.

Be sure to check out the many great events highlighting German and Sociology this week!

Sociology Week Events

German Week Events

Registration Assistance Available

Need help navigating the new registrations system?  From November 12 to November 20 representatives from the Office of the Registrar will be on hand in the Pederson Lobby of the Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) from  8:30am to 5:00pm daily to assist students with the registration process.

There will be 12 laptops set up, so bring your spring schedule plan (with a few back-up courses just in case) and let us assist you using Gibson online to sign up for spring courses.  Please come prepared with courses already picked out since space with be limited.