($20 family members/$10 UT students)
Registration for the Liberal Arts Family Dinner Extravaganza will open on September 24.
Breakfast, Open House, and Mini-Classes with Faculty, Saturday, Oct. 27.
(Registration requested, but not required. Registration will open on September 24.)
Join Liberal Arts deans, faculty, and student members of the Liberal Arts Council for an evening of dinner, conversation, and entertainment. You will have a chance to hear Associate Dean Marc Musick talk about the college as well as meet and share ideas with some of our faculty and students. Dinner will be followed by a variety of dance, theater, and musical performances by Liberal Arts students.
Enjoy a complimentary light breakfast with other families on the grassy lawn of the Tower’s South Mall amid our beautiful Liberal Arts buildings. Throughout the morning you can visit information tables hosted by Dean’s Office advisors, UT and Liberal Arts study abroad, Liberal Arts Career Services, Liberal Arts Parents’ League, and the Liberal Arts Council. There will also be information sessions presented by the directors of various offices and programs throughout the morning.
Helping students graduate with a high-quality educational experience in a timely manner is one of the college's most important goals. Come learn about the role academic advisors play in fostering this goal by helping students stay on track to graduate; how students can incorporate an enriching study abroad experience into their college careers and still graduate within four years; and how Liberal Arts Career Services is helping students explore internships and other valuable growth opportunities while maintaining steady progress towards their degrees. Each session will be followed by a brief question and answer period. Families will be welcome to come and go as they please during these sessions.
9-9:30 a.m. Welcome, Associate Dean Richard Flores
9:30-10 a.m. Dean’s Office Student Division, Dean’s Office Advisors
10-10:30 a.m. Liberal Arts Career Service, Kate Brooks, Director
10:30-11 a.m. Liberal Arts Study Abroad, Priscilla Ebert, Coordinator
Attend any of the six short courses that will be taught by some of the most talented faculty in the college. Classes are 40 minutes long and cover a variety of topics and issues.
Transitioning from a Teenager into an Adult in the U.S.
Robert Crosnoe, Professor, Department of Psychology
The Elsie and Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams, Sr. Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts and 2011 Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellow
This class will be a discussion of how dramatic changes in the American population, economy, educational system, and culture have led adults to increasingly view youth in their late teens and early 20s as children not yet ready for the “real world.” We will examine whether these views are accurate or unfair, and what they mean for young people growing up today.
Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
James H. Cox, Associate Professor, Department of English
Recipient of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award and the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award
With The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway returned to the top of the literary world after more than a decade of rumors about the loss of his talents. The novel won a Pulitzer Prize and led directly to his Nobel Prize. In this class we will look at the cultural phenomenon of Hemingway’s novel, the last work published during his lifetime.
The Jewish Communities of Latin America: Past, Present, and Future
Naomi Lindstrom, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Associate Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Recipient of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award
In this class we’ll take a brief look at the many topics pursued by students of Jewish Latin America, including the struggle to establish accurate population figures, writers, filmmakers, and such diverse topics as Jewish tango musicians, Zionist youth groups, Jewish refugees from Nazism and Nazi officials sheltered in South America, Jewish communities under totalitarian military regimes, and the Yiddish theater and journalism that flourished at one time.
Ephesus in the Time of the Apostle Paul: An Introduction to the Urban World of the Early Christians
Steve Friesen, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies
Recipient of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award
This illustrated lecture explores the religious and social environment of early churches. After more than a century of excavation, the remains from Ephesus, an ancient Greek city, provide examples of buildings, sculpture, painting, and inscriptions that help us better understand the urban contexts where Christianity took root.
How the World Shrank in the Nineteenth Century
Kit Belgum, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies
Recipient of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, the William David Blunk Memorial Professorship, and the Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellowship
Recent advances in technology have made our world seem tiny compared to that of earlier centuries. But what preceded our “global village”? This class will talk about the diverse forces (from the steam engine to foreign correspondents, from package tours to geographical magazines) that helped to shrink the world at the very beginning of the modern era.
Shakespeare’s Brain: An Introduction
Hannah Wojciehowski, Professor, Department of English
Recipient of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award
What can recent breakthroughs in cognitive and social neuroscience tell us about the mind of Shakespeare? Find out how literary scholars are applying many of these new discoveries and theories in their studies of the Bard’s works, and of the theatrical experience then and now. Also find out why Shakespeare Studies is very much a living field.
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/Student-Community/PL-Membership.php
Parents’ League memberships are free.
Parking
Parking cards can be purchased here.
Texas Parents Check-in Locations
Friday, Oct. 26 – Noon-7 p.m. – TBD
Saturday, Oct. 27 – 8 a.m.-2 p.m. – Gregory Gym Plaza
Disability Resources
Disability resources at The University of Texas at Austin may be found at www.utexas.edu/disability/
Maps
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Additional Information
For more College of Liberal Arts information, please contact Monica Horvat at 512-232-5749 or monicah@austin.utexas.edu.
**For families of students in the Liberal Arts Honors Program only**
Friday, October 26, 3-4:15 p.m. in FAC 21
Families with students in Liberal Arts Honors (LAH) are invited to the LAH Showcase where they will have the opportunity to meet with the director, faculty, and staff of LAH. Hear LAH students talk about their experiences and current projects, as well as listen to the LAH music ensemble and see a scene from LAH's Foot in the Door Theatre Troupe's fall production of Dead Man's Cell Phone.
LAH Reception following the program in GEB 1.206, 4:30-6 pm.
Saturday, October 27, 11am in MEZ 1.306
Families are encouraged to sign up to attend Reacting to the Past, LAH's 'signature' honors class.
Please RSVP if you plan to attend the Showcase on Friday or the class on Saturday by emailing: lahonors@austin.utexas.edu with the subject line: "LAH Family Weekend RSVP." If you are participating in the Reacting to the Past class, please let us know your name and your student's name.
