The Bi-Weekly Advising Bulletin – Weeks 7-8, Fall Term 2019Advising Days are here! Time to meet with your advisees through November 5.

Be mindful of the remaining academic deadlines in the term:

Monday, October 28, Advising Days Begin (through Nov. 5). Friday November 1, Ten-week Course Late Drop and S/CR/NC

Deadline (5:00 p.m.) Monday, November 4, Registration for Winter Term Begins Friday, November 8, Second Five-week Course Late Drop and

S/CR/NC Deadline (5:00 p.m.) Wednesday, November 20, Last Day of Classes

NOTE: The S/CR/NC deadline occurs during advising days. Make sure you make early appointments with students you suspect or know are having some academic difficulties or are otherwise interested in enacting a S/CR/NC option in a course. Only one course may be taken for S/CR/NC and no more than 30 total credits may be taken for S/CR/NC during any student’s career at Carleton. See this page of the Rules and Regs for more details on the S/CR/NC policy.

The Internship Reflection Poster Session, October 4, 2019New Courses for Winter Term!

PHIL 226: Love & Friendship

What is friendship? Can we distinguish between good friendships and poor friendships, and if so, how? Why do we fall in love with someone? Are there reasons we can articulate? This course will consider various philosophical views on the nature of love and friendship. It will focus on both the history of philosophical thinking about these notions--from Plato and Aristotle to the twentieth century--and a variety of contemporary views. Taught by Allison Murphy.

PHIL 228: Freedom and Alienation in Black American Philosophy

In this course we will explore how a variety of Black/African-American philosophers theorize the concepts of freedom and alienation. The aim of the course is to offer resources for familiarizing students with historical and contemporary Black/African-American philosophers. By covering subjects

like slave narratives, lynching, intersectionality, Black activism for civil rights, prison abolitionism, and afro-pessimism, this course offers a diverse range of Black scholar’s views on freedom and alienation. Texts in the course will include: Are Prisons Obsolete? – Angela Davis, Afro Pessimism: An Introduction, and Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America – George Yancy. Taught by Edward O'Byrn, the philosophy Department's Cowling Postdoctoral Fellow. Professor O'Byrn received his Ph.D in philosophy at Pennsylvania State University where his dissertation focused on Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, and Ida B Wells. His research focuses on the challenges and contributions Black American philosophers have made to traditional Western philosophy. 

ECON 233: World Economic History

This course surveys world economic history from Paleolithic times to today. It will help students understand the fundamental forces that drive economic growth and living standards. We shall address questions such as: How did economic systems function during the ancient and medieval periods? What caused the Industrial Revolution, allowing billions of humans to escape the “Malthusian trap”? Why haven’t all countries experienced economic growth?  Finally, what lessons can we learn from the past to help us better understand what the future may hold? The course will focus on long-term trends, but we will also examine short-run cyclical phenomena such as financial crises. The course will count both for econ and for history major credit. Taught by Profs. Jenny Bourne and Tim Leunig, Distinguished Ott Family Visiting Professor, weeks 3-4. Prof. Leunig is also a professor at the London School of Economies and he serves as a policy adviser in the United Kingdom’s Department of Education.

The Winter-Break Advising Workshop: “Building Community with Our Students: Understanding Accommodations and the ADA in the Classroom”Due to extraordinary interest at this time, this version of the “Building Community with Our Students” workshop will focus on the issue of accommodations and other ADA-in-the-classroom issues. What is an “accommodation” and what does this mean in the classroom? What are the legal requirements and how should advisers and faculty work together to balance these legal requisites with pedagogical ones such as course learning goals? How might principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) respond effectively to the needs of students with accommodations as well as those who might need but do not have accommodations? How can advisers enable their students to communicate their need for accommodations with Disability Services, and facilitate

communication with faculty members once students have obtained accommodations through Disability Services? Our sessions will involve presentations on the legal, policy, pedagogical, and practical questions and involve much discussion by workshop participants. This half-day workshop is not intended to definitively answer all of these questions, but to provide a sense of how to move forward programmatically at Carleton on these important issues.

The workshop will occur on Thursday, December 5, 12 p.m.-4 p.m., beginning with a working lunch. Each eligible participant who attends will receive a stipend of $60. Register at: http://go.carleton.edu/e2a

Award for Global Engagement Offered by the CGRSThe Center for Global and Regional Engagement (CGRS) is delighted to announce a new award that recognizes excellence in global learning, the Hyme Loss Award for Global Engagement. The award is given to seniors who demonstrate particular excellence in this area. It recognizes their commitment to language acquisition, cultural immersion, global perspective-taking, and cross-cultural learning. An ePortfolio course (normally taken in the junior or senior year) seeks to integrate and synthesize these experiences in digital format. 

Please mention this to advisees who you think might be interested, and direct them to https://apps.carleton.edu/cgrs/students/hymelossawardforglobalengagement/ or have them get in contact with CGRS Director David Tompkins (dtompkins).

REMINDER: PE DROP PolicyPlease remind your advisees that PE courses will now follow standard registration practices and timelines. This means that these courses will need to be dropped by the end of the drop/add period each term to not show on the transcript. If students don't pass a PE course, the NC will show on the transcript.

Change in Registration Procedures for Introductory Chemistry CoursesStarting for courses offered Winter Term 2020, students who wish to enroll in CHEM123 (Principles of Chemistry I) or CHEM128 (Principles of Environmental Chemistry) will be required to take and pass a placement

test hosted on the Chemistry Department's webpage prior to registering for these courses.  Students who do not earn a minimum score on the placement test will be required to complete CHEM122 (An Introduction to Chemistry) prior to enrolling in CHEM123 or CHEM128.

Off-Campus StudiesThe OCS World's Fair is happening again on Thursday, January 16, 2020 from 11:30 a.m.-1p.m. in Great Hall. Advisers are strongly encouraged to promote this event to the advisees.

Fall is a great time to explore off-campus study options. Students are invited to attend information meetings about Carleton programs and stop by information tables in Sayles-Hill hosted by various non-Carleton study abroad providers. They are also welcome to schedule an appointment with an OCS adviser M-F afternoon between 1:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Stop by the OCS office in Leighton 119 to sign up or call x4332. 

Office of Student Fellowships 

As Fall Term winds down, it’s time to think about national and international fellowships with application cycles during Winter Term. Intent-to-apply forms are due in early December for the Boren Scholarship (first-years, sophomores, juniors) that support the study of critical languages abroad; the  Carnegie Junior Fellowships  for high-achieving seniors with an interest in global affairs and international peace; the Davis Projects for Peace (all class levels) to support a summer "project for peace;" the Goldwater Scholarship for very high-achieving sophomores and juniors planning research careers in STEM fields; and the Truman Scholarship for juniors with a demonstrated commitment to public service. 

Student Health and What Advisers Should Know [Nothing to announce in this issue.]

Professional Development and the Career Center30 Minutes: The 30 Minutes program brings students interested in a specific job or industry face-to-face with an alum experienced in that field for an introduction to networking and learning. Students can sign up via the Tunnel and learn more at go.carleton.edu/30minutes. Week 7 (Oct. 28-Nov. 1)

Communications/Media | Tuesday, October 29, 11:00-1:00pm – Lilly Athamanah ’15 (American Studies) Corporate Communications Specialist, Vivid Seats (Virtual)

Legal Professions | Thursday, October 31, 1:00-3:00pm – Emily McAdam ’08 (History) Judicial Law Clerk, United States District Court, District of Minnesota

Science/Research; Healthcare | Friday, November 1, 1:30-4:00pm – Tam Do ’09 (Psychology) Associate Program Director for Lung Cancer Screening, Minneapolis VA Health Care System

Week 8 (Nov. 4-8) Tech; Engineering | Monday, November 4, 3:30-5:00pm – Ritvik

Kar ’19 (Computer Science & Cinema/Media Studies) Associate Product Manager, LinkedIn (Virtual)

Environment/Agriculture | Thursday, November 7, 11:00am-2:00pm – Jason Mulvihill-Kuntz ’01 (History & Environmental/Technology Studies) Salmon Recovery Manager, Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (Virtual)

 Externships:  The Career Center recruited 293 externship positions created exclusively for Carleton students by parents, alums, and friends of the College for the December break.     . Over 455 students applied,  using a resume and cover letter.  Once the offers were extended, students had up to 24 hours to accept a position. Students were also invited to self-design an externship of their choosing. Over the coming weeks, students will be finalizing travel, housing, and financial stipends with the Career Center.  Students will also participate in a robust reflection program that will accompany the externship to encourage more career-focused learning during the experience. Please reach out to the Career Center with any questions about the program. Internship funding will once again be available to students for Summer 2020 internships. Last summer, 139 Carleton students received just over $450,000 to offset expenses associated with an internship, an averaging $3,500 per student. Nearly one-fourth did their internship outside of the United States.  Please encourage your advisees to learn more at the Career Center’s funding page or stop by Johnson House to discuss their options.

This is the final Bi-Weekly Advising Bulletin of the Fall Term. Good luck with the end of the term!

The Bulletin returns during the first week of winter term 2020. If you have announcements for that

issue, send them to me anytime between now and Dec. 31.

Some Homework During the Winter Break For Some AdvisersIf you are going on leave in the winter term, then your sophomore advisees will be reassigned by my office shortly following the end of the current term. These students will continue with their new advisers until the moment they declare their majors in the spring term. Since you will no longer have access to their files, consider setting aside some time at the end of this term (and particularly reading days) to compose brief notes on these sophomores using the OnBase system. These notes will be helpful to the new advisers. Go to the Hub, and under Advisor Information, select Create New Liberal Arts Adviser Note, and then for each advisee, begin an advising note. If you need any assistance with this, please contact me (amontero, x4085). Keep in mind that students do not see these notes. These messages are exclusively for cross-adviser communication.

Useful Quick LinksForms 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