Southwest Room
10:00am-2:00pm HONORS PROGRAM
FALL SYMPOSIUM
November 1, 2003
DuBois Conference Center
Meadows Room
Family Weekend
The Honors Program is pleased to announce our first Fall
Symposium, a half-day event that showcases the classroom, research, and/or
independent study projects and papers of our sophomore through senior Honors
students: these are projects and papers that you will be working on this
semester or that you have completed in earlier semesters.
Presentations will run from 10 minutes to 20 minutes per
student and will be grouped 3-4 to a
session according to theme, issue, or discipline. The symposium will be
interdisciplinary; we hope to attract the interest of a broad range of students
in many departments and colleges.
THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
·
Please submit a 1-page
abstract (of a project in process) or a completed paper from your current
classes (or from a previous class; it doesn’t have to be a product of an Honors
class) to Anne Scott, Honors Program, Box 5689 by Sept. 30, 2003, for inclusion
in this symposium. You are welcome, also, to send an electronic copy of the
paper, abstract, or project to anne.scott@nau.edu.
Include your telephone number and
email address on the paper. Please note also that the paper/project does
not have to be perfectly revised at this point.
·
Once you have submitted
a paper or project to the address above, we will contact you about the writing
workshops that the Honors Program will run between Sept. 30 and Nov. 1,
designed to help you revise your papers/projects and to tailor the
papers/projects for the symposium.
·
We also encourage you to
meet with the professors in whose classes you are, currently, or in whose
classes you already produced a paper/project that you would like to submit for
the symposium. They might be able to give you tips as to what paper to submit
or what project to work on now, so that you have something to submit by
September 30. You might also want to contact the professors who supervised any
of your research or independent study efforts.
·
Finally, please note that as part of a recruitment and
retention effort, we will be involving our freshmen Honors students in the
symposium in a variety of ways, either by having them proofread your papers,
provide an audience for you during your practice read-out-loud sessions, and/or
act as your session moderators during the symposium itself.
Last spring, we set a
wonderful precedent for such an event through our first Freshmen Symposium,
which we will continue to host in coming Spring semesters. It was a very
successful experience that we would now like to extend to our older Honors
students during the Fall semester of each year. This symposium will provide a
chance for you to share your intellectual interests and passions with others,
to display your literary, critical, analytical, scientific, and creative
talents to your peers and professors and family (the event will take place
during Family Weekend), to work with younger Honors students, and to have
something concrete and valuable to place on your C.V.’s.
Students -- please give this your serious
consideration. We look forward to hearing from you at your earliest
convenience.
Sincerely,
Anne Scott
Assoc. Director, Honors
Phone: 3-2441