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Grading Mode Option Deadline 9/26 at 5pm

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The deadline to change the Grading Mode of courses designated as “Student Option” is Friday, 9/26 at 5pm. If you wish to change the Grading Mode of a course for which this option is available, you must submit a Drop/Add/Withdrawal/Change of Grading Mode form to the Registrar’s Office by the 9/26 5pm deadline. Simply provide your name, wesid, subject/catalog/section information for the course and desired grading mode, and submit the form to the Registrar’s Office on the first floor of North College. Instructor and Faculty Advisor signatures are NOT required for grading mode changes.

Invitation to College of Letters Open House

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TO: Members of the Class of 2018

FROM: Kari Weil, Director of College of Letters
The College of Letters cordially invites you to attend our Open House which will be held on Monday, October 13 at 4:15p.m., College of Letters Library, 3rd Floor, 41 Wyllys Avenue.
I will speak briefly about the program and a number of students and faculty will be on hand to answer any questions you may have.
The College of Letters is an interdisciplinary major in Western Literature, Philosophy, and History with a required area of Foreign Language concentration with a semester in residence
abroad (usually in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, or Israel). To learn more about the COL, study abroad possibilities, and the application process please visit the COL website at:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/col/

Unlike most majors, COL begins in the fall of the sophomore year, which is why the application for it must be made in the Spring of your first year.

This year the deadline for application is Monday, March 23, the first day after Spring Break.

I look forward to seeing you at the COL Open House.

Kari Weil
Director, College of Letters

Don’t miss Wesleyan’s 20th Annual Study Abroad Fair!

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
in
BECKHAM HALL

(2ND Floor of Fayerweather, next to the Usdan University Center)

11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Whether you are a first year student, a sophomore deciding on a major, or a junior planning to study abroad next semester, this is a wonderful opportunity to meet representatives from many of the over 140 programs available,
receive information about the programs and ask questions.

Find out all your options for study abroad!

Sponsored by the Office of International Studies

Sexual Assault Survivors Support Group

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Heal in the company of others:
A support group for female identified survivors of sexual assault will be held on Tuesdays beginning September 23rd – December 2nd from 5:30-6:45PM. Meetings will follow an open support group format and participants determine group topics each week.
Contact Alysha B. Warren, LPC, Therapist/Sexual Violence Resource Coordinator, to join and for more information. Reference “Tuesday Support Group” in the subject line. Contact Alysha if you’re interested in forming a male identified survivors support group.
The deadline to sign-up Thursday, September 18th.

Free Tickets for First-Year Students to the Navaratri Festival

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The Navaratri Festival of Indian music and dance is a grand Wesleyan tradition, now in its 38th year. The festival includes concerts as well as a free lecture, film screening, and a traditional Hindu ceremony. The Center for the Arts encourages first-year students to experience this important festival by offering you a free ticket to any concert during the festival, which runs from Wednesday, September 24 through Sunday, September 28, 2014. The ticketed events are as follows:

38TH ANNUAL NAVARATRI FESTIVAL
B. Balasubrahmaniyan: Vocal Music of South India – Friday, September 26, 2014 at 8pm, Crowell Concert Hall
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Keyboard Sathya (United States Debut) – Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 8pm, Crowell Concert Hall
Malavika Sarukkai: Rasamanjari (New England Premiere) – Sunday, September 28, 2014 at 3pm, Crowell Concert Hall

For free tickets, visit the Wesleyan University Box Office in Usdan or call 860-685-3355.

And here’s the full festival schedule: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events/navaratrifestivalevents-2014.html

Looking for another course: Check out HIST 258!

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HIST 258
Fall 2014
Certificates: South Asia Studies
Pre-modern India is often conceived as the epitome of the Mystic East, a timeless land of fabulously rich maharajas, massive war elephants, sinister yogis, and powerful courtesans. Well, it turns out that pre-modern India did have all these things, and much more besides. But India was never timeless. This course examines the major patterns and transformations that defined South Asian society in the four centuries preceding the rise of formal British imperialism in 1858, focusing in particular on such themes as war and military service; asceticism and devotionalism; the jungle and human-animal relations; statecraft and kingship; trade, pilgrimage, and travel; cross-cultural encounter; physical culture and sexuality; poetry and performance traditions; information networks, spying, and court intrigue.