The Weekly: Undergraduate News
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Issue #17 for the week of 12/14/2020
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From the Director of Studies |
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The last week of the semester, everyone!—we have just about made it. Seniors, those twenty pages are due on Tuesday to your advisors. Then let us all relax as best we can into a well deserved intermission. The newsletter will take a break, too, until the new year; let us thank Kelly Lake, its inspired and tireless orchestrator. In the meantime, I, for one, am going to go for some long walks and catch up transcribing these last months’ happier surprises and discoveries into my commonplace book.
My commonplace book? Some of you may keep this custom already. I have sometimes thought that we should give every English concentrator such a book at the beginning of things. The word “commonplace” is an old one, descended from the Greek tópos koinós and the Latin locus communis, and it refers to bits of text that you want to return to, think about, reuse. Any student in the period I know best, the Renaissance, kept a notebook for recording commonplaces, sometimes organized by topic (that’s where our word “topic” comes from), sometimes just as they arose in the course of reading. John Milton kept one; John Locke, too. (Cabinet Books published a useable facsimile of his a few years ago.) More recently, there is Virginia Woolf, and W. H. Auden’s, published as A Certain World, is great reading. And of course we have our own Prof. Nunokawa and his Note Book! If you’re not in the habit, you might give the practice a try as you read during the break. Over time, it makes for a history of your mind’s travels. (A far more mindful and useful one, let it be said, than your browsing history.)
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Undergraduate Administrator
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ACADEMIC DATES & DEADLINES |
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December 2020
December 9 - 15
Fall Term Final Examinations
December 12
Deadline for Submission of Take-Home Exercises
December 22
Winter Break Begins
December 24 & 25
University Holiday — Offices Closed
December 28 - January 1
University Holiday — Offices Closed
2021
January 2021
January 18
Undergraduate Add/ Drop Period Begins
Virtual Wintersession Begins
February 2021
February 1
Spring 2021 Classes Begin
February 12
Deadline to Add/Drop Classes without fee
March 2021
March 8 - 12
Spring Midterm Period
March 13-16
Spring Recess
March 17
Classes Resume
Undergraduate Selection of P/D/F begins
March 25
A.B. Concentration Declaration Period Begins
April 2021
April 6
Deadline to Drop Spring Term Courses
Deadline to Select P/D/F Option
April 13
Declaration Day
Junior Fall Term 2021 Course Selection
April 14
Sophomore Fall Term 2021 Course Selection
April 15
First-Year Fall Term 2021 Course Selection
April 27
Spring 2021 Term Courses End
April 28
Reading Period Begins
May 2021
May 5
Reading Period Ends
Dean's Date
May 8 - 14
Spring 2021 Final Exams
May 25
Commencement
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Additional Dates for Juniors: |
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Additional Dates for Seniors:
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2021
January 15, 2021
Deadline for Submitting 10-pages of Junior Independent Work or final JP prospectus DUE
February 19, 2021
First full JP draft due to advisor
April 13, 2021
Deadline for Submitting Junior Independent Work
Please see the below information regarding O.U.R.'s funding cycles and the Departmental resources for research funding support.
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December 15
Senior's 20-page minimum thesis chapter DUE to advisors and Dropbox
(link TBA)
2021
March 8, 2021
Deadline for submission of non-thesis materials for department prizes
April 13, 2021
Senior Thesis DUE
May 6-7, 2021
Senior Departmental/
Comprehensive Exams
Please see the below information regarding O.U.R.'s funding cycles and the Departmental resources for research funding support.
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LINK TO DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH UG WEBSITE
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THE WEEKLY WILL BE ON BREAK FOR THE UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY.
WE WILL RESUME JANUARY 4, 2021.
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SENIORS:
NEW DEADLINE:
20 PAGES SENIOR THESIS WORK IS NOW
DECEMBER 15, 2020
PLEASE NOTE THIS CHANGE!
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Here and There: Issue 3: Food |
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RESEARCH FUNDING INFORMATION |
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The Maren Grant for Senior Thesis Research
The Maren Grant for Senior Thesis Research supports work toward the thesis for seniors in the English Department. Students should apply through SAFE, and choose the Maren Grant among their funding sources.
Please apply to all funding sources for which you are eligible.
Applications to the Maren Grant for Senior Thesis Research may be made in any of the three OUR funding cycles:
- for thesis research in the summer before senior year;
- in the fall of senior year;
- or in the winter before the thesis is due.
Awards are typically between $200 and $1200.
Deadlines are early: be sure you consult OUR and plan ahead.
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The Maren-Annan Grant for Departmental Research
The Maren-Annan Grant for Departmental Research supports student research for the Junior Paper and, under special circumstances, for other work for juniors or seniors within the context of a course in the English Department (excluding the senior thesis).
Applications should be made through SAFE, by choosing “Undergraduate Independent Projects” under “ACTIVITY.”
Please apply to all funds for which you are eligible along with the Maren Grant.
Allowable expenses correspond to those listed for senior thesis research on the OUR website.
Applications may be made at any time, but we recommend submission at least four weeks before any planned travel.
Awards are typically between $200 and $1200.
Consultation with your JP advisor or the instructor for your class is essential.
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Winter Break/ January Winter Semester O.U.R. Funding Cycle:
O.U.R.'s Application Opens: Monday, November 16, 2020
O.U.R.'s Application Closes: Sunday, December 6, 2020
O.U.R.'s Award posted: Friday, January 8, 2021
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Summer O.U.R. Funding Cycle:
O.U.R.'s Application Opens: Friday, February 19, 2021
O.U.R.'s Application Closes: Sunday, March 21, 2021
O.U.R.'s Award posted: Friday, April 16, 2021
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Your application for all funding must be made through S.A.F.E.
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Students applying to the OUR senior thesis research funding program are required to apply for all departmental and programmatic funds for which they are eligible in one single application.
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You will be able to save your application in SAFE and go back to it, but you must complete and submit the application by the earliest deadline of all the funding sources to which you are applying; no changes will be accepted once applications are submitted and locked, except for the selection of additional funding opportunities when eligible.
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Student Activity Funding Engine (S.A.F.E.)
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Submission Opportunity
Tortoise
Thursday, December 17, 2020 11:59 p.m. EST
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Tortoise is an annual journal published through the Writing Center that showcases exceptional student writing and accompanies that writing with explanatory comments in which the authors and editors reflect on the writing and research process.
We are currently soliciting submissions for our next issue, which will be published at the end of the academic year. Our Early Deadline is Thursday 17 December 2020, at 11:59pm ET. Further submission information is available on the above poster.
We publish writing from all disciplines and at all levels, from Writing Seminar papers in literature to graduate student abstracts in linguistics.
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Wintersession 2021 will be a fully virtual experience and will run from January 18–31, 2021.
Undergraduate students, graduate students, staff and faculty can participate as teachers, learners or both.
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Summer 2021:
Princeton's Department of Classics
Intensive: Ancient African Language of Gəˁəz (classical Ethiopic)
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This summer, Princeton’s Department of Classics will be offering an intensive class for Princeton undergraduates and graduate students in the ancient African language of Gəˁəz (classical Ethiopic). It will be taught by Prof. Hamza Zafer, who has taught this course to great acclaim at the University of Washington.
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University Center for Human Values offers events of interest: |
To access the events that the University Center of Human Values presents please use this:
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Ever wanted to know what your professors have been working on when they're not teaching your classes?
Visit the Humanities Council's Faculty Bookshelf! Browse by author or discipline to explore the University's cutting-edge humanities scholarship. (Check out our Department's Faculty Author Q&A: CLaudia Johnson on "30 Great Myths about Jane Austen" here!)
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80-minute, Discipline-Specific Appointments: From formulating a plan for semester- and year-long projects to conducting research and drafting and revising, our trained Graduate Fellows are available as students tackle the challenges of independent work! Make an appointment now: https://writingcenter.princeton.edu/s/80MIN
The Virtual Writing Lab (Sunday-Thursday 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET): Having a hard time getting motivated working on your JP or Thesis? Looking for a sense of community? Don’t go it alone! Join our Zoom-based virtual lab to write with peers, consult Fellows as needed, and tackle your short and long-term writing goals! Join here any time we’re open.
Writing Partnerships: Pair up with an experienced Graduate Fellow for a standing weekly appointment to structure the JP or thesis writing process and avoid a pile-up of writing at the end of the semester. If you’re interested in setting up a partnership, write to Dr. Creedon (greedon@princeton.edu).
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This week's contribution is graciously provided by
Professor Josh Kotin from his commonplace book :
from Picasso
Gertrude Stein (first published 1938)
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People really do not change from one generation to another, as far back as we know history people are about the same as they were, they have had the same needs, the same desires, the same virtues and the same qualities, the same defects, indeed nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen, the streets change, the way of being driven in the streets change, the buildings change, the comforts in the houses change, but the people from one generation to another do not change. |
Photo Credit: "Gertrude Stein sitting on a sofa in her Paris studio, with a portrait of her by Pablo Picasso, and other modern art paintings hanging on the wall behind her, 1930 (LOC)" by pingnews.com is marked under CC PDM 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Suggestions, events, additions, or questions: contact The Department of English's Undergraduate Administrator, Kelly Lake kalake@princeton.edu
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Department of English
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Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-4061
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