The Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement is sponsoring a debate between Greenville’s candidates for mayor. Candidates will be asked to address questions that are important to the ECU community and students. The event will be held on April 19, from 6:00-7:00 pm, in the Black Box Theater, Main Campus Student Center.
An unwavering commitment to helping others took center stage Thursday as more than 100 East Carolina University faculty, staff and students were honored at the Chancellor’s Awards for Service.
Two of these students were Alessia Corsi and Emma Kemp, both POLS (BS), expected to graduate in spring of 2022.
See the full story here: https://news.ecu.edu/2022/04/01/selfless-service/
Congratulations to both of you, and thank you!
If you are planning on going to law school you can technically choose any (respectable) major you wish, as long as you do well. But, Political Science is the traditional path to law school.
We offer a Bachelor of Science degree with a Pre-Law concentration that will help prep your thinking and skills for the types of classes you can expect to take in law school.
For more information, see: https://politicalscience.ecu.edu/wp-content/pv-uploads/sites/119/2019/07/A-Snapshot-of-the-BS-Degree.pdf
This course, focusing on perhaps the bloodiest century in all of human history, is offered asynchronously online (only) by Dr. Nancy Spalding in Summer Session 1.
It includes various case studies of genocide in the twentieth century: How they came about, response and reaction by the international community, how we interpret what happened, and more.
“One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.” Joseph Stalin
POLS 3045, “Humor and American Politics” is being offered in Summer I and will meet virtually. The course looks at the role of humor in American politics. It provides an overview of the history and various forms of political humor, what types of messages are typically contained in political humor, and the mechanisms involved in how political humor shapes political behavior.
The course includes political humor in various media, but because of its prevalence in the modern world the focus will be on televised and Internet political humor. We will be paying special attention to political humor as it is targeted at political leaders, especially presidents and presidential candidates.
Please make sure you have reviewed your DegreeWorks record – it really is the key to understanding where you are in your degree progress. If you are still unsure of what you’re looking at when you go to DW, do a quick search on this site for Degree Works Pro Tips (4 earlier posts).
More information is also available from: https://politicalscience.ecu.edu/for-students/.
Finally, of course… you can contact your adviser.
The Spring 2022 University graduation ceremony will be held on May 6 (Friday), at 9:00 am, at Dowdy Ficklen Stadium. This event will not be ticketed – you won’t need tickets.
Graduating seniors in the Department of Political Science (this includes Multi-SECS and Multi-INTL majors) will attend the Thomas Harriot College or Arts and Sciences ceremony, which will be held on May 7 (Saturday), at 1:00 pm, in Wright Auditorium. This event WILL be ticketed.
IMPORTANT: This is all we know right now. Please stay tuned to this channel, and be on the lookout for more information (for example, on when, where, how, you get tickets, and how many) directly from Dr. Cook or Dr. Baumgartner.
“In March 23, 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans.
“During the late 1830s, it was a favorite practice among younger, educated circles to misspell words intentionally, then abbreviate them and use them as slang when talking to one another. Just as teenagers today have their own slang based on distortions of common words, such as “kewl” for “cool” or “DZ” for “these,” the “in crowd” of the 1830s had a whole host of slang terms they abbreviated. Popular abbreviations included “KY” for “No use” (“know yuse”), “KG” for “No go” (“Know go”), and “OW” for all right (“oll wright”).
“Of all the abbreviations used during that time, OK was propelled into the limelight when it was printed in the Boston Morning Post as part of a joke. Its popularity exploded when it was picked up by contemporary politicians. When the incumbent president Martin Van Buren was up for reelection, his Democratic supporters organized a band of thugs to influence voters. This group was formally called the “O.K. Club,” which referred both to Van Buren’s nickname “Old Kinderhook” (based on his hometown of Kinderhook, New York), and to the term recently made popular in the papers. At the same time, the opposing Whig Party made use of “OK” to denigrate Van Buren’s political mentor Andrew Jackson. According to the Whigs, Jackson invented the abbreviation “OK” to cover up his own misspelling of “all correct.””
From: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
Early registration – for special categories – begins this Friday, March 25.
For most students registration begins Monday, March 28.
When you register depends on the number of credit hours you have completed PRIOR to this semester: The number of COMPLETED HOURS, as of JANUARY, 2022.
You can find this number this by checking DegreeWorks. The number you are looking for is the “overall credits,” listed below your minor (in the right hand column, at the top). Do NOT use the “credits applied” – this number includes the classes you are currently enrolled in.
Your adviser should contact you sometime this week (if he or she has not already done so) to give you’re your PIN and/or set up an appointment.
You should, of course, familiarize yourself with your Degree Works record
TOPIC: Other information about registration can be found here
https://registrar.ecu.edu/students
https://politicalscience.ecu.edu/for-students/
