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Tuesday April 9, 12:00-1:00, 103 Appleby Hall
Tuesday April 9, 4:00-5:00, 3 Appleby Hall
Weds April 10, 4:00-5:00, 145 Blegen Hall

Attend an info session to learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which provides generous support for 1000+ recent college graduates to study, carry out research or creative work, or serve as English Teaching Assistants abroad in over 100 countries. U.S. citizenship is required. Approximate campus application deadline for the 2014-15 Fulbright Program: August 2013.

For more information about the Fulbright program and other national scholarships, please visit http://www.honors.umn.edu/scholarships

What can a neighborhood teach us about leadership and social change? What role does leadership play in strengthening a neighborhood?

This 3 week May session course explores these questions while offering an immersion experience of study abroad without even leaving Minneapolis. Using concepts of leadership and community engagement as a focus, Global Leadership for Social Change will give students an opportunity to identify the international and diverse quality of neighborhoods connected to us right here on the West Bank. With the course being based in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, you will be given a greater opportunity to explore the neighborhood's historic commercial, theatrical and residential diversity. You will be learning and working in the Cedar-Riverside community and examining questions of leadership, power, cultural diversity, and social change. The course involves an exciting blend of community engagement, neighborhood excursions, readings, and lively discussions. The course also includes a neighborhood theater performance and meals at local restaurants.

More details:
- 3 credits
- Course Dates: May 28th - June 14th, 2013
- Instructor: Merrie Benasutti, Center for Integrative Leadership
- Open to all majors (no pre-requisites)
- Scholarships available

Please click here to learn more about the program and the application process.

Come to an info session to learn more about HECUA's dynamic, off campus study programs focused on the environment and sustainable food (see program descriptions below)! Coffee, tea, and treats will be served!

Monday, March 4th
5:30-6:30 PM
Social Sciences Building, West Bank, Room 609

OR

Tuesday, March 5th
11 AM-12 PM
St Paul Student Center, Room 110

ID 3564 -- Environment and Agriculture: Sustainable Food Systems
-May-Term (May 15th to June 9th, 2013)
-4 credits (plus optional 2 credit internship...ID 3565)
-fulfills the Environment Theme
This field-based course provides a comprehensive overview of the Minnesota food system. Students learn from local activists, farmers, and policy makers, while visiting community supported agriculture (CSA) farms, meat-packing plants, creamery operations, and industrial farms. The course provides a strong theoretical and practical background which enables students to analyze the environmental, economic, political, social and cultural issues that define modern farming. Go to https://hecua.org/enviro for an overview of the program including a recent syllabus. Or email Marissa, the program's student adviser, at enviroag.hecua@gmail.com. The application deadline for this May-Term program is April 15th, 2013.

ID 3591, 3592, 3593, & 3594 -- Environmental Sustainability: Science, Public Policy, and Community Action
-Fall Semester
-16 credits (full-time, off-campus, semester program)
-fulfills these LEs: Biological Science with Lab core, Social Sciences core, Civic Life and Ethics theme, Environment theme
The Environmental Sustainability program is experiential, combining academic classroom work with hands-on experience in the community through internships. In the semester-long ES program, you learn about all aspects of environmental sustainability, from farming and food to environmental justice, conservation, climate change, and energy. You'll find that this environmental movement goes beyond recycling and shopping at the co-op to what you can do now as a student to make real change! Throughout the semester we take various trips around greater Minnesota and learn by seeing and doing from real world people. Visit https://hecua.org/es_mn to learn more the program and to see some of the potential internships. Or email Katy, the program's student adviser, at es.hecua@gmail.com. The application deadline for this Fall Semester program is April 15th, 2013.

These programs are offered by HECUA, the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs, a non-profit organization based in St. Paul, MN that offers unique experiential education programs both domestically and abroad. These programs focus on issues affecting our local and global communities. At the U of M, they are offered in partnership with the Community Service-Learning Center. Visit www.offcampusstudy.umn.edu for information on all of HECUA's programs.

Thursday, February 14, 2013
2:30-3:30pm in 214 Heller Hall

Friday, February 22, 2013
2:00-3:00pm in 214 Heller Hall

*Applicants must be Pell Grant-eligible (check your eFAAN to confirm)

Awards of up to $8000 are available for summer, semester and year programs.

Application deadline for summer 2013, fall 2013and academic year 2013-14 is March 5, 2013.

The info sessions will cover eligibility requirements scholarships, application process, tips for applying, and additional resources.

Registration not required.

More info about this scholarship can be found at:
http://www.iie.org/en/gilman

Contact thuydoan@umn.edu or 612.626.8686 for questions.

Thursday, February 14, 2013
2:30-3:30 in 214 Heller Hall

Friday, February 22, 2013
2:00-3:00 in 214 Heller Hall

*Applicants must be Pell Grant-eligible (check your eFAAN to confirm)
Awards of up to $8000 are available for summer, semester and year programs.

The info sessions will cover eligibility requirements scholarships, application process, tips for applying, and additional resources.

Registration not required.
More info about this scholarship can be found at: http://www.iie.org/en/gilman
Contact thuydoan@umn.edu or 612.626.8686 for questions.

Art for Social Change: intersections of Art, Identity and Advocacy program immerses students in the study of artists and communities using art to inspire social change. In Art for Social Change, a wide variety of creative practices are embraced as essential tools for civic engagement, participatory democracy and direct action. Through lively dialogues in classroom seminars, field visits with the Twin Cities' most influential community-based artists, and a professional internship, Art for Social Change students explore how art and culture impact communities and how creative work (performance, writing, visual art, music, etc.) has the power to address pressing social issues and make them visible and real. The program uses current events and recent history to examine subjects like social and cultural identity, war, racial injustice, poverty, and ecological devastation. As a class, students grapple with questions like, what is the role and responsibility of the artist in response to these issues? How can art bring people together across difference? Can art save lives? What are the ethics behind community based-art? How do you use/introduce/infuse art in communities that are not your own? Is art a necessity or a luxury? Throughout the semester students meet with a wide variety of local artists, educators, and arts advocates in addition to attending performances, films and installations that evoke deeper investigations into these questions. You will take part in a 200+hr internship that relates to one of the topics in the program, and that is of most concern or interest to you. We work closely to ensure that the internship is a good fit for both the student and the community partner.

Want to learn more about Art for Social Change and some of the potential internships?: https://hecua.org/artforsocialchange

Want to learn more about the relationship between HECUA and the University of Minnesota?: https://hecua.org/about/members/university-of-minnesota-twin-cities-duluth-morris-crookston-rochester

Want to apply?: https://hecua.org/apply-now

Tuesday, November 13
3:00-4:00pm
Blegen 125

HECUA is currently accepting applications for the Spring 2013 semester programs: Inequality in America (formerly MUST) and Art for Social Change (formerly City Arts). The application deadline for these programs is December 3rd.

HECUA offers off-campus study programs that address some of the most important issues of our time. Each program takes undergraduate students off campus into the Twin Cities to engage in hands-on learning through classes, field work, and an internship. During this info session, you'll learn more about these HECUA programs:

Art for Social Change: Intersections of Art, Identity, and Advocacy (formerly City Arts) - Using the vibrant arts scene of the Twin Cities, this program immerses students in the study of artists and communities using art to inspire social change.
16 credits - spring semester
U of M courses ID 3581-3583
Environmental Sustainability: Science, Public Policy, and Community Action - This program gives students the opportunity to learn the science behind key environmental issues, explore the intersections between social and environmental justice, and participate in public policy and community-based strategies to achieve sustainability.
16 credits - fall semester
U of M courses ID 3591-3594
Inequality in America: Policy, Community, and the Politics of Empowerment (formerly Metro Urban Studies Term or MUST) - This program looks at the economy, housing systems, education, welfare, government policies, urban sprawl, regional race and class segregation, and institutional discrimination. Instead of just learning about these problems, students explore solutions and become engaged in organizations committed to social transformation.
16 credits - fall or spring semester
U of M courses ID 3571-3573
Writing for Social Change: The Personal, the Political, and the Power of the Written Word - This program explores the ways creative writers, spoken word artists, and literature impact communities, and examines the role each plays in addressing pressing social issues.
16 credits - fall semester
U of M courses ID 3561-3563
Race in America Then and Now: "Post-Racial" Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement - This program, based in the US South, explores the Civil Rights era's struggles and accomplishments as well as current movements for equality, and delves into questions about racial justice in America today.
6 credits - May-term
U of M course ID 3574
Environment and Agriculture: Sustainable Food Systems - This interdisciplinary, field-based course explores the connection between the environment and agriculture, provides a first-hand experience of food systems, and analyzes the environmental, economic, political, social and cultural issues that define modern farming.
4 credits - May-term
U of M course ID 3564

For more information or to apply, please contact a HECUA advisor at 612-626-2044, hecuausa@umn.edu or visit www.offcampusstudy.umn.edu.