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Liviu Librescu (August 18, 1930 – April 16, 2007) was a Romanian-born Israeli professor, whose most recent position was Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech.   His major research fields were Aeroelasticity and Unsteady aerodynamics. The 76 year-old Holocaust survivor was shot and killed in the Virginia Tech massacre while holding  off the gunman at his lecture hall entrance so his students could escape. *  *  * "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn." --Merlyn the Magician, advising the young Arthur, from The Once and Future King, by T.H. White

Course Offerings: Check out the current "packages" of course offerings, and see why it makes sense to take the courses together instead of separately.

Faculty: Find out more about the program's faculty (Terry Fencl, Lesley Miller, Allen Salzman,  and John Wager), or leave them email messages.

Fall Speech/Sociology/Philosophy Syllabus: Requirements, assignments, and schedule for the M-W-F 3-course package of SPE101, SOC100 and PHL101.
 
 

FOR SPRING, 2007   Civil War ONLINE PACKAGE!! Click on the waving  Uncle Sam bobble-head for Registration and LOGIN information. Click here for the Brief Description of the two course Civil War Package. Click here for the  detailed  SPRING,  2007 HISTORY 151 Syllabus   (Civil War Emphasis). Click here for the detailed   SPRING, 2007 RHETORIC 102 Syllabus (Civil War Emphasis). Each syllabus above includes the "fine print,"  i.e., requirements, assignments, and schedule for the 2-course package of HIS151 and RHT102 (Civil War Emphasis).

     For Fall, 2006:    RHT 096-096 UC NET  and   PSY 100-070 combined.    This is a really convenient way to take two critical General Education Requirements which transfer.

On-Line Interdisciplinary Studies Courses.  Take one at a time, or more than one--They are all "connected" with interdisciplinary material.  We offer courses in Sociology, Social Psychology, Introduction to Philosophy,   Ethics, Principles of Effective Speech, and Introduction to Theater. (Click on course title for preview of the course.)

Spring Theater/Social Psychology/Ethics Syllabus: Requirements, assignments, and schedule for the M-W-F 3-course package of SPE130, PSY201, and PHL103.

  NEW !   For Spring 2005 !  IDS 101 and IDS 102.  Take one of these courses, and opt to make it count towards either your Fine Arts or Humanities Gen. Ed. requirements.
 

Child Psychology/Intro to Fiction Syllabus: Requirements, assignments, and schedule for the Mon.-Wed. package of PSY216 and ENG103.

Readings: View or download electronic texts of assigned readings.

Resources A menu of other 'Web Sites' useful to Undergraduate Center students.

Audio-Visual Resources Some helpful Triton Library video, film, and computer resources.

Campus Events Calendar A monthly calendar of campus events.

WebBoard Discussions Student Lounge, Class Discussions for Theater and Ethics.

We also offer courses offering the chance for INTERNATIONAL STUDY for COLLEGE CREDIT at LOW COST, going to places like France, Spain, Greece, Germany, England and Italy. Click on the links below for details on some upcoming trips, and to be put on our mailing list for future trips.

All trips give college-level academic credit in the course 'HUM 296 (Special Topics).'  A limited number of travel scholarships (usually for $200) are available for these trips.

You can now fill out an on line application for information on future trips.

Passport Application Information

STUDY  &  TRAVEL PROGRAM  of   TRITON COLLEGE 

PLAN  TO COME ALONG ON OUR 2008 TRIP TO Italy,  Greece,  and Turkey in March,  2008 If you want to be sent more information, click the above, and send email to  John Wager (jwager@triton.edu) or Allen Salzman (salzmana@triton.edu).

Ireland, 2006:  David  Prine's Photos

Photos from the trip

Itinerary of the trip

http://undergraduatecenter.dhs.org/2005_italy/ 

You can now fill out an on line application for future trips.  Get your application in early.    Spain, 2004 Photosfrom the trip COSTS: Itemized breakdown from the tour provider, which lists all of the costs associated with the tour.  Itinerary: for the day-to-day schedule on the trip.     Phases in the Construction  of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 FRANCE: March 2003 The trip started in Paris, then went to Versailles, then Chartres Cathedral, the chateaux of  the Loire Valley, St. Malo and Caen in Normandy (including a stop at the Normandy beacheads from D-Day), Rouen, and finally back to Paris. Thursday,  Mar. 13 to Sunday, Mar. 23.  PHOTOS  Sent while we are on the trip, so everyone can see what's going on in France.... Here are some important links for the tour in France:  COSTS:   are estimated from under $1700 to under $2000, depending on age and accomodations selected. Click here for a complete breakdown.     Your tuition costs are also on this page.  ITINERARY HOW ABOUT A TOUR OF PARIS? XE.com Personal Currency Assistant Currency Conversion  ITALY: March 2002  Photos from the March 2002 Grand Tour of Italy are now available! APPLICATION:   Click here for an application.

(Keep in mind that although you have to be a Triton student to go on these trips, being enrolled in the included 1-hour HUM296 class makes you a Triton student for the duration of the trip. So if you are transfering to another school with the same spring break time, or if you are out of school entirely, you can still go.)

GREECE:   Fourteen Triton students and faculty were in GREECE for Spring Break 2001!  Dr. John Wager sent back digital photos and digital videos of some of their activities; Click here to see these photos and videos.

ITALY & FRANCE (Venice, Florence, Pisa, Nice and Paris)  Mar. 2000.Italy and France were GREAT!  Everyone returned from the March 9-18 2000 Spring Break trip, even though there were threats from several students that they might accidentally lose their passports on the way to the airport.  The photos from the trip are now on line at http://undergraduatecenter.dhs.org/2000_italy/trip.html You can use them in any way you wish

BRITAIN (including IRELAND, SCOTLAND and ENGLAND) Mar. 1999.

CHINA including Beijing, the Great Wall, Xi'an, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, May -- June, 1999.

ITALY including VENICE, FLORENCE and ROME, Mar. 13-22 1998.

GERMANY  Austria and Switzerland, Mar. 21-30 1997.