
| 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. *
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"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.
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FOR SPRING, 2008
Civil
War ONLINE PACKAGE!! Click on the
waving
Uncle Sam bobble-head for Registration and LOGIN information.
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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.
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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
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Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji in January 2--20, 2009
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2008:
Germany, Czech Republic and more: Travel with Triton's Criminal Justice Program, and learn about law enforcement in Eastern Europe. |
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Ireland, 2006: David Prine's Photos |
Photos from the trip
Itinerary of the trip
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(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.)
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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. |
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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. |