Undergraduate Advising
Rm 200 English Bldg
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana IL 61801
217-333-4346
English Undergraduate Advising Office News
Do you need to complete a concurrent enrollment form for Parkland College? If so, please go to the following link:
http://provost.illinois.edu/programs/advising/ConcurrentEnrollment.html
Do you need to run your degree audit report (DARS)? Click on this link: http://www.registrar.illinois.edu/dars/generate.html
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Spring 2012 Newsletter
Take a look at the list of courses we are offering in English literature for Summer '12 and Fall '12:
Spring semester 2012 ENGL Advising Office Newsletter
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Convocation!
The English Department Convocation Ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 12 at 3:00 PM at Foellinger Auditorium, for students graduating with degrees from the English department in English or Rhetoric- Creative Writing. Leith Adams will be the 2012 convocation speaker. Adams earned his B.A. in English from the University of Illinois in 1969. He went on to attend University of South California (USC)'s film school and is currently the executive director and archivist of the Warner Brothers Museum. We are very proud to have him among our alums.
Registration for the English department convocation is now closed.
If you registered for convocation, you may pick up tickets in room 200 English Building starting Tuesday, May 1 through Thursday, May 10 between 8:30 am-12:00 p.m. and 1:00-4:30 p.m. If you have requested that your tickets be mailed to your home, those tickets will be sent out on Monday, April 30. Anyone who no longer needs the original number tickets requested may return them to our office, or simply let us know.
We cannot guarantee the availability of extra tickets. If you have already requested extra tickets, you have been placed on a waiting list, which is not a guarantee that your request will be fulfilled. If there are extra tickets available, we will notify degree candidates on Thursday, May 10 to pick up extras on Friday, May 11. If you know that many of your family members and friends plan to attend your graduation, we would highly recommend registering for the campus-wide commencement ceremony since tickets are unlimited. The Campuswide Commencement Ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 13 at 10:30 AM at the Assembly Hall. Journalist Cokie Roberts will give the keynote address at this Commencement ceremony.
More information about Campuswide Commencement: http://oc.illinois.edu/commencement/spring-ceremonies.html
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Congratulations!
Two undergraduate majors are recipients of College of LAS Awards:
Elise L. Harmening, Teaching of English major, Edward W. Collins and Doris Strickland-Collins Intern Award Darragh K. McDermott, Teaching of English major, Charles C. Stewart Leadership and Society Intern Award
Winners of the English Department’s 2011-12 Teaching Awards include:
Teaching Assistant award winners:
Katie Walkiewicz (also a winner of the LAS competition)
Jill Fitzgerald
Leslie Crowell
Non-Tenure Track Faculty award winners:
Mary Lindsey
Ted Sanders
Kirstin Wilcox
Tenured Faculty nominee for LAS award:
Jim Hansen (also a winner of the LAS competition)
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SPRING SEMESTER WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST:
March 30, 2012 Volume 5 Issue 2
March 5, 2012 Volume 5 Issue 1
February 28, 2012 Volume 4 Issue 4
February 20, 2012 Volume 4 Issue 3
February 10, 2012 Volume 4 Issue 2
February 2, 2012 Volume 4 Issue 1
For older digests, please click on the link below:
FALL SEMESTER WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
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CAREERS AND GRADUATE SCHOOL INFORMATION ROOM
An entire room in our office has been reserved for students thinking about careers in English or Creative Writing or going to graduate school. The room has computers available to use for browsing bookmarked URL's we've found useful to our majors. There are also paper copies of job descriptions and vocational biographies among many other paper references.
Please stop by to take a look.
