Northeastern: Tell Me All About It

dslcash2006
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:29:39 +0000

You can register online with our MyNEU portal system or over the phone. There is a priority access system called PASS. Basically it gives seniors, then juniors, then sophomores, then freshmen access over a week of time. Once you have access you can do it anytime after that. Some people do choose to sign up for classes with their advisors in person rather than on the phone/internet.

The course selections are listed online and updated with empty seats every day (registrar.neu.edu) and sometimes they will say the professor and sometimes they will simply say “staff” if they have not assigned the professor yet. But about 3/4+ of the time it has the prof, at least thats my experience.

You can go to the northeastern bookstores website northeastern.bkstore.com and use drop down lists to see what books you need, you can also go into the store and give them your schedule or call them and get the list of books. Once the professor has told them what books he/she will use they put it on the system. I’ve bought almost all my books online to save money.

For your 1st semester @ NU they typically will help you schedule it or will already have it done for you at Orientation which is over the summer.

For people interested in humanities I would not put NU down just because it can have a more preprofessional reputation. College of Arts and Sciences is the largest on campus and yes they do coop as well (if you opt to do coop, not required) eventually you’re going to be working in that field so it is good to have the academic background as well as experience. We have coops with scholastic and other companies that I know my friends have worked with. i would reccomend going to the admitted student welcome day and talking to faculty and staff in your major to get more of a sense of it all.

Also be sure to check out the library website www.lib.neu.edu where you can get info on all the authors that come to campus (there are a ton all the time)

Also, below is an AWESOME new honors seminar that they just created:
The Honors Program presents the new Writer in Residency Program featuring a new honors seminar with Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls and Easter Rising.

HNR U304 - Contemporary Issues: Arts and Humanities

Instructor: Michael Patrick MacDonald, Honors Program Writer in Residence

Social Justice: The Role of Reading, Writing and Understanding Non-Fiction

Key 01125, Monday 5-8pm

Course Description: In order to write the most effective non-fiction around social justice issues, a writer might undertake personal reflection on their own life to access that “place” that allows for greater empathy. When we write about issues affecting other people’s lives, it is important to engage in a process of contemplation that will lead to more in-depth understanding, and create a unique and passionate “voice” that brings the reader in. This is true, no matter where we come from or what our previous exposure to the issues at hand. This model is the mark of training in traditional fields such as anthropology and the new genre of “self aware” contemporary writing that contributes to our understanding of social issues. This “writing classroom” will help students engage in critical thought and discussion of a wide range of social issues as well as grassroots movement for change.

Central unifying themes of the course will be poverty, violence, and the intersection of social justice and healing efforts in communities affected by both. We will focus on the implications for writers of non-fiction on these topics. The course will present an “insider’s” view into writing with a greater consciousness of these topics by starting with some of my work, which includes two memoirs, a screen-play, editorials and a work-in-progress on solutions to gang violence in Massachusetts. Second, the course will move outward to the works of other significant writers of non-fiction – what has made their work so effective and memorable? Have the works influenced or been influenced by contemporary social problems? Are there policy links to any of these writings? Finally, the course will frame a discussion of the many ways to write non-fiction about these central themes: as memoirs, non-fiction books, as reports, as news articles, and as policy initiatives.

This course is suitable for students interested in general public policy issues, criminal justice concerns, social problems and social justice, journalism, urban anthropology, international affairs, English and the practice of writing.