To: Aquinasfan
Rules excerpt:
Do students have to attend the Governor's School the entire six weeks?
Yes. If a student accepts the invitation to attend the Governor's School, he/she must agree to attend for the entire six weeks. (NOTE: Any student who does not stay until the closing session on the last day will not receive a Governor's School certificate, nor be permitted to use the Governor's School experience on college and scholarship applications.)
May students go home on weekends?
No. Students must remain at the Governor's School through the weekends except the third weekend of the session when all students go home on Saturday and return on the following Tuesday evening.
What is the cost to students to attend the Governor's School?
The program is funded by the North Carolina General Assembly. Students furnish only their transportation to and from the campus and any spending money they may need.
60 posted on
02/14/2006 12:04:24 PM PST by
TaxRelief
(Wal-Mart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
Below is a list of optional seminars recently presented at GS-West.
- Strange Little Short Stories
- Aesthetics of Choreography
- Relativity
- This is Not a Pipe: Magritte and How We Interpret Art
- Love Lace
- Discussion of Love Lace
- Ecstasy and the Brain: A Neurological Perspective on Contemporary Drugs
- Deconstructing Scrabble: Synthesizing a Killer Word
- Word Play: Experiments in Poetry
- African-American Film Series
- Yoga
- Reading Circles
- Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time
- The Topology of 20th Century Theater: A Hands-on Approach
- The Art & Science of Flying: From Bernoulli to Paragliding
- The Art of Montage: Two Films by Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho & Vertigo
- Suzuki Open Class
- Activism and Protest Culture
- Film: Twilight
- GSW Movie Series Preview: Film's Unique Vocabulary
- General Relativity for Dummies
- The Tropicalization of Latin America: Disney's Three Caballeros
- Word Play: Experiments in Poetry
- Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (repeat)
- Yoga
- Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone: Declining Social Capital in America
- Two Poets and a Guy with a Story
- Roussel, the Oulipo, and the Constraint in Literature
- Mythos and Modernity in Japanese Cinema (Or East Meets West(erns)): Akira Kurasawa's Seven Samurai
- Gazing into the Abyss: An Introduction to Existentialism
- Nuestra Comunidad: Latinos in North Carolina
- Mean Genes and the Biology of Pleasure
- An Introduction to the Poetry of Natasha Trethewey
- Word Play: Experiments in Poetry
- Yoga
- Four Poets
- The Merchants of Cool: How Corporate America is Defining What You Think is Cool
- Ask the TACs Anything (About College)
- The Bioethics of Genetic Testing and Stem Cells
- The Use of Force: An Idea in Art and Science
- This is What Democracy Looks Like – The 1999 Seattle Protest
- Word Play: Experiments in Poetry
- Yoga
- Reading Circles
- African American Film Series: Slam
- Appalachian Documentary: American Hollow
- Life & Debt – Global Economic Policy at Work in Jamaica
- Topology & Order Parameters in Physics
- Discussion of Globalization Films
- Area II Cloning Debate
- How Do Poems Mean?
- Ways of Knowing and Those @#$% Environmentalists
- Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining – How Cheap is Your Electricity
- Exploring the Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
- Phase Shifting: The Early Compositions of Steve Reich
- Writing for Fun and Insight
- Sudden Fiction & Contemporary Lif
- Critics' Choice: Exploring Literary Theories
- The New French Wave: Jean-Luc Godard – Breathless, Le Mepris (Contempt)
- Individuality, Conformity, and Society
- Suburbia and the New American Home
- Song Writing Workshop
- Meet Your Meat, Part I
- Famine Relief for Mauritania
- Industrial Areas Foundation: A Proven Approach to Community Action
- Film Screening: Zoot Suit
- Word Play: Experiments in Poetry
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy
- Funny Dirty Little War: Peronism and Argentina's Dirty War
- Lingua Comica: Comics, Art, and Visual Communication
- Yoga
- The Mathematics of Music or the Music of Mathematics
- Can We Think Our Way to Belief? Philosophical Arguments For/ Against God's Existence
- Holden Thorp's DNA: The Secret of Life
- African-American Film Series: Scankofa
- The Transcendental Cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni: Blow Up & L'Avventura
- Sociology of Capitalism
- Follow Your Bliss
- New Music Improvised and Not
- Capital Punishment: A Lawyer's Perspective
- African American Film Series: Sankofa, Part II
- Presumed Guilty: A Performance of “The Exoneratedâ€Ãƒƒ‚�
- Dead Man Walking
- Are We There Yet? - Women in Science
- Word Play: Experiments in Poetry
- The Real Scoop About College
- Yoga
- Meet Your Meat, Part II
The
secret homosexual seminar took place on the second last day of the sixth week. They are still keeping it secret from this year's potential recruits.
61 posted on
02/14/2006 12:12:35 PM PST by
TaxRelief
(Wal-Mart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
To: TaxRelief
May students go home on weekends? No. That tells me all I need to know.
64 posted on
02/14/2006 12:23:16 PM PST by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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