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> SCHOLARS PROGRAM
Wartburg
College Scholars Program
Scholars Program
is dedicated to improving intellectual life on campus by providing
enriched academic challenges and learning opportunities to highly
motivated and academically talented students.
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Scholars Program features: |
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Small seminar classes. |
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A distinguished speakers series. |
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A sophomore-year program of
lectures, concerts, and performances. |
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Student involvement in designing
courses and activities. |
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A variety of social and travel
opportunities. |
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A student-designed senior project. |
| Curricular
Elements: |
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First-year seminar
– The New York Times Bestseller List and the
Liberal Arts |
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Third-year seminar – student
directed and designed. First-year and third-year seminars replace
IS 101 and ID requirements of the Wartburg Plan of Essential
Education. |
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Student-designed and faculty-approved
senior project with a focus on any discipline or disciplines. |
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Advanced placement for students
who can offer convincing evidence that they have already achieved
outcomes for course requirements of the Wartburg Plan of Essential
Education or in specific disciplines. |
| Co-Curricular
Elements: |
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Second-Year Symposia
– designed and organized by Wartburg Scholars and open
to the campus community – involving attendance at a specified
number of lectures, concerts, recitals, exhibits, readings,
plays, films, convocations, faculty presentations, etc., followed
by discussion |
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Wartburg Scholars Lecture Series,
featuring two public lectures a year by distinguished speakers
who will be available for dialog with Wartburg Scholars |
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Service to the campus community,
offering special opportunities for dialog and discussion, tutoring
programs, presentations, and performances |
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Dinners, field trips, conferences,
service projects for Wartburg Scholars |
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Special recognition for students
who participate in the program and meet specified guidelines |
| Admission
Requirements |
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Graduation in
the top 10 percent of your high school class OR an ACT composite
score of 26 and above OR nomination for the program by an
individual familiar with your intellectual promise. |
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A completed application, which
includes an essay and an interview with the Program Committee. |
| NOTE:
Upperclass and transfer students who have earned a college
grade point average of 3.5 or above or who have been nominated
may also apply. |
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Scholars
Calendar
Program
Director
 Dr.
Birgen, Associate Professor of Mathematics, received the BS in
Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and the
Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.
Since coming to Wartburg
in 1997 she has served as co-coordinator of IS 101, advisor to
Phi Eta Sigma, National First-year Honor Society, advisor to Kappa
Mu Epsilon, Mathematics Honor Society, faculty sponsor of the
Wartburg College Mathematical Modeling Contest Team, and faculty
sponsor of the Wartburg College Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Contest
Team.
In 2002 she applied
for and received a SENCER Grant (Science Education for New Civic
Engagement and Responsibility) to further the development and
assessment of Physics 150. Since coming to Wartburg she has presented
14 papers at national and regional conferences on Mathematics,
technology and the teaching of mathematics, and Essential Education.
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