Georgetown University

Bachelors, master's, and doctoral programs are offered through Georgetown College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the Law Center, the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing and Health Studies, the School of Continuing Studies, and the Center for Professional Development.

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Majors and certificates

Georgetown University offers undergraduate degrees in 48 different majors in the four undergraduate schools, as well as offering opportunities for students to design their own individualized courses of study.

All majors in the College are currently open to students in the College and the School of Business as minors, as are certain other fields, including Catholic Studies, Culture and Politics, Environmental Studies, Justice and Peace Studies, Medieval Studies, Social and Political Thought and Women's Studies. Students in the College and School of Foreign Service may complete certificate programs in African Studies, Arab Studies, Asian Studies, Australian and New Zealand Studies, European Studies, International Business Diplomacy (SFS only), Justice & Peace Studies (SFS only), Latin American Studies, Medieval Studies (SFS only), Muslim-Christian Understanding, Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, Science, Technology and International Affairs (College only), Social and Political Thought (SFS only) and Women's Studies (SFS only). A new certificate in International Development will be offered for undergraduates of any school by the end of 2006.

Georgetown College - Bachelor of Arts

View of Healy Hall and New South Hall from across the Potomac River in 1999

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Arabic
* Art, Music & Theater
* Chinese
* Classics
* Comparative Literature
* Computer Science (created in 2005)
* Economics
* English
* French
* German
* Government
* History
* Interdisciplinary Studies
* Italian
* Japanese
* Linguistics
* Mathematics
* Philosophy
* Physics
* Political Economy
* Portuguese
* Psychology
* Russian
* Sociology
* Spanish
* Theology

Georgetown College - Bachelor of Science

* Biology
* Biochemistry
* Chemistry
* Computer Science
* Mathematics
* Physics

Walsh School of Foreign Service

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* Culture and Politics [1]
* International Economics [2]
* International History [3]
* International Political Economy [4]
* International Politics [5]
* Regional and Comparative Studies [6]
* Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) [7]

The SFS grants the Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service to undergraduate students. Graduate students can pursue six interdisciplinary graduate programs: four regional studies programs as well as the Master of Science in Foreign Service and the Security Studies Program. The regional studies programs include Arab Studies (MAA), German & European Studies (MAGES), Latin American Studies (CLAS), and Russian & East European Studies (REES).

The STIA program is the first of its kind. Harvard and Georgia Tech, among others, now have STIA programs as well.

In 2005 the SFS joined four other U.S. universities in opening a campus in Education City in Doha, Qatar. All costs for the development of this campus are paid for by the non-profit Qatar Foundation. The requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree are the same as those of the Washington campus. The only major available will be International Politics. Classes will start in August 2005 with 25 students. Enrollment will expand to 100 within four years.

McDonough School of Business

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Offering unparalleled access to the world's business, policy and thought leaders, Georgetown University's Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business ("MSB") is committed to developing leaders capable of making complex business decisions in a global environment and who are dedicated to serving their companies, society and humanity. The McDonough School's undergraduate, MBA, executive education and International Executive MBA programs provide solid grounding in all the core management disciplines, with an emphasis on the global, ethical and political environment of business.

Several academic themes distinguish the McDonough School of Business and give the school a special identity among managers and academicians, including international and intercultural dimensions of the marketplace, the importance of written and oral communication, and interpersonal effectiveness in organizations.

The McDonough School core courses in the traditional disciplines of accounting, finance, marketing, management, and the decision sciences support these themes. Additionally these themes are supported by the McDonough School's strong support of a minor concentration in one of the nearly 50 liberal arts disciplines. Undergraduate concentrations include:
* Accounting
* Finance
* International Business
* Management
* Marketing
* Operations and Information Management

Graduate work offered by the school includes:
*MBA: The Georgetown MBA Program is a general management program oriented toward those with liberal arts, science, or technical undergraduate degrees. The Program is a two-year, full-time program without majors or concentrations.
*MBA EP: The MBA evening program (EP) is targeted towards the working professional who is likely to possess a deeper work experience than the typical full-time student. It is taught by the same faculty as the full-time MBA Program, and covers the same academic content.
*IEMBA: The International Executive MBA (IEMBA) program provides experienced professionals with the tools needed to succeed in today's global business environment. The IEMBA every-other-weekend class structure means students can stay on the job, immediately putting their new knowledge to work.
*EML: The Executive Master's in Leadership (EML) degree is a distinctive program that focuses on the passion, purpose, and practical skills necessary for effective leadership. The Master's program analyzes leadership as a set of skills on three different levels of analysis: individual, interpersonal, and institutional.

School of Nursing and Health Studies

*Nursing
*Health Studies
**Human Science
**International Health
**Health Care Management Policy

Since its founding, the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies (NHS) has been at the forefront of education in the health care field, offering many programs unique to America's elite institutions. Offering undergraduate and graduate programs in nursing and the health sciences, graduates are prepared to enter the complex fields of medicine, nursing, law, health policy, and health systems administration.

Undergraduates may pursue study leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Nursing or the Bachelor of Science in Health Studies. The BSN degree prepares students for examination for licensure as a professional nurse. The Bachelor of Science in Health Studies degree program currently offers three tracks: Human Science, International Health, and Health Care Management Policy. The School of Nursing and Health Studies also offers: a Baccalaureate Program for RNs, Second Degree BSN Program, a Certificate in International Health for Nursing Majors, and a Certificate in Population Health. Undergraduates have various opportunities to study abroad to put their various fields into practice. Graduate fields of study include: Acute and Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Direct Entry to Advanced Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Anesthesia, Nurse Midwifery, Post-Masters Nursing Programs, and a Master of Science in Health Systems Administration.

Admissions, etc.

Georgetown's overall undergraduate acceptance rate as of 2006 was 21%http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3736&profileId=1, among the most selective of any university in the United States. The undergraduate schools maintain an Early Action admissions program. According to admissions fact sheets, applicants applying to Georgetown typically consider Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Boston College, University of Notre Dame, Duke University, and the University of Virginia during their application and subsequent enrollment periods.

Student Organizations

University-Funded Organizations

Georgetown University has a large number of student organizations that cover a variety of interests: student government, club sports, organizations focused on media and publications, performing arts, religion and volunteerism and service. A current list can be found here on the university's website. Georgetown's societies include the nation's oldest debating club, the Philodemic Society, and the oldest continually running dramatic society in the United States, the Mask & Bauble Society http://www.georgetown.edu/organizations/mask/..

Georgetown University has several student-run newspapers. The Hoya is the university's oldest newspaper. It has been in print since 1920, and since 1987 has published twice weekly. The Georgetown Voice, founded in a split from the Hoya in 1969, is a weekly newsmagazine and The Georgetown Independentis a journal of news, commentary and the arts published monthly. The Georgetown Academy and The Georgetown Federalist are conservative campus newspapers. The University also has a campus-wide television station, GUTV, and a radio station, WGTB. The campus newspapers and radio station have a long history of clashing with the administration.

Independent Organizations

In addition to student organizations and clubs, Georgetown University is also home to the largest student-run company in the nation, Students of Georgetown, Inc. [8], also known as "The Corp" which does business in excess of $3 million a year. The Georgetown University Grilling Society (GUGS, pronounced "jugs"), formed in 2002, gained national attention after participating in a grilling competition televised on the Food Network.

The Georgetown Heckler is an online comedy newspaper founded in 2003 by Georgetown students.

The Georgetown Chimes, the university's oldest (founded in 1946) and only all-male singing group, are renowned for their entertaining performance style, devotion to the group and university, and unique ethos. The Chimes, though not officially affiliated or funded by the university, are famous for going on to become high achievers and for remaining influential and involved with the university.

In keeping with the school's Catholic identity, the school has discontinued the funding of certain student groups that compromise its Catholic values. In the 1980s, the University fought a protracted lawsuit to retain the ban on gay and lesbian student organizations. The suit was resolved when the court ruled that the university must allow the group to access campus facilities, but allowed the university the right to refuse recognition of the groups. In 1992, the school revoked the accreditation of a group known as "Hoyas for Choice." While the group no longer receives university funding, it is still allowed to operate. As Georgetown does not allow them to use the trademarked "Hoya" name, the organization is now known as "H*yas for Choice."

Fraternities

Georgetown University does not recognize the existence of fraternities, sororities, and secret societies among the student body. Georgetown's Student Affairs Policy specifically prohibits "2. Fraternities and sororities: single sex groups with ritualized, demeaning or secret membership practices, and specifically those organizations affiliated with the national Intrafraternity Council, Pan Hellenic Association, and Pan Hellenic Council. 3. Secret societies: groups that do not disclose their purpose, membership or activities, or whose purpose, membership or activities are discriminatory" from receiving access to university benefits. http://www.georgetown.edu/student-affairs/policies.html#EligibilityforBenefits Many students are not aware of their existence either, as fraternities and sororities enjoy only limited visibility. Quite a few fraternities and sororities existed before the above policy was implemented in the '60s, most of which became inactive soon after.http://www.thehoya.com/features/091900/features2.htm Therefore, most chapters are of more recent origin.

Fraternities with chapters active on campus are Delta Phi Epsilon (DPE) (Georgetown's Chapter of this professional professional foreign service fraternity, Alpha Chapter, was established in 1920. Its members include several deans of the Walsh School of Foreign Service, as well as Jesuits), Alpha Epsilon Pi (Georgetown's chapter, Eta Sigma chapter, affiliated with campus Hillel, was established in 2002, making it the school's first social fraternity presently existing)http://www.aepi.org/contact/index3.html, the Georgetown University Sigma Phi Epsilon SEC chapter (Established in early 2005, the chapter is scheduled to receive its charter in Fall 2006), and The Society of Stewards and The Second Society of Stewards.http://www.deltaphiepsilon.net/Other_Fraternities.html There are also a number of minority interest fraternities chartered at other unversities that have membership on campus. A list of them can be found here.

Co-ed fraternities at Georgetown include the business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi (charter revoked 2006), Phi Alpha Delta Professional Pre-Law Fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity, and Alpha Phi Omega (APO). Of these fraternities, Alpha Phi Omega is the only fraternity recognized and given funding by the university, as it is seen as a service organization. http://www.georgetown.edu/home/student_organizations.html

The Delta Phi Epsilon Foreign Service Sorority is the only sorority chartered at Georgetown University. Some female Georgetown students participate in sororities at other local universities. An article listing some of them that also discusses Greek Life at Georgetown can be found here.

Athletics

The school's sports teams are called "the Hoyas". Many years ago, students well-versed in the classical languages invented the mixed Greek and Latin chant of "hoya saxa", translating roughly as "what (or such) rocks!" Eight years after the foulding of The Hoya student newspaper, a campus sports writer began to refer to teams as the "Hoyas" rather than as the "Hilltoppers". The name was picked up in the local dailies, and Hilltoppers soon fell out of view. The mascot of Georgetown athletics programs is Jack the Bulldog.

The teams participate in the NCAA's Division I. Georgetown competes in the Big East Conference in virtually every NCAA sport, though the football team competes in the Division I-AA Patriot League and the rowing teams compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC).

The Men's Basketball team, the most successful and well-known sports program at the university, won the NCAA championship in 1984 under coach John Thompson. The current coach is his son, John Thompson III. In 2006, the basketball team reached the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA tournament and was ranked in national polls for the first time since 2001.

Trivia

* Georgetown students, in 1798, were required to bring six shirts, six pair of stockings, six pocket-handkerchiefs, four cravats, four towels, one hat, and three pairs of shoes with them to campus.
* The Philodemic Debate Society was founded in 1830 and was the first collegiate debate society in the nation.
* The Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society is the oldest continually-running collegiate theatre company in the nation.
* Georgetown's Observatory, completed in 1844, was used in 1846 to determine the latitude and longitude of Washington, D.C., and was the first such calculation for the nation's capital.
* Georgetown's first intercollegiate men's basketball team was formed in 1907; the team played its first game February 9, 1907, defeating the University of Virginia by a score of 22-11.
* Georgetown University was the first college in the United States to appoint a full time Muslim chaplain, Imam Yahya Hendi, who delivered a prayer at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
* In 2005, Georgetown University became the world's first university to offer a doctorate in liberal studies.[9]
* Though The Exorcist was filmed at the University in 1973, subsequent requests to film on campus, including for the Sopranos TV series, the Harry Potter movies, and the movie St. Elmo's Fire were also made.
* John Carroll, S.J., founder of Georgetown University, was the first Catholic bishop in United States and is the namesake of fellow Jesuit institution John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.
* In August 1797, U.S. President George Washington visited the campus and addressed students from the porch of Old North.
* U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visited the campus in May 1861 to review the 1,400 Civil War troops stationed in temporary quarters on campus.
* U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson attended Georgetown University Law Center for several months in 1934 before dropping out. Another well known Georgetown University Law Center dropout is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who dropped out in 1957.
* U.S. President Bill Clinton, class of 1968, was elected Freshman and Sophomore Class president, but lost his bid for student body president.
* Former Secretary of State and Nobel Prize winner Henry Kissinger taught a seminar in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service for several years in the late 1970's.

Georgetown in fiction

* In the movie National Treasure, Benjamin "Ben" Gates (played by Nicolas Cage) is said to have a degree in American History from Georgetown.
* The 1973 horror film The Exorcist was set and filmed in Georgetown. It was based on a novel by William Peter Blatty, who received an English degree from Georgetown in 1950. Blatty wrote the script in a room in Holy Trinity Church's school, a Catholic parish adjacent to Georgetown University.
* The 1985 "Brat Pack" movie St. Elmo's Fire revolved around a group of students who had just graduated from Georgetown. The bar that much of the film takes place in is based on The Tombs, a bar and restaurant known for its large student clientele, located one block from Georgetown's front gates. The university denied the producers the rights to film on campus, so parts of the film were shot at the nearby University of Maryland.
* In the NBC television series The West Wing, President Bartlet's daughter Zoey attended Georgetown. In the show's fourth season, an episode entitled "Commencement" was filmed on campus, with current Georgetown students used as extras.
* In The Girl Next Door, one of the main character's (Matthew) goals is to get into Georgetown.
* In Save the Last Dance, one of the main character's (Derek) goals is to get into Georgetown.
* In Above the Rim, the main character, Kyle-Lee, hopes to get a scholarship to play basketball at Georgetown.
* A second season sub-plotline of The Sopranos concerns Meadow Soprano's ambition to gain acceptance to Georgetown, and her mother Carmela's machinations on her behalf. Rumor has it that the school denied the show permission to film on campus, leading to a somewhat abrupt switch of college choice to Columbia.
* In Election, the main character, Tracey Flick (played by Reese Witherspoon), ends up at Georgetown.
* In 24 (TV series), one of the main characters, President David Palmer (character) attended Georgetown where he played on the basketball team.
* In Syriana, Prince Nasir al-Subaai tells about his vision for his country, saying, "I studied at Oxford. I have a Ph.d from Georgetown."
* The major motion picture "Momento" was written by a Georgetown Alum, and the main character's nemesis, John G., is said to be named after John Glavin, a professor of creative writing at Georgetown.
* Several episodes of The West Wing feature Georgetown as their backdrop. In the show, President Bartlett's daughter Zoe is a student there.

External links

*Georgetown University official site
*Official Athletics website
*Georgetown University Alumni Association
*Georgetown Undergraduate Prospectus

Academic departments

*Georgetown College
*Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
*Robert E. McDonough School of Business
*School of Nursing and Health Studies
*Georgetown University School of Medicine
*Georgetown University Law Center
*Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Student organizations

*Georgetown University Croquet Team
*Georgetown University Alumni & Student Federal Credit Union
*The Philodemic Society, the oldest student debating society in the nation
*Georgetown Rowing Association
*Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity
*Georgetown University SigEp Colony
*Georgetown University Astronomical Society
*Georgetown University Grilling Society (GUGS)
*Georgetown University College Republicans
* Georgetown University College Democrats
*The Hoya - Oldest student newspaper
*The Georgetown Voice - second oldest student newspaper
*Georgetown Solidarity Committee - A student group concerned with labor issues
*The Georgetown Independent
*Collegiate Forum, the first international student-run policy center
*The Georgetown Chimes, a male barbershop quartet and a capella singing group
*The Georgetown GraceNotes (all-female a capella group)
*The Georgetown Phantoms (co-ed a capella group)
*Georgetown University Television (GUTV)
*Georgetown University Ballroom Dance Team
*The Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society, the oldest continually running college dramatic society in the nation
*Georgetown German Club or Georgetown Deutscher Verein (GDV)

References

*http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06458a.htm
*http://traditions.georgetown.edu

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