Departmental Prizes
Lee F. Anderson Memorial Global Education & Engagement Grant
Frank Safford Prize for Best Senior Thesis
Guetzkow Prize for Best Senior Paper
Certificate of Distinction in Foreign Languages
Lee F. Anderson Memorial Global Education & Engagement Grant
Deadline Extended for 2011!
The Lee F. Anderson Memorial Global Education & Engagement Grant will provide funding for a Northwestern University rising junior or senior who demonstrates initiative and commitment in making a difference in the world. The grant will support student engagement, volunteerism or service projects either locally or abroad.
Global education and commitment to improving the condition of the world and its peoples were the core themes of Professor Lee Anderson’s intellectual and ideological agendas. At the time of his death in 2000 his family and friends created the Lee F. Anderson Memorial Global Education Fund to help insure his legacy and to honor Professor Anderson’s unwavering commitment to promoting pre-collegiate and collegiate education that prepares students to be responsible, humane citizens of an increasingly globalized world.
Award: $1,500 individual project; $3,000 group project
Guidelines: This award is open to a Northwestern rising junior or senior and will support a project in international/global-focused student engagement, volunteerism or service either in the U.S. or abroad. Student projects may focus on, but are not limited to the following:
- Work with a community, nonprofit or set of organizations on a meaningful project that supplements a student’s academic studies with applied engagement, volunteerism or service,
- A summer project for a member of an international or local-global focused student group to increase the capacity of that organization to provide meaningful programming and connections with the Northwestern community,
- Creation of a project or product through which an individual student shares the story or experience of some international or global-issues focused organization or community in outreach to the broader Northwestern community.
To be considered for the grant applicants must submit: a cover sheet; a resume (for each applicant if it is a group project); a project proposal (2-5 pages) including a description of the project with Northwestern outreach, the student’s preparation for the project, the project’s time frame and a budget; and a list of the contact information for three references including one NU faculty member who is familiar with the student and the project.
Deadline for submission extended: Monday, April 11, 2011
Group Application
Individual Application
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Frank Safford Prize
The Frank Safford Prize was initiated in 2008 to honor Professor Frank Safford who served as Director of the International Studies Program from 2002-2006. Professor Safford's engagement with the field of international studies and his
commitment to undergraduate education have shaped the current direction of the International Studies Program. Professor Safford was also
instrumental in the redevelopment of the International Studies curriculum. This prize is selected by the Honors Committee and is awarded each year to the Best Senior Honors Thesis.
The Guetzkow Prize
The Guetzkow Prize is a senior prize awarded each Spring quarter for an outstanding paper written in the International Studies Integrating Seminar (Intl St 395). Each quarter the seminar instructors will nominate the top papers in the class. The paper must demonstrate exceptional interdisciplinary research and dedication to international scholarship. Each paper must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation by the seminar instructor. While the deadline is in Spring quarter papers can be nominated and submitted to the International Studies office during Fall and Winter quarter as well. Papers written during the student's junior year can be nominated but will not be considered until their senior year. The prize for the Guetzkow is $300.
The Guetzkow Prize is named for Harold Guetzkow, Professor of Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology from 1957-1986, who is a distinguished scholar of international studies.
The International Studies Program remembers
Professor Harold Guetzkow
1915-2008
Dr. Harold Guetzkow taught for Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology at Northwestern University from 1957-1985. His colleague, University of Kansas Professor Philip Schrodt remembers Guetzkow’s contributions to the field of International Studies, “The thirty years that Harold Guetzkow spent at Northwestern coincided with the development of systematic and quantitative methods for the analysis of international politics. Guetzkow was an internationally recognized leader in these efforts during the whole of this period, first with his adaptations of social psychological models to the study of politics, then with his pioneering efforts in human, then human-machine, and finally all-machine simulations of international behavior. Guetzkow’s influence can be seen not only in his own work, but that of individuals who were either his students or came to work with him at Northwestern as post-doctoral students: to name only a few, Paul Smoker went on to direct the Richardson Institute of Conflict Studies in Lancaster (UK), Ladd Hollist the International Studies Association, and Stuart Bremer the Correlates of War project.”
Former student Michael Ward (University of Washington) recalls, “After an active and influential career, Prof. Guetzkow retired from Northwestern University in 1985, having been feted at the 1985 International Political Science Association meetings with the presentation of a Festschrift, Theories, Models, and Simulations in International Relations: Essays in Honor of Harold Guetzkow (Westview Press, 1985). During 1987-1988 Prof. Guetzkow was elected President of the International Studies Association. At that time he took up a project focused on the study of values as they affect decision making in the international arena. He began a study of cultural values in decision making with scholars at the Pacific School of Divinity and also began a productive relationship with Kent Kille of Wooster College who brought the project to culmination in 2007 with the publication of The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in International Leadership (Georgetown Press 2007). Throughout his career, Harold worked to support the efforts of other scholars interested in decision-making and international politics.”
Dr. Harold Guetzkow passed away on November 11, 2008 in San Jose, California at age 93. He was preceded in death by his wife Lauris, whom he had married in 1944. He is survived by sons James (Charlotte) and Daniel (Diana) Guetzkow, and his daughter Gay (Howard) Ben Tre. In his seven decades of active scholarship, he distinguished himself as a vibrant and path-breaking scholar as well as an incredibly talented mentor.
Donations may be made to “Northwestern University,” for the purposes of the Harold Guetzkow Prize in International Studies, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, International Studies Program, 2010 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208. A memorial web site is planned at www.haroldguetzkow.info which will contain information about the upcoming symposium. |
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Certificate of Distinction in Foreign Languages
This certificate signifies that students have completed extra course work in a foreign language at NU going above and beyond the WCAS language requirement. There are three ways to earn this certificate:
Option 1: Term Papers
(For non foreign language and literature majors only)The applicant has written term papers in a foreign language in three Northwestern courses outside the Language and Literature departments (or in Language and Literature courses at the 300 level).
Option 2: Advanced Coursework
The applicant has taken four 200 or 300-level foreign language courses beyond the WCAS foreign language proficiency level, subject to the College's double-counting restrictions. (for students majoring or minoring in a foreign language, at least two of the four courses may not be double-counted with either the foreign language major or with International Studies)
Option 3: Proficiency in an Additional Language.
The applicant has achieved WCAS proficiency in an additional foreign language. (Placement out of a language does not count) For example if you place out of a language you must complete one upper level course in that language in addition to completing two years of another language.
If you think you meet these requirements please set up an appointment in your Junior or Senior year so we can process your application.
Application for Certificate of Distinction in Foreign Languages
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