Post Election Resources
Throughout this week of uncertainty, many university departments have sent out the following resources. We wanted to send these again to remind people to reach out in difficult times. CWRU Students can call (216) 368-5872 anytime to speak with a 24/7 counselor-on-call. Here are other potential resources:

Election Dialogue: 
Election Dialogue is a program that offers informal, confidential 1:1, 20 minute consultation with a member of the counseling staff. Students can discuss the impact of recent national events, including the presidential election.

Open to all CWRU, CIA, CIM and KSU Podiatry undergraduate, graduate and professional students, regardless of where they are currently residing. Click here for available dates/times

Self Care in November
Last week, the Daily published information about a weekly wellness session that is being hosted through November. Join Heidi Weiker for practices and strategies to refocus on self-management, compassion and gratefulness in adversity. The sessions will be held three consecutive Wednesdays at 1 pm (EST). For more information, visit the Daily and register for the sessions.

Additional Services
SOCA Post-Election Zoom, Mindfulness Hour (open to students, faculty and staff), Black Student Support Group, BIPOC Support Space, Anxiety Workshop, and MOVE Forward.

Faculty Highlights
We wanted to highlight some of our faculty members who were interviewed about this year's election. You can listen here to Professor Lavelle's comments about the election on Ideastream. Professor Buchler was also interviewed about the election on Cleveland 5 News.

Next week, Professor Moore and Professor Lavelle will be speaking on a panel about foreign policy in the next administration. For more information, look below at the events section or visit the City Club's website.


Important Academic Announcements

Course withdrawal and grading option
Friday, Nov. 6 is the last day to choose the Pass/No Pass grading option or withdraw from individual courses. By this deadline, you must decide to complete each of your courses for a regular evaluative grade, use the Pass/No Pass option, or withdraw from the course. Refer to last week’s article in thrive for more information about this process.

Course registration
Registration for the spring semester begins this month. Consult the Classes & Enrollment tile in SIS to find your specific registration dates (enrollment appointments). As you are planning for spring registration, make sure to review the instruction mode (in-person, blended, or remote synchronous/asynchronous) and choose courses that align with your learning plans. 

New POSC Course Highlight
POSC 357: Economic, Environmental, and Health Challenges
The Impact of Democracy.  Join faculty from the disciplines of ecology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, and political science to read and discuss the latest findings about how political institutions impact economic, environmental, and public health outcomes. Topics include economic inequality, economic growth, global warming, air pollution, infectious and chronic diseases, and worker health and safety. Building on this foundation of knowledge, students will work together to investigate the impact of political institutions on problems of their own choosing.  This course can be used toward the Political Science major or minor. Offered Spring 2021, Mondays and Wednesdays 12:45-2:00 pm in-person or remote.  For course information, contact Kelly McMann, kelly.mcmann@case.edu


January Term Classes
If you want to search for courses offered during the January Session, you can choose “January 3 Week Session” from the “Session” search filter. Otherwise, you will notice the meeting dates are listed as 01/08/21-01/29/21.

Here is a centralized list of January Term classes. Below is a highlighted J Term class:

People & Planet (ESTD 318, POSC 318, PHIL 318)
In this intensive winter class, delivered synchronously & remotely, we do two things: (1) We explore our relationship to the environment; (2) we conceptualize and work out some of our broad responsibilities as citizens living on a planet where we are all interdependent, human and non-humans alike. 

One of the features of the class will be walks – or other forms of suitable locomotion fitting to people’s situation – done every other day and turned into short essays.  Another feature of the class will be working out our environmental duties, especially to future generations.  The idea is to get to know the season where you live, to have time to connect with your surroundings and yourself, and to focus on being a citizen of Earth, not just of a nation-state.  Students from any major are welcome, without prerequisites.