Coming Up in ELC:

Scholarship Application: Spring 2021

Application available online HERE
Submission Deadline: Monday, November 16 @ 5:00 pm Texas Time
Two (2) scholarships are typically awarded: one for AEP and one for ELP
Award will cover $2400 towards intensive tuition for the Spring 2021(15–week) session in either AEP or ELP

Continuing Student Applications

Application available online HERE
For Spring 2021

Veterans Day

Wednesday, November 11
This is a U.S. national holiday, but UT is open and classes will continue as normal.

History of Veterans Day:

New York City ticker tape parade celebrating the armistice agreement to end the fighting of WWI.

We celebrate Veterans Day on November 11 because in 1918 at the 11th hour of that day the Allied nations signed an armistice with Germany.
Fighting of “The Great War” (later known as World War I) ceased. The Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended the war, was signed months later.
November 11 was known as “Armistice Day” and was a day to celebrate the veterans of World War I.
After the end of World War II, American veterans organizations argued for the renaming of the holiday to “Veterans Day.”
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, “on June 1, 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.”

Upcoming Social Events:

Talk Time on Zoom

Practice your English conversation skills with native English speakers!
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
4:30 – 5:30 pm Texas Time

Emoji Game Social on Zoom

Come play this hilarious game with your friends and classmates!
Thursday, November 12, 2020
5:00 – 6:00 pm Texas Time

Bullock Texas State History Museum

Open Wednesday – Sunday
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Closed Monday and Tuesday
They are limiting crowd capacity with timed ticketing.
To purchase tickets online for $16, please visit Admission and Tickets.
You will receive a confirmation that you can print and bring to the Museum, or we will scan your ticket from your phone.
Wear a mask, wash or sanitize your hands, stay 6 feet apart from other people.

The Bullock Museum tells the story of Texas. When you enter the museum, you’ll interact with the earliest parts of Texas history, which pre-dates European contact in the Americas. As you move up the stairs, you’ll be moving forward in Texas history until you reach modern-day.

“With the earliest object dating more than 16,000 years ago, *Becoming Texas* begins with the first people to step on the land, early American Indians, and the tools and materials they used to hunt, gather, and build.”

First Floor: “Becoming Texas is an immersive environment that uncovers Texas history with the most contemporary research on our past. This one-of-a-kind journey through more than 16,000 years of Texas history documents the rise and fall of nations up to Mexican Independence in 1821.”

“Sam Houston, sculpted by Elisabet Ney in 1892.”

Second Floor: “This gallery explores Texas history from 1821 to 1936. Discover the personal stories and the people, places, and events that shaped the state as Texas moved through revolution, annexation, immigration, the economics and human cost of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Depression-era extravagance that highlighted the state’s 100th birthday.”

“A sprawling factory quickly built for WWII aircraft training in Dallas produced the AT-6 airplane, known as the “Texan” — a plane so durable that many later saw service in the Korean War.”

Third Floor: “From ranching artifacts with Tejano roots to oil field drill bits to Civil Rights-era documents to music with unique Texas sensibilities, the third floor gallery captures the excitement of Texas’s emergence onto the national stage in the 20th century. Explore Texas cattle stories, the emergency of the oil and gas industy, Texans’ presence in the military, the importance of the culture of music and sports, and Texas’s leading role in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).”