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| Welcome to Wesleyan Weekend |
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 Morgan Felts is a homegrown Georgia girl ready to take on the world. Since high school, she has seen her future from a global perspective and has known that she wanted to choose a profession where she could be internationally based. Globally minded and inspired toward positive change, this Wesleyan woman is just getting started.
Graduating summa cum laude from Wesleyan, she is the school’s first political science major. Previously, students interested in political science studied a curriculum that earned them a degree in history/political science. As a first year student, Morgan recognized her passion for political science, but knew that she did not have the same level of interest and enthusiasm for the history curriculum.
After discussing her concerns with Associate Professor and department chair Barbara Donovan, Morgan was asked if she could only major in political science would she be interested in that degree? “Absolutely,” said Morgan who entered the new program and became the first student conferred a degree solely in political science. In actuality, two graduates in 2007 earned the political science major. But by luck of the alphabet -- F comes before T -- Morgan earned herself a place on the list of Wesleyan Firsts.
According to Morgan, that one example proves the professors at Wesleyan are committed to helping students succeed. As a native of Valdosta, she considered attending Valdosta State University but was overwhelmingly impressed with the number of Wesleyan students who went on to graduate school. Something Morgan knew she wanted to do.
This past summer, she began law school at the University of Georgia and plans to specialize in European Union law. As a senior honors program student, Morgan spent much of the last year preparing her senior thesis, “The European Union: Security Community or Security Complex? The Implications for Turkish Membership.” She is thrilled with an upcoming opportunity to study abroad with the UGA School of Law in the summer of 2008 at the Institut d’Etudes Européenes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, a summer-long seminar on European law in Brussels, Belgium.
“The European Union is fascinating to me,” said Morgan. “It is a complete experiment unfolding before us and no one knows the outcome with consequences that affect the globalized world.”
This passion for learning carried Morgan through her four years at Wesleyan. She felt that her Wesleyan transcript was the strongest part of her law school application, and claimed “UGA’s admission office knows that Wesleyan women are serious students who earn their A’s.” Morgan believes Wesleyan had everything to do with her acceptance to UGA -- from faculty support to leadership opportunities of class president and Mortar Board membership to the recommendation from UGA Law School alumna and Wesleyan president, Ruth Knox.
“It is a little intimidating to go into law school at 21 years old when the average age of the other students is 24 to 25, “ Morgan said. “But knowing that President Knox graduated from UGA law school, gives me the confidence that I can do it, too.” |
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