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The general responsibilities of the cardiology fellow in the Division of Cardiology are to evaluate and work up outpatients for procedures, assist on EP procedures, pacers, and implantable defibrillators. Daily arrhythmia rounds will be conducted where consults and intracardiac tracings will be discussed. Fellows will participate in ICD and pacer follow-up clinic.

The goal of the Catholic Studies Program is to develop an intellectual and academic approach to Catholicism which does justice to its full human reality and integrity as a culture. This goal both explains the reason for having the program within a university that identifies itself as a whole as Catholic, and also dictates the interdisciplinary approach which the program takes.

The chemistry major in the Department of Chemistry is fully accredited by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Students who have earned a B.S. degree in chemistry at Georgetown are well prepared for graduate study in chemistry or biochemistry at any U.S. university. With the inclusion of introductory biology, the curriculum provides an excellent background and all of the necessary prerequisites for medical school admissions.

The mission of the Georgetown Center for Child and Human Development is to improve the quality of life for all children and youth, children with special needs, adults with developmental and other disabilities and their families. A division of the Department of Pediatrics, the center is founded on an interdisciplinary approach to service, training, research, community outreach, technical assistance and public policy.

The Chinese Program combines thorough training in spoken and written Chinese language with the development of critical approaches to a broad range of Chinese cultural phenomena. This includes classical and modern literature, visual arts, film, popular culture and underlying aspects of philosophical and social thought.

The Department of Classics offers courses in Latin and Greek at the beginning, intermediate and advanced undergraduate levels and includes courses designed for students who already have been working at an advanced level for several years. The department also offers courses in classical studies that explore ancient material and textual evidence through readings in English.

The Center for Clinical Bioethics provides university-based ethics resources for individuals that shape and give health care. We are committed to the dynamic interplay between theory and practice, experience and reflection. The center is an integral part of the university, with faculty members holding appointments in clinical and academic departments of the university. The university offers the M.D./Ph.D. and Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) programs in the Medical Center. The Ph.D. in bioethics is offered through the Department of Philosophy.

Georgetown's Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science offers a minor in cognitive science and courses open to all students. The faculty come from several departments on the Main Campus and at the Medical Center. The program has close ties with the interdisciplinary program in neuroscience, a university-wide Ph.D. program based at the Medical Center. Undergraduate students are encouraged to learn about faculty and graduate student research projects at Georgetown and to work as partners in that research.

The Communication, Culture & Technology Master of Arts Program explores how we use media and technology to communicate from social, economic, political and cultural perspectives. The graduate program is designed for people who want to combine their academic interests with studies of the history and future of technology. With this knowledge, students advance within their current careers, take their careers in a new direction or prepare for further study at the Ph.D. level.

The Community Research and Learning (CoRAL) Network is a consortium of community-based organizations and higher education institutions in the Washington DC metro area engaged in community-based learning and research to promote positive social change and advance their social justice missions in the national capital region.

The Comparative Literature Program promotes an investigation of the nature and role of literature by exploring its multifaceted output. It focuses on connections, exchanges, analogies and differences between works, authors, periods or genres, and engages literature in a dialogue with other disciplines such as history and politics, sociology, linguistics and translation studies through philosophy, visual arts, music and film studies.

Georgetown’s Division of Comparative Medicine aims to develop and support animal-based research and resources to improve human health and animal welfare by providing information, service and facility support for the discovery, development and characterization of animal models of human biology and disease. The department also provides service and facility support for the user of animals in medical education and provides and supports special core research resources.

Georgetown's Department of Computer Science consists of 10 full-time faculty members working in the areas of algorithms, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, database systems, data mining, information assurance, information retrieval, machine learning and non-standard parallel computing. We are a small department, which provides students considerable opportunities for interaction with faculty, for independent study and for involvement in faculty research.

The Georgetown Master of Arts Program in Conflict Resolution seeks to equip its graduates with the theoretical and practical tools necessary to better understand the nature of, and solutions to, many types and degrees of conflict.

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) is part of Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the oldest school of international affairs in the United States. The center has established itself as the most comprehensive university-based Arab studies program in the United States. It focuses on the contemporary Arab world, through teaching, scholarship, public events, research, publications and outreach to the community. Today CCAS is a premier source of information on issues concerning the Arab world both within the classroom and for the larger community.

The Center for Continuing and Professional Education empowers those seeking to advance or change careers. Through certificate programs and non-credit courses that combine Georgetown traditions of academic rigor with ethical leadership, and with instruction from leaders in industry, students at all stages of life can turn their professional aspirations into reality.

The School of Continuing Studies fulfills Georgetown's mission of educational outreach and inclusivity by offering a wide range of educational options to a diverse community of students and professionals. The school offers more than 665 credit and non-credit courses, dozens of programs, degrees and certificate tracks, with nearly 3,000 students served each year.

Over the past three decades the Credit Research Center has gained a national reputation for its work in evaluating public policy toward credit markets. Center staff have frequently testified before Congress and state legislatures regarding the impact of regulations, such as those pertaining to truth-in-lending disclosures, interest rate ceilings, equal credit opportunity regulations, debt collection practices, fair credit reporting procedures and personal bankruptcy. The center's academic affiliation and policy orientation brings sophisticated research expertise to bear on important regulatory issues.

The mission of the National Center for Cultural Competence is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement and evaluate, both culturally and linguistically, competent service delivery systems that address growing diversity, persistent disparities. The center also promotes health and mental health equity.p>

The Culture and Politics Program fosters an environment for critical inquiry, creative engagement and collaborative learning. All majors take the foundation course, Theorizing Culture and Politics, and then go on to choose their own five-course sequence around their individually chosen concentration, in addition to three courses each from the social sciences and the humanities. The high degree of flexibility afforded to students requires them to become independent agents of knowledge capable of designing their own program of studies according to their individual interests and talents.