Dear M.S., dual/SEAS, and Knight Bagehot students:
Please read this Spring 2017 registration memo carefully.
Important Dates:
· Monday, November 28, 7am – M.S. Course Preference Ballot opens (instructions below).
· Monday, December 5, 10am – M.S. Course Preference Ballot closes.
· Saturday, December 17 – Spring 2017 schedules available in SSOL (Those with financial HOLDS on their accounts cannot be registered until the fall bill is paid).
· Monday, January 2, 7am – Add/Drop opens (Those with financial or Assessment HOLDS are ineligible to participate).
· Friday, January 27, 10am – Add/Drop ends.
Automatic Registrations:
· All students enrolled for the Master’s Project in the Fall of 2016 will be automatically registered for the Spring of 2017 – no action required.
· FT students required to take Investigative Techniques this spring will be automatically registered for a section – no action required.
· FT & 1st Year PT Doc students will be automatically registered for the Doc Seminar – no action required.
· Those admitted to Book Writing & Covering Religion will be automatically registered – no action required.
· 1st Year PT Doc & SEAS 1st year will be automatically registered for their required classes and DO NOT have to submit a ballot.
Ballot Submission Instructions
The ballot goes live on Monday, November 28, at 7am.
Please carefully read and follow the instructions below:
Before balloting, review the curriculum doc.
The ballots are NOT handled on a first-come, first-served basis. As long as you make the deadline (Monday, December 5, 10 a.m.) you have equal standing with all other students.
When the ballot opens, please select the appropriate ballot for your concentration/program. If you complete a ballot for a concentration/program other than your own, you will have your classes assigned randomly in the correct concentration/program. If you do not submit a ballot by the deadline, you will also be placed in classes on a space available basis.
To complete your ballot, you will need your UNI, your Columbia email address, and your PID.
If you made a mistake or change your mind, please resubmit your ballot. Your most recently-submitted ballot as of the deadline (Monday, December 5, 10 a.m.) will be the one processed.
To see course/professor evaluations from other semesters, please follow the instructions here.
NOTE: Ranking the same class as your first choice repeatedly DOES NOT increase your likelihood of getting into that class. Rather it means that we will randomly select your class if we are not able to give you your first choice.
Students may not take more than of the specialty classes (Video, Data, Investigative). You may rank multiple options for those classes but once we are able to get you into one, we will consider your rankings based on the first non- specialty option. For instance if your rankings are along these lines:
· 1st choice: Multi-Media: Covering Education
· 2nd choice: Video Newsroom Broadcast
· 3rd choice: Video Newsroom: Web/Doc
· 4th choice: Video Storytelling A
· 5th choice: Covering Race
So if we are able to get you into Multi-Media/Education we would consider your next highest ranking for the second class as Covering Race because it is the highest ranked class without a video component.
If you experience any problems using the ballot, please send e-mail to mgh2@columbia.edu.
Please note we cannot promise students they will gain a seat in any specific class.
You will receive a confirmation e-mail containing the ballot information you submitted. You will have to look through it carefully to find what you entered as the response includes both the pages you were required to complete and those you weren’t based on type of ballot.