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MASTER’S PIECES
Welcome back to Notes & News, me hearties!!! Not all the lions have rejoined the pride as yet, but you are loping, loping, loping homeward. We welcomed the Class of 2017 in fine fashion on Friday, with all 105 (!) present and accounted for, ably attended by the freshman counselors of 2014 and a hard working TD Moving Company battalion.
No hurricanes this year. (Yet.) No floods. (Yet.) No snow. (Yet.) All things in good time. In fact the weather has been nearly perfect the first few days, which I hesitate even to mention. But you have to celebrate these things while they last.
Meanwhile, here’s what’s happening soon, and very soon:
· Tuesday, August 27, starting at 5:15 pm in the Master’s House: TD Freshman Dinner The Class of 2017 will dress up. Excellent refreshments will be presented. Important people will be introduced. Dean will give the b*** speech. The use of the passive voice in English prose will be warned against. All will be well. All TD upperclassmen may dine at the celebratory welcome bbq on the Old Campus.
· Wednesday, August 28: Official end of Camp Yale and official start of classes/shopping period. Note especially that on this FRIDAY, August 30, Yale will be conducting the MONDAY classes that would otherwise meet on September 2. (No classes will be held on September 2, to honor Labor Day.) I know this is confusing. I also know you can figure it out.
Future Date for your Calendar: next Tuesday, September 3 at 9:00 pm: TD Family Pizza and Music Night in the Dining Hall. As we have done for the last three years with great enthusiasm, we’re inviting TD musicians to welcome the freshmen with songs or instrumentals – humorous, beautiful or raucous. The Dean and Master will warble, too, and freshmen musicians are not only welcome but encouraged to give it a go. Wagon Wheel is the must-have finale. (If you want to perform, please email me at jeff.brenzel@yale.edu with your song title and the name or names in your group.)
I hear that the student kitchen is ready to go, that the Buttery will open very soon and that the recording engineers are preparing the studio for use as we speak. Watch your email for news. And be a force for Good. Look forward to seeing you in the courtyard.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
What did you do on your summer vacation? Please take a few minutes to complete Yale College survey about your activities this summer. Click on, or copy and paste into an internet browser, the following URL: https://yale-csm.symplicity.com/students/. Your username is your Yale email address and if you do not have a password, just use the “forgot password” button. This information will be used by the Yale College Dean’s Office to better understand students’ paths and expand opportunities, and may be included in an information database about summer experiences. (No names or contact information will be included without students’ consent.) If you have any questions, please contact undergraduate.careerservices@yale.edu.
The Yale University Art Gallery is now accepting applications for our undergraduate Gallery Guide program. Interested students are also invited to a ‘Meet and Greet’ with current Gallery Guides on Wednesday, September 4th from 3:30-5 pm in the lobby of the Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St). The Gallery Guide program is an opportunity for undergraduates to incorporate art into their Yale experience. The application is available in the TD dean’s office. Questions to: Jessica Kempner ’14, jessica.kempner@yale.edu
ACADEMICS
TD Dean’s Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM to 5 PM.
To make an appointment, visit or call the dean’s office (203-432-0754)
Registration Meetings for Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores
Tuesday, August 27
TD Dining Hall
Failure to attend incurs a fine of $50
Sophomores: 9:00 AM
Juniors: 9:45 AM
Seniors: 10:30 AM
August 30: Friday Classes do not meet; Monday classes meet instead.
Online Preregistration for Introductory courses in English, Mathematics, Spanish, and French; for Economics 110 [freshmen only]; and Freshman Seminars
Monday, Aug 26, from 4:30 to 7:30 pm. Results will be posted later that evening.
Registration Procedures and information can be found through links available at www.yalecollege.yale.edu/content/special-academic-programs-and-pregistration .
Registration for Residential College Seminars. Applications are now being accepted for most fall-term College Seminars. The deadline to apply is Monday, August 26, at 8:00 AM (EST). Please note that in addition to the statement of interest, some writing seminars require writing samples. A list of fall-term seminars is available on the College Seminar Program Website, and a link to the application for each seminar in included with the course’s description in Online Course Information.
Course Schedule Deadlines:
Class of 2017 Monday, September 9, 5 PM
Classes of 2016 Tuesday, September 10, 5 PM
Class of 2015 Tuesday, September 10, 5 PM
Class of 2014 Wednesday, September 11, 5 PM
Schedules are handed in to the TD dean’s office
The deadline is strictly enforced. A late schedule incurs a fine of $50
A late schedule cannot elect any courses CR/D/Fail
Clerical Error on schedule: $50
A schedule of 3 or 3.5 course credits and a schedule of 6 or 6.5 course credits needs my permission before the schedule is handed in. Schedule an appointment to see me (see above).
On-line Course Selection: www.yale.edu/sis
1. Use the worksheet capabilities to search courses to shop during shopping period.
2. After you have settled on the courses you will take, print your final schedule.
3. Take the final schedule to your adviser for the signature. Sign the schedule.
4. Hand in your signed schedule to the TD dean’s office by the deadline for your class
(see deadlines above and in the Blue Book)
I remind you that (1) the program does not check for conflicts in class meeting times (that is the student’s responsibility – see “overlapping meeting times” above) and that (2) once you print your final schedule, you cannot reenter the program to make changes and print a different final schedule. Including or removing a course (after meeting with your adviser, for instance) must be hand written on the printed final schedule itself (in the Include and Remove Sections), and each change must be initialed by your adviser or me before the deadline for handing in your schedule.
Changes in Classes and their Meeting Times and Places: Course changes and courses added or deleted since the publication of the Blue Book are recorded on line at OCS. The on line list of courses is the most current one, updated as needed.
Overlapping Class Meeting Times: Class meeting times may not overlap by more than 15 minutes once a week. Required are a conversation with me, compelling academic reasons for the overlap, and with my assistance a petition to the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing.
A schedule with a course in The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (and also not listed in the Blue Book) or a professional schoolrequires an additional form, which is available in the TD dean’s office and at www.yale.edu/sfas/registrar/blue_form.pdf . Hand in the completed form with the syllabus attached by the deadline for your course schedule. [Note: SOM courses cannot be added to your schedule through OCS; they must be written by hand in the “include” section on your schedule. The form (above) for those SOM courses must be handed in to my office in the first week of shopping period, well before the deadline for your course schedule, because SOM determines its class enrollments well before your schedule is due.]
Courses at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and at a professional school cannot elect the CR/D/Fail option.
Credit for these courses on your transcript: When you put a Graduate or Professional School course on your schedule, zero (0) course credits are recorded for the course until you hand in to my office the form for graduate school courses (syllabus attached) and the registrar’s office determines the course credits for that course after that. Some courses earn 1 course credit in Yale College and some earn .5 course credits (most commonly in SOM and EPH).
Independent Studies (Directed Reading, Directed Research, etc. as listed by most departments): There are limits on the number that a student can enroll in during a given year and over four years. See YCPS (Blue Book) page 42, paragraph 4. Enrolling in an independent study requires the additional permission of a Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Deadline to apply for a Fall-Term Leave of Absence: Friday, September 6. See me if you are thinking about requesting a leave of absence for this fall term.
Foreign Language Placement Examinations are listed in the http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/opening-days-college
List of QR and Science courses without prerequisite:
http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/sqr/qr/courses.html
Health Professions Advisory Program CURRICULAR MEETINGS AND WALK-IN HOURS
The location is Room 305, UCS/CIPE (55 Whitney Ave, 3rd Floor)
Wednesday, 8/28, 1-4 PM
Thursday, 8/29, 1-4 PM
Friday, 8/30, 1-4 PM
What courses in the Yale College Programs of Study bulletin fulfill the requirements for admission to medical school or are needed on the MCAT exam? We will help you to select your premedical courses and to establish a plan to complete them depending upon when you wish to matriculate in medical school. Please note that these meetings do not substitute for those that you will also have with your faculty advisor. There will be ample time for questions.
HPAP WALK-IN HOURS
Beginning on Tuesday, 9/3, HPAP Weekly Walk-In Hours will be Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1-4 PM. Sessions are 15 minutes long and are available on a first come, first served basis.
STUDY ABROAD
Center for International and Professional Experience
http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international/
Deadline to apply for a spring-term 2014 Term Abroad is October 15, 2013.
The deadline to apply for 2014 Summer Abroad credit is March 1, 2014. If you are considering credit for summer study abroad in 2013 with outside (i.e., non-Yale) programs you must apply for approval through the Summer Abroad program.. Information about the application process, including a list of eligible programs, is available at the Center for International and Professional Experience, 55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd floor, and on theCIPE Web site. Students receiving credit for foreign study on a Summer Abroad may apply such credit toward the distributional requirements for the bachelor’s degree or toward a requirement of the student’s major program.
FRESHMEN
Freshman Year Distributional Requirement: At the end of the freshman year (after two terms of enrollment) the student’s record must record enrollment in at least one course credit in two of the three skills categories (WR, QR, and foreign language). For a course with two distributional designations, only one or the other designation can be counted toward the distributional requirements; in other words, no double dipping. A course may, however, count toward both the requirements for a major and for a distributional requirement.
For freshmen and sophomores interested in the United States Air Force.
Air Force ROTC Open House
August 26-27
8:00AM-5:00PM
55 Whitney Avenue, Suite 450
New Haven CT 06510
Questions to:
Captain Tim Secor
Operations Flight Commander
Det 009 AFROTC Yale University
(203) 432-9456/9431
SOPHOMORES
www.yale.edu/yalecollege/sophomore
You must hand in the form to select a sophomore year adviser if you have not done so. I
cannot approve your schedule until you hand in the form, due no later than the day your schedule is due. If you need suggestions for potential advisers, I am available. The form is available at the sophomore web site (www.yale.edu/yalecollege/sophomore) at the Advising tab and from my office.
Sophomore Year Distributional Requirement: At the end of the sophomore year (after four terms of enrollment) the student’s record must record enrollment in at least one course credit in each disciplinary area (Hu, Sc, and So) and at least one course credit in each skills category (WR, QR, and foreign language). For a course with two distributional designations, only one or the other designation can be counted toward the distributional requirements; in other words, no double dipping. A course may, however, count toward both the requirements for a major and for a distributional requirement.
Sophomore web site; www.yale.edu/yalecollege/sophomore. Among other information and advice for sophomores, listed on the site are seminars for sophomores and departmental information meetings, which are updated during the term. As for other information about majors, at the web site you can search alumni by their major in Yale College and learn what they do now. And at www.yale.edu/facebook you can search other undergraduates by major and even by major in your own college.
Sophomores are invited to attend the academic fair on Tuesday, August 27, 2-3:30 PM. Almost all departments participate in this fair, held in LC and WLH. It is a good occasion to ask about majors, including their prerequisites and requirements. A list of departments and their meeting rooms is available at WLH and LC on Tuesday afternoon.
For freshmen and sophomores interested in the United States Air Force.
Air Force ROTC Open House
August 26-27
8:00AM-5:00PM
55 Whitney Avenue, Suite 450
New Haven CT 06510
Questions to:
Captain Tim Secor
Operations Flight Commander
Det 009 AFROTC Yale University
(203) 432-9456/9431
JUNIORS
Junior Year Distributional Requirement: At the end of the junior year (after 6 terms of enrollment) a student’s record must show successful completion of all skills requirements: two course credits in QR, two course credits in WR, and foreign language). A course completed CR cannot count toward a distribution requirement. For a course with two distributional designations, only one or the other designation can be counted toward the distributional requirements; in other words, no double dipping. A course may, however, count toward both the requirements for a major and for a distributional requirement.
SENIORS
Distributional Requirement for the degree: Successful completion of two course credits each in WR, QR, Hu, So, and Sc and completion of the foreign language requirement. A course completed CR cannot count toward a distribution requirement. For a course with two distributional designations, only one or the other designation can be counted toward the distributional requirements; in other words, no double dipping. A course may, however, count toward both the requirements for a major and for a distributional requirement.
Undergraduate Career Services
http://ucs.yalecollege.yale.edu
NOTES
As I have written before, I am thinking about our new academic year together and our new beginning. For the class of 2017, who bring new energy and talents into our TD family, the beginning is indeed new, touched by “the first time.” For the rest of us, although Yale is not new in that freshman “first time” sort of way, maybe we can borrow “fresh” from them and make “re-freshed” for ourselves. Each of us is, after all, not the same as we were last year. We are ourselves but here anew. What we see here can be new because we are.
One summer I hiked in western Maine in the same area for the third time. I returned mainly to revisit two streams and Cranberry Pond – places I loved from before. I wanted to “be t[here]” again. In ways that still puzzle me, each seemed new though actually unchanged. I surmise, as Thoreau did after reflecting on the novelty of a familiar November sunset, that it was me: I had changed. I wonder if we who were here last year might permit ourselves to see Yale in new ways as we face a familiar beginning as adults who have changed since the last time we were here. Thoreau may also remind our Class of 2017: you are not the same as you were last year. If you see Yale with high school eyes, for instance, you may miss it (just as you may impose on Yale a frame that includes the security of the familiar). You, too, have changed over the summer.
As each freshman’s “being here” helps all of us see Yale afresh, each also invites each of us to acknowledge our changes, too. And the Class of 2017 may remind us of our reasons for coming to Yale – to learn from books, studios, and labs; from teachers and from each other; from what we continue to do and from trying something new; from our successes and, yes, from the times we fall short. Also, freshmen remind us that we invent and reinvent the sort of residential community we want – a community we make and remake every day by what we say and do, and by what we do not say and do not do. We may be away from home, but we know it’s the people who will make our residential college a home. It takes each one of us (and more) to dance with our differences on our common ground and to make a home where we now find ourselves, to have that sense of belonging that is so important to each of us. We have done it before and done it well. We will do it again and well, and I am so grateful to be part of our living and learning together.
Let each of us live deliberately and not merely by habit or accident. Let each of us ask ourselves:
“What kind of adult do I want to be and become?”
“What values do I want for myself and for my community?”
See you around the courtyard.
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