Cross Registration Spring 2010

Registration Information for Non-Journalism Students

Graduate students from other Columbia Divisions/Schools looking to register for Spring 2010 classes at the Journalism School must follow the steps outlined below. The spring semester officially begins Thursday, January 21. Please note that not all classes begin at this time; most electives will begin the week of January 23

Cross-registration will be open on Friday, January 15 at 7am and it will close Friday, January 29 at 7am

Class Offerings for the Spring 2010 Term:

Advanced Photojournalism - Barrett, Sara
American Journalism History: Photojournalism & Documentary Film from 1840-2010 - Tucher, Andie
Business & Economics Reporting - Einhorn, Cheryl
Computer-Assisted Reporting - Torok, Tom
Covering Conflict - Matloff, Judith
Feature Writing A - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Feature Writing B - Span, Paula
Investigative Techniques - Port, Bob
Journalism of Ideas - Levinson, Jacob
Making the Business of Journalism Work - Seave, Ava
Managing Broadcast Newsrooms in the Digital Age - David McCormick/Lloyd Siegel
Media Criticism: The Masters and Mastery of Journalism Critiques - Osnos, Peter
Narrative Writing - Coyne, Kevin
News Editing - Rimmer, Addie
Opinion Writing - Seth Lipsky/Gail Collins
Radio Documentary - Blumberg, Alex
Sociology of News - Schudson, Michael
Sports Journalism - Padwe, Sandy
Stabile Investigative Techniques - Tamman, Maurice
The Journalist as Historian - Gorenberg, Gershom
Video Profiles - Weinberg, Howard
Visual Storytelling: Making Graphics with Impact - Johnson, Scott

*Full descriptions are available at M.S. Spring 2010 Curriculum

For the most part, spots in J-School classes are assigned to non-Journalism graduate students on a space available basis (with top priority given to IMC SIPA students).

To request cross registration in a Journalism School course, please complete the form at http://fs8.formsite.com/cjdos/Cross_Registration/

The form will be active as of Friday, January 15 at 7am.

Please note that this is only a REQUEST and we cannot guarantee your request will be accommodated.

Cross registration request forms are processed on a first come, first served basis.

If your form is submitted correctly you will receive a request confirmation e-mail within 24 hours. Please remember to include the @columbia.edu after your UNI.

You will NOT receive an e-mail from my office saying that your request was granted or not granted.

To learn if your request was granted, you must keep checking your class schedule on the web using https://ssol.columbia.edu/. All requests remain on file during the cross registration period (January 15 - January 29 at 7:00 a.m.).

You do not need to submit multiple forms for the same cross registration request. If I am able to grant requests I do it as soon as possible but sometimes it takes days for a space to open in a class. Sometimes the space never opens up.

Please remember that you are submitting a cross registration REQUEST. There is no guarantee that I will be able to approve your request. Until you see a change reflected on your class schedule on STUDENT SERVICES ONLINE ( https://ssol.columbia.edu/), your request has not been approved.

If you have more than one preference, you may in the notes section of the Cross Registration form, indicate so. Simply complete the add portion of the form with your first preference and in the notes section give me the same info about your second, third, etc., choices. You must include the call and course numbers if you indicate other preferences in the notes section.

Also, please be certain that you are not requesting a class that conflicts with any of your other classes.

Direct any questions to Melanie Huff at mgh2@columbia.edu

Thanks!