You can register to earn credit hours or you can register as a visiting scholar.
1a. How do I register for credit?
If you are a regular enrolled student at Ohio State University, simply register for the course(s) you want to take. If you do not have a tuition waiver from your department, the deadline to pay Summer Term 1 tuition and fees without being charged a late penalty is June 21, 2004 (but see question 3).
If you are a student enrolled at one of the other CIC institutions, you also can register for credit very easily through your local CIC representative for the CIC Traveling Scholar Program. You can download an application form from the program's web site. Your CIC representative needs to send a notification to our CIC representative (Shari Breckenridge, 247 University Hall, 230 N. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, e-mail: breckenridge.2@osu.edu, tel: 614/292-6031, fax: 614/292-3656) to verify your enrolment at your home institution. This needs to be done well in advance of the summer session.
If you are neither an OSU student or a student at one of the other CIC institutions you can still register for credit. In this case you will need to apply for admission to Ohio State as a "Graduate Non-degree" student. Information about how to apply for admission is available on the web.
Note that if you plan to register for Ling 795T, you should do so before May 28, 2004, and send e-mail to Mary Beckman at mbeckman@ling.osu.edu to ensure a place in the course or on the waiting list (see question 3).
1b. How do I register as a visiting scholar?
Alternatively, you may enrol in the summer session as a visiting scholar. To do this send e-mail to Mary Beckman at mbeckman@ling.osu.edu stating your intention to come to the summer session. Please also indicate which course(s) you would like to take. To enrol as a visiting scholar you will need to pay the enrolment fee, which is $1000 per course. All visiting scholars are eligible to apply for the tuition assistance fellowships (see question 4).
Visiting scholar status allows attendees to sit in on the classes, do the work for the classes, participate in every respect, but they will NOT get university credit for the coursework. Instead, visiting scholars will recieve a certificate of participation.
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The summer session lasts from 21 June through 20 July. All courses are taught for two hours each Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (except for Monday, 5 July, which is a holiday). Wednesdays are reserved for homework, and special presentations. The schedule is listed below. (The first number -- currently XXXXX-X -- is the OSU call number, which is needed by OSU and CIC students. It will be filled in as soon as we have received this information from the University Registrar on March 11.)
11165-9, Ling 795T, Practicum in Intonation, MTRF 9:30-11:18
11150-0, Ling 605, Introduction to African-American English, MTRF 1:00-2:48
11166-5, Ling 814, Seminar on the Pragmatics of Prosody, MTRF 3:30-5:18
Note that we have scheduled the courses so that no two are concurrent, in order for students who want to take more than one course to be able to do so. (Remember, though, that these are ten week courses compressed into four and a half weeks, so taking two courses is like taking four courses during the regular academic year.)
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Because we are teaching the Practicum in Intonation in a room with a computer at each student's seat, we can admit only as many students as there are seats. To ensure a good mixed audience, we will give first priority for half of those seats to students who register for credit and first priority for the other half to those who enrol as visiting scholars. If you plan to take this course, please register or enrol early, to reserve a place. If you register after the places with first priority for registered students have been filled, or enrol after the places with first priority for enrolled visitors are filled, we will put you on a waiting list for that course until May 28, 2004 (the deadline for enrolled visitors to pay the enrolment fee).
Since the Introduction to African-American English and the Seminar on Prosody and Meaning will be taught in rooms that are not equipped with individual computers, the cap on admissions is less rigid, and we do not anticipate having to set up a prioritized waiting list for either of those course. However, we still urge you to register or enrol early, so that we can prepare enough copies of any materials that will be distributed to registered or enrolled students.
3a. What happens if I'm put on a waiting list?
If places with first priority for either category are not filled by May 28, we will reassign them to people on the waiting list in the other category, in the order in which people registered (for registered students) or paid the enrolment fee (for enrolled visitors).
3b. What does this mean if I'm enrolled as a visiting scholar?
Because of the admissions cap for Ling 795T, we must ask you to pay your enrolment fee by May 28, 2004, at the latest, to ensure your place in this course. (This is a fully refundable fee, if you withdraw your enrolment before that date.) If you enrol before this deadline, but after the seats allocated to visitors are filled, we will let you know immediately, and you can choose either to withdraw your enrolment and forfeit your place on the list, or let us keep your enrolment fee in escrow until after May 28, 2004, when we will know whether there is a place for you.
Summary of deadlines
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Please submit a 150-word statement describing your program of study and why the class(es) you plan to take at Ohio State fit into that program of study. The deadline for applications is May 14, 2004, and results will be announced by May 17, at the latest. Please submit your application to:
Mary Beckman
222 Oxley Hall
1712 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210-1298
or:
mbeckman@ling.ohio-state.edu (subj: fellowship application)
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Yes. All registered participants in the summer session will have access to institutional resources such as the library and recreation facilities. Students who are enrolled for credit will have a university ID card as a result of their registration. Visiting scholars will also be issued a university ID card.
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Some rooms may be available in the university's residence halls. Summer sublets often are advertised at the off-campus housing office, although these often involve a 3-month lease or sub-lease. We will invite members of the Ohio State University linguistics community to advertise summer sublets or notice of willingness to share housing with visitors. If you want to have such e-mail forwarded to you, please let us know when you contact us to tell us that you plan to register or enrol. (However, please note that visiting scholars must make their own travel and housing arrangements.
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Participants coming from foreign countries which have a reciprocal Visa Waiver Program with the United States should not need to apply for a visa before arriving in the country. That is, based on the best information available to us currently (though we urge everyone to check carefully for themselves just to be sure), we note that visiting scholars coming from Western Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia should be able enter as an ordinary visitor -- the same status that allows you to attend shorter academic conferences in the country -- since these visas typically allow the visitor to be in the country for up to 90 days, and our summer program will last just a month. Most visiting scholars coming from elsewhere probably will need to apply for the appropriate visitor's visa for their country. According to the best information we have currently, this will typically be a B-1 visa, and processing an application for such a visa takes about a month (although processing times may be longer for some applicants), so we urge you to contact the US embassy or consulate in your country as early as you can before the start of the Summer 2004 program. (If you think you will need to have written materials describing our Summer 2004 program and stating that you are enrolled in the program, please let us know when you pay the enrolment fee.) Foreign students currently in the US will not need to get any sort of special visa; the visa that they entered the country under should be sufficient.
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The courses are generally aimed for advanced undergraduate or beginning
graduate students. Please see the individual
course descriptions
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