C700 and the MA Student

Finally, a posting of interest Primarily to MA Students!

As you have no doubt read in the Handbook, MA students are required to take at least one section of C700; usually in the summer after their first year of classes. C700 allows you to earn credit while digesting the Reading List you'll need to devour before taking your Comprehensive Exam (sorry for all the food references, I'm starving).

If you are planning to apply for the PhD program here in CMCL, you will need to take your exams in January 2009, so enrolling in C700 this summer would be sensible. It is a 3 hour course; the hours will be covered by the fee remission you have for teaching during the academic year. (If you look at the contract you signed in August, you'll see that you where giving 12 hours of remission for each regular semester and 6 for the summer.) YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE TEACHING IN THE SUMMER TO HAVE FEE REMISSIONS FOR THE SUMMER.

If you have loans that require you to be enrolled in in 4 hours over the summer, you may either enroll in two sections of C700 (probably one each semester) or one C700 and 1 hour of C810. The 810 will be an "extra" (it won't really count in your distribution) hour at the end of your MA program, but it will keep you in compliance with some lenders. If you take the 2 sections of C700, you do get to "count them" toward you 30 hours.

You will need me to set permissions for you to enroll in C700. Email me and I'll get the permissions set, usually the same day. If you go back into Onestart and find I haven't gotten to you yet, email me again. I try not to let these slip through the cracks, but I do miss them sometimes. You may lash me 40 times with a wet noodle if I forget you. (Noodles - again with the food references! I really have to go to lunch.)

Contact me if you have any questions.