Deadline: Friday, December 2, 5 PM. Last day to withdraw from a fall-term course. The form is in the TC Dean’s Office. Advice: Check your courses on-line to be sure you are not still enrolled in a course you forgot to withdraw from.

Deadline: Friday, December 9. Deadline for all course assignments, including term papers. This deadline can be extended only by a Temporary Incomplete authorized by the student’s residential college dean.

Mandatory Preregistration for Spanish language courses in levels L1-L4 for spring term 2012. The information is available on the Department of Spanish & Portuguese website, under Undergraduate Placement: http://www.yale.edu/span-port/placement.html. The beginning date for preregistration is December 2, and the end date is December 16. Questions to Susan Byrne, Assistant Professor Department of Spanish & Portuguese susan.byrne@yale.edu

FRESHMEN

Fellowship opportunities for freshmen & sophomores
Friday, December 2, 3pm, room 305

Held at the Center for International and Professional Experience at 55 Whitney Avenue. You must attend one of these general information sessions before making an appointment with a fellowships adviser.

SOPHOMORES

www.yale.edu/sophomore

Fellowship opportunities for freshmen & sophomores
Friday, December 2, 3pm, room 305

Held at the Center for International and Professional Experience at 55 Whitney Avenue. You must attend one of these general information sessions before making an appointment with a fellowships adviser.

Linguistics Major Information Meeting The Linguistics Department invites you to attend an informal meeting to talk about Linguistics as a major and for you to ask questions and meet other students with similar interests. Tuesday, November 29: 3:30-4:00 meeting with prospective majors; 4:00-4:30 discussion of research opportunities in Linguistics; 4:30-5:00 general discussion. Linguistics Department, 370 Temple Street, Linguistics Seminar (2nd floor, make a right). If you are interested but cannot attend Tuesday’s meeting, please email raffaella.zanuttini@yale.edu so she can answer your questions.

Cognitive Science Major Information Meeting and Application Deadline Information meeting on Thursday 12/1 at 6 pm, in Kirtland 207. This meeting will describe the nature of the major and the application process, and faculty will be available to answer questions, and some current majors will also be on hand to answer questions and offer their perspectives. For information on the major: http://www.yale.edu/cogsci/ and http://www.yale.edu/perception/cogsci/

Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary field devoted to exploring how the mind works, drawing on tools and ideas from fields including psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience (among others). The major involves courses such as ‘Introduction to Cognitive Science’, ‘Brain and Thought’, ‘Computational Modeling in Cognitive Science’, ‘Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature’, ‘Mind, Brain, & Society’, ‘Music Cognition’, ‘The Modern Unconscious’, and ‘The Cognitive Science of Good and Evil’.

Unlike most majors at Yale, Cognitive Science requires students to apply and be accepted to the major, during the end of their third semester. This year, applications for the sophomore class are due on Friday December 9th.

JUNIORS

Fellowship opportunities for juniors:
Tuesday, November 29, 4:30pm, room 305
Held at the Center for International and Professional Experience at 55 Whitney Avenue. You must attend one of these general information sessions before making an appointment with a fellowships adviser.

SENIORS

Fellowship opportunities for seniors:
Thursday, December 1, 4:30pm, room 305
Held at the Center for International and Professional Experience at 55 Whitney Avenue. You must attend one of these general information sessions before making an appointment with a fellowships adviser.

BIOETHICS FELLOWSHIPS, CLINCIAL CENTER AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH – DHHS Post baccalaureate and post doctoral fellows will conduct mentored theoretical and empirical research related to the ethics of health policy, human subject research, international research ethics, genetics, or other bioethical fields of interest. For a typical fellow, this research yields multiple publications in premier academic journals. Fellows will participate in case conferences, ethics consultations, review of research protocols, bioethics seminars, and many other educational opportunities. No bioethics experience required or expected. Two-year positions begin September 2012. Students planning to pursue MD, JD, PhD, Nursing or other graduate degrees or those who have achieved these degrees are encouraged to apply. Salary is commensurate with Federal guidelines. Applications to include: resume/CV, official undergraduate and graduate transcripts, 1000-word statement of interest, one or more writing sample(s) not to exceed 30 pages collectively, and three letters of recommendation. Post baccalaureate application deadline is January 15, 2012. Questions to Becky Chen, 301-496-2429; bchen@cc.nih.gov. Further information: www.bioethics.nih.gov

Arts Panel: Arts Panel: Pursuing your Dream Creative Career in NYC
Thursday, December 1st – 6:00 in LC 211. The panel will discuss theater, film, comedy, television, fine arts, music, dance, publishing, and more. Panelists are Yale graduates who are successful in NYC in the arts. The panel’s goals are to give you advice they wish someone had given them before they graduated, to provide alumni resources who have developed and maintained successful careers in the arts in NYC, and to hold an informal forum after the panel for mingling with the panelists, answering specific questions, and exchanging contact information. Sponsored by the Creative Yale Alumni Network (CYAN) in collaboration with Undergraduate Career Services.

STUDY ABROAD

Yale-in-London is accepting late applications for Spring 2012. Learn about British history, drama, literature and art in its original setting. A field trip to Dublin will include performances at the Abbey Theatre and the underground theatre scene in Dublin. If you’d like to find out more about courses, or submit a late application, please email Lisa L. Ford (lisa.ford@yale.edu) by November 28th for more information. Courses this spring in Yale-in-London: Modern Irish Drama, Barry McCrea, Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Yale University. London & the Literary Imagination, Barry McCrea. The Art Academy in England: Hogarth to Turner, Martin Postle, Assistant Director for Academic Activities, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies inBritish Art. The Tudors and the English Renaissance, 1509-1603, John Guy, University of Cambridge, Fellow in History, Clare College

SUMMER

Italian Language and Cinema in Tuscany. This five-week course takes place in Siena and combines beginning Italian (comparable to L1) with a course in English on Italian cinema focusing on Tuscany. Students will learn Italian through classes and full-immersion in the study-abroad experience (including a home stay), and will explore the representation of Tuscany through the screening and close analysis of films such as Night of the Shooting Stars, The First Beautiful Thing, The Adventures of Pinocchio, My Friends, Tea with Mussolini, The Sky Is Falling, Life Is Beautiful, The Man Who Will Come, Marnero, and the Florentine episode of Paisà. Professors Millicent Marcus (film) and Risa Sodi (language) Credits: 2Dates: June 25-July 27, 2012 Applications accepted: December 1, 2011-February 1, 2012 Application information: http://www.yale.edu/summer

OTHER

Applications available to be a Queer Peer Counselor: Queer Peers is a peer counseling group that specializes in LGBTQ issues. They provide a safe space for students to talk about such issues, whether they’re unsure how to support their newly-out gay roommate or are questioning their own sexuality. Queer Peers is currently looking for new staffers for the 2012 spring semester. This is a paid position. Staffers normally work a few nights a month in the Queer Resource Center (305 Crown Street) from 8:00-10:00 PM, although depending on staffing numbers and availability, you may have the option of working every week, if you want. The commitment can be fairly small, but the opportunity to help another student is a great one. Anyone is welcome to apply, regardless of how they identify. If you would like to apply, please complete the application below and send it to queer.peers@yale.edu by December 5th, 2011. Any questions should also be sent to queer.peers@yale.edu. The Queer Peers will be required to attend a group training session sometime at the beginning of the semester (probably on January 14th, from 10 AM – 2 PM, but we’ll have a set date later).

Please type answers in no more than two pages total, and email the completed application to queer.peers@yale.edu

At the top of your application, put your name, college, and year.

1.Why do you want to be a Queer Peer counselor?
2.What is peer counseling for? How is it different from giving your friends advice?
3.What makes a good peer counselor?
4.Briefly describe any previous peer counseling experience you may have.
5.What would you do or say if your personal beliefs (religious, moral, lifestyle, etc.) conflicted with the actions or decisions of the student who came to you for counseling?
6.(Optional) How do you think your personal experiences with identity (gender, ethnic, religious, cultural, as a straight ally, etc.) would help you relate to others in a Queer Peers context?
7.(Optional) Would you be willing to act as a “designated queer peer” for your college? Your college’s students would be told they could contact you at your e-mail address if they wanted to talk. You would get paid for such conversations.

SYMPOSIUM ON GLOBAL STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP:

2012 THEME: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: Integrated Strategies for China and the U.S.

The Yale-China Association invites applications for the inaugural Symposium on Global Strategic Leadership, which will bring together 16 students from Yale with 24 students from Lingnan (University) College at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. Teams of five students (two from Yale and three from L(U)C) will work together to develop and present a strategy for corporate social responsibility at a competition in New Haven in February 2012.

This is an opportunity for Yale students who are interested in the intersection of business and society and U.S.-China relations. Participants will form one-on-one connections with students from China and think critically about the future of corporate citizenship in both the U.S. and China. In addition to the competition portion of the program, students will attend a series of academic lectures in New Haven designed to foster new ideas on social engagement by the business sector.

UPCOMING INFORMATION SESSIONS

Monday, November 28 8:00 PM LC 103

Wednesday, November 30 8:00 PM LC 205

APPLICATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 2, 2011 at NOON

Open to all Yale undergraduates. Students must be present in New Haven between February 11 and February 15, 2012. Students must also commit to two full days of activities on February 12 and February 15. No specific major, coursework, or language skills required. For more information, contact Katie Molteni Muir at (203) 436-8362 or at katie.molteni@yale.edu