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Department of Psychology
Academic Calendar
2005-06

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FALL TERM 2005
Wed Aug 31
  • Psych. Dept. Orientation for new Ph.D. Students: 9a- 3p in 405 Sch
Thurs Sept 1
Fri Sept 2
Mon Sept 5
Labor Day - University Holiday
Tues Sept 6
  • First Day of Classes
Fri Sept 9
Mon Sept 12
  • Social Snack - Organizational Meeting: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Wed Sept 14
  • Colloquium: Elke Weber (Columbia U) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch,"Preferences as Memory: Query Theory, Time Discounting, Individual Differences, and other Dangerous Things"
Thurs Sept 15
  • BNS: Organizational Meeting 4:00p in 200B Sch
Fri Sept 16
  • End of Change of Program Period
  • Last Day to Add a Class
  • A&S Chairs Meeting: 11:30a - 1:30p
Mon Sept 19
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Wed Sept 21
  • Faculty Meeting: 12:10p - 2p, 405 Sch
Mon Sept 26
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Wed Sept 29
  • University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience: Jacqueline Gottlieb (Columbia University) "An associative attentional controller in monkey posterior parietal cortex", 4p in Faculty House
  • Colloquium: Steve Monsell (U of Exeter) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch, "Preparing mind and brain for a change of task"
Mon Oct 3
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Mon Oct 10
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Tues Oct 11
  • Last Day to Drop a Class for Barnard, Columbia College, General Studies, SIPA, GSAS, and Continuing Education
Wed Oct 12
  • Colloquium: Alan Leslie (Rutgers U) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch, "The 'Theory of Mind' Mechanism: Recent advances and emerging questions"
Wed Oct 19
  • October Degrees Conferred
  • Faculty Meeting: 12:10p - 2p, 405 Sch
Thurs Oct 20
  • Midterm Date
Mon Oct 24
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Thur Oct 27
  • University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience: Betsey Murray (NIH) "Role of macaque amygdala and orbital prefrontal cortex in affective processing: integrating sensory signals to guide response selection."
Fri Oct 28
  • A&S Chairs Meeting: 11:30a - 1:30p, Trustees Rm
Mon Oct 31
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Thurs Nov 3
  • BNS Talk: Carl Hart 4p in 200B Sch,"Factors Influencing Marijuana Self-administration by Humans Under Laboratory Conditions"
Mon Nov 7
Academic Holiday - no classes
Tues Nov 8
Election Day - University Holiday
Wed Nov 9
  • Colloquium: Sheldon Cohen (Carnegie Melon U) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch, "Do Positive Emotions Influence Your Health?"
  • Fall Majors Forum: 12:15pm in 200B Sch
Thurs Nov 10
  • University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience: Sabine Kastnet (Princeton University) Topic: "fMRI Studies of Visual Cortex in Behaving Monkeys", 4p in Faculty House (CANCELLED)
Mon Nov 14
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
  • Registration for Spring term (Nov 14 -18)
Thurs Nov 17
  • Last Day to Exercise Pass/Fail option
  • Last Day to Drop a Class for Schools not otherwise noted above
  • A&S Chairs Meeting: 11:30a - 1:30p, Trustees Rm
  • BNS Talk: Mona Kahil 4p in 200b Sch, "Mast cells alter the activity of neurons in the thalamus"
Wed Nov 23
  • Faculty Meeting: 12:10p - 2p, 405 Sch
Thurs Nov 24
Thanksgiving Day - University Holiday
Fri Nov 25
University Holiday
Mon Nov 28
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Wed Nov 30
  • Colloquium: Margaret Clark (Yale U) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch, Topic: "What constitutes a high quality relationship & two processes through which one may deteriorate"
Thurs Dec 1
  • University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience: Joseph LeDoux (New York University), "The Emotional Brain", 4p in Faculty House
Mon Dec 5
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Wed Dec 7
  • Colloquium: Elizabeth Brannon (Duke U) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch, "The development and evolution of numerical thinking: Monkeying around with numbers"
  • Faculty Meeting: 12:10p - 2p, 405 Sch
Thurs Dec 8
  • BNS Talk: Donald Pfaff 4p in 200B Sch, "Molecular mechanisms underlying arousal of brain & behavior"
Mon Dec 12
  • Last Day of Classes
Tues, Wed Dec 13,14
  • Reading/Study Days
  • (12/13/05) A&S Chairs Meeting: 11:30a - 1:30p, Trustees Rm
Thurs - Thurs Dec 15 - 22
Thurs Dec 23
  • Fall Term Ends
Sat - Tues Dec 24 -
Jan 17
Winter Holidays
SPRING TERM 2006
Mon Jan 16
Martin Luther King, Jr's
birthday observed - University Holiday
Tues Jan 17
  • First Day of Classes
Thurs Jan 19
  • A&S Chairs Meeting: 11:30a - 1:30p, Trustees Rm
Mon Jan 23
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Thurs Jan 26
  • University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience: Michael Graziano (Princeton University), "Associative memory signals in the monkey medial temporal lobe", 4p in Faculty House
Fri Jan 27
  • End of Change of Program Period
  • Last Day to Add a Class
  • Last Day to Receive Tuition Refund for Class Dropped
Wed Feb 1
  • Colloquium: Barabara Tversky (Stanford) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch, Topic: "How People Think about Space"

Mon

 Feb 6
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Wed Feb 8
  • February Degrees Conferred
  • Colloquium: John Gabrieli (MIT) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch, Topic: "Enhancement of Learning in the Human Brain: Evidence from Functional Neuroimaging"
Mon Feb 13
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Thurs Feb 16
  • University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience: Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University), "Episodic memory: Cognitive and neural substrates", 4p in Faculty House
Tues Feb 21
  • Last Day to Drop a Class for Barnard, Columbia College, General Studies, SIPA, GSAS, and Continuing Education
Wed Feb 22
  • Colloquium: Gerald Clore (University of Virginia) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch, Topic: "Feeling is Believing: Some Cognitive Consequences of Emotion"
Fri Feb 24
  • A&S Chairs Meeting: 11:30a - 1:30p, Trustees Rm
Mon Feb 27
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Mon Mar 6
  • Midterm Date
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Wed Mar 8
  • Colloquium: Marc Hauser (Harvard U) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch, Topic: "Evolution of the language faculty: Interfaces between semantics and syntax"
Mon - Fri Mar 13 - 17
Spring Break
Mon Mar 20
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Thurs Mar 23
  • Last Day to Drop a Class for Schools not otherwise noted above
  • Last Day to Exercise Pass/Fail option
  • University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience: TBA, 4p in Faculty House
Mon Mar 27
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
  • A&S Chairs Meeting: 11:30a - 1:30p, Trustees Rm
Wed Mar 29
  • Colloquium: Lera Boroditsky (Stanford U) 4:10p-6p in 614Sch, Topic: "Relationships between language and thought"
Mon Apr 3
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Mon Apr 10
  • Social Snack: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Wed Apr 12
  • Colloquium: Tanya Chartrand (Duke U) 4:10p-6p in 614 Sch, Topic: "Moderators and consequences of Nonconscious Mimicry"
Mon Apr 17
  • Social Snack - MA Talks: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Thurs Apr 20
  • University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience: Michael Arbib (University of Southern California), "The Objects of Vision", 4p in Faculty House
Mon Apr 24
  • Social Snack - MA Talks: 2:40p-3:55p in 405 Sch
Tues Apr 25
  • A&S Chairs Meeting: 11:30a - 1:30p, Trustees Rm
Mon May 1
  • Last Day of Classes
Tues-Thurs May 2 - 4
  • Reading/Study Days
Fri-Fri May 5 - 12
  • Final Exams
Tues May 16
Wed May 17
Wed May 24
  • A&S Chairs Meeting: 11:30a - 1:30p, Trustees Rm
 

Religious Holidays

Columbia University no longer provides lists of religious holidays. In response to faculty requests, we list below a number of websites, provided by institutions of higher learning, where you will find dates of religious holidays. We have not verified that the information they provide is correct, but we hope that one or more of these sites will be useful to faculty as they construct their course syllabi.

We recommend that faculty announce the dates and times for examinations and other major course obligations--and that students let faculty know of conflicts--at the beginning of the semester, so that the necessary arrangements can be made.

Columbia University Policy regarding Religious Holidays

"In compliance with New York State law, each student who is absent from school because of his or her religious beliefs will be given an equivalent opportunity to register for classes or make up any examination, study, or work requirements that he or she may have missed because of such absence on any particular day or days. No student will be penalized for absence due to religious beliefs, and alternative means will be sought for satisfying the academic requirements involved.

"Officers of administration and of instruction responsible for scheduling of academic activities or essential services are expected to avoid conflict with religious holidays as much as possible. If a suitable arrangement cannot be worked out between the student and the instructor involved, they should consult the appropriate dean or director. If an additional appeal is needed, it may be taken to the Provost."

From the 2002-3 Columbia College Bulletin, online version, 8 August 2003

 

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