Spring 2010 Registration Information

UNDERGRADUATE REGISTRATION – SPRING 2010  

STEP 1: ACADEMIC ADVISING

Advising for students is from November 2 through November 13. Please schedule an appointment with your adviser early.  Advising sessions generally take a half hour, sometimes longer.

Use the Academic Catalog which is available at http://www.goucher.edu/x1388.xml to note required courses and the spring class schedule to start your planning process. The spring course schedule will be posted on the web October 28 at  http://www.goucher.edu/x1993.xml . Bring to the advising session a completed Course Selection Form as a first draft of the courses you want/need to take.  Many advisors require that advisees take this first step before starting an advising session.

After the advising session (which must be in-person, not via email, unless you are away from Goucher this semester) your adviser will release you for registration.  If you need to add courses requiring signatures other than your advisers, a registration or add/drop form should be signed by your adviser during the advising session. (The registration and add/drop forms are available at http://www.goucher.edu/x1893.xml)

Select alternate courses during your advising session, in case your first choices are full.

Prerequisites: You may only register for courses for which you have met the required prerequisites unless the instructor has signed an add/drop slip to waive them. ICA’s require acceptance into the program to register.  ICA registration will be done by Registrar’s Office in SAS.  Make sure you calculate the ICA credits into the total you are allowed when registering online.

Instructors’ signatures are required for audits, closed courses, time overlaps and any course in which you are required to have the permission of the instructor to enroll.  Instructor and department chair signatures are required for independent work and senior thesis.

Registration for any of the above course types must be done in-person in the Registrar’s Office (Mon-Fri, 8:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m.) after your assigned day and time for registration. A completed registration form or add/drop slip must be submitted.

When registering online, pass/no pass only can be selected for courses required to be graded as such (PE activity, PE 135, etc.).  Changing from a regular grade to pass/no pass can be done by completing an add/drop form and bringing it to SAS after your assigned registration time (see pass/no pass in the catalog at:  http://www.goucher.edu/x1388.xml p. 48).

Registration for internships requires you to submit an Internship Learning Agreement (ILA) to the Career Development Office for approval. (Be sure to check their deadline.)  After approval by the CDO, the ILA is submitted to the Registrar’s Office for entry.

STEP 2: RESOLVE HOLDS

If you have any registration holds, they will appear when you log on to myGoucher. Resolve any holds (stop flag), such as those noted by Billing, the Registrar’s Office, the Health Center, Financial Aid, the Associate Dean’s Office, etc., placed on your account before your assigned start day and time. Registration can not occur unless the hold (stop flag) is removed.

STEP 3: REGISTRATION

The order of registration has been determined by random sorting within a class. Students will receive notification of their assigned start time via e-mail on October 28. Online registration groups will start in 60 minute intervals and continue from the assigned time on Monday, November 16 through November 22. Students can register for courses and make schedule adjustments online on their assigned day and until November 22.

The Registrar’s Office and myGoucher will be closed for add/drops on November 23 and 24. From November 25 until January 25 students will be able to do add/drops online only if the initial approval for registration was received from the adviser (approval is needed one time only).  Closed courses, time overlaps, credit overloads, audits, independent work, internships, and special permission courses will need to be registered for in person.  Your adviser will receive an e-mail showing add/drops that are done each day they are processed.

Course credit load is determined by your GPA and credits completed. See course load at: http://www.goucher.edu/x1388.xml p. 48.

If you encounter technical problems, please send an e-mail message to the helpdesk@goucher.edu. The helpdesk e-mail will be monitored for problems during registration.