Registration Procedures for Language and
Bridge/Introductory Courses
- All courses taught in Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures are limited enrollment “L” courses, capped at 15 students (except in unusual circumstances). Please follow the Registrar’s instructions for “L” course signup.
- When you preregister in the Spring for the Fall semester (and occasionally in the Fall for the Spring semester), you may see a course listed as full before it reaches 15 students. This is because we normally hold a certain number of places for incoming first-year and transfer students.
- Once classes start, registration for all language and bridge/introductory courses will be CLOSED, including those not officially full. If you are interested in enrolling in a course for which you are not preregistered, please attend the first week of class. Each instructor will create a waiting list and prioritize students on the list according to certain preestablished criteria. AFTER THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASS, s/he will eliminate from the list preregistered students who have failed to attend two class meetings, and anyone who does not meet the prerequisites. Only at this point will it be possible to know who can be allowed into the class. You MAY NOT register online without going through this waiting list, even if the computer lets you. If you do, and there were other students higher on the waiting list, you may be dropped. Adding a course to your ebear or your name to Courseworks does not by itself constitute enrollment in a course.
- To reiterate, if you do not show up to the first two meetings of a class for which you are preregistered you will automatically be dropped from the class roster.
- While you are welcome to contact the Language Coordinator to explain any special need for a course, please be advised that he cannot instruct faculty to bypass the wait list process, and in no case will a decision about admission be made before the first week of class has ended.
- If you absolutely NEED to take a language course on a particular semester (i.e. to meet study abroad program requirements or to complete requirements toward a degree), please be prepared to rearrange your schedule so that you can enter open sections. No exceptions to enrollment caps for a particular section will be made if there are other open sections of the course. We strongly advise you to anticipate as much as possible your study abroad and other requirements and to project and plan your language course needs accordingly.
- If, after following registration and wait list procedures, you are unable to place into a course, please send an email to the Language Coordinator. It is useful to know if students are placed out of our courses, so that we can try to add more sections if needed in planning for subsequent semesters.