Registrar Policies, Catalog and Course Scheduling

All students are responsible for their registration for classes in Self-Service Banner. There are detailed articles on how to register and navigate all the logistics. 

The Registrar’s Office does not have the capacity to register students.  Students should reach out to the appropriate advising center if they are having difficulty registering for classes.

Registration for undergraduate students is set over 2 weeks, every other day by class year, and divided into 3 times 9 AM (priority), 11 AM, and 1 PM.  Students rotate these time slots each semester. 

Graduate, Adult, and Doctoral registration opens same day and time.  Summer registration opens simultaneously for all students.

For example, registration dates for Intersession and Spring 2023 were:

All scheduling and Academic Catalog related communication will be emailed to the following faculty and staff:

1. Department Chairs
2. Program Directors
3. Administrative Assistants

Phase 1: Open Scheduling

Chairs, Directors and Admins create their department's class schedules in Coursedog.  The schedule from the prior academic year would be copied over for editing and new sections can be added as needed from courses that are approved for that academic year’s catalog.

Once Phase 1 has ended, the Registrar’s Office will assign classrooms to courses and review the schedule for issues.  The Registrar’s Office will contact departments to resolve any errors or inconsistencies.

Phase 2: Schedule Published - Request Edits

The class schedule will be published two weeks before registration begins.  If you need to cancel a section, add a new section, or make changes to current sections, please use Requests in Coursedog.

Phase 1: Updating/Create/Inactivate Courses via Tickets

Any changes or new courses need to be submitted via ticket prior to the creation of the next fall semester's class schedule and creation of the next academic year's Academic Catalog.  

Submission of course changes will be due in December of each year.

Phase 2: Update Department/Program in Courseleaf

Any changes to the department, program, major, minor will need to be made in Courseleaf.  It is the department's responsibility to have any courses needed to update degree requirements submitted by the December deadline. To create a new program or inactivate a program, a ticket will need to be submitted prior to the Courseleaf deadline.

Changes in Courseleaf will be due in April of each year. 

Undergraduate Degrees:

• AAS (Associate of Applied Science)
• ASN (Associate of Science in Nursing)
• BA (Bachelor of Arts)
• BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration)
• BSBA (Bachelor of Science in Business Administration)
• BLS (Bachelor of Liberal Arts)
• BS (Bachelor of Science)
• BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing)

Graduate Degrees:

• MA (Master of Arts)
• MBA (Master of Business Administration)
• MD (Doctor of Medicine) 
• MFA (Master of Fine Arts)
• MHA (Master of Health Administration)
• MPA (Master of Professional Accountancy)
• MS (Master of Science)
• MSN (Master of Science in Nursing)
• MPT (Master of Physical Therapy)
• MSPAS (Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies)
• MOT (Master of Occupational Therapy)

Doctoral Degrees:

• DPT (Doctor of Physical Therapy)
• DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine)
• DrOT (Doctor of Occupational Therapy)
• EdD (Doctor of Education)
• PharmD (Doctor of Pharmacy)
• PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)

A combination of courses and related activities organized for the attainment of broad educational objectives as described by the institution.

A major is an area of specialization, which requires a cohesive combination of courses including introductory, intermediate, and advanced coursework that designates a student’s area of study. Courses required for a major are mandated by the program offering the major and must meet specific student learning outcomes. In order to earn a degree, students are required to complete one major, although students may elect to complete more than one. It is the student’s responsibility to see that all major requirements are fulfilled prior to graduation. The major appears on the official transcript.

A concentration is a structured plan of study within a major. The number of credit hours for a concentration varies, but is included within the credit hours for the major. The concentration appears on the official transcript.

Note on terminology: The following terms should not be used: “area of concentration” (just use “concentration”), “track,” “option,” “specialty,” “emphasis,” or “focus.”

A minor represents an optional, secondary field of study for a degree-seeking student; no student may declare a major and a minor in the same discipline. A minor is a structured plan of study requiring a minimum of 18 credit hours. A minor should require significant additional coursework beyond what is already required for a related major. The minor appears on the official transcript.

An undergraduate certificate is a structured set of professionally oriented courses designed to provide recognition that the student has completed coursework in an applied area of focus. For degree-seeking students, a certificate program may either complement or be concurrent with a traditional program of study. The certificate appears on the official transcript.

A Graduate Certificate is an integrated group of courses that is designed to have a very clear and focused academic topic or competency as its subject area. Often, a graduate certificate may meet a clearly defined educational need of a constituency group, such as continuing education or accreditation for a particular profession; respond to a specific state mandate; or provide a basic competency in an emerging, usually interdisciplinary, area. A graduate certificate is not a graduate degree program (it is typically between 9 and 15 credits), but it does provide the student formal recognition of the mastery of a clearly defined academic topic.  The graduate certificate in a specific area of study cannot be pursued concurrently with a degree in the same area of study.  Example, you cannot be pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Marketing at the same time as a MS in Marketing. The certificate appears on the official transcript.

A corequisite means a course that a student must take at the same time as another related course.  Example BIO 101 Lecture has a corequisite of BIO 101L Lab.

1. Corequisite information always resides at the catalog level for corequisite courses.
2. Corequisite information that also resides at the section level is entered as CRNs, and follows two different paths:
   1. One section of each corequisite course offered in the term: Corequisite information resides at the section level in the form of specific CRNs that tie the two related courses together. Students are required to register for both courses and do not have multiple sections to choose from. 
   2. Multiple sections of each corequisite course offered in the term: Corequisite information does not reside at the section level. Students are required to register for one of each course and have the choice of multiple sections during registration.

A prerequisite means a course that a student must have taken prior to enrolling in a specific course.

1. Prerequisite information must match at both the catalog and section level.
   1. Exception: Special topics courses do not have catalog level prerequisite information.
2. Graduate level courses may not have undergraduate level prerequisites. 

3. To view all your department’s courses and their prerequisites for the semester, please use the Active Course/Section Detail report in Cognos.  Be sure to set it to Section Attributes to see the attributes for your sections for that semester.

    

4. Concurrency is when a course may be completed simultaneously with a prerequisite course.  As of Fall 2024, the only location to view a concurrency of a prerequisite is in the course description of the Academic Catalog:

    

    

    

Additional information pertaining to the course. Attributes are assigned initially at the Catalog level and rolled to the Section level. For example, if a course is considered Writing Intensive, each class section will get a WRIN or CWRI Class Attribute.

The following attributes may reside only at the section level: Co-op, Faith Justice, Honors, and Service Learning. All other attributes must reside at both the catalog and section level.

A unit within a college representing a discipline. For example, the Department of English is in the College of Arts and Sciences.