Placement Surveys
These required surveys cover topics that you studied in high school.
Open in Workday:
Transfer 91制片厂: Thursday, July 30 at 9:00 AM, EDT
First Years: Thursday, August 6 at 9:00 AM, EDT
Seek advice during Zoom sessions (scheduled July 27 – August 7)
View and understand your placement results
Read the advice from departments & programs to learn which courses you might want to take first
Search for this fall’s courses (BOW STU Find Course Sections)
Build multiple saved schedules
Learn how to register
You are registering for your fall semester courses. You will register for a different set of spring semester courses in November.
You may choose to add a half-credit ensemble or music instruction course for a total of 4.5 courses.
A few courses are sequenced such that in order to take a spring semester course in a subject, you first need to take the preceding fall semester course (e.g. language courses or some science courses).
Some courses have a lecture and lab component. You will see these courses have two time blocks associated with them and you need to schedule around both. An example of this CHEM 1101-A/L1; if you successfully registered into this, you would attend section A of CHEM 1101 and its corresponding lab, L1.
Saved schedules in Workday allow you to put together potential schedules in advance of registration. Plan to visit a Zoom drop-in session about this!
This allows you to:
To understand your eligibility for a course, please review your saved schedules very carefully; if there is a blue number next to a course listing under the column “Alerts”, please click on that to see what you need to fix before registration.
Before you register, you should create at least one saved schedule in Workday and have ideas for alternate courses. and how to register for .
Bowdoin partners with as its official online textbook vendor. Through a customized Bowdoin eCampus website, students can search for textbooks by course. The site offers multiple purchasing options, including new, used, rental, ebook, and marketplace selections and includes a generous thirty day return policy should you choose to add or drop a class.
These required surveys cover topics that you studied in high school.
What you need to graduate with a Bowdoin degree.
How to choose courses for your first semester.
Set an alarm and make it official. Build a schedule and have alternatives ready.
What to ask—and bring—when meeting with your liberal arts advisor.