Registration
Registration in Workday opens at 10:00am on Thursday, August 7.
Preparing for Course Registration
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Seek advice during Zoom sessions (scheduled July 28 – August 5)
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View and understand your placement results
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Read the advice from departments & programs to learn which courses you might want to take first
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Search for this fall’s courses (BOW STU Find Course Sections)
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Build multiple saved schedules
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Learn how to register
Tips from Faculty for a Successful First Semester
Choosing Courses:
You are registering for your fall semester courses. You will register for a different set of spring semester courses in November.
Do:
- Select four courses that interest you!
- Select a First-Year Writing Seminar (it’s required for incoming first years!)
- Sample broadly for your other three courses—consider both courses with which you have some experience, as well as those that you may not have heard about before.
- Consider a distribution requirement. It’s not required for your first semester, but it can be a way to try out a new subject (remember that you listed some potential courses in the Academic Advising Survey you completed in Canvas).
- Schedule your classes throughout the week (not all on the same days)
Don't:
- Enroll in more than one science course with a lab section that is three hours or longer.
- Schedule more than three classes on any one day—spread them out throughout the week.
- Schedule more than two courses in a row. (10 minutes between classes is fine to get from one to another, but three courses in a row can be very hard—leave a break for yourself!)
Other Considerations:
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You may choose to add a half-credit ensemble or music instruction course for a total of 4.5 courses.
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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).
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Labs meet in addition to the scheduled classroom time, usually once a week
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They are a required part of a course and you need to select one of the offered lab sections when you register
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We do not recommend that you take more than one 3+ hour lab during your first semester. It’s fine to take multiple shorter labs.
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If you are considering preparing for a health professions career, consult this advice.
Building Saved Schedules in Workday:
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:
- experiment with multiple possible schedules in which your class times do not overlap
- determine whether you are eligible to take a course.
- check if the courses require a prerequisite (course you need to take before you take this one) or placement survey, whether they have labs, discussion sections, or require additional time (such as for film screenings), and whether they have open seats (Workday will show all these details).
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.
You should make multiple saved schedules. The first should be your “ideal” schedule and the alternate schedules should include courses you would like to take should you not get into one or more in your ideal schedule. .
What to Check Before Registering:
- Check your saved schedules
- Have any of your preferred sections filled? Plan and adjust now for changes that may have impacted your saved schedules.
- Have you requested any needed ? Have any requested prerequisite overrides been denied or sent back to you for more information? Update your requests or adjust your schedules as needed.
- Check to make sure you do not have any other holds
- Log into Workday Student, access your profile and check your . More information on types of Holds can be found .
Registration:
- Registration opens at 10:00 AM Eastern time on Thursday, August 7.
- Registration continues to be open through the first week of classes.
- You can or for .
- Workday support will be available through Zoom calls and online.
After you register:
- If you didn’t get into a class you wanted, and you were eligible for it, you will be added to the waitlist.
- If a seat becomes available and you are next on the waitlist, you will receive an offer to take that seat in Workday. The offer will expire after 24 hours, so be sure to watch your notifications.
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- Registration will stay open for you through the first week of the semester to accept waitlist permissions, drop sections, and add sections with open seats or add yourself to section waitlists.
- During the second week of the semester, students will be able to add sections with the permission of the instructor.
Up Next:
Learn about advising at Bowdoin during your first semester!