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Registration Cautions | Planning Your Schedule | Finding the Right CRN
Wait Lists | Open Courses List | Student Responsibilities
Registration Cautions
- Financial Aid recipients must enroll for a minimum of 12 units (including workload units) during Pass 1 to ensure disbursement of any financial aid.
- Wait-listed courses do not count toward full-time enrollment status or the 12-unit financial aid minimum, but wait-listed courses do count toward the registration unit limit per pass.
- Courses cancelled by the department will be dropped from your schedule automatically.
- If you choose a course marked TBA, it is possible that when the TBA course time is announced, the course may create a time conflict with other courses you have selected. SISweb will automatically drop one course from your schedule.
- If you have wait-listed a course, it is your responsibility to check SISWeb to see if you have been enrolled in that course.
- Verify your enrollment and course schedule prior to the start of each term using SISWeb at http://sisweb.ucdavis.edu.
Planning Your Schedule
Your registration will go smoothly if you are well prepared. Use the
Class Planner and Registration Worksheet to write down all of the information
you will need during registration. You will not have time to look for
this information during your appointment.
1. Choose the classes you wish to take from the Schedule
of Classes. There may be several offerings (sections)
of the course, or there may be only one section. Each section has its
own CRN.
2. Read "Finding the Right CRN" and "Registration
FAQ" to avoid difficulties with restrictions, time conflicts,
etc.
3. Complete the Registration Worksheet.
Write down the CRN and course information for each class you have selected.
4. Select alternative choices and their CRNs, and write them on your
worksheet in case your first choices are unavailable. Be sure to select
a CRN for each part of a multiple-part course that does not use the
combined schedule.
5. If you have selected a variable-unit course or course requiring the
consent of the instructor for enrollment, you will see the @ symbol
instead of the CRN in the "Schedule of Classes." Obtain the CRN from the department offering the
course, and then enroll using SISWeb.
Finding the Right CRN
- Combined Schedule (COM)
- If a course has more than one activity, or part (such as a lecture
and a laboratory), you will see the class meeting times and locations
for each part listed. Most multiple-part courses use the combined
schedule, which means one CRN enrolls you in all parts of the course.
- Physics 9 Series Exceptions
- The Physics 9 series does not use a combined schedule. For these courses, you must select a CRN for each part of the course: the COM (combined lecture + discussion) and the LAB (laboratory). You must enter the CRN for both parts of the course to enroll. If you register using SISWeb and do not enroll in both parts of the course, SISWeb will return a registration error.
Wait Lists
- Beginning with Pass 2, you can place yourself on a wait list if
the class you want to add is closed. Wait lists are established on
a first-come, first-served basis. You can view where you are on a
wait list in the Student Detail Schedule; position #1 means first
on the list.
The units of a wait-listed course count towards the maximum units
allowed: 19 units during Pass 2; 28.5 during Schedule Adjustment.
However, the units of a wait listed course do not count toward financial aid eligibility.
Students are moved from wait lists into available seats each night
after registration closes. Check your wait list status the day after
you register and then periodically to see if you are enrolled in the
course. You are responsible for checking the wait list to
see if you have been enrolled in the course and for dropping the wait-listed course if you decide that you no longer want that course. It
is the student’s responsibility to drop any courses they are
not actually attending. If all your courses are wait-listed courses and you have not paid your registration fess by the fee payment deadline, you will be dropped during the Registration Freeze.
If you are moved from the wait list into a course on the 12th day
of instruction—Jan 20 and the drop deadline for the course falls on the 10th
day—Jan 15 , you have a 72-hour grace period to come to the Office of the
University Registrar, in 12 Mrak Hall, to drop the course. This grace
period is only for students who are added into a 10-day-drop course
from the wait list after the 10th day.
Open Courses List
During registration each quarter, you can find open courses by contacting
the particular department you are interested in or by looking at the Open
Courses list. The Open Courses list is updated frequently between 6:00
a.m. and midnight, Monday–Friday, during registration periods. Use
this list as a guide only; the number of available seats changes continually
during registration.
The Open Courses list will be available Nov 2–Jan 20 from the Office of the University Registrar at http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/ocl/opencourses.html.
You can also search for open courses using SISWeb. Your search results
tell you the number of seats remaining in the course. For information
on searching for courses; see Registration Menu at http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/csrg/accesssisweb.html. Scheduled courses not listed in the Open Courses List can be wait-listed starting in Pass 2. Use SISWeb to view or enroll in wait-listed courses.
Student Responsibilities
You are responsible for confirming your registration and making
any changes by the designated deadlines. It is your responsibility to
drop unwanted courses.
If you know before the first day of instruction that you will be absent
from the first class meeting of a course that you are enrolled in, you
are responsible for notifying the instructor of your absence.
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