<p>nope, you can register right now if you wanted to.</p>
<p>“nerd --How do you find out what upper division classes are open to students with less than 60 credits? My son has 52 hours and asked the Natural Science advisors today and they told him he could not register for upper division classes because he needed 60 hours in order to do so.”</p>
<p>There is no list or anything. You basically just have to find the classes on the course schedule. Also I am in liberal arts so I have no clue what the deal is with nat sci classes. From just looking at the course schedule a lot of nat sci upper division classes have some crazy prereqs. </p>
<p>I am not an advisor or anything so this is my own opinion but there seems to be a few types of upper division classes:</p>
<p>The ones that are strictly for people who have 60 credits and will state “upper division standing” as a prereq. If you register for this (and it will let you register for it even if you dont qualify unless it says restricted) a message will appear that says ‘you may not fulfill the prereqs for this course’ and then there is a link to this thing that tells you if you qualify to take the course. If it says ‘not met’ then they will automatically drop you from the class after class starts, I think. I am not sure exactly when they drop you, I heard the 12th class day, but they will drop you. I think it lets you register under the assumption that you are going to send a transcript from comm college or take enough summer classes so that you will have 60 credits by the time class starts, but that’s just my guess. </p>
<p>Then there’s the ones that don’t require you to have upper division standing but a certain number of credit hours in the same field, if that makes any sense. The computer WILL NOT let you register if you don’t have the credits. For example, in government a lot of the upper level classes require you to have 6 credits of lower division government, but you do not have to have upper division standing as well. However, some english classes that required you to have lower division credit in english AND upper division standing, so it depends. </p>
<p>Then there’s the upper division class that has NO prereqs or requirements at all therefore you can register for it no matter how many credits. But it is technically an upper division course. I would always double check with the department or an advisor or check the course descriptions or something to make sure that you are allowed to take it.</p>
<p>That’s my two cents.</p>
<p>Actually, you can’t register between midnight at 8am for some reason.</p>
<p>Nxt - sounds like you got a good prof for the class. My son had “Ron” somebody for BA324, not sure what the full name was. He said it was ridiculous - the amount of work involved. He said to be sure to be really “detailed” in your writings, even to the point of redundancy, because it is marked off if it is “vague” at all. And, on the final project, my son’s group did their analysis of a retail establishment (where he knew the owner, so could go and interview both him and the accountant) and they were able to identify a problem of timing of inventory, and cost of having stock out of season, then come up with solutions to alleviate the problems. The professor really liked their problem/analysis/solution and their oral presentation went really well, so surprisingly, he got an A. He was fully prepared for the B. </p>
<p>He is glad to be done with that class!!</p>
<p>Is registration any different for honors programs?</p>
<p>No except you will likely have certain sections of classes reserved for you so you won’t have as many scheduling woes.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, Nerd. Luckily, my son got into a lower division course that counted for his degree so he didn’t have to try to register for the upper division courses. He is in both nat. sci. and liberal arts, and advisors in both areas insisted that he could not register for any upper division courses until the spring. He didn’t actually go through and try to register for any, though. If he had, I bet he could have found one or two that he could register for.</p>
<p>I have a friend who is living in a hotel several miles away during orientation and has to take the shuttle to and from campus. I was wondering how he can make orientation as convenient as possible. I already mentioned that he could stay with someone that is living in Jester.</p>
<p>If he can find someone he knows in Prather, that would be convenient. I don’t think summer school students are living in Jester. Jester seemed to be housing lots of campers (dance, etc).</p>
<p>My son signed up for one class that doesn’t have a prof listed. How and when will he find out who his prof will be?<br>
tia</p>
<p>You can try contacting the counselor if he can release that kind of information. But what I would do, in my case, is just go ahead and contact every single professor who is likely to teach that class…email him or call his office hours if he’s teaching summer school</p>
<p>Thx. I have another question. Do students have to see advisors again before registering in the spring?</p>
<p>Only if a student asks an advisor for help, I think. Orientation is the only time you need an advisor to “help you register”</p>
<p>It depends on your college. Some require it every semester, others don’t</p>
<p>I guess he needs to look on the web sites of his colleges to see if they require it, then.</p>
<p>Academic advising at the orientation before registration is because the advisers don’t know if you have enough decision making power to choose your classes. At UT, if you are able to maintain a certain GPA (I believe its 2.0), you don’t need mandatory academic advising…however you can go in if you like.</p>
<p>As I posted before, it depends on the college. I know Chemical Engineering requires visiting with an advisor before registration every semester (at least according to their website)</p>
<p>So does BBA/MPA once you’re in the program</p>