Registration Tips
The New Student video will help you plan and build your schedule and guide you through the necessary steps to ensure a successful registration.
The Student Registration Assistance Team can help you with:
- General registration assistance
- First year course selection
- Building a conflict free timetable
- Ӱԭ Central navigation, features and support
- Providing elective options
- Referrals to other campus services
Best of luck with your studies! And don’t forget to register for fall and winter as soon as your time ticket allows.
Eight Steps to Registration
- Get thein the summer or fall and winter terms. It is important that you register for both yourfall and winter courses as soon as yourtime ticketǷɲ. Courses fill up quickly. All the courses you need for first year in the B.Sc. are listedhere.
- Comparethe course offerings to yourauditto understand what you are required to complete for your degree. Your audit is the most important document you have at Ӱԭ, as it tells you how you are doing and what you need to do to graduate.
- Review therequirementsfor:
approved - Run a“Hypothetical Courses”audit to determine whether your course selections will meet your degree requirements. You can even assign hypothetical grades to determine how your GPA would change.
- Reviewthe generaland general.The(for theӰԭ) has all the rules and regulations that govern your degree requirements.
- If you would like to register for a course but are restricted because you do not meet the prerequisites or it is restricted to students in a different program, you can submit anov. Please be certain to provide a detailed rationale for WHY you want/need to take the course as our decisions are based on available space, year in degree program, and rationale.
- Once you have registered,check youraudit. All of the courses you have chosen should be in one of the line items. There should be nothing in the section at the end of the audit called “Courses set aside”. If there are, you have registered in a course that is not acceptable for your program and you should review the program requirements.
- If you have specificquestionsthat are not covered by the registration information above please contact Michelle Santoianni.michelle.santoianni@carleton.ca
More Registration Information
Any course is allowable as a free elective provided it is not prohibited. Choose your wisely.
More Academic Audit Information
What If Audit Considering changing your major, minor, or specialization? Want to know how your courses would count in the new degree?
Acronyms What do all these short forms on my audit mean?
Have I successfully added/dropped a course? What happens if I repeat a course? What if I fail a course? Can a course satisfy more than one degree requirement? How can I take a course overload? Am I eligible to graduate?