Adding Courses

During fall and spring semesters, students are permitted to add a course during the first five days of the term without either the instructor’s permission or a fee. Those missing the initial add deadline have five additional days¹ to add a class if they receive the instructor's permission and pay a $50 late add fee for each course added. A late add form must be signed by the student’s advisor and the faculty member teaching the course. Forms to add courses to the schedule are available in the Records Office.

After the tenth day of the term, students will not be allowed to add a course unless a student generated petition is approved. Only under exceptional circumstances such as prolonged illness or death in the family would a petition to add a course after the tenth day of a semester be received favorably. Any student seeking exceptional consideration must complete the general petition form and receive approval from the course instructor and the student’s advisor. The $50 late add fee also applies to those student petitioning to add after the tenth day of the term. Forms are available in the Records Office.

For courses shorter than 16 weeks, please refer to the table above. Block 1 or 2 courses can be added during the first week of the subterm (block).

¹Music ensembles, practica, internships, and departmental honors (HONR) courses are exempt from this policy. Also exempt are schedule changes students are advised to make within a department to better align with the student’s readiness for a course such as moving to a higher or lower-level mathematics and/or elementary foreign language course.  Students making these schedule changes during the second week of the semester will not be charged the Late Add Fee.