There are three designations of courses, each with specific registration requirements. For most courses, students may register or add through the Registrar's Office anytime through the seventh calendar day of the term. For courses designated "Instructor Permission Required," students may register or add only with the instructor's permission. For courses designated "Instructor Permission Required after Term Begins," students may register or add until the first day of the term, after which they need to obtain the instructor's permission. Departments must notify the registrar which courses require instructor permission when the courses are scheduled.

Students registering after the term begins are responsible for all missed assignments and cannot expect that due dates will be altered.

Instructors establish attendance policies and penalties for absences for individual courses; penalties may include lowering of the grade or even failure if the absences exceed those permitted by the instructor. Such policies and penalties should be included in the course syllabus and available to the students at the first class meeting.

For courses designated "Instructor Permission Required after Term Begins," students may be dropped from the course for being absent from the first two class meetings (for courses meeting more than once a week) or from the first class (for courses meeting only once a week). When this policy is utilized any student missing the designated class(es) may be dropped from the specific class section. The instructor must notify the Registrar's Office promptly for the students to be removed from the roll.
 

Established Curriculum Procedure for Course Enrollment Restriction Designation

Implementation policies and procedures concerning these policies and all curriculum matters, whether at the department, college, or university level, are subject to faculty approval.

The enrollment restriction designation of a course has been an established part of the normal curriculum process that emanates with individual faculty, departments, and colleges and upon approval by the latter is submitted for review and approval to the university curriculum committee and potentially to the Faculty Senate. The approved mechanism for such designations resides in the submission of a "Course Modification Request" when proposing a change of enrollment restriction for an existing course and of a "Course Inventory Request" when denoting the enrollment restriction with the proposal for creating a new course. 

Historically, many types of enrollment restrictions in conjunction with course modification and course inventory requests have been approved through this process. In many cases, departments and colleges have elected to not list any enrollment restriction. Among many other designations that have been proposed and approved, courses have been modified or created so as to specify an enrollment restriction of "Instructor Permission Required."

With the approval of the Registration and Add Policy and Attendance and Drop Policy, in addition to the past designation of courses as "Instructor Permission Required," it is possible to designate courses as "Instructor Permission Required after Term Begins." This new option for enrollment restriction designation enables faculty, departments, and colleges to improve enrollment management through the following specifics of the policies:

Registration and Add Policy

For courses designated "Instructor Permission Required after Term Begins," students may register or add until the first day of the term, after which they need to obtain the instructor's permission.

Attendance and Drop Policy

For courses designated "Instructor Permission Required after Term Begins," students may be dropped from the course for being absent from the first two class meetings (for courses meeting more than once a week) or from the first class (for courses meeting only once a week). When this policy is utilized any student missing the designated class(es) may be dropped from the specific class section. The instructor must notify the Registrar's Office promptly for the students to be removed from the roll.

The established and long standing curriculum procedure for the enrollment designation of courses will continue in effect and be applied under the Registration and Add Policy and Attendance and Drop Policy. In order to have a course designated with any special enrollment restriction, including the new option of "Instructor Permission Required after Term Begins," the established process of submitting through the department and college process and to the university curriculum committee for review and approval the "Course Modification Request" and "Course Inventory Request" is to be implemented.

In both cases of course modification and inventory requests, a clear justification of changing to or creating a special enrollment restriction, including as "Instructor Permission Required after Term Begins," must accompany the "Request."

When departments and colleges submit a "Course Modification Request" or a "Course Inventory Request" for a particular course, such as an existing course like PLS 200, MTH 228, EC 444 or a new course proposal like CS 496, then, as with past established policy, the designated enrollment restriction will apply to ALL course sections and quarterly offerings. If there occurs future pedagogical and curricula changes, such courses may be altered with respect to the enrollment restriction designation through the course modification process. When modified, the enrollment restriction would apply to ALL course sections and quarterly offerings.

In some cases there may be special exceptions to designating ALL course sections and quarterly offerings with a particular enrollment restriction. There may be exceptional pedagogical and curricula needs of departments and colleges that require a particular section or sections of a course offering (e.g., honors sections) during an academic quarter or from one quarter to another due to teaching assignments by faculty members (or, e.g., variable title courses) to carry different enrollment restrictions, including differences such as no enrollment restriction and "Instructor Permission Required after Term Begins." In such cases, the above procedure is to be followed but in addition it must be specified how the enrollment restriction will vary by specific sections or quarterly offerings. A clear justification for proposing different enrollment restrictions must accompany the "Request." Upon approval of these exceptions, the enrollment restriction designations of course sections will be the managerial responsibility of the departments and colleges and be implemented through the their processes for submitting quarterly class schedules to the Office of the Registrar.

In those cases where the use of "Instructor Permission Required after Term Begins" is approved to accommodate student enrollment in high demand relative to offerings courses, it is expected that the instructor will replace dropped students with students wishing to add through departmental or college waiting lists and the normal course add process.

As specified in the Attendance and Drop Policy, "For courses designated as Instructor Permission Required after Term Begins, students may be dropped from the course for being absent … " It is not required that students be dropped by the instructor.

Winter Quarter 2001, Spring Quarter 2001, and Summer Quarters 2001

Due to the fact that faculty, department, and college scheduling plans for the remainder of this academic year are well underway, if not completed, the Office of the Provost's "Guidelines for Governing" these policies as issued August 15, 2000 will temporarily remain in effect for the purpose of designating course enrollment restrictions as "Instructor Permission Required" and "Instructor Permission Required After Term Begins." Those "Guidelines for Governing" will remain in effect for course offerings through the Summer 2001 Class Schedule.

Fall Quarter 2001

Beginning with course offerings for the Fall 2001 Class Schedule, the University Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee's "Procedure for Implementation" of these policies is to be followed by faculty, departments, and colleges for the purpose of designating course enrollment restrictions as "Instructor Permission Required" and "Instructor Permission Required After Term Begins." In addition, courses previously so designated under the Office of the Provost "Guidelines for Governing" will need to be submitted under this Procedure.

Given the Office of the Registrar due dates for the Fall 2001 Class Schedule, the following approximate schedule is designed to assist faculty, departments, and colleges in their curriculum and scheduling processes:

January 2001 (mid month): registrar sends Fall 2001 class schedule requests to colleges.
       January 2001 (mid month): UCAPC meeting
       February 2001 (mid month): UCAPC meeting
February 2001 (mid month): first draft of class schedules due to Registrar
February 2001 (end of month): registrar sends proofs of class schedules to colleges
March 2001 (first week): colleges have one week to submit final changes to Registrar
       March 2001 (mid month): UCAPC meeting
March 2001 (last week): last possible changes to schedules due prior to printing
April 20, 2000: Fall 2001 class schedule published and delivered to campus
April 28, 2000: Fall Registration begins

Courses designated with any enrollment restriction, including "Instructor Permission Required" and "Instructor Permission Required After Term Begins," for Fall Quarter 2001 will continue in the future to be so designated unless modified by faculty, departments, and colleges through the established curriculum procedure.