Students are requested to please accept or decline seats in limited-enrollment courses to which they have have been admitted by 8:30 a.m. today.
For additional information, please see Dean Chun’s December 5, 2018 email, reprinted below.
Dear Yale College Students and Instructors,
I have received numerous requests from the community to improve the course selection period, in particular by introducing guidelines that will provide timely information about courses with limited enrollments that do not require pre-registration. (Information about courses that do require pre-registration can be found here .) I have gathered recommendations to help students know as soon as possible the classes into which they have been admitted, and instructors know as soon as possible who is in their classes. Four of those recommendations will be introduced as guidelines next semester for limited-enrollment courses that do not require pre-registration.
- Instructors: please include in your syllabi detailed and clear criteria for admitting students. All instructors are asked to post syllabi on Canvas before the course selection period.
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Students: by 11:59 p.m. of the first day on which a given course meets, please sign up for limited-enrollment courses.
- Instructors: within 48 hours or by the next class meeting – whichever is shorter – please post class lists of admitted students, and wait lists, on Canvas.
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Students: by 8:30 a.m. on January 22 of the 2019 spring term (the Tuesday of the second week of classes), please accept or decline seats in limited-enrollment courses to which you have been admitted.
Whether you are an instructor or a student, you can help shorten the time of uncertainty during the course selection period by following these guidelines, and ideally exceeding them by acting as early as possible.
In the following cases, the guidelines do not apply:
- Limited-enrollment courses that manage and complete pre-registration and enrollment earlier than the course selection period.
- Limited-enrollment courses that meet Fridays only; they do not meet until the Friday after the course selection period ends because of the modified schedule at the start of the term.
- Wait lists, which can be managed in the usual way, although instructors and students are asked to manage and respond to them promptly.
I thank the faculty and students, and in particular the Yale College Council, for offering constructive suggestions for easing the course selection period. I am confident that they will benefit the entire community.
Sincerely,
Marvin M. Chun
Dean of Yale College
Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology; Neuroscience; Cognitive Science