Spring 2010 Start of the Semester Information for Students

INITIAL COURSE REGISTRATION
ENROLLMENT FORM DEADLINE
COURSE SCHEDULE, CLASS LOCATIONS, and COURSE INFORMATION
ADD/DROP COURSE REGISTRATION PERIOD
CREDIT/D/FAIL GRADING OPTION

INITIAL COURSE REGISTRATION

Any student who has not yet registered for any courses should so immediately upon returning to campus by using an add/drop card (available in the Office of the Registrar in Moulton Union). The Office of the Registrar will begin processing add/drop cards on the first day of classes. If a student's initial course registration is received after 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 29 January 2010, a late fee of $20 will be billed to his/her account.

All students may adjust their course schedules by participating in the add/drop registration process at the beginning of the semester.

ENROLLMENT FORM DEADLINE

All students must submit an Enrollment Form by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 29 January 2010. Directions and the form are online; the form may only be submitted from a computer on campus. This form allows students to update important address and parent information. It also verifies who is on campus. Any student who does not submit the Enrollment Form by the deadline will be dropped from all classes because we will assume s/he is not on campus.

COURSE SCHEDULE, CLASS LOCATIONS, and COURSE INFORMATION

A student may view his/her course schedule and the locations of classes by logging into Bearings. Added classes will not appear (and dropped classes will not disappear) in a schedule in Bearings until the add/drop card has been submitted to the Office of the Registrar and processed. Updates are made to Bearings every night. A student who stops attending a course but fails to submit an add/drop card to the Office of the Registrar to drop the course will still be officially enrolled in the course and risks receiving an F grade for the course. A student who attends a course all semester but never submits an add/drop card to add the course to his/her schedule risks receiving no grade for the course.

Students must attend the first class meeting of all courses. (Classes begin on Monday, 25 January 2010.) When a course was "Closed until add/drop" after Phase I registration or was full before the first day, instructors have the option of dropping students who do not attend the first class meeting in order to accommodate students from a waiting list.

A complete Schedule of Course Offerings is available online. Keep in mind that a paper copy of this schedule may be out of date since schedule information frequently changes. The schedule is updated overnight when changes have been made.

Courses may be searched in Bearings. (Click on "public course information" before logging in, or on the Course Info Screen link after logging in.) There is also a report online that lists courses by the times they meet.

Enrollment numbers for all classes may be found on the Office of the Registrar web site and in Bearings. 

There is a weekly calendar worksheet available (in PDF and Word formats) to help with schedule planning. 

ADD/DROP COURSE REGISTRATION PERIOD

The Office of the Registrar will begin processing add/drop cards on the first day of classes.

All students may add classes to their schedules through the first two weeks of the semester--until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 5 February 2010. Returning students have until 5:00 p.m. on 5 February 2010 to drop a course; students new to Bowdoin have until 5:00 p.m. on 5 March 2010. (New students are students for whom the Spring 2010 semester is their first semester at Bowdoin.) Add/drop cards are available in the Office of the Registrar on the first floor of the Moulton Union. To add a course, students must acquire the signatures of the instructor and advisor; drops require only the signature of the advisor. Students adding an independent study or honors project must have signatures from the project director and advisor. Students who are switching labs need only the lab instructor's signature--not an advisor's nor the course instructor's signature.

See complete add/drop instructions online.

CREDIT/D/FAIL GRADING OPTION

Students may change the grading option for a course from graded to Credit/D/Fail (or vice versa) until Friday, 5 March 2010, by using an add/drop card. Signatures are not needed to make this change. It is important that students read the entire Credit/D/Fail policy to ensure full understanding of the circumstances under which the Credit/D/Fail grading option may be elected for a course. Note that students with class year 2012 or greater may not elect to take their first-year seminars and courses taken to satisfy division or distribution requirements with the Credit/D/Fail grading option.

QUESTIONS? NEED MORE INFORMATION?

The Office of the Registrar is located on the first floor of the Moulton Union.
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Office Number: x3521
Office Fax: x3338
Office Email: registrar@bowdoin.edu