No images? Click here February 7, 2020Procedure for Adding and Dropping Courses Now That the Registration Deadline Has PassedYour advisees may be asking you how to add or drop courses now that the registration deadline has passed and add/drop is no longer available online. Here are the procedures for a few common situations: ADDING A CLASS Instructor informs student they have permission to join the class from a waitlist but instructor can no longer add them via SSOL Student wishes to add a zero-credit discussion section or lab, or a “short course” that has not yet begun OR Student wishes to change sections in the same course (e.g. move from section 02 to section 01) or change levels in the same subject (e.g. move from Calculus II to DROPPING A CLASS Student wishes to drop a course that will not bring the total number of registered credits below 12 Student wishes to drop a course that will leave them in fewer than 12 credits Declaring a Major deadline Monday, March 2With the March 2 deadline rapidly approaching for second semester sophomores to declare their majors, you may start hearing from your advisees who need help finalizing their decisions. Some students feel they need to decide what their future career or life will be with the decision about their major. It is helpful to remind them that the major is not connected to their future career or even their first job after graduation. You may wish to direct them to some of the “Articles for Sophomores” on the Sophomore Blog, which speak to this disconnect. To declare a single or double major students need to submit the Major Declaration form to the Registrar's Office. To declare a double major that has a single integrating project (not a complete double major), students submit the Double Major with Single Integrating Project form. Both department chairs must agree to the course/s to be used for the senior project. Here are a couple of tools you may use to help advise them about the process: Declaring a Major process on the Registrar's website Major Declaration Process by Department/Program Announcement of New Study Abroad DeadlinesThe College is implementing a change in deadlines for the study abroad process. All students who are considering studying abroad next academic year 2020-21 – either in the fall or the spring – MUST submit the Intent to Study Abroad form by March 15, 2020. The Intent to Study Abroad form is non-binding and simply indicates interest. The form can be found on the myBarnard portal under Academics; the Study Abroad section is at the bottom right. We ask that you please discuss the possibility of study abroad with your advisees ahead of the March 15th deadline. Please let them know that this is a hard deadline. Only students who have submitted the Intent to Study Abroad form will be eligible to apply to study abroad for the next academic year. This change will give students more time to work with the Barnard Global office on their applications to study abroad programs and foreign universities and maximize their chances of acceptance. Students who submit the Intent to Study Abroad form will have access to the Notice of Study Leave form, which acts as their application to Barnard to study abroad. The deadlines to submit the Notice of Study Leave form are: April 15, 2020 for study abroad in Fall 2020 or for the full Academic Year 2020-21 Please be in touch with Barnard Global with any questions: Helpful Advising ResourcesEmail questions and comments to: insights@barnard.edu |