Course Restrictions and Authorized Enrollments

Overview

Course restrictions and authorized enrollments originate when departments submit courses to the Registrar's Office. Departments can make changes and authorize closing enrollments by notifying the University Registrar (Debbie Hoffman, 4-4132, or Pam Lawson, 2-2303; ).

Faculty members control the numbers of students in their courses by setting the authorized enrollments, determining class section restrictions, and closing off the add process when they want to manage the add process themselves via the SIS Permissions List or when they are no longer willing to allow students to add into their class (by writing to and asking that a "Stop Enrollment" hold be placed on the class.

Imposition of Course Restrictions After a Student Has Enrolled

Once enrolled in a course a student may not be excluded by the belated imposition of class section restrictions. Enrolled means enrolled unless a student has ignored prerequisites published in the Undergraduate Record. Faculty are obliged to accept students who add into their courses through the new SIS.

Enrollment Only Through SIS Permissions

Instructors who want to stop enrollment in their classes via SIS and have students enroll through a permission list which they control should ask to have a list created by writing to