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Students elect their course choices through the BannerStudent system.
(www.dartmouth.edu/bannerstudent).
Students request the courses they would like to take. For any course that
has limited enrollment, the system will request that a student enter an
alternate choice.
There are three “opportunities” for enrolling in courses:
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- Course Selection (required)
- Add/Drop prior to start of the term (optional)
- Add/Drop at the start of the term (optional)
Before each term, including prior to the start of Fall term, there is a
period of enrollment (also known as Course Selection) for
students. There is no advantage to a student for entering
his/her information into the system earlier or later within that window of
time; i.e., it does not work on a first-come-first-serve
basis.
The system does work on a first-come-first-serve basis
during the Add-Drop periods.
The Banner System does not prevent students from selecting a course if s/he
has not fulfilled the prerequisites. Students, however, do not
necessarily know this. An instructor can have a student who has
registered but has not fulfilled the prereqs dropped from a course in the first
eight days of the term.
The Banner System allows a student to request whatever courses s/he chooses
to. The faculty advisor does not have to “log on” or “sign off” on
anything.
Getting into a limited enrollment class: Instructors
can, with some exceptions, let a student into a filled class. To
accomplish this a student must pick up a “Course/Section Permission Card” from
the Registrar’s Office, have it signed by the Instructor, and returned to the
Registrar’s office during the Add/Drop period.
There are some courses (THEA 30: Acting I, certain courses in Music) for
which simply requesting the course during Course Selection has no bearing on
whether one can actually get into the class. These are courses for which
one must audition with the instructor beforehand, or which are simply
designated as IP (i.e., requiring instructor permission). Once permission
is granted by the instructor, the student is officially enrolled in the
course. Students should thus initially select an alternative course. In
the event they are not admitted they will already have a full schedule and not
need to add another course once enrollments have been filled for many
classes.
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