Undergraduate Course Registration

Preparing for registration

• 1. Complete continuing student onboarding

  Before advising weeks for fall and spring registration, you will have to-do items in your Workday inbox. Onboarding includes agreeing to the financial and financial aid disclosure agreements, reviewing your home contact information and updating it if needed, and a few other things. Check out our instructions for onboarding on Workday (Google Site).

• 2. Schedule an appointment with your advisor

  Arrange to meet with your academic advisor(s) during Advising Weeks, the two weeks prior to registration opening. You will have an advising hold that prevents registration. Once you have met with your advisor, they will clear your hold. There are no longer alternate registration PINs to keep track of.

• 3. Verify your registration date, check for holds and actions to do

  In Workday, go to your academics application and look for:

  • Upcoming registration appointments to see when registration opens for you
  • Holds that will prevent you from registering, including advising, financial, and immunization holds.
  • Actions to do to ensure you have completed your onboarding steps
• 4. View your academic progress report

  Monitor your remaining degree requirements in Workday to help you plan your registration.

  • Select the academics icon, then view my academic progress under academic records on the side menu bar

  Check out the guide to understanding your academic progress report (Google Doc) for more details.

• 5. Plan your schedule

  Build a pre-registration saved schedule in Workday—you can save more than one schedule to see how different course choices look! Visit our Google Site for instructions on creating a schedule in Workday. You can also use the registration worksheet to help plan your class schedule. Be sure to select alternate classes.

  • Fall registration worksheet (PDF)
  • Winter/spring registration worksheet (PDF)

  Check the undergraduate program requirements page for the courses required for your major(s), minor(s), or certificate(s). Look at the course descriptions (find course sections for registration in Workday) and verify that you have met the prerequisites, which are listed under eligibility in Workday.

  Maximum credit load

  You may take a maximum of 20 credits in fall and spring, 4 credits in winter, and 8 credits in summer. If you wish to be considered a full-time student for fall or spring term, you must register for at least 12 credits, or 15 credits for some types of financial aid. Contact Financial Aid for details.

  Special registration forms

  Download necessary form on our special registration forms web page. Examples of special registrations: ACTC cross-registration, apprentice teaching, collaborative research, departmental honors projects, independent study, and individual study. You cannot register for these courses online.

  LEAP Learning Agreements

  • For internships, LEAP Learning Agreements and registration help are available through the Career Development Center.
  • For apprentice teaching, collaborative research, independent study, and more: Please use the Independent LEAP Agreement (Google Doc). LEAP applications for these types of experiences are reviewed by the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and do not go through the Career Development Center.
• 6. Register

  Registration opens at 7 a.m. on your first day to register and remains open until the first day of the term. Once classes begin, you can no longer register online. You may drop and withdraw from courses in Workday until 5 p.m. on the final day of the add/drop and withdraw periods.

  Here is a link to registration instructions for Workday (Google Site).

  A course section "closes" when the maximum number of students has enrolled in the course. If the course you want to take is closed, you have the following options:

  • Before the start of the term, watch the course enrollment in Workday to see if it re-opens. If an enrolled student changes their mind and drops the course, a space will become available. Alternatively, you may be able to add the course by seeking the instructor's approval.
  • Select another section of the same course that is still open.
  • Select another course. Try to select a course that fulfills a requirement you still need to meet.

  The registration schedule is as follows:

  Year	Credits accumulated	Day to register
  Seniors	(96+ credits)	First day of open registration
  Juniors	(64-95.99 credits)	Second day of open registration
  Sophomores	(32-63.99 credits)	Third day of open registration
  First years	(under 32 credits)	Fourth day of open registration

  To meet the Hamline four-year assurance of graduation partnership, you must register for courses at these times.

  If you have not registered for any courses by the start of the term, you must contact Academic Advising (Bush Library, lower level, 651-523-2912, advising@hamline.edu).

• 7. Find textbook information

  To view textbook information after you have registered, visit the Hamline Bookstore website.