• Advising Period
• On-Line Registration
• Forms
• Processing
• Schedule Adjustment Period
• Add/Drop Period

ADVISING PERIOD
prior to On-line Registration

No later than Thursday, March 24, 2005:

Step 1: If you are declaring or changing your major and wish to have the change in place for registration, submit the completed Major Declaration Form to the Registrar’s Office no later than Thursday, March 24.

No later than Friday, March 25, 2005:

Step 2: Review your degree audit online.

Step 3: Resolve any Student Accounts or Health Center holds. If you do not, you will not be able to enter your courses online.

Step 4: Go to the Registrar’s web page (www.dickinson.edu/departments/reg), click Course Information by Semester, then Fall 2005.
• Read: Preparing for Fall 2005 Registration (which is this web page you are reading now)
• Review: Course Offerings & Course Priority Information
• Check: New & Topics Course Descriptions or the College Bulletin to make sure you meet all of the prerequisites for your courses. If you do not and you believe you qualify for the course, contact the professor and submit a Waiver of the Prerequisite Form if permitted to be in the class. NOTE: You will not be able to enter courses online for which you do not qualify (ie. missing prerequisite or permission of instructor required). You MUST submit a form to the Registrar’s Office by 4pm, Wednesday, March 30, in order to be considered in the initial processing.

Step 5: Meet with your adviser to discuss your course selections.

• (back to top of page)

ON-LINE REGISTRATION
9:00 a.m. EST, March 28 - 4:00 p.m. EST, March 30

Step 6: Log onto DOC (www.dickinson.edu/doc) and enter your 4 course choices ONLY (and 2 PHSEDS, if desired). Course choices entered correctly will appear as waitlisted as this time.
•Be sure to select Waitlist for your preferred sections, not Register.
•If you receive a failed message, you have not successfully entered the course. Please check the information and try again. If the message persists, contact the Registrar’s Office immediately with the exact error message you received.
• If you enter courses in excess of the 4.5 course credit limit, additional courses will be randomly deleted before the processing begins.

Step 7: You are responsible for confirming that the course requests you entered are correct by going to the My Class Schedule page on DOC before the end of the Online Registration Period and checking the accuracy of your requests.

(back to top of page)

FORMS

All forms are available at the Forms link of the Registrar’s web page:

• If you are declaring or changing your major and wish to have the change in place for registration, submit the completed Major Declaration Form to the Registrar’s Office no later than March 24.
• If the faculty member has agreed to waive the pre-requisites, submit the completed Waiver of Pre-Requisite Form no later than 4pm, Wednesday, March 30.
• Submit the appropriate form to register for Special Course Options: Independent Study, Independent Research & Tutorial. You cannot enter these courses online.
  

 

(back to top of page)

REGISTRATION PROCESSING
April

• In order for the Registrar’s Office to efficiently and accurately process your course requests, no student screens will be available except Enrollment Verification Request. Please plan accordingly.
  
  

  (back to top of page)

SCHEDULE ADJUSTMENT PERIOD
Late April - mid-July (when freshmen registration begins)

• Once the processing of schedules is complete, you will receive an e-mail message from the Registrar letting you know that DOC is once again available and you may view your schedule.
• During this time you can make any desired changes to your schedule via www.dickinson.edu/doc.
• Whenever you make a change to your schedule (add or drop a course) via DOC, you will receive an automatically generated e-mail message.
• You are responsible to confirm all changes made to your schedule by going to the My Class Schedule page on DOC and checking the accuracy of your schedule. If you have questions about your schedule, contact the Registrar's Office - reg@dickinson.edu.
• Wait Lists - You may add or drop yourself from wait lists via DOC. If you are on a wait list, you will be notified via e-mail if a space becomes available for you in the course.
  

  (back to top of page)

ADD/DROP PERIOD
Monday, August 29 - Friday, September 2

You may add and drop courses using the on-line registration system available at: www.dickinson.edu/doc. Please note: The add/drop period is only one week long.

(back to top of page)