Course
Enrollment
Making
Changes to Your Original Course Selections
General
Information
GSPIA's
Office of Student Services will process all Course
Enrollment forms whether you are on campus or off
site, whether you are full-or part time. Staff will
assist you in enrolling in courses in other University
departments and in other area institutions. You must
meet with your faculty advisor to develop your course
schedule and obtain your advisor's signature on the
Enrollment Form. If you present your form without
your advisor's signature, the staff in Student Services
will assume that your advisor has agreed to your course
selection. Your signature on the form indicates that
you agree and promise to pay to the University all
resulting tuition and fees for the courses in which
you elected to enroll.
- All new student enrolling for the first time must meet with their respective admissions counselors prior to registering for courses.
Maximum
Credits Per Term
- Full-Time
Study: 9-15 credits in the fall or spring
term. The average course load in GSPIA is 12 credits
per term.
- Part-Time Study:
Students who register for fewer than 9 credits
are part-time students and are billed on a per credit
basis.
No
student is permitted to register for more than 15
credits without the written permission from the dean
of the academic center in which the student is pursuing
a degree. Graduate students who register for more
than 15 credits will be billed for each additional
credit that exceeds their full-time tuition rate.
During the summer term and summer sessions, students
are billed on a per credit basis regardless of the
number of credits taken.
Forms
Enrollment forms are available in the Office
of Student Services and are also available in our
online document library. More...
Enrolling
in Courses
After
meeting with or discussing your proposed schedule
of courses with your advisor, there are four ways
to have your Enrollment Form processed:
- in
person --bring the completed form to Student
Services, 3601 WWPH, between 9:00 am - 5:00 pm and
leave it for processing;
- online - by going to GSPIA's Online Course Registration
- or by fax at 412.648.7641
Your form will be processed within 24-48 hours, after
which you can confirm your course selections from
your account at http:// my.pitt.edu.
Enrolling
in Closed Courses
Courses
in GSPIA and other schools and departments are closed
after the maximum number of students has enrolled.
Occasionally, faculty teaching a closed course will
permit you to enroll by signing a Permission to
Enter a Closed or Restricted Course form that
must be submitted with the Enrollment Form.
Please see the document library for forms.
Enrolling
in an Independent Study Course (PIA 2097 or PIA 3097)
If
you plan to enroll in an independent study course,
an Independent Study Form and study proposal signed
by the faculty who will direct your research must
be submitted with your Enrollment Form. Please see the document library for forms.
Enrolling
for Full-Time Dissertation Credit (FTDK)
Doctoral
students who have completed all credit requirements
for the degree, including any minimum dissertation
credit requirements, and are working full-time on
their dissertations may register for full-time dissertation
study, which carries no credits or letter grade but
provides students full-time status. The University
requires that a Permission to Enter a Closed or
Restricted Course form, signed by the assistant
dean, be submitted with the Enrollment Form
Auditing
Courses
With
the consent of the School and instructor where the
course is offered, you may choose to audit a course.
To audit a course, you must register and pay tuition
for the course. The audit grade (N) is not counted
toward graduation or the GPA.
Enrolling
in Classes in Other University of Pittsburgh Schools
and Departments
If
you would like to take a class in the political science,
history, economics, etc., add it to your Enrollment
Form. Since classes in these departments are "restricted"
to their students, you will be required to obtain
the signature of the faculty member teaching that
class on the Permission to Enter a Closed or Restricted
Course form. You must submit this form with your
Enrollment Form to complete your course
enrollment process.
Enrolling
in Classes in Other Pittsburgh Universities (Cross
Registration)
Full-time
students can take graduate classes at Carnegie Mellon,
Duquesne, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, or Robert
Morris in the Fall and Spring Terms. The Cross
Registration Form , to be submitted along with
the Enrollment Form, must be signed in GSPIA by the
assistant Dean and a copy taken for your GSPIA file.
Then you must take the Cross Registration form to
the Registrar in G-1 Thackeray Hall.
During
the summer, you may attend one of the above colleges
as a guest student, but you must pay that institution's
tuition and fees. Students are discouraged from cross-registering
during their final term before graduation to avoid
any delays in the receipt of the course credit needed
to graduate.
Enrolling
as a Guest Student at another Institution
The
completion of requirements for advanced degrees must
be satisfied through registration at the Pittsburgh
campus of the University. You may, when approved
in advance by the division director and the assistant
dean, spend a term or more at another graduate institution,
either in the U.S. or abroad, to obtain training or
experience not available at the University, and transfer
those credits toward the requirements for a GSPIA
degree. Transfer credits will not be granted
for courses in which a grade lower than a B (GPA=3.0)
or its equivalent has been received. No credits
will be granted toward a GSPIA degree for work completed
in extension courses, correspondence courses, courses
delivered electronically, or those offered in the
off-campus center of another institution unless those
credits are approved for equivalent graduate degrees
at that institution, and provided that the institution
is regionally accredited.
Making
Changes to Your Original Course Selections
Adding
and Dropping Classes
If
you wish to change (add or drop) course(s) from your
original course selection, you may do so by indicating
your revised selection(s) on the Enrollment Form during
the add/drop period. You can leave this form in the drop box, fax it, or submit the information online using GSPIA's Course Registration System.
Check the dates for the add/drop
period on the University's Academic Calendar at www.pitt.edu/~provost/calendar.html.
If you no longer wish to remain enrolled in a course
after the add/drop period has ended, you may withdraw
from the course or resign from the University.
Withdrawing
from a Class (Monitored Withdrawal)
After
the add/drop period has ended, you may withdraw from
a course that you no longer wish to attend by completing
a Monitored Withdrawal Request Form in GSPIA for GSPIA courses or from the school offering the course. You must process
the Monitored Withdrawal Request form within the first
nine weeks of the term in the Fall and Spring. Because
summer sessions vary in length, you should check the
summer Schedule of Classes for those deadlines. The
grade W will appear on your grade report and transcript.
There is no financial adjustment to your tuition or
fee obligations.
Resigning
from All Classes for a Specific Term
If
you decide to drop all of your courses after the add/drop
period has ended and before 60 percent of the term
or session has been completed, you must resign from
the University for that term. The University requires
you to contact the Student Appeals Office in person,
by mail, or by calling 412.624.7585, where students
may leave a message 24 hours a day, including weekends
and holidays. An R grade will appear on your academic
transcript, and your tuition will be prorated from
the date of your notification to the Student Appeals
Office, unless 60% of the term has been completed,
in which case there is no refund.
After
the 60% point of the term or session has passed, and
you wish to terminate your registration, you may process
withdrawal from all classes only with the permission
of GSPIA's associate or assistant dean. There is no
financial adjustment associated with this procedure,
which results in the assignment of W grades for the
courses.
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