Course permits

Advisors may be asked to put in waivers for students so that they can register for a class for which they do not have the appropriate prerequisites or when the class is full. When a student needs a permit, the appropriate advisor or instructor should email the department chair to request approval for entering the permit into the system, allowing the student to register for the course.

Advisors should submit requests based on the following cases.

• If the student has other courses they can take without issuing any permits, then the student should be directed to those courses first.
• Permits for missing prerequisites in undergraduate courses
  • If the student does not have the prerequisites for and cannot be full-time without one of these courses
    • CSCI 2600
    • CSCI 2700
    then the student’s advisor may then submit a request to the department admin to waive the prerequisite for these courses.
  • In general, prerequisites for all other CSCI courses should not be waived.  Exceptions may be approved by the department chair.
• Permit for College of Business classes
  • Students needing a permit for College of Business classes (e.g., MGT 3100) should contact College of Business advisors Ms. Margaret Douglas or Mr. Matthew Kilpatrick directly. Their contact information is available here.
• Permits for full classes
  • If a student would like to register for course that is full, the advisor or student should email the instructor of the section the student wishes to enroll in and ask for permission to enroll in the course. The decision for whether or not the student may be allowed into course is up to the course instructor. If the instructor approves, the instructor should submit a request for a permit to allow the student in the course.
    • In the event that the instructor of the section cannot be reached, the advisor or student can contact the department chair or assistant department chair and ask for permission to take the course.
    • For in-person courses, once the room capacity of reaches the capacity mandated by the fire code, no additional students may be admitted to the course.  The table below lists the fire code limits for the classrooms most often used by CSCI instructors.  For other rooms, contact the department chair.
      
      

      Room	Maximum # of students allowed under fire code
      MMCS 110	23
      MMCS 129	38
      MMCS 130	28
      MMCS 242	38
      MMCS 243	29
      MMCS 244	90
      TB 204	23
      TB 104	48
      TB 132	24
      TB 134	24
      TB 232	24
      TB 234	24
      A123 (Think Tank)	30

    • For both online and in-person courses, instructors may want to monitor enrollment in their courses. If enrollment approaches the course capacity or if 1 or 2 students have already been granted a permit to enroll in a full course, the instructor may want to talk to the department chair about raising the capacity of the course or opening a new section.