Before You Register

Academic advising appointments:

• 30 minute virtual registration advising appointments occuring now: 
  Now through November 13, appointments are geared towards spring registration only.  Longer-term academic planning will likely wait until a future appointment.
  
  See your advisor's past emails regarding online scheduling.  Email headvising@austin.utexas.edu if you do not have your advisor's online calendar to schedule a virtual appointment. 
  
  

spring 2021 Registration: november 2 - november 13

Preparing for registration/advising appointments:

1. View Classes & Registration Times/Bars:
   The Course Schedule & your Registration Information Sheet (RIS page) with personal registration times and bars will be updated by October 15th. 
   
   
2. Clear Advising Bar:
   All HE students advised at the Human Ecology Advising Center will have a registration advising bar. 
   
   To clear your bar before registration, submit an Advising Worksheet with proposed classes by October 29th for your advisor to review or schedule an advising appointment.
   
   It is still recommended to submit a worksheet even if you plan to have an appointment before you register.  See links below for guidance on what classes might come next for you.
   
   
3. Review Requirements:
   View the following to prepare for an advising appointment and registration.
   
   
   • Interactive Degree Audit (IDA): 
     • See this handout, How to Run & Read an IDA, about how to create and read your Degree Audit.
     • To open your Audit after creating/requesting it, click Audit Results then the blue hyperlink under "Audit ID".  Refresh the page if your audit is still processing.
     • Be sure to note when the audit was created, and re-run so that it's accurate.
   • Degree Checklists - list format; shows more details about course options
   • Sample four-year plans 
   • Health Professions Office website - professional school prereqs and timelines
   • Core Curriculum: list of approved options for Core requirements
     • Also see the #3 core curriculum filter on Course Schedule (see screenshot here) 
     • If you claimed AP U.S. History credit, double check your Degree Audit to ensure you don't accidentally take the same class for your remaining History!
   • Automated Transfer Equivalency (ATE) database: To check tranferrability between Texas schools. 
     • Common Government questions & acceptable combinations: see details here.
   • Minor/Certificate requirements
     
     
4. Major-Specific Updates: See registration news for your major on the departmental pages below including important prereq updates, common registration issues/questions, etc. 
   Also see our FAQ page.
   
   • Nutritional Sciences
     
   • Human Development & Family Sciences
   • Public Health
   • Textiles & Apparel
     
     
5. Back-ups, Back-ups, Back-ups: Make sure you plan for back-up courses/sections in your schedule and USE THE WAIT LISTS!
   • “Add to Waitlist” is the second bullet on your registration page after you've attempted to add the class.  See below!
     • If a class doesn't have a waitlist available, the option won't appear and you need to keep checking for availability throughout registration and add/drop.
     • Selecting a SWAP class is optional, but please do if there is a time conflict or if adding the waitlisted class would put you over 17 hours.
     • You can be on a maximum of 4 different wait list
     • And a maximum of 2 waitlists for the same course.

Know the lingo:

• Advising Bars – All HE students will have an advising bar.  This will be cleared once you complete an advising worksheet and/or schedule an appointment with your assigned academic advisor.
  
  
• SANs – Secure Academic Notes. These SANs are sent to the official email address that you have on file. If you are not receiving these emails, you are responsible for making sure that you update email your address online. You should check your spam folder as well.