Classes are now visible in SPIRE, but some course information may not be finalized, so don’t worry if you see discussion sections but no lecture, or you don’t see the junior year writing classes, etc.  Start checking SPIRE around March 31 or April 1, as the information in SPIRE should be much more accurate by then.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT Fall 2017 IE Courses:  Seats in ECON 306, 394CI, 394FI, and 394LI will be available ONLY to primary Economics majors who have not yet satisfied the IE requirement. We have a backlog of students who have not yet taken an IE but need one to graduate, so we will be manually overriding students into these courses. If you do not fit this profile, please do not email instructors or advisors asking for permission to join one of these classes.

Check the prerequisites of courses before you put them into your shopping cart! You don’t want any nasty surprises on your enrollment day because you didn’t confirm ahead of time that you were eligible to enroll in a class.

If your enrollment date is after April 5, don’t start putting classes into your shopping cart yet because the classes you want may fill up.  You may just be filling your cart with broken dreams!  Wait until a day or two before your enrollment appointment to search for classes, because then you can just search on open classes.

If a class fills up before you have a chance to enroll, put it in your shopping cart and keep checking for open seats in SPIRE right up until the first day of class in the fall.  The Economics department does not keep waitlists until classes begin, but once the initial registration period is over, we remove many restrictions on classes, so you may be able to self-enroll if a seat opens up.  Please do not email the instructor or advisors asking for an override unless a seat opened, you verified that you were eligible, and you were still unable to enroll.

Have some backup classes in your shopping cart in case you don’t get into all of the classes you want.

If you are trying to get into a class that is not an Economics class, contact the department that is offering that class. Economics staff and advisors cannot override you into any classes outside of the Economics department.

If you sign up on any kind of waitlist, make sure you will not have any conflicts. If you have a time conflict or you will be over the credit limit if enrolled in the class you’re waiting for, you may not get in.  If you really want the class, get rid of the conflicts!