Registration essentials
Many undergraduate courses have pre-requisites that must be met before you can register for the course. As an Open Studies student, you’ll often need to receive permission to register for classes that have pre-requisites.
Open Studies students
As an Open Studies student, you take regular university credit courses without being admitted to a program leading to a degree, diploma or certificate.
What is an Open Studies student?
An Open Studies student is someone who is eligible to take university credit courses at the University of Calgary, without being admitted into a degree program.
As an Open Studies student, it is important to remember that your home faculty is the Registrar’s Office.
There are three main categories of Open Studies students:
- Degree holders and non-degree holders who aren’t enrolled in a program leading to a degree, diploma or certificate but wish to take University of Calgary courses.
- Visiting students and visiting research students
- Current high school students participating in dual-credit programs through their participating high school.
Pre-requisites contacts
If you want to register in a course with pre-requisites, here’s who you’ll need to contact:
- For a course with only high school level pre-requisites, contact Enrolment Services. They’ll post your credits to your student account, and then you can proceed with registration.
Note: This type of permission must be requested every time you want to register for a course with this type of pre-requisite requirement.
- For a course with post-secondary level pre-requisites, contact the academic department that offers the course to request permission to enroll in the course.
Once you have permission to register in a course with pre-requisites, you’ll be able to register through your Student Centre (my.ucalgary.ca).
How to register in a graduate course
If you want to register into a graduate-level course, here are the steps you’ll need to take:
- Contact the academic department offering your desired course so you can request permission to register
- Once you’ve received permission, the department must post an electronic allow action on your student file
- When the electronic allow action is posted, you must contact Enrolment Services to request that a manual registration is processed on your behalf