Updates and Reminders | March 23, 2021

Published: | 9:04 am

Good morning students,

This is the twelfth week of the semester, and with it come the twelfth week deadline and important reminders about registration for Summer and Fall courses.

This week’s email includes information about:

  1. Accessing virtual appointments and drop-ins through Campus Connect
  2. Registering for classes
    • Both Summer and Fall courses are available
    • Clearing holds on your account
    • Reserve caps on courses
    • Suggested/approved course lists
  3. Declare a minor or concentration for your major
  4. Summer 2021 transient applications due April 1

Advising Tip of the Week: If your registration window has already opened, register for classes before meeting with an advisor. You will have secured your seats and then just adjust your schedule after speaking with an advisor. If your registration window has not opened yet, build a sample schedule in your shopping cart before meeting with an advisor.

COSSPP academic advising services are available through virtual appointments and drop-ins using Campus Connect.

This semester, all advising services in COSSPP are operating virtually using Campus Connect.

  • Need help accessing Campus Connect? See our online how-to guide with step-by-step instructions and screenshots.
  • Appointments: may be booked up 2-3 weeks in advance during this peak advising time.
  • Drop-ins: students are placed in a virtual queue when they sign in. As advisors work through the queue, they send notifications to students via text and email to join a Zoom appointment. Drop-ins are completed in the order that students sign in – the queue often exceeds advisor capacity this time of the semester with many students signing in within minutes of availability opening.

Register for classes as soon as your registration (enrollment) window opens

The Registration Guides for Summer 2021 and Fall 2021 lists when you can register for classes, based on the number of earned (completed) hours posted to your student account. (Earned hours do not included current enrollment.)

  1. Register for Summer and Fall schedule now
    Course availability for both Summer and Fall is open in Course Search and Schedule Planner. If you are taking classes both terms, register for both at the same time.
    Place courses in your shopping cart so that they are ready for you to enroll as soon as your registration window opens.
  2. Clearing holds on your account
    Make sure to clear any holds currently on your account prior to the start of registration. Many holds can be cleared by you, yourself – CLICK ON THE HOLD to read the instructions on how to clear it. Some require action by the student while some give contact information for specific offices.
    • “University Academic Progress Check” holds are cleared by the student – instructions are in the hold.
    • “Social Science Prog Check Note” is not a hold and does not prevent registration – it is just an indicator that a progress check has been prepared for you and you should meet with an academic advisor to go over it.
  3. Reserve caps on courses
    Your academic advisor cannot enroll you in courses. For questions about reserve caps, contact the department that teaches the course. Course details will often list when reserve caps are lifted, as well as what other restrictions may be on the course.
    Special note: You cannot register for course sections on another campus – if you are a main campus (Tallahassee) student, you cannot register for courses on the Panama City, Republic of Panama, or international programs campuses. Additionally, course sections reserved for distance learning students can only be registered for by students who are formally admitted to a distance learning program.
  4. Suggested and approved course lists for COSSPP majors are on our website.
    As part of efforts to conserve resources and make courses lists more accessible, we no longer print paper copies of course lists. They are be posted on our web site each semester as they become available. Remember that these lists reflect course availability as of the day they were compiled.

Declare a minor or a concentration for your COSSPP major online.

If you are a dual degree student with one of your degrees in another college, minors for that degree must be declared through that respective Dean’s office.

  1. Link: http://bit.ly/COSSminors
  2. Students must be certified into their major (not pre- or NFA-) before they can have a minor or concentration officially applied to their account.
  3. Please allow up to a week for processing of your minor or concentration declarations. If you have questions about your declaration, please email the COSSPP Mapping Coordinator at: COSS-Admissions-Mapping@fsu.edu.

The Summer 2021 transient application deadline is April 1.

Please note that courses taken at Florida community colleges will not count towards the summer residency requirement – only those taken at an SUS institution will count towards this requirement. Students must otherwise submit a summer residency waiver petition.