Registration
Advisors
The Registrar will assign a faculty member to serve as your academic advisor during your first semester at Yale.
The role of an academic advisor is to provide guidance for your overall program of study in fulfillment of Master’s degree requirements. Importantly, this includes offering advice on the selection of courses that best tailors your professional training at F&ES to your past experience and career aspirations.
Because you are welcome to seek professional advice from any F&ES faculty member, it is not crucial that the disciplinary expertise of your academic advisor correspond with your per- sonal area of professional interest. Nonetheless, the Registrar will do her best to assign you to an advisor of your choice.
By February 15 of the second semester, students must identify a faculty member and formalize an advising relationship for the rest of the time at Yale. Note that the faculty advisor does not have to be the project advisor–but it would be encouraged to link academic and project advising.
Course Registration
F&ES course registration is available at http://www.yale.edu/sis for each student in a Master’s Degree program. Complete instructions for on-line registration are available here or in the Registrar’s Office. When you have completed your course selections, print the Current Schedule page and submit this page to the Registrar’s Office within one week of the first day of classes in the fall and spring terms (see Calendar). Pre- registration is not required. It is advised that you attend one or more classes prior to registering for a course.A penalty of $25 will be charged for late registration. Please make sure that the registration form is complete.
The add/drop period ends two weeks after registration. Add/ drop forms are available in Room 7, Sage Hall. Changes to your course selections cannot be made after the add/drop period.
Project Course Registration
A Project Course is a master's project or an Independent study course with an F&ES faculty member. The faculty member does not have to be your advisor. Course numbers are listed in the F&ES School Bulletin. Each professor has a master's project course number and an independent study course number. List the appropriate Project Course on your Registration Form. Attach a Project Course Form with the signature of the faculty with whom you are doing the project.Course Withdrawal
Students may withdraw from a course without any fees and without the course appearing on the transcript by the mid- term—October 10, 2005, for fall semsester; March 3, 2006, for spring semester. A fee of $25 per course is assessed and a “W” is recorded on the transcript for courses dropped after these midterm dates. The last day of classes is the final date to withdraw from a course—(December 2, 2005, for fall semester; April 21, 2006, for spring semester).Students may change enrollment in a course from Credit to Audit or from Audit to Credit without a fee through the applicable midterm date. A fee of $25 per course is assessed for enrollment changes submitted after this date. No changes will be made after the final date of classes in a given semester.
International Student Registration
International students are required to complete a nonacademic registration at the Office of International Students and Scholars, 246 Church Street (203-432-2305) prior to registering and enrolling in Yale courses.Continuing Registration Status
Master’s students who wish to take a one-semester leave from school to conduct research related to their degree can be enrolled under continuous registration status. The fee is $250 for the semester. Under continuous registration status the stu- dent is considered full time and is entitled to continue mem- bership in the Health Plan and defer student loans. A student may not request continuous registration status to continue studies after graduation.
Registration Forms
All forms require a PDF viewer (such as Adobe Acrobat Reader) to view and print.All Registrar's Office Forms
