Hello Anthropology students,
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As you may have heard, there are drastic changes coming in the registration and scheduling process, and they start now. Pre-enrolment and enrolment appointments will soon no longer exist. The current course registration and classroom assignment process is giving
way to a new software package that is student schedule driven. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Why does this matter to you?<br>
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Enrolment appointments will no longer be part of your registration process. You will not receive specific days during which you can enrol. Therefore, please, please, please, during course selection week, register for the classes you need and want - whether
you are in first or fourth year. Course selection week is February 25 - March 3rd for Fall 2013. You must select your courss before the timetable can be created.
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What happens if you do not do nor participate in pre-registration, because you are sure those anthropology courses will have room for you to register later, or you want to wait to see what time they are offered?<br>
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Here are some of the consequences of the failure of any or all of you to pre-register:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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1. You <u>will not</u> be able to enrol for any courses until July 29, the week everyone on campus can enrol, add, or drop.
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">2. You might not get the courses you need, because course limits and classroom size will be assigned according to the number of students who pre-enrolled. Once the rooms are set,
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3. Your schedule might be terrible. The software the Registrar's will be using is student-demand driven. If our students do not enrol, our classes will be pushed to the periphery of times and places, and we might be looking at schedules that put a greater number
of classes than usual at 8:30 or 3:30, and in places that are farther and farther from PAS. In a trial run based on last-year's pre-enrollment, almost every single course in Anthropology was scheduled at 8:30 or 9:30, or after 4:30.
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">4. All of the courses you need may be scheduled at the same time. If you don't indicate that you actually need to take several anthropology courses, the computer will schedule them
all at the same time, because there is no evidence that anybody needs more than one of them. We have absolutely no control or input on this, and can't change it once the computer schedules the classes.
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Please, please, please register during course selection week. You can always alter your schedule after July 29 if you change your mind about your schedule. Your faculty and your fellow students thank you!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Maria Liston<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Undergraduate Advisor<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Maria A. Liston, PhD<br>
Associate Professor and Chair<br>
Anthropology Department<br>
University of Waterloo<br>
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1<br>
Canada<br>
(001) <a href="tel:519%20888-4567%20x33050" value="+15198884567" target="_blank">519 888-4567 x33050</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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