The class registration period for each academic semester opens the semester prior and is based on your student's academic classification. Dates for class registration can be found at https://www.uah.edu/registrar/registration.

Students can utilize the Class Scheduler tool located within my.uah.edu to see what courses are available, schedule breaks for work and other extracurricular activities, as well a compare potential semester schedules.

Adding/dropping classes can be completed until a certain date and time each calendar year. Please consult the academic calendar for the most current dates. Before your student makes changes to their schedule, encourage them to speak with their Academic Advisor, as adding/dropping classes can affect financial aid and the student's university bill.

Through the sixth day of classes for a 10 week or 15 week semester, fourth day of a seven-week semester, or third day of a six-week or shorter semester, students may add a course through the web-registration process by meeting with their advisor or submitting a Registration/Schedule Adjustment form to the Office of the Registrar.

Through the sixth day of classes for a 10 or 15 week semester, fourth day of a seven-week semester, third day of a six week or shorter semester, students may drop any or all courses from their schedule and receive a refund of tuition and fees associated with the dropped courses.

Students may change their major and/or minor, add a double major, or add a minor at any time. Students must speak with their Academic Advisor when changing/adding within the same academic college. If your student is changing their major/minor to one within a different college, your students will complete a Change of College form.

It is extremely beneficial for your students to take the initiative to build relationships with their professors. Professors will set forth expectations for their courses in their syllabus, and students are expected to meet those requirements in order to pass the course.

If your student is struggling, for any reason, to meet course expectations and achieve a passing grade for the course, encourage them to communicate their concerns to their professors as soon as possible. Midterm grades are an important indicator of your student's standing in the class.

Professors are required to maintain office hours, which will be provided on the course syllabus. Professors will be able to recommend tutoring and provide additional recommendations to help students improve within the course. If communication is done via email, encourage your student to keep track of this correspondence in case it needs to be referenced later.

Class attendance is an important part of the academic process and should be considered both a privilege and a responsibility. Absences should be taken only for important and necessary reasons.

Students are held responsible for all assigned course work in which they are registered, including participation in the discussion. A student's final grade in each course is determined on the basis of identified course requirements; therefore, regular class attendance is important.

Students may repeat a course they have already taken to improve their grade or to obtain a better understanding of the course material. For undergraduates, the original grade remains on the transcript but is not calculated into the cumulative GPA. Undergraduates may have three repeats in which the new grade is used to calculate the cumulative GPA. Graduate students are allowed only one repeat in which the new grade is used to calculate the cumulative GPA.

For any additional courses repeated, beyond three for undergraduate students and beyond one for graduate students, both the original and the repeated grades appear on the transcript and both are calculated into the cumulative GPA. Repeated courses may count toward the requirements of students' majors.

• Students may not replace a grade with a W.

• Students may not repeat a course for which they have higher-level credit. For example, a student cannot repeat Pre-Calculus Trigonometry after s/he has credit for Calculus.

• A student may use all three repeats in a single course or in three separate courses or any combination of separate courses and multiple repeats of single courses.

• Student's transcript will show both the original grades and the course repeat grades, but only the grade points and semester hours earned in the repeated courses or final repeated course when multiple repeats are used for one course count toward graduation and are averaged into the student's GPA.

• After three course repeats, all other courses repeated at UAH will result in both the original grade and the course repeat grade being calculated into the student's GPA.

COURSE REPEAT FORM

Students have a course forgiven when the grade from that course no longer figures into their cumulative GPA, although it remains on their transcript. Forgiven courses may not count toward the requirements of a student's major. (Example: a student fails Calculus A, but has it forgiven upon request of the student because s/he changes to a major in a different college that does not require Calculus A. The grade from this course is no longer included in the student's cumulative GPA, although the course and the original grade still appear on the transcript as forgiven).

Only undergraduates may apply for course forgiveness.

• Students may forgive any three courses, provided that they are not required for their major.

• Any forgiven courses and the assigned grades remain on the transcript, but the grades are not calculated into the student's cumulative grade point average.

• Forgiveness cannot be used for classes in which an F was earned for academic dishonesty.

• Forgiveness is retroactive but must be done before graduation.

• Forgiveness does not apply to pass/fail courses.

• Students cannot transfer an equivalent course from another institution after a course is forgiven.

• Forgiveness cannot be unforgiven. (The grade for a forgiven course cannot be restored once forgiveness for that course has been approved.)

COURSE FORGIVENESS FORM