Preparing Your Student for Class Registration

by Jodi Ryter and Meghan Winchell

Class registration is where your student will first meet their academic advisor. This advisor will work with your student to build a first-semester schedule that incorporates their interests and goals, considers prior education, and aligns with expected involvement on and off campus.

There is no “standard” first-semester schedule. Instead, advisors will suggest first-semester courses that are common for particular academic areas, as well as any prerequisites your student should consider. Your student’s first-semester schedule will be flexible, exploratory, personalized and relevant to their interests. Even if they feel certain about their academic and professional goals, your student will leave the advising session knowing that adjustments are possible.

Advising appointments will be held over Zoom May 11-25. Students who’ve deposited and completed the steps for class registration will receive an email with a link to schedule their class registration appointment with their advisor. Additional information about the steps for class registration are on the admitted student webpage.

Our goal is to connect every NWU student with informed, caring and sustained advising as they work toward their degree and life beyond Nebraska Wesleyan. We see the effectiveness of this overarching approach in the successes of our graduates.

Jodi Ryter is the dean of undergraduate students and professor of chemistry.
 

Meghan Winchell is associate provost of integrative and experiential learning and professor of history.