Registration FAQ
For Fall 2024
The following information is applicable only to courses based in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (DAMES). It may not apply to courses based in other departments that are crosslisted with DAMES. The policies and practices of other departments may vary.
- All our culture courses, and a few advanced Chinese and Japanese language courses, have seats reserved for DAMES majors. Any leftovers that our majors don’t use in the first registration wave will be released before the start of the second wave.
- ASIA 150 has seats reserved for SO. Any leftovers from these (unlikely) will be released when open enrollment starts on April 22.
- ASIA 150, CHIN 101, JAPN 101, KOR 101, and VIET 101 have seats reserved for incoming FY students. Leftovers will be released August 5 (when registration reopens to everyone).
- CHIN 439, CHIN 443, CHIN 475, CHIN 545, and JAPN 401 may hold some seats into the summer for incoming DAMES grad students. When these leftovers would be released is variable, but the best way to get them is to be on the waitlist.
If you are hoping to maybe get in once more seats are released, the absolute best thing to do is waitlist (though you can’t do so until the second wave). Any seats that become available will go to the people on the waitlist first.
When you do a search in ConnectCarolina and find the class, the section number is a link. Click through and you’ll be on the Class Detail page. Scroll down that page to the Class Availability section, and you’ll see a breakdown of seats: how many were reserved for different groups and who those groups were, how many were open to anyone, and for each group how many of the seats have been taken and how many are left. In the Reserved Seats column, the abbreviated name of the reserve group has hover text that explains it more clearly.
Below this in the Notes section on the same page there may be a note explaining when reserved seats will be released.
If the course has recitation sections, another possible problem is that there are seats open in some recitations, but not the one you chose. If you’re willing to make a different recitation choice in order to get into the class, look at which recitations are open and try swapping to one of them. (WARNING: if you try to Swap to a closed recitation, it may take you out of the class and back onto the waitlist.) If you see another open recitation that you’d be willing to take, but can’t change your request on ConnectCarolina without losing your place on the waitlist, contact Lori Harris for help (include your PID).
If you’re on the waitlist, you’re welcome to come to the first day of the class (if the class is remote, see below).