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Advance Registration for Fall 2008Revised
**IMPORTANT: Changes in Rules and Available Courses: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/be/undergrad/curriculum/adreg/letter.html General Instructions about RegisteringTwo documents are attached. Please read through the tables at the end of this document and the additional letter. The BE WEB site is at: www.seas.upenn.edu/be/undergrad/ Advance registration is under www.seas.upenn.edu/be/undergrad/curriculum/ in the list of links at the left.
The registration period is – March 24 – April 6, 2008 1. In order to register before the registration period closes, all paperwork must be submitted to the BE Office by MONDAY, MARCH 24th. Students submitting paperwork after March 24th cannot be guaranteed clearance to register during the registration period. 2. To prepare the paperwork go online to Penn In Touch and fill out the electronic worksheet for your curriculum (BSE, ASBS = BAS). Select Worksheet from the menu. Use Help to get instructions on how to fill it out. 3. Important Note: When filling out the worksheet you must enter the course numbers of the courses you are taking. The system expects that course numbers will consist of four letters followed by three numbers: e.g., MATH104. BE is only two letters, so you must enter BE courses as BE<space><space>: e.g., BE 100. 4. When taking cross listed courses to fulfill the BE CPG, students are required to enroll in the engineering designation of the course. For example, students taking OPIM415, which is the same as MEAM 415, must enroll in MEAM415. 5. When you have filled out the worksheet, print out BOTH the Requirement View and Term View. **If applicable, attach all petitions necessary to carry out your planned curriculum including petitions to increase your course load.** 6. After you have filled in and printed out the worksheet, submit it to the BE office. Make sure to write your NAME on the worksheet. It is not automatically printed out. You do NOT need a permission to register form. The electronic worksheet, both the semester and requirements views, is all that is required. ONLY the electronic worksheet is acceptable – no other forms can be processed. 7. Please contact your advisor to meet with him/her before turning in your electronic worksheet to the BE Office in 240 Skirkanich. **Note: you MUST meet with your advisor AND obtain his/her signature on your worksheet before turning it in to the BE Office. If you do not obtain your advisor's signature, we will NOT clear you to register and will return your worksheet to you.** Specific Instructions about Curricula1. Check the curriculum requirements for your class (Class of 2010, 2011, etc.). There are some differences between the classes. Make sure that you are looking at your class. www.seas.upenn.edu/be/undergrad/curriculum/BSE/ www.seas.upenn.edu/be/undergrad/curriculum/BAS/ 2. Seniors -- The worksheet must be completely filled out, with no red-X’s. Red X’s mean you haven’t done something right, or the computer isn’t smart enough to know whether your course selections are “legal”. The sections where the computer doesn’t know the rules are indicated by the words “Auto Assign not available”. Red X’s in these sections need to overridden by the BE office. We will take care of these. Remember, you can always change; but this is a good time to figure out what you need to do in order to graduate. 3. Sophomores and Juniors -- Consider submatriculation, if it meets your career plans. You need to enroll between the end of the sophomore and the end of the junior year. Look up www.seas.upenn.edu/be/undergrad/degrees/submatriculation/ and 4. Sophomores -- the worksheet should be mostly filled out. This is a good time to think about what you’re going to do for the next couple of years. Red X’s mean you haven’t done something right, or the computer isn’t smart enough to know whether your course selections are “legal”. The sections where the computer doesn’t know the rules are indicated by the words “Auto Assign not available”. Red X’s in these sections need to overridden by the BE office. We will take care of these. 5. Freshmen -- fill out as much of the worksheet as you can, but you MUST fill out the Bioengineering, Science, and Math courses through the end of the sophomore year. Please see the following note about increasing credit units. 6. Increasing Credit Units for Fall 2008 www.seas.upenn.edu/forms/ug-advisor-signoff.pdf
7. Registering for Summer Classes
If you would like to register for Summer 2008, please make a note requesting to be cleared for Summer on the worksheets you turn in for Fall 2008 registration. If you forget to request clearance for Summer when you turn in your worksheet, you can e-mail Catherine Lawrence <cathy37@seas.upenn.edu> and ask her to clear you. CLEARANCE FOR SUMMER CLASSES IS NOT AUTOMATIC.
8. All the rules and regulations for SEAS can be found online at http://www.seas.upenn.edu/ugrad/index.html. In particular, what counts as “Math”, “Engineering”, “Science”, “Social Science and Humanities”, is described online at http://www.seas.upenn.edu/ugrad/category_intro.html Instructions about Career Path/Technical Electives Courses1. The Career Path is essentially the path that you take through the Bioengineering curriculum that either prepares you for a specific post-graduate option and/or allows you to systematically explore bioengineering and other career options that are of interest to you. 2. For the curricular aspect of the Career Path, you must choose a set of elective courses. Elective courses fall under different categories. The different categories on the electronic worksheet include: Science, Math, Engineering, Social Science and Humanities, Free Electives, and Career Path. Broadly speaking, it is the sum of all the elective courses that make up the Career Path. 3. The “Career Path” category offers more flexibility than other CPG categories. This is important especially for students who pursue dual curricula or have a well-defined career goal. For example, premed students may select requirements such as organic chemistry as fulfilling science electives in the career path. 4. To formulate your Career Path you need to give some thought about what you are trying to get out of your program. Then select the courses on some rational, non-random basis so that you have the sense that they are leading you somewhere or helping you to explore academic fields and opportunities.
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