Permission and Consent
Course Permission and Consent
Sometimes, you find you need permission or consent to register for a GTECH class. There are five situations where you need a permission.
You haven’t met the course prerequisite. If you are taking the prerequisite course but haven’t received a grade or you have taken a similar course somewhere else, you can request a permission.
The course requires a departmental consent. This often means the course instructor and the program advisor need to verify that you have the necessary background and knowledge to succeed in the course.
The class is full but you need to take the course. With the agreement from the course instructor, we can give you the permission to register a class even when it is full. However, some courses are limited by physical factors like the number of seats and lab computers, for which we cannot give permission once the class reaches its physical capacity.
When undergraduate students want to take graduate courses or graduate students want to take undergraduate courses, a special permission is required. While graduate students may be able to take undergraduate courses with permission, those courses may not be counted towards the graduate degree. So, it is generally not recommended graduate students taking undergraduate courses.
Some courses may be required to be taken together. One can apply for a permission to drop this type of co-registration requirement.
The process of applying for special permission has three steps.
- Acquire the recommendation from the course instructor.
- Get the approval from the program advisor. If you have the recommendation from the instructor, forward that to the advisor. The advisor’s decision could be fully or partially based on the recommendation of the instructor.
- Ask the program advisor or the assistant to the department chair (Ms. Mimoza Frankfurt) to add the permissions in the system.
In some special cases, the program advisor may approve the request without consulting the course instructor.
When initializing the permission request with the instructor, briefly explain your situation and why you are ready to take the course. When emailing the instructor, advisor, and assistant to the chair, always include:
the course number such as GTECH 73200,
your employee ID
one or multiple permissions that you request (registering for a closed class, waiving pre-requisite, acquiring departmental consent, or registering for a course at different level, i.e., graduate/undergraduate)
Once the permission is granted, please use it by registering for the class as soon as possible. In general, we would wait a few days for you to use the permission. After five days, if you haven’t used your permission, we may recycle it with or without your consent, depending on how many new permissions are requested for the class.