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When is My Registration Time?

I Have a Hold on My Account

Log in to your My Bama account
- Search “Holds.”
  - Advising Pin means you need to come to see your advisor to be advised.
  - Other holds will often have a phone number you need to call for information.

Depth Study Requirement Curriculum

You are required to take nine credit hours of Humanities/Literature/Fine Arts (HU/L/FA) and nine credit hours of History/Social Behavior Science (HI/SB).

The depth study requires you to take six of these eighteen credit hours from the same subject (i.e., Economics, Communications) and the same category (HU/L/FA or HI/SB).

For example:

You could take COM 100 (Humanities) and COM 123 (Humanities) to satisfy your depth study because they makeup six credit hours from the same subject (COM) and the same category (Humanities).

You CANNOT take COM 101 (Social Behavior) and COM 123 (Humanities) to complete your depth study because even though they are in the same subject but from different categories (HI/SB).

Prerequisite Rule

You must earn a C– or higher in ALL courses that are a prerequisite to another course.

Grade Replacement/Forgiveness

The University of Alabama does not practice grade replacement/forgiveness. Each attempt at a course counts towards your GPA.

Request to Take Additional Hours

Engineering students who are requesting to register for over 18 hours must meet the qualifications below. Submitting your information through this link does not guarantee approval.

You must have a 3.0 UA GPA to take over 18 hours.
A senior who is on academic warning may enroll for a maximum of 18 credit hours during the semester in which he or she will complete degree requirements.
A senior who is not on academic warning may enroll for a maximum of 21 credit hours during the semester in which he or she will complete degree requirements.
The maximum load for which an entering freshman or transfer student may register during the first term at The University of Alabama is 18 hours.
Students may not register for more than 4 credit hours during the Winter Interim session of the spring semester.

Extra Hours Request Form

Campus Codes

There are many campus codes, but you are likely only to see four; MA, OLM, OL, and EC.

ANT– Anthropology (Example Only)
CRN	Subj	Crse	Sec	Cmp	Inst Method	Title	Instructor	Date	Location	Attribute
11111	ANT	102	009	MA	Face-to-Face	Intro to Cultural Anthropology	Professor	01/08- 04/24	TH 353	Social and Behav- ioral Sciences
11112	ANT	102	901	OLM	Internet	Intro to Cultural Anthropology	Professor	01/08- 04/24	ONLINE	Social and Behav- ioral Sciences
11113	ANT	102	600	EC	Internet	Intro to Cultural Anthropology	Professor	01/08- 04/24	ONLINE	Social and Behav- ioral Sciences
11114	ANT	102	901	OL	Internet	Intro to Cultural Anthropology	Professor	01/08- 04/24	ONLINE	Social and Behav- ioral Sciences

MA—Main Campus Students
OLM—Online Courses for Main Campus Students
OL—Students in the Online Program (Bama by Distance)
EC—Early College (Dual Enrollment for High School Students)

You can only take MA and OLM sections.

I Got an Error When I Tried to Register for a Course

If it is a prerequisite error, go to catalog and look up the course’s prerequisites.
- Banner might not read the exception if you had a petition approved for a course.
If it is a Program Restriction error: you are trying to register for a course in another program (Campus Code).
Please email your advisor and copy and paste the course information and include a screenshot for of the error.

11111	ANT	102	009	MA	Face-to-Face	Intro to Cultural Anthropology	Professor	01/08-04/24	TH 353

Take a screenshot of the error message and include it in an email to your advisor.

Using “Advanced Search” to Look Up Courses

When you look up courses, you have the option to use the “Advanced Search”.

Key Search Features:

Subject: Select the subject(s) you want to search. This could be all of the ME Courses or Every Subject.

Campus: Remember, you can only take the Main Campus and Online Main Campus Student courses.

Part of Term: Full Term, Fall II, Spring II, or Winter Interim.

Attribute Type: You can search for electives by type: Fine Arts, Humanities, History, etc.

Example: You need to take an HU/FA/L (Humanities / Fine Arts / Literature) elective, but you want to take it online. You can go to the ADVANCED SEARCH feature, select all the SUBJECTS, go to CAMPUS to select Online Main Campus Student, and then go to ATTRIBUTE TYPE and control/command-click the HU/FA/L categories. This will show you every course offered that meets all the criteria you selected.

CRN	Subj	Crse	Sec	Cmp	Inst Method	Title	Instructor	Date	Location	Attribute
11111	ARH	151	900	OLM	Internet	Intro to Visual Arts	Professor	08/19 – 12/04	ONLINE	Fine Arts

Special Programs

Honors College: Permit for a UH Class or Withdraw from Honors College

Pre Health – Add or Remove a Track from DegreeWorks

Permits

A permit allows you to register for a course, but you may be dropped from a course if your transcript is not received and processed the Thursday before the first day of class.