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It's that time of year! The leaves are falling, halloween is around the corner and so is Thanksgiving! This must mean that it's time for Spring Registrations!  This blog post is for both online and on-campus program registration.

If you are a matriculated student, at this point you must have all gotten an email from the Registrar's office for Spring 2013 registration, and you might be eager to register, but you cannot yet because you probably have holds, and you probably have not met with your advisor. In this blog you will find out a bit more about the Spring 2013 advising timeline and when things will happen.  As new information is available, this blog post will be updated, so keep it in mind when you have questions :-)  If your questions are not answered by this blog post, please see the following discussion forums where you can post a question (and we will do our best to answer :-)  )

• On-campus students go post your questions here: http://umasslinguistics.com/group/theclassroom/forum/topics/on-campus-spring-2013
• Online students post your questions here: http://umasslinguistics.com/group/theclassroom/forum/topics/online-spring-2013-registration-q-a

PREPARATORY WORK:

Before meeting your with advisor, please log into WISER (http://wiser.umb.edu) and make sure you don't have any holds on your account!  The only hold that we can remove is the "Advising Hold." If you have other holds on your account you need to get those resolved ASAP with the appropriate departments otherwise we will not be able to register you for courses.

Note for new students (on-campus program):

Even though new students will not be registered right away (since you probably have not been admitted yet :-) ) no need to worry. There will be spots available in introductory courses for you!

COURSES:

The tentative list of courses has been posted in the Classroom Group for quite some time :-).  Instructions, as well as days and times of courses (for on-campus courses) will be posted here as they become available.

Online courses

Core courses

• APLING 603: Cross Cultural Perspectives -- (BECKMAN)
• APLING 698: Field Experience -- (KISS)

Concentration Courses

• APLING 611: Methods & Materials in FLL  (Foreign Language Pedagogy & English as a Foreign Language) -- (KISS)
• APLING 618: Teaching ESL: Methods & Materials (ESL/K-12) -- (CARHILL-POZA)

Elective Courses

• APLING 627: Phonetics & Phonemics -- (MIKROS)
• APLING 635: Literacy & Culture -- (NIETO)
• APLING 678: Technology in Language Education -- (COMPTON)

On-Campus Courses

Core Courses

• APLING 601: Linguistics  -- (Tu @ 7pm; ETIENNE)
• APLING 603: Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- (W @ 7pm; LEISTYNA)
• APLING 605: Theories & Principles of Language Teaching (M @ 7pm; CARHILL-POZA)
• APLING 621: Psycholinguistics (W @ 4pm; GOUNARI)
• APLING 623: Sociolinguistics (Tu @ 4pm; MACEDO)
• APLING 698: Practicum (Licensure) (BY ARRG)

Concentration Courses

• APLING 612: Integrating Culture into the Curriculum (Foreign Language Pedagogy & English as a Foreign Language) --  (M @4pm; ETIENNE)
• APLING 618: Methods & Materials in ESL (ESL/K-12 Licensure Track) (Tu @ 4 pm; LEISTYNA)

Elective Courses

• APLING 627: Phonetics & Phonemics (Th @ 4pm; MEYER)
• APLING 635: Literacy & Culture (Th @ 7pm; BARTOLOME)

TIMELINE:

October 26 - November 30: Your advisors will be contacting you via email. Please check both your UMass Boston student email and any emails you've given to us as part of your application process. Your advisor will contact you to setup an appointment to meet with you.  You can meet by phone, by email, by skype, or if you are local you can meet in person! :-)  Be prepared to discuss your goals, and what courses you might be interested in signing up for. In consultation with your advisor you will pick 2 or three courses for next semester. Your advisors will tell us (AK, Evy, Beth) which courses you decided to sign up for and we will sign you up.

Please note that you advisor is not listed on WISER. We keep an internal departmental database to keep advisors and advisees :-)

Student Checklist Item:If you haven't heard from your advisor by November 11 (Monday), please email aplingonline@umb.edu and let us know :-)

December 1 - December 15: During this period of time we will be going through and registering all students for courses. This is true for both online and on-campus students. If you log into WISER and you are not registered for a course yet, don't panic!  By December 7th you will be :-) We will be monitoring this forum to make sure everything's going well and answering questions as they come up. If, for some reason, you aren't registered  December 10-14 will be a catch-up and correction week for registrations.

Student Checklist Item: On December 17th, please check your WISER account to make sure that you are registered for courses, and that you are registered for the courses you and and you advisor agreed upon. If you are not registered for courses, please go into the appropriate Registration Q&A forum. 

December 17 - January 28th: Non-Degree Registration period. If you are a non-degree student, once all currently enrolled students are registered, we will begin processing non-degree registration.  It's important to note that prior to December 17th we will not knowhow many available spots there are in courses :-)

Student Checklist Item: If you are a non-degree student who wishes to register for a Spring 2013 course, please check in on December 17th to see what courses are available. Once you submit registration paperwork, you should be registered within a few days (depending on how busy the registrar's office is :-)  )

December 20 - 23: Book Lists will be posted, for Spring Semester courses, in the Classroom group. Please be patient until then and refrain from emailing us about book lists :-)

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