Students on leave, including study abroad students, do not participate in the pre-registration for the subsequent semester. Please, therefore, attend carefully to the following, and conform scrupulously to these procedures.
A. This semester determine in consultation with your faculty adviser which courses and/or seminars you will need or badly want to take during your return semester.
B. For any such courses and/or seminars, do the following: a) Now, see the instructor(s), declare to them your wish to be in their course(s) or seminar(s) during the semester of your return, request to have your name entered on the list for the course(s) and/or seminar(s), and leave a letter with the instructor(s) in which all of this is clearly set forth. b) Mid-next semester, while you are abroad, be in touch - by FAX, e-mail, phone, or real mail - with the same instructor(s), clearly reminding them of your stated wish to be in their course(s) and/or seminar(s). If you send a copy of this message to this office, which you are urged to do, we will re-remind the instructor(s) on your behalf. Please N.B.: This procedure does not guarantee you membership in the course(s) and/or seminar(s) at issue. Normally, however, it will make the probability of membership the same as it would be if you were here next semester to participate in the pre- registration.
C. When you arrive at Swarthmore to begin your return semester, you will formally register for that semester by picking up the appropriate form at the Registrar's Office, reviewing your proposed program of study with your faculty adviser, and following the instructions on the form.
Some of you may also wish to pre-enroll using the Students@Swarthmore website (available through the Registrar's Home Page). Online pre-enrollment is NOT required, it is simply a confirmation of your previous communications with professors. About this, please N.B.: a) For courses and/or seminars that you need or badly want for your return semester, online pre-enrollment does not substitute for (A) and (B) above. b) If you do not have access to the web while abroad, then of course you cannot use it. Please don't worry about that.