Pacific School of Religion

The GTU registration process requires that students who wish to enroll in restricted* courses contact the instructor to obtain a course personal identification number (PIN) or their permission or to enroll. For most faculty members, e-mail is the preferred method of contact and is especially useful for adjunct faculty who may not yet be on campus or have a campus mailbox. Instructor e-mail addresses, if known, are available through the online GTU Master Course Schedule. Hover over the instructor's name to view the email address at the bottom of your screen, or click on the instructor's name to send him or her an e-mail. If the instructor's name is not an activated link, call the school to which the instructor belongs for contact information or use regular or campus mail.

For example, from the online GTU Master Course Schedule excerpted below, click on "Bieler (PSR)" to send Professor Bieler an e-mail.

These email messages should be brief (no more than a few sentences) and complete. Be sensitive to the faculty who will be receiving these e-mail messages, and be sure to include the following five items:

1. "Restricted Course Request: (Course number), (Course name), (Term/Year)" in the subject line. This allows faculty to use their e-mail filtering programs to quickly process all requests.
2. Three pieces of personal information: your name, home phone, and e-mail address.
3. Three pieces of academic information:
   1. School of affiliation (Common MAs should include GTU and the school of affiliation — for example "GTU/PSR").
   2. Degree program/s. If you're not in a degree program, state if you are an "auditor" or "special student."
   3. Year in the program/s.
4. Your reasons for wanting to take the course: please briefly include relevant previous coursework and/or experience, as well as any special interests and/or needs for taking the course. If the instructor has given a specific kind of restriction (e.g., "must have taken basic Greek course"), be sure that you have shown how you meet the requirement ("took BS 1006 in Fall 2004").

Failure to include any of these items may result in not being admitted to the class or being given a lower priority when it comes to deciding who is and is not admitted to the course. Instructors may reply to you immediately, either granting or denying a place in their class, or they may delay making a decision until they have received all the requests from interested students. Some faculty may be holding places open during Early Registration for incoming students, and may release the "extra seats" once the exact number of incoming students is known.

Enrolling in a Restricted* Class through WebAdvisor

Once an instructor responds to you with a PIN, submit the PIN by entering it in the "Get Permission to Register for Restricted Courses" screen in your WebAdvisor main menu. Make sure your PIN is entered in this menu before adding or registering for a restricted* course through the Registration menu.

Enrolling in a Restricted* Class without WebAdvisor

If WebAdvisor registration is closed, you may still make changes up to the tenth week of classes by submitting the instructor's approval to the PSR Registrar. You may submit this approval through either e-mail or through a Change in Enrollment form.

1. E-mail:
   • Forward the email with the instructor approval to the PSR Registrar at registrar[at]psr[dot]edu. OR
   • Print out the email with the instructor approval and submit it to the PSR Registrar
2. Change in Enrollment form:
   • Submit a Change in Enrollment form with the instructor’s signature to the PSR Registrar.

You will not be officially enrolled in the class until the PSR Registrar receives this approval. Note that enrollments after the second week of classes will incur a per change fee for that year.

*Restricted courses (a.k.a. "limited enrollment") have at least one of the following phrases in its course description: "max enrollment" or "max # of students"; "faculty written permission required"; "interview prior to registration deadline." Note that "Auditors with the permission of faculty" applies to auditors only; no PIN required (auditors are screened manually).