<p>Hey guys, I am going to be a freshman next year and I'm completely lost. I've used the class search thing online, and honestly everything is so vague that I have no idea if I'm even allowed to take most of those classes.</p>
<p>Could someone please help me out with this registration thing? How do I find the right classes?</p>
<p>Also, my Gibson page says that I'm allowed to start registering at midnight on the 25th; does that mean that I should get my course plans figured out ahead of time so that I can register at midnight, rather than waiting for my advisor?</p>
<p>OK, a few questions there. First, seeing what the course is about and the pre-reqs. Let’s say you are searching chemistry classes. So you make sure it says Fall 2011 in the upper right hand corner, highlight chemistry in the course subject area, then if there are no other restrictions click on “submit search”. The chem courses will come up. Click on Organic Chemistry2410-01 as an example, the hyperlinked blue course designation. That will open a window that shows you the description of the course and the pre-reqs and co-reqs right there. Another example is French. Go back to the search tab, click on French, then click on “submit search”. Then go to the results tab if it doesn’t automatically take you there, and scroll down to French 3150-01 and click on the course designation again. You will see that French 203 is a pre-req or co-reg. If you go back to the course listings and scroll up to French 203 (called French 2030, who knows why they add that last digit these days) and click on that course designation, you will see that French 102 was a pre-req for that, so on and so forth. If you click on a course designation and it says nothing about pre-reqs, co-reqs, or instructor’s permission required, then it is open to all.</p>
<p>As far as planning out a schedule before seeing your advisor, I would say absolutely it helps. Better to register for what you think you want and then make changes if needed later than wait and get shut out of something you might have gotten into otherwise.</p>
<p>Hope that helped.</p>
<p>That was very helpful, thanks Fallen. One last question though, what is a prerequisite? Does it mean that I have to have taken x courses before taking this particular one?</p>
<p>Yes, it means you either have to have taken, for example, Calc 1 before they let you take Calc 2, or have satisfied the requirement for that pre-req by testing out of it, getting a waiver from the prof, or showing that you took the course somewhere else that satisfies Tulane as an equivalent. The last usually means another accredited university, but Tulane can refuse to accept the credit even if it was at another university if they feel, for some reason, it wasn’t an equivalent course. Anyway, that doesn’t really apply here most likely. For you I assume the likely scenarios are that you took the AP course and passed out of the pre-req, or you will take the pre-req at Tulane first.</p>