<p>If so, how do we go about getting the needed approval?</p>
<p>Your academic advisor will be the first step. Either at FYSAAC if you’re a freshman/sophomore, or your departmental advisor for your major if you’re an upperclassman.</p>
<p>You can always take the classes, unless it’s a very seat-limited seminar or something. The real question is what sort of credit you’ll receive for it - usually only your advisor can tell you what it’ll count for as far as requirements, etc.</p>
<p>You realize anything w/ 4000 in it is technically a grad class. In engineering at least, it seemed that a lot of the upper-division electives were for both ugrads and grads. You just sign up for them. And as long as you have pre-reqs, it’s fine.</p>
<p>In some departments, Chemistry I believe is one, at least one G4000 level course is a requirement for the major so it would not be unusual for undergraduates to be in that course. Many moons ago I sat as an undergrad in Turro’s graduate Advanced Organic Chemistry course. Sat and a bit lost might be a better phrase-tough course.</p>
<p>The directory of classes also mentions which 4000 level courses are open to undergrads (usually listed in the area where it states which divisions of the university the course is open to). As C’02 said probably most 4000 level courses are open to CC or SEAS students as long as you satisfy the pre-requisites.</p>
<p>Is that only for SEAS though, or does it extend to CC?</p>
<p>The one class I particularly want to take has the label “GRAD ONLY” on Columbia’s Class directory which makes me think that it may make it impossible to register for it (now that we’re pass the deadline I have to do it manually as they say).</p>
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<p>Nick Turro is the man. I actually understood o-chem. He’s a teacher, unlike other professors who think explaining difficult subjects is beneath them and use class as an opportunity to pontificate.</p>
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<p>Certainly applies to grad courses in the natural sciences. FYI, there really can’t be grad school classes “for CC.” Remember, SEAS is actually an undergraduate school and a faculty. CC is just an undergrad school. There’s no CC faculty; there’s just the faculty of arts and sciences.</p>
<p>If you’re talking about non-science graduate seminars, then yes, it’s possible for undergrads to take them. I know a number of people who have done so, but it’s on a case-by-case basis. You need to talk to the professor and get permission from him/her first, then your advisor. It’s probably not a good idea to register for them unless you’ve talked to the professor first. Also, some professors may adjust the course workload for undergrads taking the class. </p>
<p>But I think it might be too late at this point to add any classes whatsoever, mainly because it’s past the add date, but also because if you haven’t been going to this particular class, then it’s likely you’ll have missed out on a lot of information already.</p>