Following directions can speed Drop/Add process j
By Lee Rood
Staff Reporter
Students hoping to slide through general
registration and Drop/Add should come pre
pared and not be afraid to ask questions, said
Ted Pfeifer, director of the Office of Registra
tion and Records.
To go through general registration, which is
today and Friday in the Nebraska Union, stu
dents need to pick up time appointment cards
and check their eligibility for registration at the
main level of the Administration Building.
While checking eligibility, he said, students
could discover they have a block on their
registration or have not been properly admitted
or readmitted — which could hold up their
registration.
After checking eligibility, Pfeifer said, stu
dents should bring their appointment cards,
S25 class registration deposit and plenty of
course options to the Centennial Room in the
Nebraska Union.
Drop/Add, Tuesday through Sept. 5, also is
in the Centennial Room and requires lime
appointment cards from the Administration
Building. Pfeifer said that unless the change in
schedule was initiated by the university, Drop/
Add would cost $5.
Pfeifer said more than 19,000 students al
ready were registered, which was slightly more
than the number registered at this time last
year. He attributed the increase to students
realizing that they had more opportunities when
they registered early.
Although he said he expected 2,000 to 3,000
students to attend Drop/Add each day, Pfeifer
said students should move quickly once they’re
in the door.
“I expect a lot of students, but if you watch
the lines I think you’ll see they move quite
quickly,” he said.
In order to avoid hassles, Pfeifer said, stu
dents going through general registration and
Drop/Add should follow directions, consult the
posted open course list and find university
employees dressed in red smocks when they
need help.
Pfeifer also said it was important for stu
dents to keep copies of all transactions until the
end of the semester when they receive final
grade reports.
Corrections can be made from those copies,
he said.
Both Drop/Add and general registration take
place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tony Schkade, assistant director of registra
tion and records, said students could drop a
full-semester course without the grade being
reported on transcripts until Oct. 19, which is
the last day to change a course Irom or to Pass/
No Pass.
From Oct. 22 to Nov. 16, Schkade said, a
student can drop a full semester course late
with written permission from the instructor and
receive a grade of “W” (withdrawal). Mini
course lists with Pass/No Pass deadlines, with
drawal periods and drop periods will be avail
able the first week of classes.
To find out how much tuition money will be
refunded after dropping a course beyond Sept.
5, students should consult the schedule of classes,
Schkade said.
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Subject matter
is combined I
for classes I
By Kara Wells
Staff Reporter_K
Students enrolled in an introduc- K
lory course in sociology, anthropol
ogy or geography this fall will get the |
impression they’real! taking the same
class.
The subject matter from three j
courses has been combined and will
be offered in separate classes in the |
three departments.
Although students now will not be
able to gel credit for taking introduc
tory courses in each of the three de
partments, no students have com
plained to course coordinator Lynn
White, a professor of sociology at
UNL.
‘‘I don’t think many students real
ize this is a new class,” she said.
White said the courses were com
bined to comply with new general
liberal education requirements set by
the Steering Committee on the Chan- \
cellor’s Committee for General Lib
eral Education.
The new guidelines would require
humanity, sociology and natural sci
ence courses to be multidisciplinary
I and multicultural, while including
I human experience and objectivity.
i nc sociology, amnropoiogy ana
geography departments cooperated to
fulfill the guidelines by offering the
new course. The three departments
share enough common subject matter
so an incorporation will meet the new
requirements, While said.
Jeanne Kay, chairwoman for the
department of geography, said the
three classes would have different
perspectives, but they would give
students much the same information.
“It will be like taking the same
course twice if a student were to take
both Anthropology 100 and Geogra
phy 100,” she said.
White said the new sociology class
would not be much different from
Sociology 153, which was taught last
year.
Sociology 1 (X) is an introductory
course designed to teach students how
humans and society are organized
and how they operate, said Suzanne
Ortega, a sociology instructor. Soci
ology 100 is a revision of Sociology
153, which was dropped, she said.
The three classes will have a
‘‘considerable overlap,’ ’ Ortega said.
The Sociology 100 course will incor
porate material from anthropology
and geography. The new class will
expose students to the anthropologi
cal and geographical perspectives of
sociology, she said.
Students foiget information quickly.
White said, and this class hopefully
will help them learn a new way of
thinking.
“Hopefully the class will give them
a more holistic social perspective,”
she said.
Kay said the new Geography 100
class would replace Geography 150,
which dealt with culture on a global
scale. Geography deals more with
theories on regions, she said, and the
new class will retain that perspective,
but also will include units on cultures
and societies.
Each of the three classes will con
tinue to use different textbooks. White
said, but will use packets of readings
from the other two classes.
