How to register for a writing course:

Advance Registration: Each term (fall, spring, and summer) there is a two-week advance registration period during which you will enroll in courses for the upcoming semester. Visit the Academic Calendar for dates of advance registration. Please note that changes to your schedule are not recorded until the close of Advance Registration.

If you miss Advance Registration and are not on any hold, you may register during the Drop/Request period on Penn-in-Touch.

How to register: use the online registration system, Penn-in-Touch. For further information, visit Penn InTouch.

Writing courses fill quickly! If you are unable to get the course you wish, you can continue to visit Penn-in-Touch. There is a fair amount of turnover in courses until the end of the first week of classes.

Writing courses are offered both terms! If you don’t get into a course in the fall, you will be able to enroll in one in the spring.

To add or drop a writing course:

Note: You may only Add/Drop writing and language courses below 200-level until the end of the first full week of classes.

About two weeks after the close of Advance Registration, you may request/add/drop writing courses until the end of the first full week of classes

Things to remember

For Penn InTouch, the preferred registration system, you will need your PennKey

For PARIS, Penn's phone-in registration system, your Personal Access Code (PAC) is initially just your six-digit birthdate. For example, if you were born on May 8, 1972, you would be assigned a PAC of 050872. You are urged to choose a new, secret PAC and record it with the Registrar's Office on the second floor of the Franklin Building. Warning: Many students have had their registration tampered with by an acquaintance who knew both their Social Security number and their birth date.

Penn's class schedule allows ten minutes between classes. Thus, you may schedule courses back-to-back, at 9:00AM and at 10:00AM MWF, for example.

”R” means Thursday. A class labeled TR 9:00AM-10:30AM in the Timetable meets on Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 am to 10:20 am (with ten minutes between classes).

Time Conflict. Do not request courses in time conflict. The system will not schedule you into any courses that meet at overlapping times. In the rare case when there will be a slight overlap between classes, you must receive written permission from the professors of both classes and take the letters to the College Office, 120 Logan Hall.

Permits to Register for Courses. A permit from a department to register for a course does not mean that you are registered for the course! You still have to use Penn InTouch or PARIS to officially register for the course. All unused permits are dropped from the registration system at the end of the registration period.

First-semester freshmen are limited to four courses, a maximum of 4.5 credits. With permission from your faculty advisor, you may add a fifth credit in September.

Always double-check changes to your schedule by looking at the registration screen on Penn In Touch.

You may Request writing courses and language courses below 200-level, you may only Request/Drop until the end of the first full week of classes.)

You may change the grade type of a class (grade or pass/fail) until the end of the drop period, but you must do so via Penn InTouch.