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BSW Advising

The School of Social Work has a dedicated undergraduate academic advisor who is here to help you through the course selection process and beyond. See requirements and deadline information below.

How to Prepare

  • Schedule an appointment with the Social Work advisor
  • Review Degree Audit
  • Review Course Explorer and Undergraduate Academic Catalog to understand General Education and BSW degree requirements;
  • Develop your semester plan of required and potential courses using your schedule generator on UI Self-Service by going to Student Services > Registration > Class Registration > View Schedule Generator
  • Check out the course descriptions
  • Make a list of questions to ask the academic advisor
  • Know where the advising appointment is located
  • Do not meet with an advisor in person if ill.

Requirements

Students are required to meet with the Undergraduate Academic Advisor every semester to discuss course selection before they are allowed to register for classes.

Appointments can be made at any time, though course planning appointments must be made after the class schedule for the next semester has been released.

Important Deadlines

Full Semester Courses

  • Last day to add – 10th day of instruction (January 29th)
  • Deadline to Drop a course, Elect Credit/No Credit, or Request a Grade Replacement – Mid-point of the course  (March 8th)

1st Eight Week Courses

  • Last day to add – 5th day of instruction (January 22nd)
  • Deadline to declare Drop a course, Elect Credit/No Credit, or Request a Grade Replacement – Mid-point of the course  (February 9th)

2nd Eight Week Courses

  • Last day to add – 5th day of instruction (March 22nd)
  • Deadline to declare Drop a course, Elect Credit/No Credit, or Request a Grade Replacement – Mid-point of the course  (April 12th)

Notification for Full Courses

Looking to add a course that is currently full? Follow the instructions below to be notified if space in a course becomes available.

  • Go to https://courses.illinois.edu/ and log in. The login link is on the top right-hand side.
  • Navigate to the course that you’re interested in. For example, https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2020/summer/SPAN/130 .
  • In the 3rd column, click on the star. This will add it to your favorites. A small window will pop up and you can access your favorites in my.courses. You can also click on “My Favorites” which is an orange box toward the right-hand part of the screen.
  • The second column on this screen “Notify Me” has a checkbox you can click to be notified via e-mail if someone drops the course and space opens up.
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