Pre-registration Instructions:

Students pre-register in May for summer and fall and in December for IAP and spring. All continuing students are expected to pre-register online through WebSIS for the upcoming term(s). A student who has not completed pre-registration by the noted deadline on the Registrar's Academic Calendar and registration by the end of the first week of the term will be assessed a late fee. Subjects selected during pre-registration are noted on the student's Registration Form. Changes can be made to the online Registration Form during the first week of classes.

http://web.mit.edu/registrar/reg/instructions

Department of Architecture subject offerings and descriptions are available to help students choose courses. The MIT Subject Listing and Schedule which is updated regularly on the Registrar's Office website, provides information on subjects outside of the Department of Architecture.

Full-time undergraduate MIT students may take subjects for credit at Harvard University, Wellesley College, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) without paying additional tuition. Harvard University also welcomes cross-registration with graduate students. No more than half (49 percent) of the total units for any term may be taken at other institutions. Students who cross-register should not include subjects from other institutions on their MIT Registration forms; there are separate cross-registration forms for each institution with which MIT has a cross-registration program. MIT's deadline for completing cross-registration is Add Date. Students’ MIT academic records will show grades for these subjects. Cross-registered subjects are dropped using the MIT Add/Drop form.

For detailed information about the cross-registration process, visit

http://web.mit.edu/registrar/reg/xreg/index.html

Harvard University

There is a separate Harvard Cross-Registration paper petition form. Both the student and his/her advisor need to sign the petition form. Graduate students may download a PDF version of the Harvard cross-registration petition here:

http://web.mit.edu/registrar/reg/xreg/MITtoHarvard.html

To enroll in a subject at Harvard, all MIT graduate students must cross-register using the new cross-registration petition form available as a PDF. Harvard’s cross-registration deadlines are different from MIT’s; check Harvard’s schedule. Undergraduate students may cross-register for classes at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) or one of Harvard's professional schools through the HASS Academic Office.

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Studios are the only subjects at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) for which students may not register directly. If room allows, GSD will admit one or two MIT graduate students into studio. To be eligible, students must have completed two option design studios at MIT. To apply, students must submit a portfolio and a brief statement of purpose to the administrator for master’s degree programs in the Department of Architecture’s headquarters. The Head of the Department of Architecture will choose students for places in the GSD studios on the basis of this submission (students receive regular Level III credit for the GSD studio). Due to space constraints, GSD will not accept cross-registration for studio in 2011-2012.

Wellesley College

For the purposes of Registration or Add/Drop forms, each one-unit Wellesley subject is equivalent to 12 MIT units. (There are some exceptions for lab subjects.)

Students must complete Wellesley registration at the Wellesley Registrar's Office, Room 334, Green Hall, open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., on the Wellesley campus, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA. To register at Wellesley, students need the yellow copy of their signed MIT Registration form or signed MIT Add/Drop form listing the Wellesley subject(s).

Massachusetts College of Art and Design and SMFA

Undergraduate students are only allowed to register for one subject per term at either the Massachusetts College of Art and Design or the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). All subjects are graded pass/fail and cannot be used to fulfill Institute, department or minor requirements.

Cross-Registration Guidelines for the two art schools and can be found on the Art, Culture and Technology program's website. Forms are available online at this site.

Changing Registration: Adding + Dropping Subjects

http://web.mit.edu/registrar/reg/add-drop.html

Subjects may be added during the first five weeks of the semester prior to Add Date and dropped by Drop Date, which is in the 12th week of the term. Pay close attention to your Status of Registration posted on WebSIS after the second week. Notify the degree administrators if you find errors or have questions.

Changes in registration are made on Add/Drop forms and must be signed by the faculty advisor. Forms are available from the Student Services Center (SSC) or can be downloaded from the Registrar's website. Submit the pink copy of the completed form to Annette Horne-Williams in the headquarters of the Department of Architecture. Submit the signed form to the SSC, Room 11-120.

Registration changes after deadline can only be made by petition. In addition, students are fined for each subject added to registration after the Add Date and for each subject dropped after the Drop Date.

The Department requires that students take the English subject suggested as a result of the EET and continue in the ESL series thereafter to completion. Instruction in areas of English as a Second Language is provided by the Institute. Instructors in ESL will be available for consultation on Registration Day. Generally students who score significantly above 600 (250/computer-based; 100/internet-based) on the TOEFL require minimal work in English language writing skills. Students who score in the low 600s usually require additional help in grammar and writing skills.

Students may not defer registration in any English grammar review subject recommended as a result of the EET. Students must enroll in the English subject recommended as a result of the EET, and must complete the sequence of ESL subjects as follows:

• 21F.224, Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation (ELS)
• 21F.219, Workshop in Written Expression (ELS)

OR

• 21F.219, Workshop in Written Expression (ELS)
• 21F.227, Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture (ELS)

Registration in the advanced level writing for social scientists and architects subject, 21F.227, should be completed prior to Thesis registration.

Required English subjects do not count for unit credit toward any degree in the Department of Architecture; grades received in English subjects do, however, appear on the students' records

Consultation with ESL Instructors

Instructors in English as a Second Language will be available for consultation on September 2, Registration Day. The office numbers and phone extensions of the instructors are as follows:

• Jane Dunphy, Director 14N-312, (617) 253-3069
• Patricia Brennecke 14N-224, (617) 253-2647
• A.C. Kemp 14N-228, (617) 253-4747
• Katie Barker 14N-329C, (617) 452-3030

Failure to complete registration by the end of the second week of the term will result in the loss of student status, and for international students, the loss of their visa status. As determined by the Department Committee on Graduate Students, and consistent with the policy of the MIT Registrar, a Course 4 graduate student who has not registered by the Add Date (end of fifth week) of an academic term will not be permitted to register at all in that term.

The Department will disallow access to departmental space and resources and will cancel that student's departmental employment, if any, after the fifth week of the term. No retroactive academic credit or retroactive payment will be awarded for departmental work done in the term in which the student is barred from registration.