This article is meant to address some frequent questions I get from Visual Communication students regarding registration.
Student question: How can I determine which general education classes are available online?
General Education Core Course Web Page
First you need to determine the corresponding course numbers for the Gen. Ed. classes you wish to take so you can determine if they are offered online during the semester you need. Fortunately, Nashville State offers a wide selection of online classes for General Education. The following link will take you to the NSCC General Education Core Course web page, http://ww2.nscc.edu/catalog/GenEdCoreCourses.html.
Let’s say you want to take the beginning English Composition course. According to the course rubric, the course number is ENGL 1010 (English Composition I). Now you want to determine if ENGL 1010 is offered during your semester as an online offering.
Information Technology Web Page
Go to the Information Technology page at http://ww2.nscc.edu/it/. You will find the Term and Program fields followed by the Search button in the right column. Enter the term you are interested in and the program your course rubric falls into.
For example, let’s say you want to find out the English Composition I course for the Fall 2011 semester. Select Fall 2011 in the Term field. Since the course rubric for the English Composition I course is ENGL 1010, select ENGL in the Program Field and then select the Search button.
The resulting page will show the following information on each course being offered (Note the offerings are by campus):
CRN, Course, Section, Course Name, Status, Enrolled, Seats Available, Days, Time, Room, Instructor, Session
Since the question was concerned with online courses, we are interested in the CRN, Course, Section, Course Name, and Seats Available fields.
CRN (Course Registration Number) is the number you put into the CRN field when you register online for the course.
Course and Course Name fields will ensure you are selecting the correct course, i.e. ENGL 1010 English Composition I.
Seats Available field indicates how many seats are left in the course. If the number is 0 (zero), the class is full.
Section field indicates when the class is offered according to the following rules for the Main Nashville Campus:
- 100s are daytime on-ground classes
- 300s are evening on-ground classes
- 700s are online classes
- 765 are hybrid classes, i.e. they have both online and physical meeting requirements as defined by the instructor’s syllabus
Since we are looking for an online ENGL 1010 course we are looking for a section with the following numbers, 760, 76Y, 76Z or other 700 number other than 765 which is reserved for hybrid classes.
The Results
For the Fall 2011 class the following options are available as of today (August 2, 2011):
81329 ENGL-1010 760 English Composition I 25 0 82839 ENGL-1010 76T English Composition I 25 0 82663 ENGL-1010 76U English Composition I 25 0 82483 ENGL-1010 76V English Composition I 11 14 82482 ENGL-1010 76W English Composition I 16 9 81839 ENGL-1010 76X English Composition I 7 18 81331 ENGL-1010 76Y English Composition I 7 18 81330 ENGL-1010 76Z English Composition I 16 9
Note that according to the ENGL 1010 online course availability listed above for the Fall 2011 semester, the following CRNs have seats available, 82483, 82482, 81839, 81331, and 81330. Also note that these numbers are always changing during registration. Seats fill up fast. Just because you see 4 seats available for a course now, doesn’t mean they’ll be there tomorrow. Once you see enrollment availability, register immediately for that class and pay asap so you do not loose that registration.
Registering
Follow the steps at http://www.nscc.edu/student-resources/mynscc/ to learn how to register using myNSCC.
Student Question: How do I know which courses I should register for any given semester?
For Visual Communication students the following course information should help guide you.
The following classes are only offered during the Fall Semester:
- COM 1305 Multimedia I–Flash®
- ENGL 2116 Writing for the Web
The following classes are only offered during the Springs Semester:
- COM 1300 Site Building I–Dreamweaver®
- BUS 1050 Legal Issues for the Web
- COM2020 Multimedia Design (formerly Storyboarding & Scriptwriting)
- COM2700 Multimedia and Web Design Capstone
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