Registration Error Messages will appear in the top right corner of the Registration window if the transaction cannot be processed. Explanations of each error message are defined below.
Class Restriction
Only students in a particular set of classifications may register. This means that if a course requires junior standing, and your classification after successful completion of the current term will only place you at sophomore standing, you may not register without obtaining a “Class Override" from the department.
Students may determine their "
Class for Registration Purposes" by clicking "Check Your Registration Status" within Registration Tools in NOVASIS.
College/Department Restriction
Only students in a particular college or department, as designated, may register. For example, if you are currently in the College of Arts and Sciences and wish to register for a specific engineering course restricted to students in the College of Engineering, you will need a "College Override" from the College of Engineering.
Students can determine which courses carry a College restriction by reviewing the
Class Details when searching for courses.
Registration Error Received
Explanations for the below registration errors:
- Department restriction - Only students pursuing majors and minors in a particular department may register for this course.
- Duplicate Course - You may only register for a single section of a course.
- Major Restriction - The course is reserved for a certain set of majors. You may receive this error if you have not yet declared your major, or you have a different major than required by the course. Contact the course department for assistance.
- Pre-requisite error - You do not currently meet the requirements of the course; prerequisites may be found in the course catalog. Often courses have pre-requisites, such as successful completion of Calculus I in order to register for Calculus II.
- Co-requisite error - Often courses have corequisites and these may be found in the course catalog. NOTE: You must add all corequiste courses to your registration in order to successfully register. You will receive an error message if you attempt to register for only one of the corequisite sections. The error message will indicate which correquisite is missing.
- Time Conflict - The class times for two courses overlap or are at the same time (you can’t be in two places at once).
- Approval error – The course requires special approval from a specific party in order to register. The error message should indicate whose approval should be sought.
- Attribute error – The course is limited to students with a specific student attribute. You may not register without obtaining an “Attribute Override" from the department.
- Capacity error – There are no available seats in this course. You may not register without obtaining a “Capacity Override" from the department. Note that capacity overrides are often impossible if there is not a classroom available that can accommodate the overload.
- Repeat error – This course has already been completed and is not eligible to be repeated for credit.
- Reserve Closed - Departments can set aside a certain number of seats reserved for a specific population of students including, but not limited to, major, college, cohort, or classification on a course. If you receive a "Reserved Closed" error, that means that there are only reserved seats for the specific population that the department has set aside for left to be filled.