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This is a registration guide for International Exchange Incoming Students. You will find helpful instruction pages and dates to complete your registration.

For Prerequisite Errors, you may scroll down to Registering for Courses with Prerequisites

If you have any questions, feel free to email RegistrarExchange@uwf.edu.

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titleImportant Dates

Fall 2022 Dates 2025 Dates (also found in our Academic Calendar):

11 2022 22 2022 22 2022 28 2022 22 2022 28 2022November 14 2022 3 2022 5 2022 10 2022
Registration StartsApril
14,
2025
First Day of ClassesAugust
25,
2025

Drop/Add Period

August
25,
2025 - August
31,
2025
Late Registration BeginsAugust
25,
2025
Fee Payment DeadlineAugust
31,
2025
Withdrawal Deadline
September 21,
2025
Last Day of ClassesDecember
13,
2025
Final Exam DatesDecember
8,
2025 - December
13,
2025
Grades PostedDecember 19, 2025
Transcripts Printed (will be mailed to Home School)January 15, 2026



Spring 2025 Dates (also found in our Academic Calendar):

Registration StartsNovember 4, 2024
First Day of ClassesJanuary 8, 2025

Drop/Add Period

January 8, 2025 - January 14, 2025
Late Registration BeginsJanuary 8, 2025
Fee Payment DeadlineJanuary 14, 2025
Withdrawal DeadlineApril 7, 2025
Last Day of ClassesMay 3, 2025
Final Exam DatesApril 28, 2025 - May 3, 2025
Grades PostedMay 9, 2025 13, 2022
Transcripts Printed (will be mailed to Home School)December May 20, 20222025

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Preparing for Registration

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Please confer with your academic advisor at your home institution to ensure chosen courses are applicable to your program and level of study. It is also important to register full-time and in the correct number of in-person credits. For more information, review the section Academic Advising & Course Registration in the J-1 Exchange Student Resource Guide.

Here are some steps that you must take before attempting to register for courses:

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titleCourse Campus

When registering for courses, please be aware of the course's Campus location.

locations of courses

International Exchange students may only register for courses on the Main (Pensacola) campus and Online Campus.

Registration for Emerald Coast Campus courses is not acceptable and your course registration will have to be updated.


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titleCourse Attribute

When registering for courses, please be aware of the course's attributes.

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Courses with any "CE" or "Continuing Education" attribute will not have their fees waived as part of the exchange agreement.

It is the student's responsibility to check their Transact account balance to confirm if their classes are eligible for the exchange tuition waiver and to pay any remaining balance not covered by the waiver.


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titleMinimum Allowed Hours

Undergraduate students will have a minimum of 12 credit hours of enrollment while Graduate students will have a minimum of 6 credit hours in order to be considered full-time, exchange students.

The following message will appear when registering:

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This is not an error message but a warning advising students that they may not drop courses if the total amount of credit hours drops below the minimum.

If you wish to switch courses, you may select to drop a class and add a class at once when submitting your changes to your schedule in the Registration Menu application.

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titleRegistration Errors

It is common for International Exchange students to encounter Prerequisite Errors when attempting to register for higher-level courses. For Prerequisite errors, please follow the steps under Registering for Courses with Prerequisites at the bottom of this page.

Campus Restrictions Errors cannot be overridden as they are indicate that the class is for Online-only UWF Students and/or Department-specific UWF Students.

Closed Section Errors mean that the section(s) you are trying to register for is full. You may enroll on the Waitlist so you may be notified when a space becomes available.

Department / Program Restriction Errors mean that the course/section you are attempting to register for is restricted to students in a particular UWF department.

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titleClick here for Steps on Registering for Courses with Prerequisites

Step 1 - Look up College and Department

  1. Use the Course Search application on MyUWF and look up one of your courses.
  2. Select the underlined course title
  3. A pop-up titled “Class Details for…” should appear.
  4. Click on the “Catalog” tab at the bottom

In the “Catalog” tab, you should see the College and Department that owns the course. Repeat this with each of your courses. You may use the following image as a guide.

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Step 2 - Department Contacts

Now that you have collected each course’s department and college, you may email them to review your transcripts and provide you with an override for your course. You will have to email each Department Chair individually if your course is owned by:

  • College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CASSH),
  • College of Education and Professional Studies (CEPS),
  • Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering, and/or the
  • Usha Kundu, MD College of Health

    the departments based on the College they are housed in.

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    Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business course pre-requisite override form, click here. This form must be submitted for Colege of Business Course Override requests. Please complete this form ONLY FOR College of Business courses. You must be signed in to your uwf.edu email account to complete the form. If you have any issues with uploading the transcript, please send them to agreen2@uwf.edu

    Your main point of contact for College of Business courses will be Dr.

    Nestor Arguea (narguea@uwf

    Alison Green (agreen2@uwf.edu),

    Associate

    Professor and College of Business International Program

    Director

    Liaison. You may skip to Step

    3 unless

    UNLESS you have other courses with prerequisites from other departments.

    If your course is owned by any of the Colleges below, you will have to email the Department Chair:

    • College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CASSH),
    • School of Education,
    • Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering, and/or the
    • Usha Kundu, MD College of Health.

    If you have multiple department chairs to email, please email them separately.

    To view each Department Chair from all departments, you may visit the Administrative Units webpage.

    From here, you may select the College that owns the course and see who the Chairperson/Department Chair is for the Department that owns the course.

    There are two ways of looking up their email address:

    1. Visit the Department’s webpage and look at their “Faculty” site, usually found on the right side of the webpage under “In this section.”
    2. Access the Campus Directory application on MyUWF and search the Department Chair’s name in the search bar. You may also select the “Departments” tab, select the department, and find the Chairperson’s information there.

    Step 3 - Email the Departments

    Once you have each contact for your course(s), it is time you email them regarding your prerequisite errors. If you have multiple department chairs to email, please email them separately.

    You may use the following template for your email(s):

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    Good day,

    I am an Incoming International Exchange Student who is interested in taking courses here at UWF but I have a prerequisite error that is preventing my registration. The Registrar’s Office at UWF instructed me to email you.

    I am including my transcripts and the course(s). Would I qualify for a prerequisite override?

    Thank you so much for your assistance.

    Feel free to modify this email template as you see fit.

    Please include the following in your email(s) to the department(s):

    • Your UWF ID
    • A copy of your transcripts
    • A list of courses with:
      • Course Subject & Number (ex. STA2023, ENC1102, etc.)
      • 5-digit Course Reference Number (CRN)

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