Add/Drop of Non-web-enabled Course
Most of the courses are web-enabled courses which students can add/drop on AIMS. To add/drop courses that are non-web-enabled or to bypass the registration restrictions of web-enabled courses, students may seek the course-offering academic units’ permission via an electronic form on AIMS.
Students can view their application status in the form and receive notification email of the updated course registration record.
Request which is not reflected in the student's schedule or course registration record means the request has not been approved by the academic unit.
Request can be cancelled if it is still in "Pending" status. The cancelled request is irrevocable. Submit a new request to replace the cancelled one if necessary.
The course is not offered in this semester/term.
The course being searched is invalid or not offered in the semester/term.
Application for this course is not allowed. Please check the course information in master class schedule or contact the Course-Offering Department directly.
Some Course-Offering Departments do not accept applications for certain course via the system. Students may approach the Course-Offering Departments for enquiry. For web-enabled courses with registration restrictions, applications are NOT allowed before the last web registration period.
Application for non GE English course is not allowed.
Except GE English courses, GE courses in areas 1-3 and GE1501 Chinese Civilisation are web-enabled without any registration restrictions. Students can register these courses directly during the web registration period.
Please select the course section(s).
Before submitting the application, students should select the correct course section(s) which they intended to add/drop/change section(s).
Missing lecture/tutorial/laboratory/seminar component. Please select a lecture/tutorial/laboratory/seminar section.
For courses with more than one type of component, e.g. Lecture + Tutorial + Laboratory, students should select all the required components of the course.
The selected CRNs are not in the same section group.
When selecting the course section(s) with more than one type of component, all the required components should be in the same section group, e.g. a CA1 lecture has to be selected along with a TA1 or TA2 tutorial.
Duplicated lecture/ tutorial/ laboratory/ seminar sections. Please select one lecture/ tutorial/ laboratory/ seminar only.
When selecting the course section(s), students should select ONE section from each component type, e.g. select 1 lecture section only.
The selected course is web-enabled and cannot be dropped via this function. Please drop the course directly using the web add/drop function.
For registered courses which are web-enabled, students can drop the course directly online without Course-Offering Department's approval.
The selected course section(s) are already registered. Please select the course section(s) you would like to change to.
When changing the course section(s), students should select the target course section(s) that they would like to change.
The registered and the selected course section(s) are web-enabled and cannot be changed via this function. Please change the course section(s) directly using the web add/drop function.
For registered courses which are web-enabled, such as GE English courses, students can change the course section(s) directly online without Course-Offering Department's approval.
Application for this course has already been submitted.
Students cannot submit application of the same course for more than once. However, if the application is still in “Pending” status, students can cancel it and submit an application for the same course again.
Frequently Asked Questions
- In each semester, full-time students must register for courses summing to a total of at least 12 credit units, and for not more than 18 credit units; and part-time students must register for courses summing to a total of no more than 11 credit units. In the Summer Term, students may register for courses but the total load must not exceed seven credit units.
- Your pre-registration schedule is mainly compiled with the essential courses for fulfilling your degree requirements. You may use this as a draft version to further compile your class schedule in accordance with your study plan. However, you are advised to meet your Advisor before making any adjustments to the pre-registration schedule.
- Your pre-registration class schedule may be used as a blueprint for you to build your class schedule according to your curriculum requirements and study plan. When your course grades for the previous semester are released, you might need to make adjustments to your class schedule.
- If the course is web-enabled, simply drop the course through the web. If the course is not web-enabled, please use the electronic form on AIMS [Course Registration > Application for Add/Drop of Non-Web-enabled Course & Study Load Adjustment] and provide reason(s) and supporting document(s), e.g. the approval for credit transfer/excemption obtained, for approval by the course-offering academic unit.
- You can check for the list of courses being offered for the entire academic year from the Master Class Schedule which is accessible from the CityU Portal. Please note that the class schedules are subject to changes prior to the start of the respective semester/term.
- AIMS [Univ Info > Master Class Schedule]. Click Show Gateway Education (GE) Courses ONLY and press Search Class. The master list of Gateway Eduction courses available for the semester will be displayed.
- Students who wish to take a reduced study load in a semester (full-time students less than 12 credits) due to special circumstances may make an application via an electronic form available AIMS [Course Registration > Application for Add/Drop of Non-Web-enabled Course & Study Load Adjustment]. Once you submit an application, it will be forwarded to your home academic unit for consideration.
- Students who wish to increase the study load due to special circumstances may make an application via an electronic form available in AIMS [Course Registration > Application for Add/Drop of Non-Web-enabled Course & Study Load Adjustment]. Once you submit an application, it will be forwarded to your home academic unit for consideration.
- Check if there is any time conflict resulting from the change. If no, you can drop the original tutorial section and add the new tutorial section at the same time when submitting the add/drop request via AIMS.
As the enrolment numbers are real-time dynamic data, several students may be competing for the few remaining seats at the same time. If the capacity of the course section is almost full, students are advised not to attempt to swap into those sections. - This means the registration page is under a large number of accesses during the peak course registration period, especially at the commencement of each time slot. As a measure of network traffic control, it is a standard measure to restrict the number of accesses to the server to maintain the operation of the server. This will result in some users failing to log into AIMS temporarily. Please be patience and try again later.
- You may submit a request for late add/drop of courses for approval by the Head of the course-offering academic units. However, the request will be considered on a case-by-case basis and will not necessarily be approved.
- Please note that late requests for dropping courses after the add/drop deadline must be submitted no later than the end of the teaching period for the relevant semester/term, and approval of such requests will only be granted under exceptional circumstances. For approved late drop of courses, an X grade representing the late drop of the course will be assigned and shown on your academic transcript.
- If you are studying in a programme with tuition fees charged by credit unit basis, tuition fees are chargeable for courses approved for dropping after the end of Week 2 of the semester/term. For details, please refer to the Regulations on Tuition Fees.
- You have to apply for a leave of absence by the end of the course add/drop period of the semester. If your application is approved, you will need to pay a continuation fee during the period of your leave of absence. For details, please visit: Leave of Absence.
- These courses are non-credit bearing and will not contribute to your semester's study load. For the physical education courses, pass grade or "Not Completed" will be recorded in your transcript. For the optional language courses offered by SCOPE, no grade will be recorded in your transcript.
Enquiries
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language.centre@cityu.edu.hk
scope@cityu.edu.hk
sope@cityu.edu.hk
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