pre-departure & important tips
Here is everything that I think is useful for a student studying abroad, both pre-departure and during your stay in Korea.
SNU Course Registration
The SNU Course Registration was extremely confusing for me and is much different than how UH's STAR system works. Towards the end of July, we received an email regarding Course Registration from SNU, and this is around when we were able to see all the courses being offered at SNU. SNU registration is located at this website. Here is how I understood the SNU registration process. 0. Looking for classes/saving interest: Once you login to the course registration system, looking for classes is pretty straight forward. Because of the Freeman Scholarship, I am required to take a minimum of 3 business courses, so those are the classes I prioritized looking for. On the top search bar, I clicked the button with three lines, Advanced Search (Past Semester) More, and clicked English lecture. In addition, under department, I selected College of Business Administration to only show business courses that are taught in English. However, there are other English business courses that are not in the College of Business Administration, such as economics courses. There was also a Sport Marketing class in the Department of Physical Education. If you find a course that you are interested in, you can save your interest for that course. The star icon represents how many other students are interested in the course (read below to understand why it is important to know how popular a course is). Note: It is helpful to save the syllabi for the courses you are interested in to submit for course petitions. 1. Pre-course Registration: This part of the course registration doesn't matter that much. It is just a practice round to see if you understand how the registration system works. "Registering" for a course during this time does NOT benefit you in any way during the actual course registration, BUT this pre-course registration period is a good way to see how popular a course is. 2. Course Cart Shopping: This part of the registration process is important because you MUST add courses to your course cart if you want to register for them at the beginning of the real course registration date. During this period you can see how many other students have added a course to their course cart as well. At the end of the course cart shopping period, if the number of students who have added a course to their cart is LESS than the number of students allowed in the class, you will automatically be registered for the course (this is unlikely to happen for business courses though). On the other hand, if there are MORE students with a course in their cart than the number of students allowed in the course, you will have to try and register for this course on the real course registration date. 3. The Real Course Registration: On the real course registration date, all students log in at the same time, and the system is extremely slow. I had to be patient and not click anything on my screen, even though it seemed like nothing was loading. I would recommend trying to log onto the website at least 15 minutes before course registration begins. On the real course registration day, the courses you previously added to your course cart will appear under the "course registration" tab. You will register for courses one by one by clicking the check mark by the course, typing in the two digit number, and clicking course registration. This is why it is important to pay attention to how popular a course is and the number of students allowed to enroll in the course. It is best to prioritize registering for the courses with fewer seats and a large number of students who have that course in their cart. Luckily, my internet was good, so I was able to get into all of the courses I had in my course cart. To double check that you have successfully registered for your courses, click on the "course registration list" tab, and this will show all of the courses you have registered for. Course Equivalencies To be honest, I am not sure what the timeline for submitting course petitions at Shidler/UHM should be like. I knew that getting classes at SNU would be competitive, and course registration wasn't until August 17th... I ended up waiting until after course registration to petition courses (This is also partially because I was open to taking any type of business courses, since I am open to majoring in something else in addition to accounting). I probably should've petitioned classes before registration, though. (UPDATE: It would be smart to start emailing in your petitions once the courses for the semester are posted. It doesn't hurt to petition courses that you are not 100% sure about taking. There is a possibility that you may not get a course you want and have to replace it with something on your back-up list. It is better to be registering for classes that you know will transfer back to UH ahead of time. In short, petition as many classes as you are even considering and do it early. That way, you won't end up like me... ) For the business courses I registered for: I started by updating the Preliminary Course Form that I used for my Freeman Scholarship Application found on the Travel Scholarship Page. I also filled out the Program Petition: Current Students form found on the Shidler Website for each of the classes that were not already on the pre-approved course list, which can be found here. I emailed my Preliminary Course Form, Program Petition form (for each class not on the pre-approved list), and syllabi (for each class not on the pre-approved list) to [email protected]. Within a day, they got back to me about the classes I petitioned - a majority of the classes were for BUS367 credits (BUS367 is a major elective course. The letter following the BUS367 indicates what major it can be used for. For example, BUS367K can be used as a marketing elective). For the non-business course I registered for: I checked to see if the course was already on the MIX website. Unfortunately, the exact course that I registered for was not on the MIX website, but there were courses similar to it. Thus, I filled out the MIX learning agreement and course approval form found on the MIX website. The course I was trying to petition was called Modern Korean History and Society, and after doing some research I found a class at UH Manoa called HIST 328: Modern Korean History. I sent the MIX learning agreement form to the History Department Chair for approval. After the History Department Chair signed off on the equivalency, I sent the form to my advisor at Shidler. Once the form is signed by the department chair and your advisor, it is sent back to MIX.
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