Step 3 - Build Your Course Schedule
How to build a conflict-free schedule
You are now ready to build your personal course schedule. You are encouraged to do this well in advance of your registration start time. This will allow you to complete your registration much more quickly and give you the best chance of getting into the courses and sections of courses that you want.
Some Basics about Course Scheduling
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The online Course Timetable lists the courses scheduled for this academic year.
- Some courses are 6-credit, full-year courses (September to April) and most are 3-credit courses offered in the first term or the second term. Music and Human Kinetics also have 1.5-credit courses in their programs.
- All courses have 150 minutes of classes per week, some in two 75-minute timeblocks, some in three 50-minute timeblocks, and a few in one 150-minute timeblock.
- You will register in all of your courses for this academic year: first-term, second-term, and full-year courses.
- Some courses have two or more sections. Sections are unique instances of courses that are identical except that they may be offered in different timeblocks and often with a different professor. You can choose whichever section will fit your schedule.
- The section of a course is denoted by two digits following the colon after the course number, and each section of a course also has a unique course reference number or CRN.
- Some courses have lectures and labs associated with them. If a course has a lab section, you MUST register in it as well as in the lecture section at the same time. If you forget to include a lab section when you try to register for the lecture section, you will get a Co-requisite Error and will not be enrolled in the course.
Mapping out your class schedule
Your objective is to find sections of courses that fit into your schedule and do not conflict with the sections of other courses in which you want to register. Here's how...
Use the timetable blocks for each term to build your schedule.
These are included in your Registration Worksheets resource.
Check the Course Timetable to determine when each of your desired courses is offered.
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Start with the courses that are most important to you.
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On the Course Timetable, click on the appropriate academic subject for each of your desired courses.
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Take note of the timeblocks associated with the particular section of the course in which you wish to register and check it against your worksheet to make sure it will not conflict with any other courses you may have already selected. If the course has a lab component, do the same to ensure that both the lecture and the lab sections fit.
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You need to do this for both the first and second terms (and remember to write full-year courses on both term worksheets).
Once you find a section that fits, enter the subject, course number, section number, and CRN into the applicable timeblocks on your worksheet.
Repeat this step for any other course in that subject in which you want to register.
Once you've finished with a subject, close its tab or window and select the next subject.
Continue this process until you have built your schedule to accommodate all of the courses you want.
You will normally register for 30 credits of courses for the year (5 courses in each term).
Registration Help Centre
By Email Only: nsr@stfx.ca
The registration help centre will be in operation and will respond to email from June 10 through August 30.
Hours of Operation are Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 4:00 pm Atlantic Time
For registration issues after August 30, please email the registrar's office: @email
Please include your full name and Student ID number in all correspondence.
