Registration Doesn't Have to Be Scary 😱

Registration Tricks (and treats!)

Mark your calendars...Priority 1 registration for Winter 2026 begins next Thursday, October 30, 2025! Make it sweet instead of spooky by following these tricks:

• Use the academic calendar and your UW credit standing to double-check your individual registration date.
• Check your MyUW account for any registration holds.
• Use MyPlan or the time schedule to search for course offerings. 
• Use Register.UW to fill out your pre-registration questions before registration begins and add courses to your schedule. Learn more here. 
• Practice running your audit so you can double-check that courses are applying to the expected graduation requirements after you register for them.

Always make sure you see the green box above that says "Registration Successful" after you register. This indicates all courses have been added to your plan. If you do not see this checkmark, you have not been added to the courses you sent to your registration screen, and must resolve the listed issues and send your courses through registration again.

ASIAN 223 A: Buddhist Literature

5 A&H/SSc

Introduction to Buddhist literature in India, China, and Japan including biographies, poetry, narratives, ritual manuals, doctrinal treatises, and historical accounts. Focus includes issues of textual composition, transmission, authorship, audience, context, and function.

CHID 480 C/

FRENCH 470 A:

Cinema

5 SSci

Experience the evolution of French cinema—from its pioneering early films to today’s most influential directors. Discover major works, styles, and cultural moments that shaped global film history. This course has no French language prerequisites.

GERMAN 285A/ GLITS 252E

CHID 250 B:

Medieval Monsters

5 SSci, DIV

From dog-headed saints to unicorns and werewolves, this course examines how premodern cultures imagined monsters to reshape and reflect society's fears and values. Students will read from short stories, history texts, and epics.

ITAL 357*: Race in Italy

5 A&H, DIV

Changing Italian and European ideas of race and otherness in literary and visual representations (1300-1700), from medieval stories about Jews to 17th-century paintings, religion as race, language and nationalism, travel literature, costume history, ethnography, and the "black" Africans presence in Renaissance Europe. *This course will replace ITAL 260. Link will be updated soon.

MELC 335 A: Language Conflict & Identity in the Middle East & North Africa

5 SSc/A&H, DIV

Explore how language influences identity, power, and culture across the Middle East and North Africa. This course examines how colonial and post-colonial language policies shape national and ethnic identities, and how language is used for resistance, adaptation, and self-expression in times of social change.

POLISH 325A/ GLITS 252 B/ SLAVIC 200 A: Science Fiction in Eastern Europe

5 A&H

This course investigates different key science fiction works across Eastern Europe. Students taking this course will gain an insight into main authors and texts, as well as strengthen their critical thinking, literary analysis skills, understanding of genre theory, and cross- cultural awareness.

PORT 105 A:

Intermediate Portugese

World Language*

Introduction to Portuguese for Spanish and other Romance language speakers. Students will develop speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, while also learning about history and culture. *Satisfies world language requirement in combination with PORT 201.

TXTDS 267A/ ASIAN 207C: Data Science and the Humanities in Asian Context

5 A&H

Explore how data science brings new insights to Asian literature, language, and culture. Connect technology with the humanities to understand how data shapes meaning and society.

SCAND 316 A:

Child & School in Scandinavia

5 A&H/SSc

Discover how childhood, education, and society intersect in Scandinavia. Explore cultural and historical perspectives on youth, schooling, and the Nordic welfare state—with a special look at Finnish education.