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Overview | Cancellation | Class Membership | Course Auditing | Discontinued Classes | Schedule of Classes | Section or Course Changes | Undergraduate Enrollment Limit |
Overview
The university’s online enrollment services system, myUH, provides a convenient option to simplify the enrollment process. For your convenience several opportunities to enroll using the online system are offered each term, including summer sessions. Specific dates, detailed instructions, and a listing of the courses offered each term are included in the UH Self Service Center, also available online after logging in to myUH.
In order to qualify for financial aid students must have an approved change of degree objective posted in their student information system (myUH) prior to the first day of the term in which they are enrolling. Students must be advised by their academic advisor prior to enrollment and to ascertain that they have an approved degree objective posted.
Cancellation
Students may cancel their enrollment after payment by dropping courses through the online enrollment (registration) system at myUH prior to the first day of class each term. Students may also receive assistance through the Office of the University Registrar, 128 Welcome Center.
Students who do so are entitled to a full refund minus a small matriculation fee and are regarded as never having officially enrolled in that term. In the event you are placed on academic suspension, courses for which you have enrolled in any future term will be automatically cancelled - regardless of whether you have paid tuition and fees. Should you be given approval from the dean of your college to enroll, you will be required to re-enroll.
Class Membership
Students may not attend a class unless properly enrolled. Failure to follow proper enrollment (registration) procedures may jeopardize a student’s good standing at the university and result in a loss of credit. Class rosters are comprised solely from the official enrollment records of the Office of the University Registrar. Students whose names do not appear on the official class roster in each of their classes should immediately verify enrollment (registration) by logging into myUH. Students must then log into Student Self Service in order to verify enrollment.
Course Auditing
Approval to audit, or visit, a course is sometimes granted to qualified students by the dean of the college in which the course is offered. Such approval conveys only the privilege of observing and does not include submitting papers, taking tests, or participating in laboratories or field work.
Students may obtain audit application forms from the office of the appropriate dean.
The Bursar’s Office will assess any appropriate fees.
Students wishing to audit may enroll only after late enrollment.
Credit is not given for an audited course, nor may a change to credit status be made after students have enrolled.
Students auditing courses will pay the regular tuition and fees.
Students 65 years of age or older may audit any course offered by the university without payment of a fee if space is available. These students should first obtain audit application forms from the office of the appropriate dean, and then contact the Bursar’s Office, 129 Welcome Center, for a fee waiver application.
Discontinued Classes
The university reserves the right, whenever necessary, to discontinue classes or to alter the schedule otherwise. Should a class be discontinued, students will be notified at the first class meeting, or before, so they may enroll for alternate courses. Students who are enrolled in a discontinued class will be automatically dropped from that course. If they wish to enroll in another section they must go through the official procedure to add the course, whether online or though the department offering the course.
Schedule of Classes
A listing of courses and approved core curriculum for the university may be accessed well in advance of the beginning of each term, including the summer sessions. Information is provided on the Web site at myUH.
Section or Course Changes
Students may make changes to their course schedule only during the dates indicated in the Academicand Enrollment calendars using myUH. After the last day to drop without a grade students may drop or withdraw from a class(es) online by logging in to their myUH account, provided they have not exceeded their limit of 6 Ws (see the 6 W rule).
Undergraduate Enrollment Limit
Enrollment Cap
The Texas State Education Code (54.014, Tuition for Repeated or Excessive Undergraduate Hours) applies only to undergraduate students who are Texas residents paying resident tuition and who enrolled for the first time in a Texas college or university in Fall term 1999 or after.
This code authorizes a limit on the number of hours those students may attempt while paying in-state tuition.
- Students who initially enrolled in or after Fall 1999 and before Fall 2006 are allowed to attempt only the number of hours necessary to complete a degree in their approved major plus 45 hours.
- Students who initially enrolled in or after Fall 2006 are allowed to attempt only the number of hours necessary to complete a degree in their approved major plus 30 hours.
Students who have not chosen a major are considered, by state law, to have degree requirements of 120 hours.
Attempted hours are calculated for courses in which a student is enrolled on the Official Reporting Day (ORD) (typically twelfth class day or fourth class day in summer), not by the courses in which a student receives a grade (passing, failing, or W).
When students to whom this law applies enroll for courses that exceed this limit, state law authorizes the university to charge additional fees up to a maximum of the out-of-state tuition rates.
If you stop attending a class with the intent to drop, be sure you drop on or before the Official Reporting Day (ORD) (typically twelfth class day or fourth class day in summer) or these hours will count toward your in-state tuition limit. See your advisor if you have questions about this policy.
Course Cap
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Rules (under Chapter 13) authorizes institutions to charge out of state tuition for students who enroll in a course for the third or more time.
Students may be charged for semester credit hours or contact hours attempted in any course, other than a non-degree-credit developmental course, containing the same content for a third or more times at their institutions since Fall Term 2002. Attempted hours are calculated for courses in which a student is enrolled on the Official Reporting Day (ORD) (typically twelfth class day or fourth class day in summer), not by the courses in which a student receives a grade (passing, failing, or W). This provision is effective for the Spring 2004 term for credit students and for Third Quarter 2004 for continuing education students.
Semester credit hours or contact hours attempted by students for the following types of coursework are exempt from the provisions of this section:
- thesis and dissertation courses.
- courses that may be repeated for credit because they involve different or more advanced content each time they are taken, including but not limited to, individual music lessons, Workforce Education Course Manual Special Topics courses (when the topic changes), theater practicum, music performance, ensembles, certain physical education and kinesiology courses, and studio art.
- independent study courses.
- special topics and seminar courses.
If you stop attending a class with the intent to drop, be sure you drop on or before the Official Reporting Day (ORD) (typically twelfth class day or fourth class day in summer) or these courses will count towards your two attempts. See your advisor if you have questions about this policy.
