1. According to Article 13 of the NTNU Academic Regulations, first- to third-year undergraduate students must take at least 16 credits per semester, with a maximum of 27 credits. Fourth-year students are required to take between 9 and 27 credits. Students who extend their study period must take at least one course each semester. However, those who obtain approval from their department chair under special circumstances are exempt from this requirement.
2. During Stage 1 course selection, the maximum credits allowed are: 27 credits for minors, double majors, and seniors, 23 credits for other current students. (General PE, General Education, and Teacher Education Program courses are not included in these limits.) During Stage 2 course selection, the maximum is 33 credits. During the add/drop period, there is no system-imposed maximum credit limit. Students who wish to overload must apply according to Article 13 of the NTNU Academic Regulations. They should print their course selection list and obtain approval from their department. Without approval from the department chair, students will be required to reduce their course load to 27 credits (or fewer).
3. For details, please refer to the “Notes for Course Selection.”
Topic 2: Course Registration
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What are the rules and regulations regarding the maximum and the minimum of credits? How is the Course Selection System set up?
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What are course authorization codes?
1. A course authorization code is generated and printed by the instructor in the Academic Affairs Information System. If a student cannot add a course through the Course Selection System due to special circumstances (e.g., the online quota is full or prerequisites are not met), they may request an authorization code from the instructor. Once approved, the student can use the code to add the course through the system before the add/drop deadline. The issuance, number, and method of distributing authorization codes are determined by each instructor. Students should also pay attention to course quotas and related announcements in the course information.
2. Authorization codes are non-transferable. Courses added with authorization codes cannot be dropped, student may only apply for course withdrawal. -
How do I obtain and use a course authorization code?
1. If a student receive a message such as “Does not meet course enrollment requirements” (e.g., year, major, prerequisites) or “Class is full” when adding a course, they may ask the instructor for an authorization code. Before the add/drop deadline, the student should:
• Log in to the Course Selection System,
• Click “Add Course by Authorization,”
• Enter the code and click “Query,”
• When the course appears, click “Save (Add)” to complete the process. Courses added with authorization codes cannot be dropped, student may only apply for course withdrawal.
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Are there limits on the number of authorization codes instructors can issue?
1. The default allocation of authorization codes is as follows:
(1) Courses with a quota of 80 or fewer: 40%
(2) Courses with a quota of more than 80: 10%
(3) Education Program courses: 20%
(4) General PE courses: 10%
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When are authorization codes not applicable to class registration?
Adding courses through an authorization code must still comply with this University’s Academic Regulations as well as the relevant course enrollment rules for general education, pre-service teacher education, general physical education, and common core English courses. Authorization codes cannot be used in some situations, such as:
1. Teacher Education credit limits:
• Students who are unqualified, or who attempt to take more than 12 credits of education courses.
• Before adding Teaching Materials and Methods or Teaching Internship courses, students must have completed at least 12 credits (including the current semester).
• Students enrolled simultaneously in the TEP, Secondary Teacher Education Program, Gifted Education Program, and Elementary Teacher Education Program may not exceed 18 credits per semester.
2. common core English courses prerequisites: students do not meet the prerequisites for the English II and English III courses.
3. General Physical Education restrictions:
• Only one general physical education course is permitted per semester; authorization codes cannot be used to add a second course.
• Exceptions: students who failed a general physical education course in the previous semester and need to make up for the course, and seniors (including those with extended study) who have not yet fulfilled the graduation requirement, may add a second course during the add/drop period. Authorization codes, however, cannot be used to add a third general physical education course.
4. Graduate-level courses: Only juniors and seniors may enroll in master’s-level courses. Freshmen and sophomores may not use authorization codes to add them.
5. Graduate credit limits: graduate students who have already taken 18 credits may not use authorization codes to exceed the credit limit.
6. Authorization codes cannot be used to enroll in courses that conflict in schedule with already-registered courses.
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What if I obtained a course authorization code, but forget to enroll in the course online?
Course authorization codes can only be used during the add/drop period. After this period, authorization codes will become invalid and will not be reissued for any reason.
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What if I lose my course authorization code?
Please contact the instructor to obtain the code again, and make sure to enroll online during the add/drop period. If you encounter any problems, please contact the Curriculum Division at (02)7749-1114.
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What are the guidelines for Education course enrollment?
1. Only students who are qualified for the Education course track may enroll in Education courses. Authorization codes cannot override these restrictions. For more information, please contact the "School of Teacher Education."
2. During Stage 1 course selection, students may rank courses in order of preference, and the system will randomly assign students to each course.
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What are the guidelines for credit program courses enrollment?
1. If a course is restricted to students enrolled in a specific program, only those who meet the program requirements may enroll in the course.
2. If a course is not restricted to students in a specific program, it is open to all students. However, students enrolled in the program will have a higher priority in course allocation.
3. If an undergraduate course does not allow enrollment by graduate students, graduate students may only enroll during the add/drop period.
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How does the course distribution system work?
1. General distribution: Students with a higher completion rate of the previous semester’s end-of-course evaluation surveys will receive priority. If completion rates are the same, seniors will be prioritized. (Note: Cross program courses that are jointly offered do not have priority ranking for seniors. For example, for jointly offered master’s courses and jointly offered master’s and doctoral courses, students are placed in the order of their response rate in the course opinion surveys)
Notice:
• “Fourth-year students” include those in their fourth year or beyond.
• The “completion rate of course evaluations” is calculated as (number of completed surveys ÷ number of enrolled courses) × 100%. For example, if a student enrolled in 10 courses and completed 9 evaluations by the deadline, the completion rate is 90%. (Withdrawn and excused courses are automatically counted as completed.)
2. Priority for professional courses: Priority is given to students in the major. For courses restricted to a certain group (e.g., department students or minors), the priority order is as follows:
Department students → Double majors (including interdisciplinary bachelor’s program students) → Publicly funded teacher education students → Department minors → Interdisciplinary program students → Preparatory students → Students from other departments.
3. General Education distribution principles:
(1) The placement order follows the same general distribution rules.
(2) In the first semester, 15% of the quota in each General Education course is reserved for new students.
(3) During Stage 1 course selection, students may list up to 10 General Education course preferences. During Stages 1 and 2, if a student has already reached the maximum credits in a GE field (including the current semester), that field will no longer be distributed to the student; however, they may still add such courses during the add/drop period.
(4) Credit limits: Students admitted before the 2019 academic year may take up to 6 credits per GE domain. Students admitted in 2020 or later may take up to 8 credits per domain in Liberal Arts and a maximum of 10 credits in the domain of Interdisciplinary Exploration.
4. Courses in the NTU System:
(1) “NTU System courses” refers to inter-university courses offered by National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
(2) Placement in NTU System General Education courses (those marked “Gen. Edu.” in the Req./Sel. column) follows the same rules as NTNU’s General Education distribution. Courses marked “Sel.” are electives only and will not be recognized as General Education courses. The system does not reserve General Education quotas for new students.
(3) If demand exceeds quota, students are placed in the following order: Double majors in the department of the NTU System school → Minors in the department of the NTU System school → Regular students.
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What if a class does not meet the minimum number of students required?
1. For details, please refer to the “National Taiwan Normal University Minimum Enrollment Standards for Department and Graduate Institute Courses.”
2. If a course is canceled due to insufficient enrollment, the system will automatically remove all students from the class. If this causes a student’s total credits to fall below the semester minimum, their department will assist them in enrolling in other courses to meet the requirement. -
I am a sophomore (or above), why I am unable to enroll courses during the first phase of course enrollment?
If students who did not pass half of the courses that they took in the last semester, students are required to fill out a “course selection record form” obtaining the approval from their advisers and then submit the form to the Office of Academic Affairs (academic counseling forms can be obtained from each department after the beginning of the semester). Once students who did not submit the course selection record form to the office of academic affairs, the authority of the first phase of enrollment to the student will be limited.
