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Course Meeting Patterns<\/h4>
Effective Spring 2017, courses meeting on the Charles River Campus adhere to standardized meeting patterns, depicted below.<\/p>\n

To request an exception from these standardized patterns, a non-standard meeting pattern may be pursued by submitting a thorough form for review by the University Registrar and University Provost’s Office. For more information, please review the form here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Reuse of Course Numbers<\/h4>
A course number may not be re-assigned to another course having different content until at least five years after the previous course was taught. If no such number is available, the registrar may give permission to reassign the number that has not been used for the longest time. This is to prevent the same course number from appearing twice on a student’s record representing two different courses. Minor editorial changes in title or description do not constitute re-assignment of a course number. “Topics” and other such courses that may be repeated for credit with a change in topic are not subject to this requirement. In order to assure compliance, the Office of the University Registrar will manage the data entry of course inventory information in the University Information System.
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Enrollment Restrictions<\/h4>
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Closing a Section<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

By closing a section, students are prevented from registering for a class section using WebReg on the\u00a0Student Link<\/a>\u00a0or in person without written approval from the instructor or department. Scheduling administrators may close a section\u00a0in UIS by changing the CC21 “Status” from ACTV to CLOS at any point in the scheduling cycle. To re-open a closed section, similarly replace CLOS with ACTV in CC21.<\/p>\n