Step 5: Find Courses
Please watch this brief video, How to Register Video, to guide you through the registration process. Then follow the steps below.
Go to the Student Home Page at my.esc.edu.
Select the Registration and Course Offerings icon.
Select Begin or Modify Registration.
Enter the Term and click Continue.
Enter Search Criteria on the Find Classes tab.
It is very important to pay attention to search criteria in order to choose courses appropriate for your plan.
- School: School of Undergraduate Studies
- Session: You may choose course in our 8 or 15 week sessions. The 8-week express terms have a more limited selection.
- Subject and Course Number: If you know the specific course you wish to take (ex: SOSC 3010), enter it in these fields. If you are doing a more generalized search (ex: looking for any Art Gen Ed), skip down to the Attribute field.
- Mode of Study: If you prefer your classes to be limited to online, enter that here.
- Attribute: This is the field to use for general education or ed planning searches. You can address multiple requirements. For example, if you need math, art, and basic communication general education courses, select all those options in the Attribute field.
- Select Advanced Search
- Course Number Range: If you need your search limited to advanced level courses, enter 3000 to 4999 as your range.
- Open Sections Only: It makes sense to check this box in order to eliminate courses which have already filled.
- Credit Hour Range: Occasionally, you may want to for courses within a specific credit range (for example, you may only need a 2 credit course).
Understand Course Coding
Section Numbers
Each course section number gives important information:
- Empire Online Courses = Section # 01-19
- Express Term I (first 8 weeks of term) = Section #s start with B (ex: B03)
- Express Term II (last 8 weeks of term) = Section #s start with C (ex: C03)
Course Numbers
You need 45 advanced level credits to obtain a bachelor’s degree.
- Advanced level courses have course #s from 3000-4999.
- You may limit your search to advanced level by entering the above numbers in the Course Number Range field.
- Course numbers 5000+ are graduate level only. You are not eligible to take these courses.
(ex: HUDV 3050 – C01 is advanced level course which meets in the 2nd 8-week session of the term.)
Step 6: Register
As you find courses using the search described above. Click “Add” to add these courses to your summary.
Click submit to complete your registration. The status of the courses in your summary should switch to Registered.
Register using a CRN (Educational Planning registration for Degree Planner students)
- Select the Enter CRNs tab on the top left of the registration screen.
- Enter the CRN.
- Click “Add to Summary.”
- When you have entered all courses for the term, select SUBMIT.
- Confirm that the status of the courses is “Registered.”
See your Scheduled Courses
- Go to the Student Home Page at my.esc.edu
- Select the Registration and Course Offerings icon.
- Select View Registration Information.
Check your Registration
I encourage you to have me double check your courses for you. Please email the list of courses you have registered for and the reason you selected them. For example:
- PSYC 3055-02 Cultural Psychology – meets degree requirement #3
- ARTS 1010-B03 Art Appreciation – meets arts gen ed
- EDPL 3010-251 Educational Planning – meets ed planning
- BUSN 3010-01 Business Ethics – meets advanced level elective
How to Drop/Withdraw a Course
- Go to the Student Home Page at my.esc.edu
- Select the Registration and Course Offerings icon.
- Select Begin or Modify Registration
- Go to your Summary block in the lower right hand corner.
- Under the header Action, select Drop for the courses you wish to drop / Withdraw if it is after the add/drop period for the course.
- Click the Submit button.
