REGISTRATION PROCEDURES

All graduate students register themselves using Self-Service, for required courses and graduate-specific electives, during the open registration period for grads. MFA Low-Res students also register for the Winter term January Colloquium at this time.

• Seek advising with your Program Director:

  M.Arch – Master of Architecture	Paul Hajian	phajian@massart.edu
  Art Education Programs – MAT, BFA/MA, BFA/MAT, M.Ed, TPP	Adriana Katzew	akatzew@massart.edu
  MDes – Master of Design Innovation	Ben Little	bslittle@massart.edu
  MFA: 2D Fine Arts	Cecilia Vazquez	mcvazquezgutier@massart.edu
  MFA: 3D Fine Arts	Wendy Jacob	wwjacob@massart.edu
  MFA and Post-Bac: Design / Dynamic Media Institute	Fish McGill	fishmcgill@massart.edu
  MFA: Film/Video	Tammy Dudman	tdudman@massart.edu
  MFA and Post-Bac: Photography	Laura McPhee	lmcphee@massart.edu
  MFA: Fine Arts Low-Residency	Kelly Knight	kaknight@massart.edu

• Review your progress and program requirements in Self-service. Program Directors and Nadia Savage of the grad team, nsavage@massart.edu, can assist you in this review. Note the number and type of required electives for your program.

• Detailed instructions from the Registrar for using Self-Service can be found here. Log into Self-service, or paste this URL into your browser: https://mca-ss.colleague.elluciancloud.com/Student/

After you register, confirm you are actually registered, by checking your “course/section” status in Self-Service. Courses/Sections for which you are officially registered will say “Registered” with a green check-mark in the list view and will appear green in the Calendar View of your Schedule.

“Planned” courses/sections are not registered, and you will see that they are not green.

CURRENT REGISTRATION DATES FOR BFA COURSES 

• October 28: Begin review of the Spring 2025 elective schedule in Self-service as described below, for courses of interest.
  
• November 6: Begin emailing BFA faculty to request permission to enroll in BFA elective courses. This process can take time, so begin asap.

VIEWING ELECTIVE OPTIONS USING SELF-SERVICE

• Use Self-Service to do an Advanced Search for electives by department, faculty, or meeting time and make sure to select the Spring 2025 Term (or Winter term for January Colloquium). Self-Service will give you a comprehensive list of graduate, BFA courses from all departments. Whether a course is online or on camps will be included in the listing. Select from BFA courses numbered 200-499. You may filter your search for open courses or online courses among other choices, by using the left-hand “Filter Results” selections. To sort a list of courses from a search, use the menu bar selections for Status (open, waitlisted, closed) or Location for online courses, etc. 

REGISTRATION FOR BFA ELECTIVES

• All BFA classes require permission of the instructor. 
• Email the instructor to request permission to enroll, and cc Nadia Savage at nsavage@massart.edu on this and related emails. Instructor email addresses are available in Self-Service when you “view available sections,” and select “add section to schedule.” Include in your emails: your name, MassArt ID, the full section number (for example 3DTD-201-02) and the course title.
• Forward the faculty permission to Registrar Jonathan Rand at jrand@massart.edu, including all information requested above, and cc Nadia Savage.
• Once they receive the faculty permission, the Registrar requests the faculty’s graduate syllabus addendum for that course. Addenda are reviewed and approved by the Graduate Office prior to enrollment.  Again, as this process takes time, please review courses of interest early.
• Students will be notified when Self-Service closes for open registration. Please note that after the open registration period closes, all students must register through Jonathan Rand, the MassArt Registrar. It is strongly advised that you register for all courses during the open registration period.

When starting to consider an independent study, follow these steps:

• Students must first consult with their Program Director, if they wish to consider an independent study course as part of their course sequence. 
• Then, as far in advance of the intended term as possible, contact the Grad team at gradprogram@massart.edu with the name and contact information of potential independent study faculty. We will contact the artist/expert with details, before they make a final decision to work with graduate students.
• Note: Students do not discuss payment information with potential faculty.

Independent Studies are designed to provide students with an opportunity to pursue a specific vein of study, which cannot be done in the structure of an established class. Independent Studies are usually designed to earn 3 credits, and the scope of the project and amount of contact between the faculty and student should reflect an appropriate depth of engagement.

Exceptions to the number of credits earned are considered on a case by case basis. Graduate students who are interested in doing an independent study consult with their Program Director/advisor, then complete the Independent Study form, which must be accompanied by a Project Proposal and draft of the Syllabus. 

Students should initiate this process, creating a rough draft of the proposal/syllabus once permission has been provided by the faculty with whom the student wishes to study.

Please review the Syllabus Guidelines when creating your draft syllabus. You may also visit the Syllabus Guidelines page for more detailed information abut course syllabi.

Graduate students from all programs may cross-register for MIT courses that are offered during the Spring 2025 term, provided the course is offered for graduate-level credit. Please note that MIT’s Spring registration and semester start dates are later than MassArt’s, and classes generally begin after the end of MassArt’s Add/Drop period. The links below will be updated when available from MIT.

See the following links for further information on Cross-Registration at MIT: 

• MIT Registrar’s Subject/Course Index Page contains full lists of programs/subjects for the current semester. *Look for classes with a “G” indicating graduate credit, and a flower icon indicates it is offered in Spring (a leaf icon indicates a course is offered in Fall).

• MIT ACT (Art, Culture and Technology) program website.  

• MIT Media Arts & Sciences (MAS / MIT Media Lab) website.

Instructions for Cross-Registration at MIT:

1. Find a course in the MIT Spring 2025 schedule, and email the instructor for permission to enroll in the course and check with your Program Director/Advisor that this course fits your program.
2. Complete the MIT cross-registration form; ask the instroctor and your Program Director/faculty advisor to sign the form. Once the form is completed send the form to Marie Turley at the Registrar’s office for signature (mturley@massart.edu).
   
3. Complete the MIT Non-Institution Biographic form.
4. Email the 2 completed forms to the MIT Registrar’s office at records@mit.edu, and copy mturley@massart.edu.