Victoria Silman | News Editor
Featured Image: Students have been finding enrolling in courses difficult due to the volume of people registering. | Sara Wasef
Registering in courses have been a bit more difficult this year. Whether due to the result of the strike, or just an ongoing issue, students have expressed their frustrations with attempting to enrol in courses that end up being full.
Whether it be students attending lecture in an attempt to enrol, or courses being too full, some students have pointed out that lectures can become too crowded. According to one student, who wishes to remain anonymous, their psychology lecture last week was so full students were forced to sit on the floor.
“This upset me—seeing my fellow students sitting on the dirty floor and taking notes, just to better their future,” they say.
The anonymous student explained it was psychology Professor Rebecca Jubis’ lecture which seemed to be too full. “Whoever is in charge of her class enrolment should pay more attention to the lecture halls’ capacity before enrolling so many students. Even if students are not enrolled in the class, I think they should still be accommodated,” they say.
However, Jubis says she has yet to experience a class with too few seats. “Sometimes students sit in the aisles because they arrived late and don’t want to disrupt other students, but there are available seats,” she says.
For incoming students, whose enrolment dates fall in mid-December, enrolling in courses hasn’t been the easiest of ventures.
Elizabeth Farrel, a first-year disaster and emergency management student started at York this month. She says she came to the school with 90 transfer credits, and all she needs now are her core-credit courses, which she has had difficulty registering.
“My enrolment session was in late December. A lot of my classes were already full at the time of booking. So I will have to ask all the professors to get into the courses I need,” she says.
Regarding overcrowded lectures, Farrel continues: “The first class was pretty much full. In some of my other classes, the room was maybe half-full, but I couldn’t register because it still said it was full.”
Other students have noted that classes which were listed as full had empty seats because many students enrolled in the class didn’t bother to show up for lecture.
“Almost all the courses, when I first tried to enrol, were full,” says Ethan Hung, a first-year information technology student. “Classes are often listed as full, but then there is no one in the lecture hall.”
Seemingly a common issue, Jubis says that enrolment is often full, so students come to the class in an attempt to gain a spot. “Sometimes a course is full and non-enrolled students attend the first few lectures in the hopes that a spot will open up, allowing them to officially enrol.”
with files from Jessica Sripaskaran
