The Office of the Registrar
320 S.Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19102
(P) 215.717.6420 • (F) 215.717.6417
registrar@uarts.edu



Academic Advising
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Overview

The Office of the Registrar provides academic advising support to students and faculty by maintaining academic records on students and programs, by implementing academic policy, by tracking student progress toward graduation, and by providing transcripts, degree audits, and reports as needed.

Immediately upon enrollment students are assigned a faculty advisor in their program of study and are required to meet with their faculty advisor once each term to receive academic advising and permission to register for the next term. Students are encouraged to meet with their faculty advisor or the Office of the Registrar anytime throughout the year when questions arise about enrollment in classes, policies, or procedures or simply for additional advising support.

Advising/Pre-Registration Checklist

To help ensure you are able to register online without difficulty:

  1. Sign up for an advising session with your faculty advisor. For more information contact your academic department.

  2. Complete an Advising Form before meeting with your faculty advisor.

    You may find the following resources helpful:


  3. Meet with your faculty advisor as soon as possible. Your advisor will review your advising form and submit it to the Office of the Registrar, who will assign advisor approval upon receipt of your form. To register yourself online or in-person you must have advisor approval.

    Students do not need to bring advising forms to the Office of the Registrar. Academic departments submit students' advising forms via email, which are processed in the order received. During peak periods of advising and registration processing time may take between 1 and 3 business days. Paper forms received by the Office of the Registrar are not given priority over those received electronically. If you do not have advisor approval assigned after 3 business days have passed since the date of your advising appointment contact your academic department to ensure that your form was submitted.

  4. Check your permission to register. If you have any holds on your account taking the time to verify that you have permission to register will allow you time before registration opens to address any restrictions.

  5. Update or confirm your address. This is required of all students before registering for the Fall semester during the registration period each April. Students will not be permitted to register either online or in-person until this is completed.

  6. Refer to the registration section of this website for continued information.

Course Section Offerings


Courses Without Prerequisites

In an effort to foster cross-discipline study and collaboration the Office of the Registrar is piloting a new course section offerings listing, which lists courses that are not restricted to specific majors and do not have prerequisites. We are still "kicking the tires" on this so to speak. It isn't perfect, but with your help we will work to transform this into a useful tool. We both welcome and encourage student, faculty, and staff feedback. This listing includes courses with priority registration for majors and minors and targets the undergraduate population.

The Courses Without Prerequisites listing is located on the Course Section Offerings Listing page.

Please leave your feedback and suggestions for this new listing.


  • Search course section offerings via WebAdvisor | MyUArts Record Click here for instructions
    lists up-to-the-minute course section offerings including enrollment count, seat availability, and location/time information.

  • Course Section Offerings Listing (formerly, the bulletin)
    The course section offerings listing does not provide current enrollment, seat availability, or up-to-the-minute time and location data.

  • Course Section Offerings (Publicly Accessible, no login required)
    • lists up-to-the-minute course section offerings including enrollment count, seat availability, and location/time information.

Private Music Lessons

Private instrumental or vocal lessons may be taken by non-music majors for elective credit (1.5 credits, seven hours of instruction per semester) with permission of the Director of the School of Music. An additional fee is required for non-majors, see the course description in the University Course Catalogue for details.