This online Module Registration Exercise is for Yale-NUS students and consists of three rounds.

Modules Registration Rounds

NUS Modules Tutorial/Lab Registration Rounds (Not applicable to Yale-NUS modules)

Enquiries

Please email to registry@yale-nus.edu.sg or visit Yale-NUS Registry office at Level 1 – Reception & Admissions building.

Reminders:

1. Clear any outstanding fees for the current semester in order to participate in the Module Registration Exercise.
2. Check your Yale-NUS email regularly. You should also send your emails to the College administrators from your Yale-NUS email account to ensure that your emails are properly received and do not land in spam boxes unattended.

Important Timelines

Please refer to the important timelines below for dropping of module. Do ensure that the duly completed form, where applicable, is received by your Assistant Dean by the stated deadline.

Intro to ModReg@EduRec

ModReg@EduRec is the new consolidated module registration platform that replaces OurCORS with effect from July 2019. Please refer to the ModReg User Guide for Students to navigate the system. You may also contact Yale-NUS Registry if you have any questions.

Rule-Driven, Priority-based Allocation

ModReg@EduRec employs a rules-driven, priority-based engine to allocate modules based on each student’s curricular needs, seniority in the programme and module preferences. 

• Rules-Driven: Curricular Needs
  This rule ensures priority is given to students who need a particular module to fulfil the curricular needs (eg. Major and Minor requirements etc). Please log on to myEduRec and generate the ‘My Graduation Audit’ report. This report provides an overview of your eligibility to graduate based on the academic plans declared, and modules that you have passed. Please refer here for the user guides.

• Priority-Based: Student Seniority
  This rule ensures priority is assigned to students based on their year of study (eg. Year 1, Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4) since senior students have a more limited time than junior students in securing modules before graduating.

• Priority-Based: Module Preferences
  In ModReg, students will be required to rank the modules they have selected in the order of their preference. This rule recognises that one student’s desire for a module may be different from another. Hence, priority is accorded to the student who ranks a module higher than another.

A Priority Score is computed for each module selected by students based on the above factors.

Priority Score

Where demand for a selected module exceeds the available places, the Priority Scores of students seeking to read a particular module will be used to determine module allocation.

The Priority Score for a module selected by a student is computed based on the Priority Scoring Rubrics as follows:

Programme Requirements Category (in descending order of points) – Aⁿ

• UTown/USP modules
• Major core and 1st Major 1st Specialisation modules
• 1st Major modules
• 2nd Major Specialisation modules
• Faculty Requirement modules
• 2nd Major modules
• Restricted/Direct Minor modules
• Unrestricted Elective/General Education modules
  *Only those that are highlighted in blue are applicable to Yale-NUS students.

Students’ Seniority (in descending order of points) – Bⁿ

• Year 4
• Year 3
• Year 2
• Year 1

Rank Preference of Modules (in descending order of points) – Cⁿ

• Rank 1
• Rank 2
• Rank 3
• Rank 4
• Rank 5
• Rank 6
• Rank 7
• Rank 8

Priority Score of module(s) = Aⁿ x Bⁿ x Cⁿ

When students have the same Priority Score for a module and the demand exceeds the places available, tie-breakers are used to determine the final module allocation. The tie-breakers in descending order of consideration are:

• Students who have not attained minimum workload
• Student’s home faculty is module host faculty (Eg. If there are NUS students applying for Yale-NUS modules, priority will be given to Yale-NUS students)
• Remnant CORS points (applicable to NUS modules for AY2019/2020 only)
• Module feedback points (applicable to NUS modules only)
• Random balloting
  

The above information is adapted from NUS ModReg website. 

Round 1 Instructions

In this round, you can:

1. Select Yale-NUS modules via ModReg@EduRec. Please refer to Module Brief for a list of Yale-NUS offerings.
2. Select NUS Centre for Language Studies (CLS) modules.

• Students who are interested in beginning level CLS modules and students who have taken a CLS module and progressing to the next level, please login to Canvas (active during Round 1) and submit your request. This link will be open from Monday, 11 November 2019, 0900 hrs to Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 1200 hrs (noon).
• Please refer here for CLS timetable for Semester 2 AY2019/2020.
• Successful applicants will be pre-allocated with the CLS module and the outcome will be available at ModReg@EduRec when Round 2 opens. If the pre-allocation is unsuccessful, you may register directly via ModReg@EduRec when Round 2 opens.
• For modules with multiple tutorial class options, you will only be pre-allocated with the main lecture class. You will need to select your tutorial class via ModReg@EduRec in January 2020 according to the ‘Select Tutorial’ schedule that will be published on NUS ModReg website.

Note:

• Students who are interested in registering for CLS 2000 level and above modules but do not meet the prerequisites are required to register for a placement test. You may look out for the notice of placement tests posted on the CLS website or contact the CLS General Office directly. After you have completed the placement test, you will be notified of the outcome by CLS. Accordingly, you will register via ModReg@EduRec during Round 2 or Round 3 depending on when you have completed the placement test.
• Students who are interested in registering for other NUS (non-language) elective modules will do so via ModReg@EduRec from Round 2 onwards. Please refer here for the list of NUS elective modules that are to be offered in Semester 2 of AY2019/2020.
• Students reading NUS modules are subject to NUS policy and guidelines governing these modules.

Instructions:

1. Timetable Planning: You should register for modules that do not clash with your class and exam timetables. You may use the NUSMods timetable builder to simulate your desired timetable before selecting your modules via ModReg@EduRec.
2. Overload: The recommended workload is 20 MC per semester. However, students may register between 18 MC to 22 MC per semester. This workload includes Common Curriculum modules, Yale-NUS modules, NUS modules and/or NUS CLS modules. By default, ModReg@EduRec allows you to select modules up to a maximum of 22 MC. If you intend to overload beyond 22 MC in the semester, you are required to seek approval from your Assistant Dean of Students (AD). Although you may apply for an overload with your AD during Round 1 and Round 2, for equity reasons, you will only be able to select the additional Yale-NUS or NUS elective module during Round 3 if your AD approves of your overload.
   Note for NUS CLS modules: If you register for more than 18 MC of Yale-NUS modules in Round 1, you will not be pre-allocated the CLS module. Instead, you may drop an allocated module and register for the CLS module via ModReg@EduRec during Round 2 or Round 3.
   Overload for LAW Double Degree Programme (DDP) students: Please refer here for the overload policy for Law DDP students. An overload for a Law DDP student in a semester would be defined as any module taken in excess of what is stated in your respective schedule of modules found here. If you register for more than the required number of MC of Yale-NUS modules in Round 1, Faculty of Law will not be able to pre-allocate the Law modules subsequently. Yale-NUS Registry will drop your excess Yale-NUS module(s) and you will need to re-select your overload modules in Round 2 and Round 3. Law DDP students who have completed their Pro Bono requirements are required to contact the NUS Pro Bono Office to update their completion status to avoid unnecessary timetable clashes.
3. Underload: You are advised to plan carefully as underloading may affect your graduation progress and ability to complete your degree within the stipulated candidature period. All students are required to register at least 18 MC of workload in a semester. If you intend to underload in the semester, you are required to appeal to your AD with supporting reasons. However, enrolling in less than 14 MC requires a petition to Committee on Academic Standards (CAS). The petition should be submitted well in advance of the “Add” module deadline so that you are still in time to add a module in the event that your appeal is unsuccessful. Students who are in their graduating semester are allowed to register a minimum of 14 MC without the AD’s permission as long as they are on-track to meet graduation requirements.
4. Common Curriculum Modules (compulsory for students from Class of 2023): Students are to select the following modules and one other elective module.
   a) YCC1112 Literature & Humanities 2 (Select either Group “A” or “B” only in ModReg@EduRec. Group A: Tue, Fri from 1030-1200hrs & Tue 0930-1030hrs; Group B: Tue, Fri from 1430-1600hrs & Tue 0930-1030hrs). In addition to selecting your preferred group timing (e.g. Group A) in your “Main List”, you should also indicate the other timing (e.g. Group B) on your “Reserved List” if this timing does not clash with the timetable of your other “Main List” or “Reserve List” electives modules.
   b) YCC1114 Philosophy and Political Thought 2 (Select either Group “A” or “B” only in ModReg@EduRec. Group A: Mon, Thu from 1300-1430hrs & Mon 0930-1030hrs; Group B: Mon, Thu from 1600-1730hrs & Mon 0930-1030hrs). In addition to selecting your preferred group timing (e.g. Group A) in your “Main List”, you should also indicate the other timing (e.g. Group B) on your “Reserved List” if this timing does not clash with the timetable of your other “Main List” or “Reserve List” electives modules.
   c) YCC1131 Scientific Inquiry 1 (Select either Group “A” or “B” only in ModReg@EduRec. Group A: Tue, Fri from 1300-1430hrs & Mon 1100-1200hrs; Group B: Tue, Fri from 1600-1730hrs & Mon 1100-1200hrs). In addition to selecting your preferred group timing (e.g. Group A) in your “Main List”, you should also indicate the other timing (e.g. Group B) on your “Reserved List” if this timing does not clash with the timetable of your other “Main List” or “Reserve List” electives modules.
   d) Do note that you may be re-allocated to another timing if the timing that you have selected becomes over-subscribed.
5. Common Curriculum Modules – Historical Immersion (applicable to students from Class of 2020 and Class of 2021): Modules designated as fulfilling the Historical Immersion (HI) requirement will be opened only to Year 4 and Year 3 students during Round 1 module registration so as to award priority to senior students.
6. Year-long 10 MC Capstone Project Module (applicable to students graduating at the end of Semester 2 AY2019/2020 or at end of Semester 1 AY2020/2021): You will be pre-allocated with the Capstone Project module, and can view it in your records when you login to ModReg@EduRec at the start of Round 1.
7. Independent Reading and Research (IRR) Module/Special Project in Science (SPS)/Independent Language Study & Research (ILSR) modules : If you are interested to read an independent study module, please refer to the registration forms for IRR , SPS and ILSR. The deadline to submit your registration is 1700hr on Friday, 17 January 2020, end of instructional week one. Yale-NUS Registry will notify you the outcome of your application and allocate the Independent Study module to you by Friday, 24 January 2020 if your application is approved.
8. Module Pre-requisite:
   a) If you meet the pre-requisite of a module that is stated in the form of an A-level or equivalent or in the form of module(s) taken during study abroad, please email Yale-NUS Registry in Round 1 for assistance if you encounter any difficulty to select the module. In Rounds 2 and 3, you should submit appeal under appeal type “Unable to fulfil Requisites” in ModReg@EduRec.
   b) If you are currently taking a pre-requisite to the module that you are interested in, you should be able to register for the module in Round 1 (if you are unable to do so, please notify Yale-NUS Registry to assist you). Upon release of your final examination results, if you have not passed the pre-requisite, you must drop that module and select another in Round 2 or Round 3 (unless you have received approval from the module instructor).
   c) If you do not meet the pre-requisite(s) of a module, you may consult the instructor and seek permission to register. You should forward the instructor’s email approval to Yale-NUS Registry for recording purpose and to waive the pre-requisite in ModReg@EduRec to allow you to select the module.
9. Portfolio submission for YHU4216 Advanced Poetry Writing: Students are required to submit a portfolio to support the application. Thus, application to this module requires
   a) module selection in ModReg@EduRec and
   b) submission of a portfolio of of up to five poems for evaluation by the instructor. If you have not taken the pre-requisite module YHU2292 Introduction to Writing Poetry previously, please include a letter expressing your interest with a detailed account of your writing/publication experience in addition to the portfolio of up to five poems. Note: There will be an emphasis on hybrid forms in this module, so if you have samples of lyric nonfiction or experimental fiction, you can also include this in your portfolio. Please submit your portfolio via Canvas here (active during Round 1) no later than 1700hr of Wednesday, 13 November 2019. Your portfolio submission needs to be anonymized as the instructor is expected to evaluate the portfolios without knowing the student’s name or ID. Yale-NUS Registry will be able to identify you via your Canvas account details. Submissions which are not in accordance to the instructions above will not be processed.
10. Change of Major/Minor: If you plan to change your declared Major/Minor, please submit your request via myYaleNUS. The outcome of the change as approved by the respective Head of Studies must be received by Yale-NUS Registry at least 5 working days before the start of Round 1 in order for the rule-based priority to take place in ModReg.
11. Round 1 Results: You will be notified via email to check the results of Round 1 module registration via ModReg@EduRec. Should you wish to drop an approved module, you may only do so during Round 2 or Round 3.
12. Availability of Modules after Round 1: This information will be made available on Yale-NUS ModReg website prior to the start of Round 2 module registration in January 2020.

Round 2 & Round 3 Instructions

In these rounds, you will be able to add new modules or make changes (add/drop) to your approved modules:

1. Select/add or drop Yale-NUS modules.
2. Select/add or drop NUS undergraduate level modules (modules offered by NUS faculties, Centre for Language Studies, YST Conservatory of Music, etc).

ModReg Round 2 and Round 3 Schedule

Click here for the ModReg Round 2 and Round 3 Schedule (will be available in January 2020). Please pay attention to the opening and closing dates and times of each round.

Registering (Add) for Modules

To register for Yale-NUS and NUS modules (subject to meeting module pre-requisite, co-requisite and preclusion rules), please proceed to select and rank the module(s) in ModReg@EduRec.

Yale-NUS Common Curriculum Modules
YCC1112 Literature & Humanities 2, YCC1114 Philosophy and Political Thought 2 and YCC1131 Scientific Inquiry 1: Students can check their allocated group number (Group 1 to Group 14) by logging into ModReg@EduRec when Round 2 opens in January 2020. You will not be able to drop Common Curriculum modules via ModReg@EduRec. If you wish to swap Common Curriculum groups in Round 2 and Round 3 due to a timetable clash with your preferred elective module, please find another student who is willing to swap the Common Curriculum group with you and email Yale-NUS Registry to facilitate the swap.
Historical Immersion (HI) – applicable to students from Class of 2020 & Class of 2021: Modules designated as fulfilling the HI requirement will be opened to all students during Round 2.

Yale-NUS Modules
Please refer to the Yale-NUS Module Brief for Semester 2, AY2019/2020 modules.

Yale-NUS Independent Reading and Research (IRR)/ Special Project in Science (SPS)/ Independent Language Study & Research (ILSR) modules

If you are interested to read an independent study module, please refer to the registration forms for IRR, SPS and ILSR. The deadline to submit your registration is 1700hr on Friday, 17 January 2020, end of instructional week one. Yale-NUS Registry will notify you the outcome of your application and allocate the Independent Study module to you by Friday, 24 January 2020 if your application is approved.

NUS Elective Modules
Please refer here for Semester 2, AY2019/2020 modules. Students interested to read graduate level modules (level 5000 and above) but unable to select on ModReg@EduRec in Round 2, please contact the respective NUS Faculty Administrators for assistance.

NUS Centre for Language Studies (CLS) Modules
Please refer here for Semester 2, AY2019/2020 modules.

NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YSTCM) modules
YSTCM offers a range of modules that are open to NUS and Yale-NUS undergraduate students, in areas such as:

• Applied music-making and performance – including keyboard studies, electronic music, Chamber Singers, jazz, and World Music Ensemble, and Music Cognition)
• Compositional Engagement
• Contextual studies – including explorations into music of the church and state, and what was (or is) popular music

Please refer here for the module listing when Round 2 starts, and register for the modules via ModReg@EduRec.

Some modules require a theory placement test and will be pre-allocated to you once you pass the test. Refer to the module listing here to find out which modules require the test, and how to sign up. You may also contact YSTCM if you have any queries.

NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) Modules
Please refer here for the module listing when Round 2 starts. As LKYSPP graduate modules are not available for registration via ModReg@EduRec, please email Yale-NUS Registry by (date/time to be confirmed) if you are interested. LKYSPP requires that applicants must be in their third or fourth year of study with a minimum CAP of 4.0 to be considered.

*Students who wish to count the NUS module(s) towards their major need to obtain an email approval from their respective Head of Studies with clear indication of how the module(s) fulfils the requirement(s) within the major and forward the email to Yale-NUS Registry for recording purpose. 

Checking Outcome of Round 2 and Round 3 Registration

You will be notified via email to check the results of Round 2 and Round 3 module registration via ModReg@EduRec at the end of each round.

Registering for Tutorial/Lab (Applicable to NUS modules only)

If you are reading NUS modules, where relevant, you will register for tutorials/labs after you have been allocated the lecture of the module. Tutorial/Lab registration is by balloting.

Please note that the registration of tutorial/lab groups exercise is separate from the registration of modules. You should refer to ModReg Round 2 and Round 3 Schedule (will be available in January 2020) for the dates of the different rounds of tutorial/labs registration in January 2020.

Dropping Modules

Dropping of modules
You may drop your allocated modules via ModReg@EduRec (note that minimum workload must be maintained). When a module is dropped, all associated classes (e.g. lectures, seminar, tutorial, labs, etc.) will be dropped in tandem.

Please refer to the important timelines in the “Add/Drop” tab for the periods where modules dropped will be prescribed with ‘W’ (Withdrawn) grade or ‘F’ (Fail) grade. In general, you will be able to drop modules via the [Drop Classes] function in ModReg@EduRec up till the end of Recess Week. You should contact Yale-NUS Registry if you have difficulty dropping modules via ModReg@EduRec.

If you wish to drop any module after end of Recess Week, you will not be able to do so via ModReg@EduRec. Instead, please download and complete the hard copy Yale-NUS Module Drop Form. For NUS modules, please contact the respective NUS Faculty/Department directly.

Dropping of Tutorial/Lab Classes (applicable to NUS modules only)
Students may drop a tutorial/lab class they have been successfully allocated if they wish to change to another class. Dropping a tutorial/lab class will not de-enrol a student from the module.

Submit Appeals/Inquiries

You may submit appeals via the [Submit Appeals/Inquiries] function in ModReg@EduRec to address module/class enrolment issues. To facilitate efficient handling of appeals, you should select the correct appeal type.

*Home Faculty – refers to Yale-NUS College
*Host Faculty/Department – refers to the faculty department that is offering the module.

Please also note the following:

1. Overload: You can submit your Overload Request Form to your AD during Round 2. Once approved, you will be able to select the additional module(s) in ModReg@EduRec in Round 3.
2. Underload: All students are required to register at least 18 MC of workload in a semester. If you intend to underload in the semester, you are required to appeal to your AD with supporting reasons. However, enrolling in less than 14 MC requires a petition to Committee on Academic Standards (CAS). The petition should be submitted well in advance of the “Add” module deadline so that you are still in time to add a module in the event that your appeal is unsuccessful. Students who are in their graduating semester are allowed to register a minimum of 14 MC without the AD’s permission as long as they are on-track to meet graduation requirements.
3. Module Pre-requisite: The same instructions as mentioned in point 8 under Round 1 will apply. If you have not passed a module in Semester 1 that is a pre-requisite to the module that you have been allocated for Semester 2, AY2019/2020, you are not eligible to read the module and should proceed to drop the module during these rounds, unless otherwise approved by the instructor.
4. Portfolio submission for YHU4216 Advanced Poetry Writing: The same instructions as mentioned in point 9 under Round 1 will apply. Please submit your portfolio via Canvas here (active during Round 2 and Round 3) no later than (date/time to be confirmed).