Curriculum
Registration
Enrollment Changes
Once registered, students may process schedule changes through the drop/add procedures during appropriate periods. Students are notified about the appropriate periods by email from the School of Law Registrar’s Office, also by looking at the academic calendar.
Students drop or add courses by calling I-Tel-UNM (246-2020) or using the I-TEL website prior to the published deadline dates. Law students have the first two weeks of a semester to ADD a course. After the deadline date contact the Law School Registrar for the procedure and fees.
A full-semester Law School course may be dropped by a student for any reason during the first six weeks of the semester. In courses scheduled for less than a full semester, a student may drop for any reason until midway through the course. A full-semester Law School course may be dropped with the instructor’s permission from the ninth week of classes through the final day of classes (a shorter course may be dropped with the instructor’s permission after the course’s midpoint through the last class meeting.) This action requires a grade of WP/WF to be assigned by the professor and appears on the student’s academic record. After the last classroom meeting any Law School course may be dropped only under extraordinary circumstances and only with permission of the instructor and the Dean or an Associate Dean.
Exceptions
- Students may not withdraw from first-year courses, Introduction to Constitutional Law, Ethics, or Clinic without the permission of the Dean or an Associate Dean.
- The period for withdrawal from Judicial Extern, Law Office Extern and certain specifically designated special seminars, without obtaining the instructor’s permission, is limited to the first two weeks of the semester.
- When the course instructor has indicated in advance that a shorter withdrawal period (or none at all) will apply in a particular course.
