IMPORTANT: Instructions for Late Registrants/Waitlisters in Prof. Sergi’s courses
In every course I teach, every student is responsible for the full curriculum of course material. If you join one of my courses late — whatever the reason may be, including late registration — you are still responsible for the material you missed. Any classes you missed before registering will not be counted toward your graded attendance limit, but you must still make up Comprehension Questions (CQs) for those missed classes, to demonstrate that you have independently reviewed and absorbed the content.
[Students on the waitlist for a university course should attend, if the professor allows them to do so, the meetings of the class in which they hope to enroll. I will certainly allow waitlisters to attend my classes (and since my classes are pretty tough, spots reliably open up in the first few weeks!)—especially because I have particular requirements, below, about what late registrants have to do upon entering. If you or someone you know is on the waitlist for a course of mine, please get in touch with me as soon as you can, so I can loop all waitlisters in on important course material. If you attend a class session of mine before you’re officially registered, and then you register later, I’ll count all the classes you attended as though you were registered for them (as long as you answer in-class questions during those classes).]
Here’s what late registrants in my classes have to do to make up for missed material:
Watch any introductory videos posted at the course website. All course websites are linked in the menu bar at the top of this page.
Email me immediately at sergi.utoronto@gmail.com to let me know to expect you — or at least to let me know the date of the first class attended. If your course has tutorial sessions, register for one immediately and then include the TA of that tutorial in your email. Contact information for TAs will be posted clearly on the course website.
In all of my courses, students are responsible for answering short in-class comprehension questions (CQs) at the end of each meeting. The website for the CQs also includes instructions for how to make up for missed in-class questions (click here) for anyone who has missed a meeting. To receive full course credit, you must make up missed questions for every class you miss, including those that you missed before entering the course. Making up missed CQs usually involves reading a backlog of course texts, then listening to the audiorecording of missed class meetings, then attending Office Hours to answer new questions. Allow time for this process, especially if you’ve entered our class more than a week late; start as soon as possible and allow a week for each class you missed.
All of my courses have a built-in attendance policy, independent of the in-class questions. I do not count classes missed because of late registration toward the class absence limit. Just be sure to make fully clear, in your initial email to me, the date you have officially joined the class, so I know to adjust my attendance record.
IMPORTANT: Much of my course material is cumulative, relying on students’ understanding of prior class sessions in order to proceed with the present one. Every student at each class meeting is responsible for catching up with the material we have covered up to that day, so don’t wait long to make up what you missed. (I may be able to postpone late registrants’ quizzes, though—ask me.)