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Advising Resources

Academic Advisors

Each CCA student has an academic advisor in their major. Your academic advisor will help you schedule classes, read your degree audit, and assist you with career advice. First-year students will have an academic advisor assigned in the first week of September. The Lead Departmental Advisors (listed below) can help with more complicated departmental advising questions and with course substitutions for curriculum requirements.

Department Chairs

Department Chairs coordinate all department activity and connect the department to the College of Creative Arts and Miami University. Take your ideas about department initiatives and departmental concerns to this office.

Divisional Advisors

Divisional Advisors can assist with university academic questions; academic actions such as probation, suspension or dismissal; liberal education or transfer courses; and petitions for exceptions to academic policies.

Note to Parents

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, commonly known as FERPA, provides students with a right of access to their education records, permits students to challenge the accuracy of the records, and prohibits the non-consensual release of such information except in limited circumstances. In order to comply with Federal Law, we can only release records to parents if students are claimed as dependents on Federal income taxes, or with written consent of the student. View Miami’s FERPA policy.

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Thematic Sequences (Students Prior to Fall 2023)

Students who enrolled prior to Fall 2023 are expected to complete a thematic sequence. To see your graduation and degree requirements please visit the Miami University bulletin from the year you enrolled at the university. For additional assistance, you may contact your divisional advisors or the lead departmental advisor for your degree program.

General Bulletin
Academic Year 2020-2021
Academic Year 2021-2022
Academic Year 2022-2023

Registration Override Request

The Registration Override Request (ROR) application is designed to ultimately replace and standardize the many force add processes currently in place across university departments. Students will access ROR right from the Course List to request entry into courses that they are otherwise unable to add in BannerWeb.

  • Participating departments: ART, Fashion (FAS), Interactive Media Studies (IMS), Music (MUS) and Theatre (THE).
  • Additionally, all CCA prefix courses are part of this pilot.
  • Architecture (ARC) is NOT part of the pilot.
  • Other departments that participate in full or in part include CSE, FSW, HST, POL, and PSY

ROR submissions for courses other than those listed above will not be reviewed or acted upon.

Submitting ROR (force add) requests

  1. Log in to the Course List to search for courses.
  2. To request a force add for ART, IMS, MUS, THE, or CCA, click Submit Registration Override Request.
    • Rank in order of preference the sections you are willing to accept
    • Provide a reason for the request. Be concise but include details, such as pre-req errors or major/minor/thematic errors.
  3. Submit your request. You will receive an email confirmation that your request has been received.

Deadlines to submit ROR requests

  • Full semester courses: 11:59 PM Friday of the first week of classes
  • Sprint courses: 11:59 PM the second day of the sprint term

Timeline for review and action on ROR requests

Timelines for review and action on requests vary across departments.

  • Until your request is reviewed and acted upon, it will remain in a pending status. You may edit or delete pending requests until the request submission deadline.
  • You will receive an email notification whenever actions are taken on your request (submission, editing, deletion, approval, or denial)

To check the status of your request at any time, log in to the Course List and click Requests. Do not call the department.