FYS Registration

All first-year students take two FYS courses: one in the fall semester and another in the spring semester of your first year.

How to View Your Registered Courses

Once you have finished registering for your FYS, you can see your course schedule by following the steps below:

Log into my.oxy.edu using your Oxy username and password.
Navigate to the Academics tab.
Select Grades & Academic Records .
Select Class Schedule/Registered Courses .
You should now see your FYS course listed on your schedule.

Registration issues?

Registration for 4-unit FYS courses begins on Tuesday, June 20. If you encounter difficulties while trying to register online, you can get help from the Registrar's office. The Office of the Registrar will be available in person, via email, or by phone on Tuesday, June 20th from 8 am to 5 pm and at other times throughout the week.

Registrar's Office Contact Info:

📧 registrar@oxy.edu
☎️ (323) 259-2686

FYS Updates

Some updates were recently made to the online course schedule (Course Counts):

The CRN for FYS 23: Animal Intelligence (Prof. Silver) is 1912 .
The CRN for FYS 31: "The White Man’s Burden": Foreign Aid, Development and Neo-Imperialism (Prof. Ijaz) is 1922 .
The CRN for FYS 32.1: "Writing Fiction, Finding Facts: Honest Stories and How They’re Told" (Prof. Roosevelt) is 1923.
The CRN for FYS 32.2: "Writing Fiction, Finding Facts: Honest Stories and How They’re Told" (Prof. Roosevelt) is 1924.
The CRN for FYS 33: "Fascism in Transnational Perspective" (Prof. Stone) is 1925.

Additional Notes

Only new first-year students should register for a First-Year Seminar. Transfer and exchange students are exempt from the FYS requirement and should not register for a seminar.
Students should only register for one FYS course during the fall semester.
If a special circumstance prevents you from having internet access on June 20, please contact the Core Program by June 14 at coreprogram@oxy.edu to arrange alternate means of registering.

Registration Instructions

To register for your fall semester FYS, please follow the steps below:

Choose your preferred FYS course in advance. Make a list of about 5-10 seminars, ranked in order of your preference. For each course on your list, make a note of the 4-digit CRN (Course Reference Number). The CRN can be found at “Course Counts” within myOxy or at counts.oxy.edu. From the Course Counts landing screen, choose Fall 2023 on the Semester drop-down menu and First Year Seminars on the Subject menu. The CRN is the blue number at the far left of the row for each course. Clicking on the CRN will also give you the course description.
At 9:00 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, June 20, registration will open. Below are step-by-step instructions on how to add a class using the online registration system:

Go to myOxy and enter your username and password
Go to the "Academics
link on the left side of the webpage
In the "My Academics" box, click the Add or Drop Classes link
Select 2023 Fall Semester from the Select a Term menu and click Submit
Enter the following six-digit PIN when prompted: 202705
Near the bottom of the screen, enter the four-digit CRN for your chosen First Year Seminar
Click on Submit Changes

If the seminar is already full, the system will tell you that it is closed. If this happens, select your next choice until you are registered into a FYS.

3. When you have successfully registered for your FYS course, you will see a screen that says Current Schedule. This serves as a confirmation of the seminar that you selected.

Note: Students who do not register for a FYS seminar by the deadline will be placed into a seminar by the director of the Core Program.

What if I didn’t get into the seminar I wanted?

We know it can be disappointing if you are not able to get into your choice seminar. An important part of the First Year Seminar experience is the small class sizes which allow for a lot of interaction between students and professors. Unfortunately, this also means that there are a limited number of seats available for each seminar and we are not able to add additional students once we reach capacity.

If you didn’t get into your first choice seminar, be sure to register for another seminar—it’s important that all first-year students have an FYS on their schedule. Many students have told us that they ended up loving the seminar they took, even though they were initially disappointed not to get into their first choice.

While there are no waitlists for FYS courses, you may want to occasionally check Course Counts to see if a seat opens up. If you do see an open seat, you can contact the Core Program to see if you can be switched into the seminar.