Legal Studies Advising

Your advisor is available in-person on the 6th floor of Thompson Hall as well as through Zoom or email. While you are welcome to stop by, your advisor may be working remotely or have meetings throughout the day. Setting up an appointment or sending an email can ensure that you will get the help you need quickly.

Advisors are available to meet in-person on the 6th floor of Thompson Hall as well as through Zoom or email.

Academic Advising appointments can be scheduled with Shawn Samuels or Faith Nussbaum through Navigate.

Meet with an Academic Advisor for any of the following:

• Academic Planning
• Add/drop or Registration (and removal of advising holds)
• Opportunities beyond the curriculum
• Adding the major 
• Checking your progress toward graduation
• Career and internship planning (Faith specializes)
• Advice about research assistantships and graduate study
• Approval of transfer credits into the major (Faith specializes)
• Approval of study abroad courses, or domestic exchange/five-college courses/time away to fill major requirements (Faith specializes)
• Post-graduation planning
• Graduation clearance
• Consultation around academic and/or personal difficulty
• Advisor signature for relevant forms
• Removal of advising holds
• Academic Alert, Academic Warning, Probation, Suspension, or Dismissal (Faith specializes)
• General questions; we can often point you in the right direction

The Director of Undergraduate Advising can assist with all of the tasks that Academic Advisors complete. The Director also specializes in the following:

• Study Abroad/ Domestic Exchange pre-approvals
• Approval of transfer classes
• Internship Advising
• Extenuating circumstances
• Return from Suspension/Dismissal
• GPA concerns

Check out the Pre-Law Advising webpage and schedule an appointment with Diane Curtis 

Get support for your questions related to the honors requirements through your CHC Advising team. As the Director of Departmental Honors for Legal Studies, Professor Leah Wing can answer questions about departmental honors.

For issues such as credit overload requests, late add/drop, academic probation, please see the SBS College of Social and Behavioral Sciences page. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to find quick links to commonly requested forms.

SBS Dean's Office Forms

• Petition for Overload of Credit
• Late Course Add Petition
• Late Course Withdrawal Petition
• Late Pass/Fail Petition

University Registrar Forms

• Dual Degree Request
• On-Campus Transcript Request
• Prior Approval for Senior Year in Absentia
• Prior Approval for Transfer Work
• Special Student Application
• Gender Marker and “Campus Name” Change
• Name Change/SSN Update Request Form
• Time Conflict Form 
• Second Bachelor’s Degree Application

International Students and Scholars Office Forms

• International Course Approval Form (ICAF)

Enrollment appointments (the day and time you are allowed to register for classes) are assigned in SPIRE to students each semester. You do not meet with anyone for this appointment, rather it is the specific date/time you gain access to enroll in classes. The enrollment appointment is determined by a student’s potential credit total which includes what you are enrolled in currently. For more information, check the Registrar Appointment Schedule. To check your own enrollment appointment date/time, do the following:

1. Log into SPIRE
2. On your Student Center, select the Manage Classes tile. 
3. On the left side menu, click Enrollment to see your enrollment date/time.

SCHEDULE BUILDER is our preferred tool for building the best class schedule based on your needs. To learn how to use Schedule Builder, use the Schedule Builder Step-by-Step Instructions or meet with one of the peer advisors in the SBS Pathways Office 128 Thompson Hall. 

SPIRE is the University's online information system. Use the SPIRE Tile Map to help navigate the information housed under each tile on your student page. 

Students who wish to enroll in a closed or restricted Legal Studies course must obtain permission from the instructor to be overridden into the class. Contact the instructor via email to kindly request an override. If the instructor offers you a seat in their class, please remember the following:

• The instructor must submit the Course Override Permission form which is located on the faculty department webpage. You cannot be placed in a class until the instructor completes this form.
• Once the form is complete, you have a seat in the class. Do not worry if the class is filling as the instructor is able to override the course cap. (Exception: If the entire class is canceled, the change applies to all students, enrolled or overridden.)
• You will be placed into the class once your enrollment appointment is active.
• If these steps have been taken and you are still having trouble getting overridden into a class, please contact the Director of Advising for the School of Public Policy, Faith Nussbaum.

If you wish to take a UWW/University+ class, the enrollment process and tuition is different than a regular University classes. To learn how to request enrollment access, read UWW How to Enroll as an Undergraduate and look under “Campus Undergraduate Student”. For additional information, read about UWW Enrollment Resources. Please note that first-year students are not allowed to enroll in UWW/Univ+ classes in Fall or Spring.