Welch Experience Frequently Asked Questions

The Student Advising & Success team will host registration training sessions every semester. You must attend one to learn how to register or you can follow the video below with the steps. While the instructions in the video refer to Spring 2026, the steps are the same for any registration period. Your specific time and date to register will be sent to you in an email from the University registrar in early March and again in early October.

You should map out all of your required courses in Student Planning. You will need at least 120 credits to earn your degree and to have completed all your required courses. Major and minor courses need a grade of C or higher. For most students, the 120 credits include elective courses.

Use Student Planning & Advising (SPA) to find extra electives that you can take to add up to the 120 total credits. This video guide can help you learn how to search for electives.

Major checksheets provide a list of the courses you need to graduate, along with a suggested sequence of study if you wish to graduate in four years. If you have a different timeline, check with your academic adviser.

This video provides the the steps you need to take to connect with your academic adviser.

In order to register, students must remove all the following holds. This video tells you all you need to know about holds and how to remove them.

Holds appear in red at the top of the screen in SPA. Select the “Notifications” bar to see which holds you have. The “Notifications” section looks like this:

Follow the steps below to remove specific holds

• Adviser Hold: All students have an adviser hold once registration opens. Follow the steps in the following video to remove it.

• Student Accounts Hold: Select the link in the notifications bar to log into your student account or contact Student Accounts at 203-371-7925 or SAO@sacredheart.edu .
• Required Agreements Hold:
  • Select your username at the top of the page (see blue circle in screenshot below)
    
  • Then select “Required Agreements” from the pulldown menu (see red circle in screenshot below)
    
  • Next, select “view” and “accept.”
• Health Services Hold: Select the “My Health at SHU” link in the notifications bar or email healthservices@sacredheart.edu
• SHU Card Deactivated: Contact Student Accounts at 203-371-7925 or SAO@sacredheart.edu
• Public Safety Hold: This most likely means you have an outstanding parking ticket. Pay your ticket fee before you register.

Most students forget to remove planned courses in SPA, which causes the system to see them as “replacement” or duplicate courses. Remove this confusion by following the simple steps in the video below.

When selecting courses, it’s important to know which ones you are eligible for since some are restricted to honors students, freshmen or part-time students. The video below explains the codes.

• Change, remove, or declare a major
• Change, remove, or declare a minor

Sophomores/Juniors: If you haven’t already taken BU 296, please remember to do so. Here’s how to find that course.

If your adviser is Monique Ryan, Monique Bolt or Sean Heffron, here’s how you can book a meeting with them. Make sure to select the correct name in the dropdown menu.

All students in the WCBT are required to have an internship. You can find an internship by meeting with Center for Career & Professional Development and scheduling an appointment. Once you have found an internship, you must register it in Handshake for credit before you begin.  Once you are in Handshake, you can select the "Create Experience" to begin.