2025 Humanities Undergraduate Registration

All students registered to undergraduate Humanities programmes require two levels of curriculum review in order to finalise their registration:

1. the first level is in-person curriculum advice, and
2. the second level is incorporated into (Steps 12-14 of) the registration task on PeopleSoft.

Students must finalise their registration task (or request approval on Step 12 of the registration task) by Friday, 14 February 2025. Importantly, students will not be able to proceed past Step 11 of their registration task on PeopleSoft without completing the first level of curriculum review.

Important Resources

• 2025 Humanities Undergraduate Registration Schedule
• 2025 General Curriculum Planner (BA and BSocSc students only) [Not yet available]
• 2025 Structured Curriculum Planner (all other programmes) [Not yet available]
• 2025 Humanities Undergraduate Handbook
• Programme Enrolment Guide* [Not yet available]
• Blank Shopping Cart Guide* [Not yet available]
• Generating your Academic Transcript Guide

*See Step 3 of the Registration Process, below, for the registration method applicable to you.

Registration Process
Step 1: Prepare for Registration

First year students (including transferring students) are required to attend Orientation, where various topics about life at UCT are discussed (including academic matters), before starting the registration process.  While this will be covered in the presentations at Orientation, first year students are invited to review the 2025 Humanities Undergraduate Handbook (linked above) to get a sense of their programme structure and requirements. For BA/BSocSc students, a list of majors is available and the requirements for major are indicated under their respective department entries. The back half of the handbook hold course outlines, split according to the department that owns the course. Please try to form a general idea of which courses/majors you would like to take in 2025 before seeing a curriculum advisor. If you are fairly sure of your selection, you may plot this out to the above linked curriculum planner.

Returning students are asked draft their selection of courses to the above-linked curriculum planner before seeing a curriculum advisor. Failure to adequately prepare will result in longer consultations and, unfortunately, longer wait limes.

Step 2: Curriculum Advice

This is your opportunity to consult a curriculum advisor, in-person, and have your academic advice hold lifted by Faculty Office Staff stationed in the venue. By the end of your consultation, you should have a completed curriculum planner, which you will keep for your own records and use to populate your registration task on PeopleSoft.

Please see the above-linked registration schedule to confirm when and where your session is being held, and what to bring with you. If you are not sure of where your venue is situated on campus, please refer to our Campus Maps or ask to an Orientation Leader on campus.

Step 3: Peoplesoft Registration Task

Your registration task on PeopleSoft is located under the ‘Tasks’ tile. Steps 1-10 involve confirming of your details and agreeing to a declaration. Step 11 displays any holds you may have on your record (such as IAPO pre-registration, fee debt, or academic advice holds), and will not allow you to progress to steps 12-14 until they are resolved. Step 12 is where one selects the courses (per your curriculum planner) and request final review/approval.

There are three registration methods available to the undergraduate Humanities student cohort according to their programme and academic level, namely: Programme Enrolment, Blank Shopping Cart, and Pre-Populated Shopping Cart. Please see the below table to determine the selection method applicable to your registration:

Guides for the respective registration methods are linked above.

Regardless of which registration method is applicable to you, you (the student) are responsible for regularly checking the status of your registration request. Should an advisor notice an issue or missing information, they will set your request to INCOMPLETE-status, you will receive an email alerting you to update your request. Please be reminded that all UCT communications are sent to your MyUCT mailbox, and it is your responsibility to check this mailbox regularly.

Lastly, it is your responsibility to check your academic transcript for any errors and submit a change of curriculum request in the first week of lectures to rectify.

Note on Change of Curriculum requests

You cannot submit a change of curriculum service request during registration. Should you change your mind after registering, or notice an error, please submit a change of curriculum request in the first week of lectures ( 17-21 February) – further instructions on Change of Curriculum will be relayed closer to the time. Change of curriculum service requests received before 17 February will simply be rejected.

Contacts

Please ensure that you have read and understood the above information before contacting any of the below mailboxes.
 

• Registration Guideline

• Registration Schedule

• 2024 Humanities Postgraduate Handbook

For further assistance, please contact hum-postgrad@uct.ac.za.