Important Timelines
Waitlists for courses will go live when the courses go live for registration, i.e. they will be immediately available as soon as courses are full.
Waitlists will close after the Friday of the first week of classes. After that, all waitlisted students will be dropped from the waitlists, and students can register themselves directly, if spots open up, until the add/drop deadline.
Contact
If you have any difficulty registering for HIST courses, please email us at hist.undergrad@ubc.ca for undergrad courses or hist.grad@ubc.ca for graduate courses. We are closely monitoring these email addresses during regular business hours (8:30-4:00 standard work days) to respond quickly to inquiries and to assist with registration requests.
Waitlist FAQ
When you register for a section that is already full, there is a waitlist for that course and there is room on that waitlist, the system will automatically add you to the waitlist.
No, adding yourself to a waitlist doesn't guarantee registration in the course. You will only be able to register if a seat becomes available, Workday sends you a notification that you have the option to take the spot AND you follow the WD instructions to add the course.
When a course has both lecture and discussion components AND if the course isn't full, please register for BOTH components. If the course IS full and the waitlist is enabled, please waitlist yourself in the lecture component only and ignore the alert if it asks you to also waitlist in the clustered discussion section.
When a spot opens, the first student on the waitlist will get a notification in Workday and have 24 hours to accept or decline. If they don’t respond (or they decline), the offer moves to the next person and so on until someone accepts the spot or the end of the waitlist is reached.
The email will come from noreply@workday.svc.ub.ca. We recommend adding this to your allow/approved sender list and/or checking your spam folder on a regular basis.
Should another spot open up, the system will again send notification to the first student on the list who will have 24 hours to accept or decline.
The system will contact the next person on the waitlist and offer the spot to them. You will remain on the waitlist in the original chronological order (i.e. if you were first, you will still be first; second, you'll still be second). If you are the first one on the waitlist AND you decline a spot, then the next time a spot becomes available, you will again be the first one to be offered it.
If you no longer want to be on the waitlist, please remove yourself from it. This will stop the notification going to you and also allows the seat to go to the next student sooner.