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Registration

Important - Please Review to Prepare for the Start of the Spring 2021 Semester

  • The Friedman School’s spring semester begins January 20 and all of our spring courses will be offered online. We also anticipate about 15% of our courses will have an optional in-classroom component for those students who choose to participate. The in-classroom components will only be offered if consistent with Tufts University, municipal, state and federal guidance, and all safety practices can be followed. While we are able to identify the courses that plan to offer in-classroom components (noted as “Hybrid” in SIS), we will not be able to confirm that in-classroom components will be held until the first week of classes. Although the Friedman School's Spring 2021 courses begin January 20, no in-classroom components of courses will begin until January 28. Also,  if your course is a Hybrid course, be sure to check your course syllabus or with your instructor on the dates that the course will potentially meet in the classroom since many of the in-classroom components will potentially begin later in the month or the semester.

Boston Campus Access:

  • If you will be returning/coming to the Boston area in January, you must observe the quarantine requirements for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • To facilitate the required quarantine for students returning to Boston, although Friedman School Spring 2021 courses begin January 20, no in-classroom components of courses will begin until January 28. Please use this week as part of the required quarantine period if needed.

COVID-19 Surveillance Testing Policies and Procedures:

"Remote" Coding in SIS

  • All MAHA, MNSP, MS, and PhD students will have “Remote” as their default coding in SIS. This indicates you do NOT plan to enter any Tufts University building or facility during the semester and you do not plan on attending courses (or other approved activities) on campus. If you are coded as “Remote” you will not be registered for weekly COVID-19 surveillance testing. If this is your plan for the spring, do not complete the COVID-19 Testing Status Qualtrics online form below and no further action is needed.
  • As a reminder, if you will not be on campus at least once weekly, you will not be considered “In-Person” and will not be registered for weekly COVID-19 testing. However, you are still required to follow all other safety measures, including using the symptom checking app before entering any Tufts building, use of mask, handwashing and social distancing.
  • If you are coded “Remote” in SIS and have a change in plans and need to be on campus at least once per week to enter Tufts buildings for classes (or other approved activities), you must email me by NOON on Fridays in order for your COVID-19 surveillance testing to be activated and your name added to the required weekly testing list.

"In-Person" Coding in SIS

  • All students who plan to be on campus for classes or other approved activities at least once per week must have their “Remote” coding in SIS changed to “In-Person” coding which indicates that you are approved to enter Tufts buildings for classes or other approved activities. With an “In-Person” coding in SIS you will be registered for weekly COVID-19 surveillance testing at one of the Tufts University testing centers. 
  • To request to change to "In-Person" coding, you must click here to complete this online Qualtrics link. 
  • Any students with an “In-Person” code in the spring semester will receive a weekly email from Tufts Campus Key to schedule your weekly COVID-19 test.
  • If you have an “In-Person” code in SIS and are attending classes or other approved activities weekly, but do not comply with the weekly required COVID-19 testing, your access to Tufts buildings will be discontinued.
  • If you are coded “In-Person” and have a change in plans and no longer need to be on the Boston campus and tested weekly, you must email me by NOON on Fridays in order for you to be switched back to a “Remote” code in SIS and your name removed from the required weekly testing list so that you will not be expected for testing the subsequent week.

Current Address Field in SIS:

  • It’s important that the Current address field in SIS lists the address where you expect to be located in spring. This is a requirement for the University’s federal reporting and helps faculty be aware of enrolled students that may be in a different time zone as they finalize the design of their course for spring. Here are instructions how to update or add your Current address field in SIS (it’s fine if it duplicates your mailing, home, billing addresses already entered in SIS): http://sites.tufts.edu/sisproject/files/2019/04/Student_Portal_Remove_Address_Hold_2019.pdf

SPRING 2021 REGISTRATION

Please log in to SIS at go.tufts.edu/sis and enroll in your Spring 2021 NUTR courses.

REGISTRATION TOOLS

PhD STUDENTS

  • Don't forget to enroll in the following courses as needed:

    • If you did not yet complete your Qualifying Examination requirement, you must enroll in NUTR 0399. If you passed your Qualifying Examination, you must enroll in NUTR 0403. If you do not enroll in either of these courses you will not be in full-time enrollment status and a late registration fee will automatically be posted to your account in SIS and your loan deferments may be impacted.

    • If you are a BMN PhD student be sure to enroll in NUTR 0250, if you are a NEDS PhD student be sure to enroll in NUTR 0249.

    • If you are an AFE PhD student be sure to enroll in NUTR 0404: Food and Nutrition Policy Doctoral Research Seminar (two or more semesters required), and NUTR 0301: Nutrition in the Life Cycle (prerequisite: NUTR 0202 or equivalent), and complete an advanced analytical course selected jointly with your Advisor (e.g., NUTR 0394: Advanced Data Analysis; fall semester).

    • If you are a FANPP PhD student be sure to enroll in NUTR 0204: Principles of Epidemiology, and NUTR 0210: Survey Research in Nutrition (prerequisite: NUTR 0207 or equivalent), and NUTR 0301:
      Nutrition in the Life Cycle (prerequisite: NUTR 0202 or NUTR 0245 AND NUTR 0246, or equivalent), and NUTR 0404: Food and Nutrition Policy Doctoral Research Seminar (two or more semesters required).

DUAL-DEGREE STUDENTS

  • If you are currently matriculated at Friedman (paying tuition to Friedman) you need to use the cross-registration feature in SIS to enroll in your other school's Spring 2021 courses (e.g., PH, UEP, etc.). If you use the SIS cross-registration feature for enrollment in the courses that you need at your other Tufts school, the system will bypass the instructor approval and go directly to the relevant registrars for approval and enrollment processing.

MNSP (NUTB) COURSES

DIRECTED STUDY COURSES

  • Click here for the directed study course proposal form (Friedman's registrar will enroll you since you cannot independently enroll in a Directed Study course via SIS).

    • Deadline to submit the directed study course proposal form for Spring 2021: February 3, 2021.

    • You may NOT use the mechanism of enrollment in a directed study course with a supervising Friedman faculty member in order to enroll in a course that is offered at a school that's not an approved cross-registration partner (no reciprocity) with the Friedman School.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

  • You need to enroll Full-Time each semester; full-time is defined as a minimum of 9 semester hour units per semester.

  • If you are an international student admitted in the Fall 2020 or admitted in the Spring 2021 semester and located in the U.S., you are required to be enrolled in at least one Hybrid course for F-1 VISA compliance. Please contact Friedman's Registrar if you need help enrolling in a Hybrid course in the spring semester.

  • For more detailed information, please visit the Tufts International Center website: http://ase.tufts.edu/icenter/immigration/J1_students/maintainStatus.asp

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUPPORT

  • Dr. Beth Bennett will be offering individual and group drop-in tutoring sessions for any student who needs English language support. These sessions will run throughout the duration of the spring semester. Weekly times are below.
  • Individual sessions can be booked via the Friedman School Setmore site.
  • The weekly drop-in session on Wednesday can be joined via Zoom; no appointment needed. Please email Dr. Beth Bennet directly for Zoom information for the drop in sessions.
    • Individual sessions
      • Tuesdays, 8:30am-9:30am ET
      • Thursdays, 2:00-3:00pm ET
    • Group drop-in sessions
      • Wednesdays, 4:00-5:00pm ET

CROSS-REGISTRATION

CROSS-REGISTRATION – IMPORTANT ABOUT SPRING 2021

  • Update: If you are planning to graduate in Spring 2021 it is possible this semester to cross-register in an HSHP full spring semester courses or HSPH second half of the spring semester courses because this spring both schools have the same final grades deadline for graduating students (May 17).

  • Click here to review a more detailed overview of the cross-registration process. Friedman’s cross-registration partners (Tufts University, Boston Consortium - Boston University, Boston College, and Brandeis, and Harvard School of Public Health) do not follow the same academic calendar as Friedman's academic calendar so please be sure to review the Host School’s academic calendar for their add/drop deadlines, and other academic dates and deadlines, final exams, and holidays.

  • IMPORTANT: Some of Friedman's Cross-Registration partners cannot permit Friedman students to cross-register in any of their Hybrid/In-Person courses and can only permit cross-registration in the school's Online courses. There are no exceptions to these school's cross-registration policies. Please be sure to review each school's cross-registration policies.

  • Please be patient with the cross-registration process—most schools (including Tufts) will not review/process cross-registration requests until close to the start of the Spring 2021 semester.

  • Also, please note The Fletcher School does not have a pre-registration period so their courses will not be available to request via SIS for cross-registration until closer to the start of the spring semester.

  • Click here to check out Friedman students' cross-registration enrollment trends by degree program.

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