Class Enrollment

At Knox, you will face all sorts of choices, including the very important choice of which classes to take each term. To help you find your way through the sometimes daunting array of options, you will be guided primarily?though not exclusively?through your relationship with your academic advisor.

All students at Knox?not just first-year students?consult with an advisor each term to plan their course of study and discuss how things are going. If possible, you will be matched with a faculty member based on your academic interests.

When you arrive on campus for orientation, you will meet with your academic advisor, to talk about your academic goals and interests and plan your courses for the first term and beyond. To get ready for these meetings, you will receive a course schedule by mail in July. You can also find course descriptions and schedules, suggested prerequisites and a complete listing of all degree and major requirements online through the Office of the Registrar. In the July mailing, we will ask you to give us a list of courses that you would prefer to take this fall term, and we will use this information to make whatever adjustments in our course offerings we can to increase your possibility of successfully enrolling in the courses you want most. After you arrive on campus and meet with your advisor, you can make changes to the courses that you have selected.

If you have taken advanced placement, A-level or international baccalaureate exams, or if you have taken courses at another college for credit, be sure to have official transcripts documenting the work sent to the College. If you are a high school student, be sure to make arrangements with your high school to have your final transcript sent to the College. Send this information directly to:

Knox College Office of the Registrar
Campus Box 145
Galesburg, IL 61401

While we need to have information on your prior coursework before you arrive on campus for orientation, keep in mind that you do not need to have everything figured out before you arrive. There are courses and subjects offered at Knox?perhaps even entire academic disciplines?that you have not yet encountered, and we'd like the chance to introduce you to them before you decide too much. Each term that you are at Knox, you will discover new things you want to try, new things you're anxious to learn more about. So it would be premature to commit yourself to an overly detailed strategy at this point. All you need to get started is an open mind, a very general plan, and a willingness to be flexible.