Important Information

This course requires department approval for permission to the course. Begin your request by filling out the online form linked above. After you submit the form, it will take some time for your request to be reviewed manually by human eye, by someone who is juggling multiple responsibiilties, so awaiting results of your request can take several weeks; the schedule listed below will give you a sense of generally when you can expect to hear back. Providing detailed, accurate information with your permission request will help with ensuring that it only needs to be reviewed once. Submitting the form multiple times is fine, your most recent submission will be the one reviewed.

Please be advised that permission is prioritized to graduating seniors with an internship or supervised project. A supervised project means having both a project and supervisor. Please see the Resources page for a list of pre-approved projects along with a list of characteristics of an appropriate project and supervisor. Your supervisor can be anyone with at least 12 months full time experience. If you are coming up with your own project idea, your supervisor must be someone currently working in the field.

All sections are treated as one large cohort, sections will be randomly assigned.

Group projects are allowed. Groups can be composed of members enrolled in any section. All members of the group who would like to be enrolled in CISC 4900 should submit a form.

Please be patient while waiting for your permission request to be reviewed, it takes time to manually review each request. The schedule for when you can expect to be notified is shown below. When permission is granted, you'll be given notice that you can register along with a specific section; you will be able to register for the section you've been given permission to enroll in via CUNYFirst. 

Important dates regarding the review process

For Spring enrollment:

Submit by	Notified by
First Friday of October	Last Friday of October
First Friday of November	First Friday of December
Last day of classes	First Friday following end of Finals Week

Any permission requests for Spring submitted after the last day of finals week are not guaranteed to be accepted. Permission requests will not be reviewed during the 4 week period starting on Christmas Day and 4 weeks after.


For Summer (session 1) enrollment:

Submit by	Notified by
First Friday in April	Last Friday in April
Last day of classes	End of Finals Week

Any permission requests for Summer, session 1 submitted after the last day of classes for Spring semester are not guaranteed to be accepted.
*Please note that Summer Session is a 5 week course, so summer enrollment is limited to those who already have a project and can devote full-time to their project (i.e. 40-45hrs/week).

For Fall enrollment:

Submit by	Notified by
First Friday of April	First Thursday of May
First Friday of May	First Thursday of June
Last Friday of May	Second Monday of June
Last Friday of July	Two weeks before semester start

Permission requests will not be reviewed between the first Friday in June through the 2nd Friday of August. Any permission requests for Fall submitted after July are not guaranteed to be accepted.
*Please note that priority approval is granted to those with an appropriate internship or supervised project. If you have not found a project by the review date of the wave you've submitted, please re-submit the form when you find a supervised project.

For questions about CISC 4900, please reach out to katherine.chuang @ brooklyn.cuny.edu