Tutorial Registration 2021

You will find here tutorial registration policies, guidelines, and instructions. If you enroll after April 12, please contact your program coordinator to register for your tutorial.

Tutorial Registration Policies

As you make your tutorial selections, please be aware of the following policies:

  • If you took an AWT in summer 2020, you may take an AWT with the same professor in 2021, provided that the project you pursue is new.
  • If you took a First-Year Tutorial in Critical Writing in summer 2020, you may take the Tutorial in Critical Writing in summer 2021 with a different professor.
  • The standard academic load is two units. Only those students who have received pre-approval to take an overload (three units) may do so: contact your program coordinator to make that request.

General Guidelines

The BannerWeb course registration system will:

  • Show you immediately whether you are registered in a tutorial and allow you to make another selection.
  • Allow you to register for one or two units, or for three units if you have been pre-approved to do so.
  • Allow you to drop or add a tutorial or add your name to a tutorial waitlist during the BannerWeb registration period.

In order to register, you will need Course Registration Numbers (CRNs), listed here. 

Students will be allowed to register in certain time blocks, determined by your progress towards the degree. For example: new students are BL10; students who have completed 2 courses are BL20; 4 courses are BL30. BL70 applies to students with special circumstances, and BL80 to non-degree students.  

The Middlebury Registrar’s office will send an email informing you of your registration time slot.

Registration Schedule and Instructions

Each registration session opens on the day listed at 4 pm (EDT) and remains open through 5 pm (EDT) on Monday, April 12, the last day of the tutorial registration period.

Wednesday, April 7: BL50, BL45, BL70

Thursday, April 8: BL40, BL35, BL30

Friday, April 9: BL60, BL80, BL10, BL15, BL20, BL25

You may preview your registration window by logging into BannerWeb/Registration, selecting the appropriate summer session for BLSE and “Check Your Registration Status” or “Register Add/Drop Classes.”

Follow these step-by-step instructions to register for tutorials in BannerWeb. Please note that class meeting times are listed within BannerWeb simply as placeholders; your tutorial will “meet” at times you determine together as a group prior to the start of the session.

Bread Loaf Degree Requirements

To monitor your progress towards your degree, follow these instructions to view your Degree Progress Worksheet in BannerWeb.

Students Admitted in 2013 and After

M.A. candidates must take a total of ten units within a ten-year period. Ordinarily, courses at our U.S. campuses are one unit each; at the Oxford campus, two units each. Our 2021 tutorials carry either one unit or two units of credit. Each unit carries the equivalent of three-semester hours of graduate credit (30 class hours). Students must earn a B- or better in any given course or tutorial to receive credit.

Five of the ten units must fulfill the following distributional requirements:

  • 1 unit in Group 2: British Literature: Beginnings through the 17th Century
  • 1 unit in Group 3: British Literature: 18th Century to the Present
  • 1 unit in Group 4: American Literature
  • 1 unit in Group 5: World Literature
  • 1 additional course in Group 2, 3, 4, or 5

The remaining five units are electives and can come from any of the above Groups or from Group 1 (Writing, Pedagogy, and Literacy) or Group 6 (Theater Arts).

Students Admitted Before 2013

Distributional requirements for M.A. candidates admitted before 2013 are as follows:

  • 2 units in Group 2: British Literature: Beginnings through the 17th Century
  • 2 units in Group 3: British Literature: 18th Century to the Present
  • 1 unit in Group 4: American Literature
  • 1 unit in Group 5: World Literature

Students can replace any one of these six requirements with an elective, with permission of the dean. The remaining four units are electives and can come from any of the above Groups or from Group 1 (Writing, Pedagogy, and Literacy) or Group 6 (Theater Arts).

Students admitted before 2013 may elect to fulfill the new distributional requirements.

Waitlists

When a tutorial is fully enrolled, students have the option to add their names to a waitlist for that tutorial. In the event that someone drops the tutorial, students will be offered the space in the order in which they have registered. If an opening emerges in a tutorial for which you have been waitlisted, you will receive an email letting you know, and you will have two days to accept the space before it is offered to someone else.