Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Matriculated HWS students and current faculty/staff who wish to audit a class must obtain approval from the instructor offering the class. This approval must be granted either using the Course Audit Registration Form or an email from the instructor to the Registrar's Office. Matriculated students can only audit one class in a given semester and no more than four course audits during their undergraduate career; there are no limits to the number of courses a faculty/staff member can audit. There is no additional tuition for matriculated students or current faculty/staff who register to audit a course.

Non-matriculated HWS students who wish to audit a class must obtain approval from the instructor offering the class. This approval must be granted either using the Course Audit Registration Form or an email from the instructor to the Registrar's Office. There is a nominal fee to audit a course as a non-matriculated student ($150 or $75 for people 55 and older). More information can be obtained from the Registrar’s Office.

• Audits may be added only during the add/drop period of the semester.
• Audited classes carry no credit and do not apply toward graduation requirements, or enrollment status.
• Students and faculty/staff auditing a course are not expected to submit any work for the course unless the instructor requires it as part of the auditing arrangement.
• The instructor of an audited course is not expected to grade any work from an auditing student, nor track an auditing student's participation or attendance.
• Auditors cannot change a course from an audit to a graded course (including CR/DCR/NC) at any time during the semester they are auditing the course.
• The instructor of record reserves the right to de-register an auditor at any time.
• A notation of "AUD" will appear on auditors' transcripts for audited courses.