Advance Registration Guide Fall '25
Welcome to the Advance Registration Guide! Use this page to find articles including double count courses, fun classes to take next semester, and promoted courses. This guide will be updated each semester ahead of advance registration.
The Environmental Innovations Initiative's online course inventory provides a comprehensive, searchable tool to enable students to identify courses related to climate, environment, energy, sustainability, and societal resilience. Now updated for the fall 2025 semester, the course inventory includes course offerings for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. The course inventory is searchable by keyword, topic, and academic unit, allowing students to find environment-related offerings across disciplines.
Contemporary Jewish identity exists at an uneasy cross-section of race, religion and ethnicity. This course aims to expose students to the diversity of Jewish experience through the lenses of race and religion, examining the various ways these categories intersect and complicate each other. How can the study of race and religion help us to understand the present and future of Jewish life? How do Jews figure in the study of race and race relations in North America and Israel? Of what relevance are racial categorizations and religious concepts for understanding anti-Jewish hatred? This course aims to address these questions in light of a range of intellectual perspectives and disciplinary approaches. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:15–11:45 am.
Contemporary Jewish identity exists at an uneasy cross-section of race, religion and ethnicity. This course aims to expose students to the diversity of Jewish experience through the lenses of race and religion, examining the various ways these categories intersect and complicate each other. How can the study of race and religion help us to understand the present and future of Jewish life? How do Jews figure in the study of race and race relations in North America and Israel? Of what relevance are racial categorizations and religious concepts for understanding anti-Jewish hatred? This course aims to address these questions in light of a range of intellectual perspectives and disciplinary approaches. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:15–11:45 am.
From biology to math, here’s how Penn STEM departments have changed their curriculum
Changes include the removal of biology major concentrations, new policies surrounding retroactive credit in the Department of Mathematics, and the sunsetting of the systems science and engineering major.
Five classes to lighten your fall 2025 schedule
The Daily Pennsylvanian compiled a comprehensive list of recommended courses based on data from Penn Course Review.
Penn Global announces 2025-26 global seminars, adds eight new destinations
The new courses will take students across four continents and span a variety of disciplines, from reproductive health to engineering.
A look inside Penn’s student course review process and how it's used by faculty, departments
The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with Penn faculty members about student course evaluations, with many noting significant room for improvement to the process.
Path@Penn launches new course planning feature
Students can access the Path Plans tool by selecting the “Primary Plan” button on the Path@Penn webpage.