Student Resources

The Office of the Associate Dean provides a variety of services to undergraduate students, including:

• Collecting and processing appeals for the Weissman Committee on Academic Standing and the Pathways Appeal Committee
• Collecting and processing credit overload and pass/fail applications for Weissman students
• Approving independent study proposals
• Reviewing liberal arts ad hoc major proposals

Please review the Weissman Forms and Applications page for detailed information and instructions.

Our office (Room 8-265, Vertical Campus) is open Monday through Friday from 9:00AM – 5:00PM. Not all staff members are physically in the office on any given day. As such, the best way to communicate with staff members is via email.

You may continue to email the office at WSAS.AssocDean@baruch.cuny.edu with inquiries or call us at 646-312-3890.

Winter/Spring 2025 Registration Permission

Important Pathways General Education Curriculum News – Science Requirements

• Students are no longer required to take matching sets of lecture and lab courses as co-requisites.

• EFFECTIVE FALL 2024: Students may select one course from the Life and Physical Sciences list and ANY course from the Scientific World list.

Please carefully review requirements on Baruch’s Pathways Required Core and Pathways Flexible Core pages. 

Arts and Sciences courses:

Students who need registration permission for Weissman courses must contact the relevant academic departments; please check the department sites for contact information.

Business courses for Weissman majors:

Students in the following Weissman majors take business courses as part of their programs: Actuarial Science; Business Communications – Corporate Communication, Graphic Communication, and Business Writing specializations; Computer Science; Financial Mathematics; Music – Management of Musical Enterprises specialization; Economics-BA; and Statistics-BA.

A student who has been officially accepted into their Weissman major should not require registration permission for the relevant business courses.

Notes for Business Course Requests:

If you have not yet completed the official major declaration process, you may request permission to enroll in the upper-level business courses by clicking the course request link below.

To be eligible for upper-level (3000-level and above) business courses in the major, you must have completed at least 45 credits, must have satisfied your Pathways general education and your major’s mathematics requirements, and must have started required and/or elective courses in the major.

• The Associate Dean’s Office does not waive course prerequisites.
• The Associate Dean’s Office does not enter permission for closed sections.  If the business class/section you want is full, you may use the Zicklin waitlist feature.
• The Associate Dean’s Office does not enter registration permission for optional business minor courses.

CLICK HERE for the business course request form