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UW-Madison is fortunate to have a large and diverse population of special students. In an effort to serve all students attending UW-Madison, special students are welcome to enroll in courses taught by the Math Department. The department will take the necessary and appropriate steps to audit special students for course prerequisites and/or preparation, and will offer course advising where requested or warranted. Enrollment depends on department permission and space availability for courses.
For summer term: please be sure to review the UW-Madison Summer Term visiting student page in addition to Math Department-specific information.
Special Student Types & How to Become One
Adult Career and Special Student Services (ACSSS) has information on the different types of special and guest student types, as well as how to become one.
Enrollment Request Forms & FAQs
Special students should not contact individual instructors in the Math Department for course enrollment permissions. Course enrollment for the Math Department is not managed by individual instructors.
Rather, special students should fill out an enrollment request form for a particular semester to request enrollment permission for courses.
Special students should also review our FAQ page for answers to more common questions.
High School Specials & (Senior) Guest Auditors: please see the High School Student, Guest Auditor, or Senior Guest Auditor pages to learn about program-specific enrollment policies.
Note that while we work to help qualified students enroll in the math courses of their choosing if a section of a course is waitlisted or closed, your enrollment is not guaranteed. Therefore, you should try to indicate courses and sections of interest that are open when possible. Note that we also give enrollment priority to regularly enrolled students at UW-Madison.
To receive a seat saved in a section of your choice, complete this form before December 9, 2024 at 11:59 PM. Students who request enrollment after this deadline will still be given enrolment permission if they have met the course requisites, but they will only be able to enroll if there are open seats in the course when their enrollment period begins. Seats will only be reserved if the section is open. If a course fills before December 9th, students may not be given a saved seat. For the most up-to-date information about section availability, please see Course Search and Enroll.
Courses & Enrollment
A list of math course descriptions, prerequisite information, credit loads, etc., can be found via the Guide.
For access to the Course Search & Enroll app—which is used to browse course sections, view course information, and enroll in courses—please see here for directions. Note that not every course is offered each semester, but certain courses are offered frequently or, in some cases, every semester (i.e., linear algebra, calculus, probability, etc.).
Tutoring
Students taking math coursework are encouraged to take advantage of the tutoring and resources provided by the Math Learning Center (MLC). This resource is open to any student in a math course!