Due to the extremely high demand for our Spanish and insufficient resources to staff all the classes we need, we have had to implement the following policy, starting during the pre-enrollment period for Summer and Fall 2009:

Pre-enrollment of all Spanish classes at the 3000-level and above will be limited to declared Spanish majors or double majors.  Students not able to pre-enroll will be force-added into the classes as space allows, according to the Spanish Force-Add policy. Those students should follow the standard Spanish Force-Add policy as posted on the Spanish Program webpage at http://www.fll.vt.edu/Spanish/, and copied here:  

Force-Add Policy for ALL Spanish classes:

• Do NOT contact the professor about force adding.
• Limited force-adds may be allowed for Spanish classes, depending on enrollments.
• What to do: If you are unable to add the class online, you should attend the class the first week of the semester (unless the professor tells you otherwise). Each day, the professor will pass around a "force add hopefuls" sheet or use another method for determining which students want to force add.
• We must give first consideration to declared Spanish majors, Spanish minors majoring in International or Interdisciplinary Studies, other SPAN minors, then other students, in rank order within each category.
• Often by the end of the first week of classes, students' schedules shift around so that space does open up. If space becomes available, the professor will force add you and notify you of this. It is wise to continue attending the class and doing the assignments in the meantime, in case you are able to get into the class.

Our department is working closely with the Dean to try to address this problem.