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Winter Session

December 30, 2024 -  January 19, 2025

Winter Session offers accelerated online courses over your winter break to catch up, get ahead, or stay on track for graduation! The courses are self-paced and will require about 35 hours per week of classwork. Complete a course and earn 3 credit hours!

Step 1: See your course options

We will continue to update the list of courses available for Winter Session through most of fall semester.

See 2024-2025 Winter Session Course List


Step 2: Register for Winter Session

Registration opens in the fall at the same time as spring classes and can be completed at the same time.

  1. Log into your account on my.sc.edu.
  2. Choose the Student tab.
  3. Click on the Registration section.
  4. Select "Browse Classes."
  5. View Spring 2024 classes.
  6. Choose Advanced Search.
  7. Select Part of Term “Columbia Winter Session.”
  8. Pick your class and click on "Add" to add it to your schedule and summary.
  9. Click on Submit in the bottom right-hand corner to finalize your registration.

For more help with registration, contact your advisor or watch the Advising Center's video tutorial.

The accelerated pace and shortened course length helped me balance my fall and spring courseloads. The highly-organized, online course was easy to keep up with even though I was overseas for part of the course period.

— Winter session 2022-2023 student


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