Course Selection for Winter Term
Pre-Meeting Blitz
- Blitz your advisees to let know that you will be available for a
meeting.
- Instruct them to fill out the “Advising Questionnaire” online before their
appointment with you.
- Remind advisees that they (probably) have to register their choices for
WRIT 5 sections or First-Year Seminars through bannerstudent online. (This will
not apply to those students who took their First-Year Seminar in the fall
term.)
Things to Cover
- Suitability of fall term courses.
- Course selection for Winter term, including alternate
schedules for capped courses.
- Plans for language requirements. Most LSA (and FSP)
application deadlines for 07-08 are Feb. 1. Your advisee should
have a clear plan about how s/he is going to fulfill the language
requirement.
- Encourage your advisee to think of fulfilling Distributive
Requirements as a mechanism of exploration.
- Reference Letters: Discuss the fact that every
student is going to have to ask members of the faculty for reference letters at
some point (perhaps as early as winter term, when applying for Off-Campus
Programs or summer internships). Have they had any one-on-one
conversations with their professors? Are they using office hours?
Remind students that they are not locked into their initial selections for
the first two weeks. They can drop or add any class freely until
January 11. They can add a course with the permission of
instructor until January 18. They can drop a third course
without penalty until January 18. They can drop a fourth
course without penalty until February 15.
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