How Your Academic adviser Can Help You
Your academic adviser can:
- Help you understand your degree requirements and show you how to read your degree audit. If you are confused by your degree audit, or think it is incorrect, your adviser can help you understand or correct it.
- Discuss your tracking requirements, including what you should be doing to stay on track. Some students may have Universal Tracking holds because they are not progressing in their major. Your adviser can help you determine what you need to do to get back on track, or help you identify your options if you need to change majors.
- Determine why a college hold has been placed on your record and what you need to do to resolve it. Your college may place holds on students who are on probation as well as students who are not meeting college progression standards.
- Explain placement and prerequisites for the courses you are thinking of taking next term. A number of courses require placement (readiness assessments or SAT II exams) or have prerequisite courses that must be completed or in progress to register.
- Help you identify your options if you are having difficulty THIS semester. Often, dealing with a problem early will provide you with more options.
- Describe how to use the registration system. Some students don’t know how to search for certain types of classes or requirements such as General Education. Your adviser can explain how to use ISIS, but will normally ask that you register in ISIS yourself.
- If a course is departmentally controlled , you must talk to the department or program that offers the class to see if you are eligible to register for it.
- If you need credit from other institutions evaluated for your major or minor, you should visit the appropriate department. Your adviser can evaluate credit from other institutions that may count for General Education requirements. Please remember to bring along a course description for credits in question.
- If you are having trouble getting into a particular course, your adviser typically does not have the ability to place you into full classes. You may contact the department that offers the course. If your problem is a course prerequisite issue, they may be able to help you.
- Your adviser can help you identify and contact other helpful sites on campus, such as academic assistance and counseling services.
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