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Helping a Student Look Ahead

As you meet with students to think about their Spring 2005 schedule (and beyond), here are a few things we think you might keep in mind.

Foundations vs. the rest of the curriculum

Foundations courses are designed to be mostly completed by the end of the sophomore year.

Core Curriculum (those with CORE course numbers) courses are designed to be done in the junior & senior years.

While Foundations courses can be helpful in helping students choose a major, the technique of "getting core out of the way" in order to avoid deciding on a major tends not be successful. This is mainly a difference in the student's attitude. Students who haven't fixed an academic path should be encouraged to actively explore.

Seat Availability

You probably noticed that students, especially younger students who register later and those who did not register on time, had difficulty getting into Winter classes.
This seems in part to have been because of more students on campus. We lost fewer students than we were anticipating, more came back from Stop-Out, and the entering class was almost 100 students larger than anticipated. All around, we had several hundred more students.
It seems reasonable to expect, then, that Spring may well be tight, too. Encourage your students to find many alternate course in case their first (or second) choices are full, and to seek out help if their schedule doesn't come out right.
We can generally help students find a workable schedule. The tight seat situation just makes the process more work.

Early Registration

Students have early registration for one or more of these reasons: they are student-athletes, early registration is an accommodation for a disability, or the student is on study abroad.

These students register during Advising Week, the week before the rest of the continuing students, which we call Priority Registration (i.e. continuing students have priority over incoming students).

Once Priority Registration begins, students who have early registration basically lose any advantage that conferred. So a student who either didn't register or couldn't register because of a hold doesn't have much recourse.

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