Welcome to the Freshmen Mandatory Advising
Workshop
Presented by the Academic Advising
Center
You need to have:
CSULB Catalog
CSULB Spring 2004 Schedule of Classes (when available)
Paper and Pen or Pencil
Education Pays!
2001 - annual average earnings for ages 18 and over who completed high school -
$23,594
2001 - annual average earnings for students with a bachelors degree -
$43,782
Taken from Bureau of the Census,U.S Dept. of Commerce 03/02
Are you in the right workshop?
Disabled Student Services
Educational Equity Services
GLOBE / Int’l Freshmen
Learning Alliance Liberal
Studies/ITEP
Mesa Engineering Program (MEP)
Student Access to Science (SAS)
Student Athletes President’s
Scholars University
Honors Program
If you are in a special program, you must check in with your advising
office for special advising:
Why Mandatory Advising?
Mandatory Advising gives you:
the tools to be successful in college to meet your educational goals;
the tools to create an appropriate second semester schedule;
satisfies your advising requirement and permanently lifts the advising hold on your records.
Your MyCSULB and CSULB email Account
Check your email account regularly for important campus information .
Check your MyCSULB website for registration HOLDS.
Be sure all “holds” have been cleared by the appropriate office before registering.
Check your “To do list” for other important information.
Your MyCSULB and CSULB
email Account Check your email account
regularly for important information.
Check your MyCSULB website for registration HOLDS.
Be sure all “holds” have been cleared by the appropriate office before registering.
Check your “To Do List” for other important information.
Important Questions• Have you forwarded your Advanced
Placement (AP) exam or International Baccalaureate (IB) higher level exam scores to Enrollment Services?
• Contact College Board at: (888) 225-5427
• Do you know that your pre-bacc courses must be completed in your first year? (Math 1, Math 10, Engl 1E, ALP145, and ALP 150).
• Do you understand the Writing Proficiency Exam (WPE) requirement?
Important Questions
• Have you forwarded your Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) higher level exam scores to Enrollment Services?
• Do you know that your pre-bacc courses must be completed in your first year? (Math 1, Math 10, Engl 1E, APL145, and ALP 150)
• Do you understand the Writing Proficiency Exam (WPE) requirement?
Important Questions
• Have you forwarded your Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) higher level exam scores to Enrollment Services?
• Do you know that your pre-bacc courses must be completed in your first year? (Math 1, Math 10, Engl 1E, ALP145, ALP 150).
• Do you understand the Writing Proficiency Exam (WPE) requirement?
Univ.100
GeneralEducation
Major Electives Co-CurricularActivities
Components of the Baccalaureate
Degree
What is the purpose of
General Education?
Foundation Courses
What skills courses are included in the Foundation curriculum?
Within how many earned baccalaureate units must the Foundation curriculum be completed?
What minimum grade is required?
Choose GE Courses for Success!!
Think Large!
How many GE units do you need to
graduate?
How many must be upper-division?
Important Instructions for Spring 2004
Those of you who pass: English 1E, take a
composition 100 course (A.1.);
Composition 100, take a Critical Thinking course (A.3.);
Pre-bacc Math 1, take pre-bacc Math 10.
Pre-bacc Math 10, take a GE Math course (B.2.), especially if you know your major.
Important Reminders
Save three areas in your GE pattern for the upper division GE courses that you will take in your junior and senior years.
Be sure to see your advisors in the Academic Advising Center next Spring and Fall for upper division information.
Visit your undergraduate faculty advisor next Spring to discuss your major requirements.
Most Engineering students can waive six units of lower division General Education. Meet with your Engineering advisor to discuss GE themes.
General Education/Major Overlap
Do not use courses from your major departments for General Education except for courses in:
Category A. Category B.1.a. (Biology
majors) Category B.2. (Math majors) Category C.1. (Art and Music
majors) Category D.1.a. (History
majors) Category D.1.b. (Political
Science majors) All Interdisciplinary courses All Human Diversity Courses
General Education/Major Overlap
Do not use courses from your major departments for General Education except for courses in:
Category A. Category B.1.a. (Biology
majors) Category B.2. (Math majors) Category C.1. (Art and Music
majors) Category D.1.a. (History
majors) Category D.1.b. (Political
Science majors) All Interdisciplinary courses All Human Diversity Courses
Undeclared Major
Must be fully declared into a major program by 60 units.
General Education – great opportunity to explore potential majors.
Academic Advising Center is the “home base” for undeclared students.
Major Departments
Advise students on their major requirements.
Give students the major program planner.
Important source for course sequencing suggestions and unique requirements.
Impacted Programs
Studio Art Bachelor of Fine Arts–all options Psychology Business (all options) Film and Electronic Arts Health Science – Radiation Therapy Kinesiology & Physical Educ.(KPE)
– Athletic Training; Exercise Sci.; Kinesiotherapy
Nursing Social Work
Impacted Programs – Spring 2004
Criminal Justice Speech Communications-all options
Impacted Programs – Fall 2004
Family and Consumer Science (FCS): Fashion Merchandising; Child and Family Development; Nutrition and Dietetics.
Liberal Studies – Teacher track (ITEP)
Academic Probation CSULB or cumulative GPA falls
below a 2.00 or “C” average.
2 semesters to improve GPA to 2.00 or above.
Subject to disqualification if the GPA is not returned to a 2.00 by the end of the second semester.
Come to the Academic Advising Center to develop the best strategy for academic improvement.
Repeat/Delete Policy Courses with grades of D, F, or U
can be repeated ONCE for the purpose of deleting the first grade.
Both attempts must be taken at CSULB.
Must earn “C” or better on SECOND attempt to delete the first grade.
Second grades of D, F, or U will not be substituted for the first grade thus further lowering the grade point average.
Important Registration Information Buy the Spring 2004 Schedule of
Classes when it is available.
Check your registration appointment date from your MyCSULB website.
Know your campus I.D. number and password to access your MyCSULB account.
Pay fees by the appropriate deadlines.
Scholarship/Financial Aid students are pre-paid in many cases.
Make sure all holds have been lifted by the appropriate offices.
Remember If you pass English 1E, take
composition 100 (A.1.) If you pass Math 1, take Math
10. If you pass Math 10 take a GE
math (B.2.) Repeat any pre-bacc course
you do not pass. Successfully complete all pre-
bac courses by Spring 2004 Take University 100 if you
haven’t already done so.
New Considerations for Spring 2004
Reevaluate Spring course selections after completing Fall courses. Adjust if necessary.
Take a GE foundation course that you are missing.
Take a lower division “major” course.
Take a non-GE elective such as a major introductory course or an activity course.
Visit our website: www.csulb.edu/centers/advising
Go forth and do well!