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!