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Welcome to UW-Parkside

Welcome to UW-Parkside. Your advisor is different from your high school counselor…. Doesn’t pick your classes for you. Helps you develop your own success plan. Helps empower you to make your own decisions. Integrates career goals with your academic plan.

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Welcome to UW-Parkside

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  1. Welcome to UW-Parkside

  2. Your advisor is different from your high school counselor… • Doesn’t pick your classes for you. • Helps you develop your own success plan. • Helps empower you to make your own decisions. • Integrates career goals with your academic plan. You are required to see your advisor to remove your advising hold that appears before registration every term. (See your advisor in Nov/Dec for spring classes and April/May for fall classes) There are several different kinds of advisors at Parkside including general, departmental, and faculty advisors.

  3. Academic Tools • College Catalog • Majors in alphabetical order • Requirements for each major • Course descriptions • Prerequisites • College policies • Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS) • Detailed progress report on finishing your specific degree requirements • What you have done and what you need to do academically

  4. Academic Tools • Course Schedule • Guide to courses offered in the upcoming semester • Lists important dates and deadlines for the semester • Available from SOLAR, UW-P website & paper • Course Syllabi • Guide to learning goals, expectations, requirements and grading for each course you take • Parkside Academic Support System (P.A.S.S.) • Early alert at third week and midterm • Communications between you, your professor and your advisor

  5. Academic Placement • Placed into math, writing and reading based on most recent ACT/SAT or Wisconsin placement test • Place into Spanish, French and German based on the Wisconsin Placement Test • Opportunities to change placement: • Retake ACT/SAT • Take/retake Wisconsin Placement Test • Potentially place higher or lower

  6. Math/Computational Skills Successful completion of ACSK A015 required within first 30 degree credits of work MATH 102 or 111 with C- or better required within first 60 degree credits of work

  7. Writing Skills Successful completion of ACSK A090 required within first 30 degree credits of work ENGL 101 with C- or better required within first 60 degree credits of work

  8. Reading Skills Successful completion of ACSK A083 required within the first 2 semesters ACSK A085 recommended, but not required

  9. Academic Skills (ACSK) • ACSK courses with an “A” course number prefix • Do not count towards credit for graduation but do count towards financial aid, insurance eligibility, and residence life requirements • Credit/no credit grading

  10. Information Literacy “…defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand” (Nat’l Form on Information Literacy) • Introduced during ENGL 101, but can be completed independently • Online tutorial with quizzes • Must score 80% or higher • Find information by searching www.uwp.edu and keyword: Information Literacy • Must be completed within first 60 credits

  11. Summary • First two semesters • If required, ACSK A083 must be successfully completed within the first two semesters. • 30 Credit Rule Any required Academic Skills math and writing courses must be completed within the first 30 degree credits. • 60 Credit Rule • Computational skills, writing skills and information literacy requirements must be completed within the first 60 degree credits

  12. Foreign Language • Ways to complete: • Two years of same language in high school with C average in the second year • Two semesters of same language in college • One year in high school, second semester of language in college • Wisconsin Placement Test available to those who want to continue with French, German or Spanish in college

  13. Ethnic Diversity • All students must complete one diversity course • May count as both General Education and Diversity • Identified as (DV) on General Education Sheet

  14. General Education Three main categories • Humanities and Arts • Social and Behavioral Science • Natural Science • Twelve (12) credits • Usually 4 courses = 12 credits • You must take classes from three different departments • In other words, no more than two classes from any one department

  15. Credit Minimums Minimum of 120 credits required for graduation • 8 semesters (4 years) x 15 credits = 120 • 10 semesters (5 years) x 12 credits = 120 Minimum of 36 credits in courses numbered 300 or above. Minimum of 15 credits in major in courses numbered 300 or above.

  16. Balance & Scheduling • 12 credits to be full time • Typical schedule should be 12 - 16 credits • Math (3-4) • English (3) • ACSK A083 (if required) (2) • Elective (3) • Elective (3) • Make an appointment with your advisor within the first three weeks of the semester • Check SOLAR and Ranger Email often • Double check your schedule • Double check your contact information • Find out what books you will need

  17. Registering in SOLAR • Movie to be added

  18. Now go see your advisor & get registered!

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