Nuts

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Nuts Boltsof Advising

• September 21, 2007
• Linda Searing, Director of Academic Advisement
• Elaine Missel, Transfer Credit Evaluator

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Todays agenda

• Review Core requirements
• How to read Program Evaluations (Degree Audits)

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The Naz system for earning a degree

• Core curriculum
• Major requirements
• Teacher Certification
• Minor requirements
• Electives
• 120 semester hours minimum for all degrees

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120 credits!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• A minimum of 120 credits is required to
  earn a baccalaureate degree
• Some degrees require more than 120 credits (ex
  Music Education)

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Liberal Arts Requirement

• B.A. degree requires 90 liberal arts credits
• B.S. degree requires 60 liberal arts credits
• Mus.B degree requires 45 liberal arts credits

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Liberal Arts, cont.

• Courses taught without regard to specialization
  in preparation for a vocation
• All core courses are classified as liberal arts
  courses
• See p. 26 of Academic Policies book
• Advising code of R

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Todays presentation describes current core

• This core is formally named the Liberal Studies
  Core
• Often referred to as the Perspectives Core

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Liberal Studies Core Curriculum (p.11)

• Freshman Seminar
• College Writing 101 102
• Modern Foreign Language
• Perspectives I courses (PIs)
• Perspectives II courses (PIIs)
• Global Studies course
• Writing Intensive courses
• Writing Assessment
• Physical Education (2 semesters/non credit)

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Freshman Seminar (FRS 101)

• 3 credits
• Required for first-time freshmen

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English Writing

• 2 courses (6 credits)
• ENGW 101 ENGW 102
• or equivalent
• (ENGW 103, 251W, 252)

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Modern Foreign Language (p.14)

• 2 semesters (6 credits) same language
• Required for
• B.A. programs
• B.S. programs with Education, unless high
  school language proficiency is met (85 on
  Regents Exam)
• Some Mus.B. programs

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Perspectives I (PI) courses

• 25 credits (8 courses)
• One introductory course in each of the 8
  perspectives areas
• Applies to all degree programs
• No exceptions or waivers!

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Perspectives I Areas8 courses/areas 25 credits

• Fine Arts (Art, Music, Theatre Arts)
• History
• Literature
• Mathematics
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Natural Science with laboratory
• Social Science (Anthropology, Economics,
  Geography, Political Science, Psychology,
  Sociology)

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• PI courses may be introductory courses in a major
  or required for a major
• Social Work major requires ECO 101, PSY 101 and
  SOC 101 (all PI courses)
• History major requires 4 PI HIS courses

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Identifying Perspectives Courses

• PI or PII at the beginning of course title
• ENGL 143 PI Novel
• ENGL 344 PII African-Amer Lit
• HIS 101 PI Western Civilization I

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PI Gotchas

• PI Fine Arts
• History or appreciation of a fine art
• Studios and lessons do not apply
• PI History
• Separate area
• Not a social science
• PI Literature
• Literature not writing courses
• PI Natural Science with laboratory
• Natural not social science labs

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Perspectives II (PII) courses

• 3-4 courses
• PI course in the area is generally required
  before taking a PII course
• For B.A. degree
• 4 courses in four different areas (not subjects),
  excluding the area in which the major resides
• 1 PII course must be math or science

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Perspective II courses, cont.

• For B.S. and Mus.B. degrees
• 3 courses in three different areas (not
  subjects), excluding the area in which the major
  resides
• PII math or science course not required for core
  but may be required for major

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• Some PII courses are required by the academic
  major
• MTH 207 (PII Statistics) is required for several
  majors Accounting, Economics, Nursing, Social
  Work, etc.
• PSY 323 (PII Abnormal Psychology) is required for
  Physical Therapy and Social Work

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• Liberal Studies (LST), Womens Studies (WMS) and
  Honors (HON) courses satisfy PII requirements

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PII Gotchas

• PII courses must be completed in 3 or 4 different
  areas, not subjects
• For example
• Art, Music and Theatre are different subjects but
  they are in the same area, ie. Fine Arts.
• Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Political
  Science, Psychology and Sociology are different
  subjects but are in the same area, ie. Social
  Science.
• a

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PI and PII Gotchas

• These are NOT PI or PII courses. Roman numeral
  is located elsewhere in course title.
• ENGL 201 Survey British Lit I
• ENGL 204 Voices Amer Lit II
• MUS 123 Music Theory I
• PSY 321 Devl II Mid Age Aging

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Core Waivers for transfer students entering with
AA AS degrees (p.11)

• Freshman Seminar is waived
• ENGW 102 is waived
• 2 PII courses are required rather than 3 or 4
• 1 W course required rather than 3. (This is
  true for all transfer students entering with
  junior class status)

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Residency requirement

• The college requires every graduate to complete a
  minimum of 30 undergraduate hours of study at
  Nazareth College as a matriculated student.
• At least 2 perspectives courses must be taken at
  Nazareth College (PI or PII).

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Identifying Course Attributes

• Alpha code in the 4th position of course number
  (p.12)
• G Global Perspectives
• K Global and Writing Intensive
• L Laboratory
• W Writing Intensive

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Writing Intensive Courses

• Flagged as W in 4th position of course number
• Examples
• ENGW 251W
• MGT 301W
• Approved by WAC committee
• Receive 2 grades
• Mastery of subject (letter grade)
• Writing Assessment (pass/fail)

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K courses

• Writing Intensive and Global course
• Examples
• ANT 313K
• NSG 336K
• RES 103K

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W Course Gotchas

• The word writing in, or implied in, the course
  title doesnt always mean the course is approved
  as a W course.
• ENGW 351 Technical and Professional Writing (p25)
  is NOT a W course.
• Youll be doing a LOT of writing in this course
  doesnt always mean the course is approved as a
  W course.
• Beware of 2 sections of a course in the same
  semester. One may be W and the other not.
• ENGL 143 30 vs. ENGL 143W 30 (p24)

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Advisement Footnotes (p.12)

• Alpha codes listed under the course title in
  field called Adv Codes
• R Liberal Arts
• F For Majors Only
• B Open to Non-Majors