Getting Advised In the Department of Psychology · section, CRN, course title and meeting times. •The electronic form is emailed to the student’s email account. •If it does

Getting Advised In the Department of Psychology:

Regular Advising Season

effective Spring 2020

Before you start

Check your @ualr email regularly.

Announcements about Advising Season will be emailed there.

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Advising Season

• Starts about three weeks before registration begins and runs for about 3 weeks thereafter.

• Emails regarding the exact dates are sent to @ualr.edu email

• We also Twitter! @UALRPsychology

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Step 1: Make an appointment

• Make an appointment on Calendly https://ualr.edu/psychology/advising-appointment/

• If all your classes this semester are online, or you are part of the eLearning Online Campus, then you may sign up for a phone advising session. • Only Dr. Sherwin currently advises by phone

• Otherwise, review the time frames offered by the faculty and select one. • Get to know the faculty, mix it up!

• Please do not make multiple appointments. If there are multiple appointments, the later ones may be cancelled. Multiple appointments are unfair to other students.

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First screen: Calendly*

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* This is a generic screen. When you select the faculty member with whom you want to be advised their name will appear where now it says “ Psychology Department.”

Second screen

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Third screen

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Fourth screen

Please be sure you use your @ualr email: 1. Also, be sure you use your correct @ualr email! If you give the

wrong one (for example edsherwin@ instead of ebsherwin@; or eds3@ instead of eds7@ or ualr.com not ualr.edu) you will not receive the confirmation email about your appointment.

2. Please be sure your T number is accurate. Inaccurate or wrong T numbers may result in the cancellation of the advising appointment.

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Made the appointment?

This is what the screen will show:

Your calendar will show a new event that will contain the following information:

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Need to Cancel?

Cancel by going to your calendar, opening the event and clicking Cancel.

This is what the screen will show:

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Step 2: Preparing for your appointment

• Find your degree plan:• Instructions on how to find your degree plan are available on our website:

https://ualr.edu/psychology/how-to-find-your-degree-plan/

• If there is a green check next to it, or the word “Yes,” you are good to go! If not, you need to complete the requirement.

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Step 3: Select your courses

• Before you select your semester-specific courses, have you:

• Declared a minor or a second major?

• Begun, or are progressing, on your foreign language requirements?

• Are aware that some courses have prerequisites?

• Are familiar with the changes in the requirements for the major (hint: number of Statistics courses you must take, new Capstone?)

• Heads up: Not all courses (even required ones!) get offered every semester. So plan ahead!

• Repeating a course:

• May improve your GPA. However, it does not add towards the hours required for graduation!

• Your grade in a repeated course is the most recent one – even if you failed!

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Lower and upper level courses

• Every course number tells two stories:• The first digit tells if it is lower or upper level.

• Anything higher than 2 is an upper level (3000 and 4000.) • If it starts with a 5 or a 7 it is a graduate course and not available for undergraduates.

• The second digit tells the number of credits.• So:

• PSYC 2300 is a lower level course• PSYC 3435 is an upper level course• PSYC 2300 is a 3 credit course• PSYC 3435 is a 4 credit course

• This is important because every student must have at least 120 hours to graduate, and 45 of those hours must be upper level.

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Foreign Language

• Psychology majors are required to complete a 3-course sequence in a foreign language (1311, 1312, 2311)

• These must be taken in sequence. You start with the first course, pass it, take the second course etc.

• You must earn a “C” or better to transfer to the next course.

• Consider taking these course one after the other so you retain your previous knowledge.

• Not all foreign languages are available online.

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Selecting a minor or another major• Psychology majors must declare a minor or a second major.

• Information about minors can be found at https://catalog.ualr.edu/content.php?catoid=4&navoid=118 –(scroll towards the middle of the page)

• To declare your minor, submit the following form:https://ualr.edu/psychology/declare-a-minor/

• Majors are declared in the department that houses them. So, if you want to declare a second major, you will need to reach out to that department.

• Start early – integrate these requirements into the course work early so you are not “chasing” required courses at the end of your career!

• Submit the form before you start your course selection for the semester and then you can start the coursework this semester.

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Curricular Changes in Psychology• Effective Fall 2019, students will be required to take only:

• Statistics and Methods 1 and • Research Methods 1.

• Statistics and Methods 2 will no longer be a requirement. Note: Degree plans in BOSS may not reflect this change.

• Statistics ands Methods 1 will go from a 3-credit course to a 4-credit course.• It will now be PSYC 3435

• Senior Synthesis (PSYC 4100) is transformed into Capstone (PSYC 4392). • It will go from a 1 credit course to a 3-credit course• Effective Fall 2020, (PSYC 3431) Research Methods I will be a prerequisite for the course.

• Some students may be required to take 1 more upper level course in Psychology to reach the required 34 hours.

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(Actual) Course selection

• Consider using this link to find your courses: https://a.ualr.edu/classes/

• A note about the different campuses (eLearning Online vs. Little Rock (Main) Campuses:• If you take all your classes online you may be part of the eLearning-Online

Campus. Or you may be part of the Little Rock Campus but take your classes online. If:• You enroll in U sections then you are part of the Online Campus• You enroll in 99X courses (991, 993 etc.,) than you are part of the Little Rock Campus but

take your classes online. • Do not assume that you are part of the Online Campus just because you take your classes

fully online!

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When you click on the course name this screen opens:

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Step 4: List your courses – face2face (effective Spring 2020)

• Students with face 2 face meetings complete the electronic form and submit it. The form can be found here: https://ualr.edu/psychology/advising-form-2/• All the information must be complete including all the details for the

respective courses: 4-letter department code, course number, course section, CRN, course title and meeting times.• The electronic form is emailed to the student’s email account. • If it does not arrive that means there was a typo in the email (or check SPAN

or junk folders.)• The student must print off a copy and brings it to the advising session. • No hard copy = No appointment.

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New form for face2face Advising

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Important:1. Please note that you will need to select the name of the advisor

with whom you have already made an appointment. 2. You then complete the form.3. You will submit the form that then will be sent to your email. Please

use @ualr email or the form may not work.4. If you do not receive a copy of the email you have done something

wrong.5. Please be sure to complete *all* the columns associated with

course selection. If they are not properly completed, you may be instructed to reschedule your appointment.

List your courses - Online students (phone advising)• If you are currently enrolled fully online or are part of the eLearning-Online

Campus, please complete the following form. https://ualr.edu/psychology/online-elearning-phone-advising-form/ It submits directly to Dr. Sherwin. • The form must be completed and submitted at least two hours before the phone

appointment, or the appointment may need to be rescheduled. • A copy of the form will be emailed to you

and to your advisor.• Please be sure to complete *all* the columns

associated with course selection. If they are not properly completed, you may be instructed to reschedule your appointment.

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From: MeganEvans [email protected]: Online/eLearning Advising Form from Advising Form for Online & eLearning Evans Megan T00675406

Date: February 3, 2020 at 4:51 PMTo: [email protected]

Advising Form for Online & eLearning

Name

Megan Evans

UALR T-Number

T00675406

UALR Email Address

[email protected]

Phone Number

(714) 865-8845

Address

11701 Ridgetop DrSherwood, Arkansas 72120United StatesMap It

Date of Appointment

02/10/2020

Time of Appointment

01:15 pm

The following are prerequisites for an advising appointment:

I completed the Psychology Major Declaration form: ualr.edu/psychology/request-for-major-or-minor-change/I reviewed the classes I need to complete my degree.

When are you planning to graduate?

this semester

Enter your proposed course schedule here.

5DigitCRN

CourseDept eg.PSYC

CourseNumber eg.2310

Section #eg. 991,9U1

CourseTitle

Waitlist?yes/no

Semestereg. Fall,Spring

0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

Please acknowledge the following statements by checking each box:

Core curriculum courses should be completed early in your college careerDevelopmental courses (course numbers lower than 1000) DO NOT count toward graduationMimimum hours to graduation are 120 total hours (After Fall 2012) OR 124 total hours (prior to

Step 5: Be on time or let us know asap!

• Out of respect for our time and the time of other students:

• If you need to cancel your appointment, please use Calendly to do so.

• If you are late you may need to reschedule your appointment.

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P.S.

• If you find errors, mistakes or are very confused by this handout. Please:

• Email me and explain the issue you encountered: [email protected]

• Please be sure to identify the slide where the problem exists!

Thank you!

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