1 10 September 2014 HOW TO READ YOUR DEGREE AUDIT/PROGRAM EVALUATION The top portion of the degree audit provides general information regarding you and your current academic program/major. In this sample, the student is working toward earning a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with a major in social work and a minor in psychology. The student’s catalog is listed. (Note: this sample is a combination of several catalogs to provide examples.) She plans to finish her program in May of 2012. Changes to your major (program) or minor may be made by completing a form in the Academic Resource Center. Please notify the registrar’s office of a change in your anticipated completion date. This date is given to loan agencies and an incorrect date can affect your loan deferment. Please read the information in the initial paragraphs. Some programs have information specific to their program. This section provides your earned credit totals and grade point average. The first paragraph lists your official VU totals. Unless you have taken a 001/090/091/099 course(s), these will match the below section. The GPA listed here will be the one used to calculate any academic standing or honors. This section is your “degree audit” totals. These calculations exclude any credits earned in 001/090/091/099 courses – they do not count toward graduation. (Note it excludes the credits from the GPA listed here too – your official VU GPA for ALL purposes is the one listed in the section above.)
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
1
10 September 2014
HOW TO READ YOUR DEGREE AUDIT/PROGRAM EVALUATION
The top portion of the degree audit provides general information regarding you and your current academic program/major. In this sample, the student is working toward earning a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with a major in social work and a minor in psychology. The student’s catalog is listed. (Note: this sample is a combination of several catalogs to provide examples.) She plans to finish her program in May of 2012. Changes to your major (program) or minor may be made by completing a form in the Academic Resource Center. Please notify the registrar’s office of a change in your anticipated completion date. This date is given to loan agencies and an incorrect date can affect your loan deferment.
Please read the information in the initial paragraphs. Some programs have information specific to their program.
This section provides your earned credit totals and grade point average. The first paragraph lists your official VU totals. Unless you have taken a 001/090/091/099 course(s), these will match the below section. The GPA listed here will be the one used to calculate any academic standing or honors.
This section is your “degree audit” totals. These calculations exclude any credits earned in 001/090/091/099 courses – they do not count toward graduation. (Note it excludes the credits from the GPA listed here too – your official VU GPA for ALL purposes is the one listed in the section above.)
2
10 September 2014
This section of the degree audit contains the core curriculum requirements, beginning with the Foundations requirements.
The blue, green, red or orange descriptors indicate the status of the category. The status can be one of the following: Complete, In Progress, Pending Completion, Not Started, or Waived.
The next section of the degree audit contains the core curriculum, mission seminar requirements. First time students (freshmen) will be required to complete one of each of the four seminars. Students transferring from another university may be required to take two or three seminars, depending on the number of transfer credits awarded. A placeholder course(s) will indicate if less than four seminar courses are required. Students must take a VUSM 400 level course.
3
10 September 2014
The next section of the degree audit contains the core curriculum, Ways of Thinking requirements.
4
10 September 2014
The next section will list any major requirements. They could be divided, as this degree audit is, into pre-professional, core, major, or support requirements, to name a few. All portions must be completed.
Your program may require courses within the program (or support courses) be passed with a certain grade or higher. That is programmed into the degree audit as well. If a course is not listed under the major requirements, but you have taken it check the catalog for the grade required policy. The course will be listed under “Other Courses” at the bottom of the audit with a *G next to it.
5
10 September 2014
Your program may require a grade point average (GPA) of a certain value or higher. Your degree audit will indicate how your current GPA relates to the required GPA.
If you have been granted some type of waiver or substitution, that will be indicated by the notation “!! Exception.” The text will print the exception and the excepted courses may not print as required courses. This student has been granted a substitution for the SPAN-286 course she took. A waiver/substitution may only be granted in extreme circumstances. Your adviser can initiate the process, which includes adviser, department chair and dean signatures. A waiver/substitution of any core curriculum or final degree requirements may only be granted by the core curriculum director and/or academic vice president.
6
10 September 2014
If you are seeking a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree, these requirements will print next. In catalogs prior to 2014, a Bachelor of Arts requires 14 credits of the same world language and a Bachelor of Science requires 11 credits of math or science. In the 2014 catalog and forward, a Bachelor of Arts degree requires three classes (nine credits minimum) of world language in preferably one, but not more than two languages. A Bachelor of Science degree requires 11 credits of natural science and/or mathematics. (Courses that fulfill the Scientific Reasoning in the Natural Sciences or Quantitative Literacy categories within the LIVE program count toward the total.)
Your program may require grades of a certain value or higher. Your degree audit will indicate how your current grades relate to the required grades.
7
10 September 2014
The next section will list the final degree requirements, starting with the upper division credit requirement. In catalogs 2013 and earlier, this is 43 credits of upper division work. In the 2014 catalog and forward, this is 40 credits of upper division work. Note: transfer work taken as 100 or 200 level does not count toward this requirement, even if the course at VU is a 300 or 400 level course. Viterbo always awards credit how the student earned it, not per the equivalent course at Viterbo.
Students in catalogs 2013 and earlier, must complete 128 college level credits. Students in catalogs 2014 and forward, must complete 120 college level credits. College level credits do not include any remedial course, designated with a 0, i.e. ENGL-099, MUSC-001, etc.
8
10 September 2014
The requirements for a minor will follow the final degree requirements.
The other course section includes courses that are general elective or coursework that has been taken that is not fulfilling a specific requirement, but is credit that is applied to the final otal credits you need to graduate. If you feel a course listed here should be used to satisfy a requirement listed above, please see your adviser.
A key to help read the degree audit.
Related Documents
