Welcome to UNC & SILS UNCSILS. Don’t Suffer in Silence! Dean/Associate Deans –Griffiths, Solomon, Gollop, Wildemuth Student Services Staff –Dye, Hill,

Welcometo UNC & SILS

Don’t Suffer in Silence!• Dean/Associate Deans

– Griffiths, Solomon, Gollop, Wildemuth

• Student Services Staff– Dye, Hill, Bailey

• Advisor• Instructors• University Resources

– Writing Center– Counseling Center– Recreation Facilities

                             Online

Don’t Face an Identity Crisis!

• Handbook– Policies and Procedures– Academic Integrity and Ethics

• Graduate School Record

What happens when I finish?

• University Career Services

CurriculumInfo Sci CoreRequirements

172, InformationRetrieval

150, OrganizationOf Information

131, ManagementFor Info Professionals

162, SystemsAnalysis

180, Human InformationInteractions

Electives CapstoneRequirements

201, ResearchMethods

392, Masters’Paper

Lib Sci CoreRequirements

111, InformationResources & Services

151, Organizationof Materials

153, Resource Selection & Evaluation

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AdvisorProgram of Studies• Temporary ‘Permanent’ Advisor• Take required/prerequisite courses early

– Exemptions from required courses/prerequisites

• Course frequency• Courses in other departments• Courses in other universities

– Inter-institutional registration– Transfer credit (up to 9 semester hours)

• Other schools/certificates/institutions– Joint Degrees (e.g., MSIS/MBA)– Certificates (e.g., Bioinformatics)– Study abroad

• INLS 299, Field Experience

Registration• Pre-registration advising

– The early student gets the course!• Drop (until Friday, April 15, 2005)• Withdrawal • Incompletes (I)

– 6-8 credit hours of Incomplete will limit the number of courses for which you can register

– You will be unable to register with 9 or more hours of incompletes

– Turn to an F* after one year• Leave of Absence• Readmission

Grading

• H, P (+/ -), L, F, I NOT A, B, C, . . .

• Disqualifying grades– F– 9 or more credit hours of L

Academic Integrity

“Students enjoy a great deal of freedom at Carolina and have been entrusted to hold each other accountable for maintaining a just and safe community.”

--UNC Honor System

Give Credit Where Credit is Due!

• Distinguish your ideas and writing from the ideas and writing of others in an appropriate manner:– In our group meeting, Mary suggested that .

. . . This led me to . . .– “To be or not to be? That is the question!”

(Shakespeare, 1604)

Overlapping Work

• Value connections between courses

• Get permission for products that will be used for multiple courses!

Course Evaluation

• End of session– Carolina Course Evaluation

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• During the session– Instructor initiated– Student initiated