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Student Information
Academic Advising
The AAC provides academic advising to College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) majors, exploratory students, pre-health and pre-law students as well as students who are considering changing to a CLAS major. Here’s what we can do for you:
- Help you understand your degree requirements (and show you how to read your degree audit) . If you are confused by your degree audit, or think it is incorrect, we can help you understand or correct it.
- Discuss your tracking requirements (what you should be doing to stay on track). A number of students will have Universal Tracking holds because they are not progressing in their major. We can help you determine what you need to do to get back on track, or help you identify your options if you need to change majors. We do not lift holds through phone or e-mail advising.
- Determine why a College hold has been placed on your record (and what you need to do to resolve it). CLAS places holds on students who are on probation as well as students who are not meeting college progression standards. We do not lift holds through phone or e-mail advising.
- Explain placement and prerequisites for the courses you are thinking of taking next term. A number of courses require placement (readiness assessments or SAT II exams) or have prerequisite courses that must be completed or in progress to register.
- Help you identify your options if you are having difficulty THIS semester. Often, dealing with a problem as it is beginning will prevent the worst from happening. Many students wait until it is too late to seek assistance, thinking “I’ll just do better on the next exam…” without actually figuring out how to do so.
- Describe how to use the registration system. Many new students don’t know how to search for certain types of classes (such as General Education). While we’ll explain how to use the system, normally we will not register you for classes – you can do so in ISIS yourself.
- If you need help with any of the following, you’ll need to go to another office (where to go is listed next to each item):
- Information about majors outside of CLAS – go to the advising office for the college that offers that major (see http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/soc/advisers.html for a list of college advising offices on campus).
- Advising about major or minor requirements – go to your major/minor department (department addresses are listed at the top of each department’s section in the Schedule of Courses: http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/soc/).
- If a course is departmentally controlled, you must talk to the department that offers the class to see if you are eligible to register for it.
- If you need credit from other institutions evaluated for your major or minor, you should visit the appropriate department. The AAC can evaluate credit from other institutions that may count for General Education requirements. Please remember to bring along a course description for credits in question.
- If you are having trouble getting into a particular course, we don’t have the ability to place you into full classes. You may contact the department that offers the course. If your problem is a prerequisite issue, they may be able to help you. If the course is simply full, they probably can’t do anything.
- Find out how and when you can get academic advising in the AAC .
Advising Sites By College
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- College of Design, Construction and Planning
- Warrington College of Business Administration
- College of Education
- College of Engineering
- College of Fine Arts
- College of Health and Human Performance
- College of Medicine
- College of Public Health and Health Professions
- College of Journalism & Communications
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- College of Natural Resources and Environment
- College of Nursing
- College of Pharmacy
- College of Veterinary Medicine
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