9 simple mistakes you can avoid when you plan your LIS degree plan.
1. Make sure you list at least 60 junior/senior level hours.
2. If you entered this process with fewer than 60 completed hours, youmust include 60 junior/senior level hours AND enough additionalhours to equal 120. The additional hours may be at any level and donot require a petition if they are freshman/sophomore level.
3. Make sure you list the same classes in your Learning Strategiespaper and on your Degree Plan form. They both reflect the same planso they should be in complete agreement.
4. If you are planning to include freshman/sophomore level hours aspart of your 60 hours of junior/senior level credit, you mustinclude a petition form for each class with your degree plan.
5.Make sure you correctly include 10 hours of program required courses.
6. Make sure you correctly include 13 hours of ECCE course (or 12 hours of university requirements if you entered prior to fall 2007.)
7. Make sure your plan includes any General Education courses you needto graduate. General Education courses must meet defined standardsso work with the Program Coordinator if you are not certain how tomeet a GenEd requirement.
8. Make sure you include about 2 classes for each Boyer category. Ifyou have less than 2 classes for a Boyer category, you should havediscussed this matter with your instructor BEFORE handing in yourdegree plan.
9. Boyer categories are open to interpretation, but they are notinfinitely open to interpretation. Please be sincere in your Boyerassignments. CSC 320 Intro to HTML and Web Design is never going tobe accepted as a Nature course no matter how much you try torationalize it.
LINKS
UIS General Education and ECCE lists
http://www.uis.edu/generaleducation/curriculum/courselist.html
Transfer Guides for Illinois schools – includes General Education courses offered at other Illinois schools.
http://www.uis.edu/admissions/transfer/
LIS program electives
http://www.uis.edu/liberalstudies/curriculum/courselist.html
Online Course History .pdf
http://www.uis.edu/liberalstudies/students/documents/lisOnlineCoursesFL07.pdf
1. Make sure you list at least 60 junior/senior level hours.
2. If you entered this process with fewer than 60 completed hours, youmust include 60 junior/senior level hours AND enough additionalhours to equal 120. The additional hours may be at any level and donot require a petition if they are freshman/sophomore level.
3. Make sure you list the same classes in your Learning Strategiespaper and on your Degree Plan form. They both reflect the same planso they should be in complete agreement.
4. If you are planning to include freshman/sophomore level hours aspart of your 60 hours of junior/senior level credit, you mustinclude a petition form for each class with your degree plan.
5.Make sure you correctly include 10 hours of program required courses.
6. Make sure you correctly include 13 hours of ECCE course (or 12 hours of university requirements if you entered prior to fall 2007.)
7. Make sure your plan includes any General Education courses you needto graduate. General Education courses must meet defined standardsso work with the Program Coordinator if you are not certain how tomeet a GenEd requirement.
8. Make sure you include about 2 classes for each Boyer category. Ifyou have less than 2 classes for a Boyer category, you should havediscussed this matter with your instructor BEFORE handing in yourdegree plan.
9. Boyer categories are open to interpretation, but they are notinfinitely open to interpretation. Please be sincere in your Boyerassignments. CSC 320 Intro to HTML and Web Design is never going tobe accepted as a Nature course no matter how much you try torationalize it.
LINKS
UIS General Education and ECCE lists
http://www.uis.edu/generaleducation/curriculum/courselist.html
Transfer Guides for Illinois schools – includes General Education courses offered at other Illinois schools.
http://www.uis.edu/admissions/transfer/
LIS program electives
http://www.uis.edu/liberalstudies/curriculum/courselist.html
Online Course History .pdf
http://www.uis.edu/liberalstudies/students/documents/lisOnlineCoursesFL07.pdf
4 comments:
Wow! Thank you for explaining how to start planning courses for the degree plan, listing the nine mistakes to avoid, and providing links to helpful material.
Lisa Daniels
This is good information to help clarify some of the requirement specifics.
It can seem a little overwhelming when attempting to read all the online material. The staff is also very helpful when answering questions.
Thanks Andy.
Andy, I absolutely love your analogies used to help us think of how we are to design our LIS degree plan. This podcast really breaks it down and offers very informative concepts which I'm sure will help students to choose the best class options. Thank you for all of your hard work that helps so many of us during this process.
Pam J. Reed
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