new advisee planning worksheet

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Worksheet for Educational & Career Goals & Pre-Registrationfor Academic Advising with Advisor Amy Dounay

Block 2, 2013

Advisor Contact Information:Prof. Amy DounayDepartment of Chemistry and BiochemistryBarnes [email protected]

NOTE: Email is the most efficient form of communication with me. Use email to set appointments and ask simplequestions. Meet with me in person for more involved questions, problems, discussion, and pre-registration.

Students, complete this worksheet prior to meeting with your advisor duringBlock 2 Pre-Registration, and bring the completed worksheet to the meeting with youradvisor. You will have the opportunity to discuss your responses, and your advisor will keepa copy in your academic advising file.

This worksheet is intended as a tool to help you design your academic program of study. Itwill be specific in some areas and general in others. It will change over time. It is individualto you and your education. The questions are designed to help you think about your goals inan organized way. You will most likely need to do some research in order to figure out theanswers to some of the questions. You will also need to do some serious self-reflectionabout your past experiences, your present activities, and your future plans.

Step 1: IntrospectionStart with some introspective thought. What do you want to be when you grow up? Theanswer to this question is likely not static, not easy, and not simple, and it does not have tobe. As with the majority of people today, it is likely you may spend your post-collegiateprofessional life in more than one career. Your time spent at The Colorado College shouldnot only prepare you for graduate education and/or meeting your professional goals, but

should also prepare you to be an active member of a community. Consider the followingquestions and jot down your thoughtful answers.

1. What does it mean to you to be an educated person?

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2. There can be an exciting interplay between aspects of your life and academicopportunities. Comment on the interplay of the following areas of your life with possibleacademic interests indicated in parentheses.a. Professional life (college major and/or minor):

b. Family life (psychology, education):

c. Citizenship (history, politics):

d. Environmental life (biology, chemistry, anthropology, economics):

e. Recreation (sports, outdoor activities):

f. Creative/expressive life (art, music, dance, drama, poetry, film):

g. Spiritual life (philosophy, religious studies, arts, natural sciences):

h. International (language, study abroad):

i. Other aspects of your life:

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3. What are your current specific goals, and what is your path to achieve these goals?

4. What is missing from your base of knowledge that you will need to meet your goals?

5. Do you have academic or experiential gaps that you want to fill? How will you fill thesegaps?

6. What will you do to provide yourself with academic breadth (exposure to a wide range ofsubject areas and skills)?

7. What will you do to provide yourself with academic depth (specialized and/or advancedlevel academic work in a single area or series of areas of studies)?

8. How will you transition to life beyond The Colorado College?

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Step 2: Programs of StudyLook through the Bulletin & Catalog of Courses for the entire College offerings, not just theupcoming year schedule, for courses of interest and consider College-approved studyabroad, off-campus programs, and independent research with a faculty mentor. Sketch outat least two or three four-year programs of study that would include a major and importantcourses that satisfy the introspection described in Step 1. Do you have anything left over

that does not fit into 32 blocks? How do you plan on learning those things?

Year/School Program A Program B Program C

First year

Sophomore

Junior Major: Major: Major:

Senior

Internship?

Graduate or

professionalschool?

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Step 3: RequirementsCheck for signs that any of your choices from Step 2 fulfill the Colleges curriculumrequirements. What still remains of these requirements? When do you want to tackle that?

Requirement Program A Program B Program CFYE(2 credit units)

CP: Global Cultures(1 credit unit)

CP: SocialInequality(1 credit unit)

CP: QuantitativeReasoning(1 credit unit)

CP:The West in Time(2 credit units)

CP:ScientificInvestigation in the

Natural World(2 credit units withone in lab or field)

Foreign Language(College levelclass, AP, IBscores dontfulfill)(2 credit units)

Major(8-14 credit units,depending onmajor)

Total Credit Units(32 required)

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Step 4: 2012-2013 ScheduleWork up a couple of course plans for next year to get you on the way toward developing inas many of the ways you want from Step 1, finishing the College requirements from Step 2,getting one years worth of your major or majors out of the way, getting one quarter of theway through the curriculum you laid out in Step 2, and doing all of this within the 60 pointsyoull have to spend when you sign up.

Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8

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Now, you are ready to meet with your advisor to talk about your schedule!

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