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What is advising?• The process of meeting with your advisor(s) to plan classes for the next semester• Looks different from advising and registration at orientation

Who is my advisor?• Assigned advisors are listed in DegreeWorks under Advisors (see screenshot)

• Katie should be listed on everyone’s; please email her if she is not listed• Major advisor is typically first; department chair, other supplemental

advisors are listed after• Elementary education, middle grade education, occupational science, & nursing

• Elementary education: Dr. Twyla Harris• Middle grades education: Dr. Ginni Fair• Occupational science: Dr. Kelly Leigers or Dr. Julie Baltisberger• Nursing: Dr. Lisa Jones

What if advisor is wrong?• Contact department to find out who advisor is• Putting advisors in DegreeWorks is a manual process; sometimes it takes a while.

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Why both advisors?• Honors = knows about Honors• Major = knows about your major• Major = has your RAC number (Registration Access Code)• Don’t get mad if we say “ask your major advisor” – we just don’t want to tell you

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It usually doesn’t matter who you meet with first.

Honors advising: Honors will send out an email explaining the process

Major advising: Varies by department• If you haven’t been contacted after fall break, go ahead and contact your advisor

What happens in Honors advising?• Look at what gen eds you have already completed• Look at what gen eds your major might require you take• Discuss what your options are for Honors courses • Talk about a plan for finishing Honors requirements, including thesis

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Flex curriculum consists of these requirements• Does not mean you have to take an Honors course every semester

• Most people will have at least 1-2 semesters w/out an Honors course• Recommend starting thesis sometime in your junior year

• Why? This allows you to do something with your thesis (present at a conference or on campus, submit for publication) before you graduate.

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Each Honors interdisciplinary seminar counts toward an element of general education.

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Write this down!

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You need to use Internet Explorer to access DegreeWorks.

This is how you access DegreeWorks.

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If you don’t see more than this top part of your DegreeWorks audit, you’re not in the right browser.

Degree – click the down arrow; do you have two different degrees?

Class History – good way to see if your dual credit/AP has come in • If you are missing something, make sure it has been sent to EKU.

• Dual credit needs to be sent to EKU from the college the credit was granted from (not your high school)

• AP scores need to be sent to EKU from College Board

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Overall GPA vs. EKU GPA• Overall includes all courses you’ve taken – including transfer courses and dual

credit courses not taken through EKU• If you took dual credit through EKU, then it will be included in your EKU

GPA• EKU GPA is all of your EKU courses• Honors looks at your EKU GPA

• You need a 3.0 EKU GPA up until you earn 60 EKU credit hours• You need a 3.2 EKU GPA after 60 EKU credit hours and to graduate as an

Honors Scholar• Honors looks at your EKU GPA at the end of each academic year and looks

at it cumulatively, not by any one semester or year

Honors is not a major, but it has to show up as a major in DegreeWorks for it to appear.

Ignore your Degree Progress bar – just because your degree progress is high doesn’t mean you need to be further along in your degree.• This bar only calculates your earned credit hours vs. 120 hours, which is how many

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you have to take to earn a bachelor’s degree.• This example is of a student who is a 1st-semester sophomore – you would think

she’d be under 50%, right?

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Honors section of DegreeWorks:• The “Still Needed” number of Required Hours Honors includes thesis – so don’t

add those two numbers together• The “3.2 Overall GPA” does not take into account how many credit hours you have

and is also currently pulling your overall GPA, not your EKU GPA (see previous slide)

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Gen ed requirements

Green check and yellow means you have completed that requirement.Blue squiggle and blue means you are in the process of completing that requirement.Element 6 will not change to blue until you are in your second course for that element.

You can hover over a course option in an element to see the title, and then click on the course to see the course description.

In Element 4: Natural Science you only need to complete 2 of the Areas, but you have to complete 2 different areas.

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Supporting course requirements can count in general education elements.Not all majors have supporting course requirements.

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Free electives – don’t stress out if you see a lot of courses here• Often you get multiple credits for one AP course, but only one will count in gen ed

• Example: you took AP U.S. History & AP World History and ended up with credit for HIS 100, 101, 102, and 103 – only 1 of those will count in Element 5A: History

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What If takes the courses you have taken and shows how they would count in another major/minor/concentration, as well as what else you would need to take.

Sometimes What If works; sometimes it doesn’t.• You should always choose the “new” version in What If

If you can’t get courses to load, check the course catalog for what you’d need to take. Katie can help with this; just let her know.

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The Planner allows you to create plans for a semester or for the rest of your time at EKU.

Katie will always create a plan in DegreeWorks for you for Honors.• This is where Honors notes will be typed during your Honors advising

appointment.• These notes are visible to you, to your major advisor, and to anyone else who has

access to your DegreeWorks – so, you don’t have to remember everything.

If you create a four-year plan, make sure you save it somewhere else other than just the Planner.• Why? If you change degrees, your current plans go away.

If your major advisor puts your RAC number in your DegreeWorks planner, put it somewhere else, too.• Why? Too often someone accidently types notes over it, deletes it, etc.

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Linked on the Advising webpage (http://honors.eku.edu/advising).

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To look up courses, start in EKU Direct & follow these steps.

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To look up Honors courses.

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Honors interdisciplinary seminars are often cross-listed with multiple course numbers. This is a good example of what this looks like.

In this example, Modernity & Global Culture is an HON 307W/HON 308W.• Students in this course are either getting credit for Element 3A: Arts (HON 307W)

or Element 3B: Humanities (HON 308W) – not both.• It is the same course, time, professor, assignments, etc. – you just have to register

for the course for what general education element you need.• We CANNOT change course numbers after the semester begins. You MUST

be in the correct course number to get credit.• There are 15 total seats in the course.

• 9 students are registered for the HON 307W• 4 students are registered for the HON 308W• 13 students are in the course total; 2 spots are left – even though the

“remaining” column shows 6 and 11

In short: only pay attention to the open/closed column (far left) rather than the remaining column (last column of numbers) for Honors courses.

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If you change during advising/registration, you may need to contact your old major advisor for your RAC number.

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