ADVISING AT WELLS COLLEGE
An Online Advising Handbook

I. General guidelines, policy, and procedures for advising

  1. NYSTAA Advising Guidelines

The New York State Transfer Association, of which Wells College is a member, has some very useful and pertinent guidelines for the advising of transfer student. As an advising policy document, it is quite relevant to advising the 4-year student, as well.

  1. Self-Help Guide to Academic Advising

An alphabetical list of regulations, procedures, and where to go for what, that is distributed to students.

  1. Registration Procedure: Frequently Asked Questions 

 

II. Advising the first-year student

  1. General Requirements Check-List

General College requirements for breadth.

  1. AP (Advanced Placement) Credit

How credit is awarded for advanced placement exams.

  1. Foreign Language Placement

The FL placement exam and what placement means.

  1. Mathematics/Computer Science Placement and Advising

The math placement exams and what courses beginning students should take in mathematics and computer science

  1. Music at Wells: Frequently Asked Questions 

    From piano lessons to choral groups. . .
  2. Beginning Courses to Take in Majors

An alphabetical list of the majors and which course(s) should be taken in the first year or two at Wells.

  1. International Studies: Language Requirement

An explanation of the language courses required for the major and the ways that requirement can be fulfilled.

  1. How to Select Courses for Fall

A write-up that is sent to first-year students during the summer to prepare for Wells Warm-Up and advising

and registration for their first semester.

 

III. Sophomore Advising

  1. Sophomore Advising

Tips on advising the sophomore student

 

IV. Special topics

  1. Elementary Education Requirements

An explanation of requirements for New York State (provisional) elementary education teaching certification through the Wells College program; see also Professor Susan Talbot.

  1. Secondary Education Requirement

A checklist of requirements for New York State (provisional) secondary education certification; see also Professor Susan Talbot.

  1. How to calculate your GPA (Grade Point Average)

    With examples.
  2. Credit for Prior Experience

An explanation of what sorts of documentation are required, including the faculty letter.

  1. Final Exam and Substitutions: Regulations

ASA’s explication of Faculty Manual regulations on how and when final exams and substitutions for final exams may be given.

  1. Link to the Pre-Health Professions Advisory Group Homepage

The Pre-Health Professions Advisory Group maintains a web page that gives information for students planning a career in the health professions (medicine, veterinary medicine, etc.), including courses that students need to take. The URL is http://aurora.wells.edu/~premed/ and for more information, see Professor Arnold Shilepsky, Chair, or Professor Candace Collmer, or Nancy Karpinski, Pre-Health Professions Advisory Group.

  1. Link to the Experiential Learning Internship Database

This database, maintained by the Office of Experiential Learning, contains over 1,000 internships completed by Wells students. It can be searched by geography, subject, name of firm/organization, etc. For more information, contact the Office of Experiential Learning, 315-354-3225.

  1. Henry Wells Scholars' Requirements

This section contains the course requirements for WLLS 190, Liberal Arts Practicum, which should be completed the first year or two, and the requirements for the later, paid field experience.

21. Guidelines for "Incompletes" (Extensions Beyond the End of Classes)

These are the academic regulations only; students may not be allowed to be on campus to complete course work after the end of finals week and must make appropriate arrangements with the Dean of Students to remain on campus after finals.

This page (Advising at Wells College) is maintained by Diane Koester, Associate Dean for Academic and Learning Resources and Director of Academic Advising, who is solely responsible for its content. Please see our Statement of Responsibility.
Index last updated June 5, 2006. Individual pages listed above may be updated at different times..