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Modern Languages and Literatures
Advising Goals
The teacher of each course is available for office hours and appointments outside of regularly scheduled office hours when necessary to accommodate students.
The Department assists majors and minors to successfully
register for courses in the Department, in the CORE, and to
help them to wisely choose elective courses that will
benefit them in terms of a broad education and for
employment enhancement.
The Department assists majors and minors to successfully
complete the requirements of the Department and the
University that lead to graduation, i.e., completion of
Department course work, substitutions, upper-division
credits,completion of the CORE, etc. To keep the students
"on course" from start to finish.
The Department has a special advising function for its
majors and minors and other members of the student body at
large: it introduces them to French- German- and Spanish-
speaking countries of the world. Teachers also orient
students for study abroad. The goal is to articulate
entrance into the host country curriculum and the return to
the MSU program.
The Department assists new students/transfers to our
curriculum choose courses commensurate with their foreign
language capabilities, i.e., course placement of majors,
minors and all others entering our curriculum.
Advising Policy
All full-time, tenure-track faculty members of the
Department advise students.When a new student declares a
major or we become aware of a person minoring in the
Department, the student is brought to the attention of the
language section (French, German, Spanish)in question.
The language section coordinator, in consultation with the
members of the group, assigns the student to a specific
advisor within the language group. Advising is required for
all ML students during the advising period prior to the
registration period for the upcoming semester. In the
Department, majors must present a form that must be signed
by an advisor before the Department Secretary is authorized
to distribute the PDF form to the student. This ensures
that the major has met the advisor. Since PDF forms are not
a part of the registration process for minors,the Department
encourages minors to meet with their advisors the same
as majors are required to do. Since there is no MSU
administrative procedure that requires minors to receive
advising in the minor department, there is no 100%
fool-proof way of assuring that all minors see advisors
every time. However, these students should be served in their major department where advisors consider the major's complete
educational program.
Advising is recommended for those "on demand"
situations, and this takes place whenever the need is
registered by the student of the advisor. Our advisors are
available to students whenever they need help, i.e.,
during office hours or by appointment.
Recent Changes and Future Plans
- To Improve Quality of Advising
- Modern Languages has incorporated an "advising standard" in
its version of the P&T document. The Department is also in
the process of generating the advising evaluation instrument
discussed above and will be ready to distribute it to
students at the earliest in April of 1997(registration
advising period) or at the latest, April 1998 (also during
the registration advising period).
- To Improve Accessibility of Advisors
- The Department of Modern Languages has never had a problem
with the availability or accessibility of advisors. If such
were the case, the new advising evaluation form would have
some effect on the situation, since the feedback will be
incorporated into the annual reviews of the faculty members
in the Department.
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