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> Office of the Provost > Student Outcomes Assessment > Advising Plans
Sociology
Advising Goals
As a basic advising goal the Department of
Sociology hopes to provide each student with
reasonable access to a knowledgeable advisor
who can provide the student with appropriate information
with which to plan their academic curriculum
and identify potential career opportunities upon
graduation.
Advising Policy
Advisors are available to students for consultation
throughout the academic year during the advisor's normal
office hours (typically 6-9 hours/week) or by appointment.
During the three-plus week registration period each term,
advisors typically have an appointment calendar posted that
allows students to arrange time for advising. During
this interval faculty go out of their way to ensure that
they are available to students.
All anthropology students have advisors who are
anthropology faculty, all sociology students are advised
by sociology faculty. Because of the large number of
justice studies majors some of them are apportioned to
anthropology and sociology faculty. Justice studies
faculty advise only justice studies students with senior
justice studies faculty devoted largely to upper
division justice studies students.
Since we have no ability to force students to seek
advising (they are after all adults), the only times
when advising must take place are when a student declares
a major, transfers from another school, or applies to
graduate. The department recommends that students see
their assigned advisor during each registration period
or whenever they make a change in the courses for which
they are registered (drop and add).
Recent Changes and Future Plans
- To Improve Quality of Advising
- We feel that the advising in our programs adequately meets
the student's needs. Without the addition of new faculty
we are sorely stressed to meet the current advising load.
The sociology department has also developed a home page
that provides curricular information as well as
information on career opportunities. With further
development of the homepage students should have the
ability to keep themselves informed of curricular changes
as they occur. The homepage may become a very important
advising and information transmission tool.
- To Improve Accessibility of Advisors
- Accessibility of advisors has always been adequate.
Since fall 1995 we have developed a database that
includes student, option, year, and advisor. Students
are now more consistently assigned advisors who have
appropriate expertise for the student's academic career
status.
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