What is academic advisement, and how does it work in the Department of Psychology?
Basically, one of the prime functions of advisement is to help students make their way through the requirements of getting a BA in Psychology. This might include time-lining, recommendations on particular classes or scheduling, making sure what you take counts for requirements, signing forms, doing a checklist to see what you have left to take, etc. Essentially, most of this type of information is available in the catalog, but it´s amazing how tricky the rules can get sometimes! Another function of advisement is helping the student to plan for career and/or graduate school. The Department of Psychology does not require that its majors seek advisement; some students go all the way through college without coming in for advisement, and many of those do so successfully. However, we strongly encourage all students to seek advisement if only to reassure themselves that they are doing everything right. In order to give more time to our advisement system, the Department of Psychology has assig
