FIRST YEAR ADVISING
PRE-HEALTH SCIENCE
Successfully Registering for your first semester
FIRST YEAR ADVISING
PRESENTATION
Gwen Hansen and
Nancy Kingsley
As your guides
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Pre-Health Science
Pre-Nursing
Nursing
Progression of “Major” titles that
all refer to the Nursing Major
THE SCHOOL OF NURSING
WELCOMES YOU!
• We are your Nursing Advisors for as long as you
continue in the Nursing Major
• Where are we located?
In the “PPH” Building
with the School of Nursing
– It’s a short walk, or parking is available right outside
our building.
TODAY’S GOALS
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Orientation Success Pack Modules
Understanding the Nursing Major
Course Options for your First Year
Understanding your ARR
Email Set-up & How to Register
Register for your Fall courses
YOUR CSUSM EMAIL ACCOUNT
• Check your CSUSM email on a regular basis.
• This is the only way the University
c0mmunicates with students.
• We communicate often with our students via
email about deadlines and important
information!
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You can have your CSUSM email forwarded to
your personal email.
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
REPORT (ARR)
• Provides academic evaluation for:
Transfer Courses
 Test Credit (AP, IB, CLEP)
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• Displays Graduation Requirements
• Monitors requirements that are MET and those
that you NEED
WHAT IS THE ADD/DROP PERIOD?
• First two weeks of each fall and spring
term of school
• Can add classes via a permission number
obtained by the professor
• Can drop classes on your own via your
Student Center in MyCSUSM
• We offer Drop-in Advising (no
appointments are necessary) during the
Add/Drop period.
WHAT IS A WALK-AWAY ‘F’?
• If you are registered for a course and you stop
attending or have never attended:
It is your responsibility to officially drop the course!
 Your professor WILL NOT drop you
 If you do not drop the course you will receive a WU
grade. WU=F
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AP/IB INFORMATION
• AP scores of 3 or higher and/or IB scores of 4/5 or
higher on HL exams
May give you college units
 May satisfy general education and/or major
requirements
 For AP equivalencies, visit:
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http://www.csusm.edu/academicadvising/ap/index.html
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When you are registering for courses, be sure to speak with
one of us about AP,IB or CLEP credit.
LANGUAGE-OTHER-THANENGLISH REQUIREMENT (LOTER)
• Language at intermediate-level
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Third semester /‘201’- level language
Approved Study Abroad programs
• AP, IB or CLEP exams
• Proficiency exam
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High school language will not clear this requirement unless you
passed an AP language exam with a 3 or higher
SAT Subject Exam? Doesn’t meet LOTER at this time.
HOW TO DETERMINE WHICH
LANGUAGE LEVEL TO TAKE:
201 or 250
If you...
speak Spanish at home and would like
to learn written grammar
Took 4 years in high school
102
Took 3 years in high school or 2
semester in college, less than 2 years
ago
Took 2 years in high school or 1
semester in college, less than 2 years
ago
101
Have no previous language study in
this language, or it’s been over 2
years since you studied this language
in high school
Enroll in...
SPAN 250 “Spanish for Native Speakers”. This
course fulfills the LOTER requirement.
Sit for the Proficiency Exam (meets LOTER if pass)
OR
201 (for some review)
201 (meets LOTER)
OR
102 (for review)
102
OR
101 (for review)
101 Level
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If completing ASL at a community college, must complete through ALS III. See the
University LOTER Web site for courses elsewhere that meet this requirement.
CSUSM GENERAL CATALOG
(electronic)
• Contains all
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Policies
Procedures
Requirements
• List of majors
• Major/minor requirements
• Course descriptions
THE NURSING MAJOR
• Impacted Program
• Two Levels of Impaction Criteria
– Level One: Entry to Science Courses
– Level Two: Entry to actual Nursing
Program
• You must apply to the School of Nursing
to get admitted to the Nursing Program
• Use the Nursing Web site to learn more:
http://www.csusm.edu/nursing/current/prenursing/index.html
TRADITIONAL BACHELOR OF
SCIENCE IN NURSING PROGRAM
• Referred to as the Traditional BSN
Program
• Time Frame for degree completion
Year 1
Year 2 –
for Fall 2010, 96
students eligible
Years 3-5
Current funding is for 40
spaces in the program/yr
Complete CSU “Golden
Four” basic skills courses
and other requirements
Complete Pre-Nursing
Core Sciences and other
GE or Graduation
Requirements
Nursing Program and rest
of GE/Graduation
Requirements
• Minimum 5-year Program
•A1
•A2
•A3
•B4
Oral Communication
GEW 101 – English
Critical Thinking
Math Statistics
•BIOL 175
•CHEM 105/105L
•BIOL 176
•BIOL 160
TO BE CONSIDERED FOR ADVANCEMENT
INTO SCIENCE COURSES NEXT YEAR
By the end of your first spring term, you need to have completed your
A1, A2, A3 and B4 Statistics courses with grades of C or better, and
have a minimum GPA in these courses of 2.75.
Students will be rank ordered and approved students will get
guaranteed seats in the four science courses in their Sophomore year.
If you don’t complete these four courses with a grade of C or better, or
if you don’t get selected after your first year to move into the science
courses, you will have to spend an extra year trying to get into the
science courses.
WORKSHOP SERIES FOR THE
PRE-HEALTH SCIENCE MAJOR
• FY Workshop Series: Fall 2012 and Spring2013
• We will contact you in the fall semester, letting you know that it
is time to sign up for the 1st mandatory Pre-Health Science
Advising Session
• Today we will help you to get registered in your first semester of
courses.
• The Fall mandatory workshop will cover:
Review of your progress
Nursing Impaction Criteria
Course registration for spring
NURSING WEB SITE
http://www.csusm.edu/nursing/
Our Nursing Web site, under
Current Students, under PreHealth Science Students, is
full of useful information for
you!
USE YOUR BLUE COURSE
PLANNER TO SELECT OTHER
COURSES
Beware of Upper-Division courses!
Do NOT take any 300 or 400 level
courses during your first year!!
SIGNING UP FOR COURSES:
• Some of you may have received instructions from a
special program to register in a specific section of GEL
101, or some of you may learn that you have been preregistered in this course.
• GEL 120 this summer equals GEL 101.
• Unless you earned AP credit in Math, all of you need to
enroll in a math course this fall! Follow the pink Math
sheet (side with A-B-C)
• If continuing in a Language other than English to meet
LOTER, add this course to your fall schedule.
IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MAJOR…
• See the Academic Advisor for the new major ASAP!
• Be sure to complete a Declaration of Major form at
the time you meet with your new Academic Advisor
• General Education courses may be different.
PULL OUT YOUR STUDENT
HANDBOOK
• Last page in handbook
• List all courses registered for Fall
2012
• Don’t leave registration room until
you get a signature from Advisor
QUESTIONS?
www.csusm.edu/academicadvising
PRESENTED BY O-TEAM!
WHEN FINISHED REGISTERING,
SET UP YOUR EMAIL
THANK YOU, O-TEAM!!!