General Requirements
The amount of credits needed each semester to be considered a full-time student. If you drop below ______, you become part-time and your housing and financial aid can be affected.
What are 12 credits?
PSY or NEU 280, 380, or 480.
What is research for credit?
The number of credits you need to graduate with a Neuroscience degree. The number of credits you need to graduate with a Psychology degree.
What are 130 credits? What are 120 credits?
A group of at least 3 courses for at least 9 credits centered on a specific theme.
What is a cognate?
Your academic contract with the school determined by the semester you enter UM. Yours is 2019-2020.
What is your Bulletin Year?
The three ways your can participate in research.
What is research for volunteer, for credit, or for pay?
Two required Psychology courses that are co-requisites.
What are PSY 290 and PSY 291?
Three areas that must be fulfilled by cognates.
What are Arts & Humanities, People & Society, and STEM?
An advising tool that outlines a student’s requirements and grades, and also helps a student plan for graduation.
What is a Degree Progress Report?
English Composition, Mathematics, and Languages.
What are the Areas of Proficiency?
A project in your final year at UM that is the culmination of your undergraduate research experience. It allows you to earn Departmental Honors in Neuroscience or Psychology.
What is a Senior Honors Thesis?
A law that protects a student’s academic records.
What is FERPA?
Cognates have three different types of ____________.
What are Areas of Knowledge?
You need to fill out this form before you take classes at another institution for study abroad or summer terms to make sure you receive credit at UM.
What are Transfer Equivalencies?
If you get a D or lower (including D+) in a course taken at the University of Miami, you have the option to retake that course within the next calendar year. Your previous grade will still show up on your transcript, but only the new grade will be calculated into your GPA.
What is the Undergraduate Repeat Rule?
Summer research positions offered by the Psychology Department at UM where I will get paid to gain invaluable research experience one-on-one with my faculty mentor and his/her graduate student(s) - name one.
What is PRIME or Lois Pope?
Minimum grade you must receive in a course for it to count towards your major.
What is C-?
The grade that must be earned in a course taken at UM to utilize the General Repeat Rule?
D or lower
The amount of credit only courses a student can take in one semester.
What is one?
You must complete your last 45 credits at UM if you transfer courses from a four-year school or your last 56 credits at UM if you transfer courses from a two-year school.
What is the residency rule?
The amount of time students have to finish an incomplete
1 calendar year
UASP is open from __________ to __________, Monday through Friday.
What is 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.?
When should a student get transfer equivalencies if he/she plans to take courses abroad and/or over the summer?
Before he/she leaves UM to take the class
The maximum number of credits students can take after their freshman year without a credit overload.
What are 18 credits?