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This common undergraduate degree, usually awarded to a student after four years of studying, is no longer restricted to single men.
What is a Bachelor's Degree (or Baccalaureate)?
Your mom gave you this spiel and so will your professor in this kind of class, held in front of a room of hundreds of other students.
What is a Lecture?
Every term, a student will be required to engage in this process to reserve a spot in their classes for the next semester, quarter, trimester, or however their schools divide terms. This often involves waking up in the morning, logging onto a website, and hoping for some good luck.
What is Course/Class Selection/Registration?
Many of your classes, including Spanish, may be taught by this university instructor who has completed either a master's degree or a obtained a Ph. D.
What is a professor?
This is more than connecting to a system of well-integrated machines, but a lot less complicated. You do this by talking to your professor, your TA's, and going to events on-campus.
What is Networking?
An army officer, a music scale, a baseball league, and a student’s principal course of study all have this in common.
What is a major?
A rhombus rhymes with this classroom outline, provided by the professor which lays out student expectations, course policies, rules and regulations, required texts, and a schedule of assignments.
What is a syllabus?
Depending on your situation, and classes taken during high school, your college may require you to take this kind of test to measure your proficiency in various subjects (English, Math, Science, Language, etc.) in order to assign appropriate course/classes or credits.
What are placement tests?
Every week, your professor will set aside a few hours for students to drop-in and ask questions about the course, career advice, and getting to know them. They are usually listed on the syllabus.
What are Office Hours?
This word is spelled exactly like the action of doing something again after an interruption, but with a little more French. It stands for a brief history of your education, qualifications, and previous experience that is typically sent with a job application.
What is a Resume?
Your RNA, your DNA, your RCA, and you throughout your college career all have this official record of a student's work, showing courses taken and grades achieved.
What is a transcript?
Generally taken in the first two years of a college student's education, this core curriculum contains introductory classes in English, math, general science, and history that must be completed for an undergraduate to select a major.
What is General Education?
Before selecting a major, some areas of study require these kinds of classes, which can be separate from General Education and offer distinct preparation for major specific classes.
What are Prerequisites?
Some classes, especially laboratories or lectures, will also be taught with some help from these students who have already graduated with a bachelor's degree and have returned to study.
What is a Teaching Assistant (or grad student)?
Some campuses have these centers which help students find internships and jobs or to apply to graduate programs. They also offer job counseling and workshops.
What is Career Services?
Some of you may still be this age category, a person under the age of full legal responsibility, which also corresponds to a college student’s secondary field of study, consisting of lower-level courses in the subject than those that are required for a major.
What is a minor?
Most college courses fall into these distinct categories: laboratories, studios, recitation/tutorial/discussion, lecture, and this kind of class based on reading, research, and group discussion which usually has anywhere from 4 to 15 students.
What is a seminar?
This articulate word describes the particulate action to enroll in a program of study at a college or university with the goal of earning a degree.
What is Matriculate?
During your first week of college and after if you are living on-campus, this advisor, an upperclass undergraduate student leader who works in campus dormitories and supervises issues and activities related to dorm life, will be invaluable.
What is a Residential Assistant/Residential College Advisor?
Some of you may be going to this type of college, a Public, two-year postsecondary institution that offers the associate degree which Students can oftentimes transfer from to a four-year school to complete their bachelor’s degree or to a career program for a vocational degree. It's also easier on the piggy bank.
What is Community College?
They say time is money, but more than a credit card, these 15 hours per semester determine the value of a course based on the number of hours a student will spend completing it.
What are Credits?
When choosing classes, these two concepts are impossible to live w/o and can really slash your GPA. The first describes the first 1-2 weeks of school during which a student can add or drop a course without a penalty. The second is a grading alternative students can opt for on their transcript.
What are Add/Drop and Pass/Fail?
Often this period of time is decided by the specific college and can range anywhere from 12 to 16 weeks. Assignments at the end are often called this, End of _____.
What is a Term?
What is an Academic/Faculty Advisor?
Some of you may have this type of job-learning program, usually funded by the federal or state governments, which helps college students with financial need secure part-time jobs to pay for day-to-day expenses and tuition payments.
What is a Work-Study?