People/Places
Instructor of college-level course
What is a Professor?
A list that shows the times that classes are offered during the week.
What is a Schedule of Classes?
This is how many weeks that are in a UCCS semester.
What is 16 weeks?
These exams are usually given during the last week of classes each term. The type of exam administered in a course is left to the discretion of the instructor. These exams are given on specified dates, which may be different than the regular class time, and are usually listed in each semester's class schedule.
What are Finals?
The process of selecting and signing up for classes. Every student is given a regular window before each term begins.
What is Registration?
A faculty member who is assigned to advise you on course selections and requirements.
What is an Advisor?
A secure, online website where students can find all of their college/university information, including: financial aid information, grades, class scheduling, transcripts, and more.
What is a Portal?
A number value assigned to each class offered in a college/university. Used to measure the value of a class based on its level, workload, and the number hours you spend in it each week.
What is a credit hour?
What is plagiarism?
The academic subject area that a student chooses to focus on during their undergraduate studies. Students typically must officially choose this by the end of their second year, and an academic subject area that a student chooses to have a secondary focus on during their undergraduate studies. They are optional.
What is a Major/Minor?
Student attending a college/university for the first time (i.e. freshman).
What is a first year student?
A book or online resource that lists graduation requirements by major and year, and includes a list of classes with their descriptions.
What is a Course Catalog?
Courses usually taken during the 1st and 2nd years that are intended to give students a well-rounded foundation before they proceed to their major of study.
What are Prerequisites/General Education?
An exam given after half of the academic term has passed and that covers all material studied in a particular course until that time. Not all courses have these exams.
What is a Mid-term?
Students may do this from courses during a semester, but there are established procedures for doing so. Written approval from a university official must be secured, and some fees must be paid.
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A graduate student who assists a professor with teaching an undergraduate course, usually within his/her field, as part of an assistantship.
What is a Teachers Assistant (TA)?
Student support programs that provide services to low-income, historically educationally disadvantaged, first-generation college students that ensure completion of a four-year degree.
What are Retention Programs?
Depending on the subject, classes may be structured differently. Some classes, the instructor lectures on class material. Other classes require students to perform certain functions that help them test and understand what is being taught in the lecture.
What are lectures/labs?
An assessment used to place students in appropriate courses according to their ability.
What is a placement exam?
A division of a university or school faculty devoted to a particular discipline (i.e. history, biology, liberal studies).
What is an Academic Department?
Time set aside by professors or Teaching Assistants (TA) for students to visit their office and ask questions or discuss the course they teach. Your professor or TA will tell you at the beginning of the term when and where they will be each week.
What are Office Hours?
Provides a full picture of your progress toward completion of bachelor's degree requirements.
What is a Degree Progress Report?
What are Lower Division and Upper Division courses?
All colleges require students to maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) to remain in school. Any student not maintaining satisfactory progress toward their educational objectives will be placed on this. If a student continues on and does not meet satisfactory progress requirements, they may be subject to dismissal.
What is Academic Probation?
Completing this informs the college/university that a student intends to enroll in the Fall.
What is a Statement of Intent to Register?