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Students are placed on this anytime their GPA drops below 2.0.
What is Academic Probation?
A current listing of class offerings published each semester.
What is a Schedule of Classes?
Two-year college degree awarded for successful completion of specific requirements, including major, general education, and elective coursework.
What is an Associate's degree?
A personalized academic plan indicating courses needed to achieve your academic goals.
What is a Student Educational Plan?
Literary theft. To take ideas or writings from someone else and present them as your own.
What is plagiarism?
Students are placed on this when their GPA drops below 2.0 for three sequential semesters.
What is Academic Dismissal?
A reference book published annually which includes LAVC policies, procedures, campus resources, educational programs, requirements, and course descriptions.
What is a Catalog?
Four-year college/university degree awarded for successful completion of specific requirements, including major, general education, and elective coursework.
What is a Bachelor's degree?
A list of the general education requirements for transfer to the UC or CSU system.
What is an Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC)?
Prior knowledge or course to be completed before registering for certain courses.
What is a prerequisite?
Students are placed on this when they withdraw from more than 50% of their coursework for the semester.
What is Progress Probation?
An examination form used in class for multiple-choice tests.
What is a Scantron Sheet?
A degree intended for students who plan to complete their bachelor's degree in a similar major at a CSU, consisting of 60 CSU transferable units.
What is an Associates Degree for Transfer (AA-T)?
A list of requirements for transfer to the California State University system.
What is a CSU General Education Certification Plan?
An administrative block to the registration process.
What is a hold?
The purpose of this is to disregard a portion of a student's prior substandard academic work, up to 30 units. To be eligible students must have 24 units, 2.0 avg, 12 months past grade. This can only be granted once.
Academic Renewal
A copy of the student's official record of courses attempted/completed and their grades.
What is a Transcript?
A STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) degree for students who plan to complete a bachelor's degree at a CSU, consisting of 60 CSU transferable units.
What is an Associates Degree of Science for Transfer (AS-T)?
A specific area of study in which a student completes the required coursework to achieve a degree in that subject.
What is a Major?
Term of measurement used to describe the amount of credit a college awards upon completion of the class.
What is a unit?
A permanent "W" will be issued when you drop a class between the date designated in the Schedule of Classes, as "Last day to drop without receiving a W.
What is Withdrawal?
An instructor's description and outline of the class, assignments, and required textbook.
What is a Syllabus?
The next educational degree that a person can earn after completing their bachelor's degree.
What is a Master's degree?
The academic objective that a student plans to achieve in college and beyond.
What is an educational goal?
A course which should be taken with another course.
What is a co-requisite?