People/Places
Instructor of a college-level course
Who is a professor?
A list that shows the times that classes are offered during the week.
What is the schedule of classes?
Each college separates the academic year into terms. The most common are semester and quarter terms. Typically, two-semester terms make up a full academic year; each semester lasts 15-18 weeks. Three quarters make up a full academic year; each quarter lasts 10 weeks.
What is the term type?
-Semester
-quarter
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 a specified date, 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. This is the time when students can register for classes to be offered during the upcoming term.
What is registration?
A faculty member who is assigned to advise you on course selections and requirements.
Who is an advisor?
A secure online website where students can find all of their college/university information, including financial aid information, grades, class schedules, transcripts, and more.
What is a portal?
A number value assigned to each class offered at a college/university. Used to measure the value of a class based on its level, workload, and the number of hours you spend in it each week.
What is a unit?
The use of another person's words or ideas as your own, without acknowledging that person. Schools have different policies consequences for students caught doing this.
What is plagiarism?
Academic subject a student chooses to focus on during their undergraduate studies. Usually chosen during the end of their 2nd year.
What is a major/minor?
Students attending a college/university for the first time (i.e. freshman)
Who is a first year?
A book or online resource that lists graduation requirements by a 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 is 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 eams.
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.
What is withdraw?
A graduate student who assists a professor with teaching an undergraduate course, usually within his or her field, as part of an assistantship.
Who is a Teachers Assistant (TA)
Student support programs that provide services to low-income, historically educationally disadvantage 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. The most common types are lecture and lab. In lecture classes, the instructor lectures on class material. Labatory classes require students to perform certain functions that help them test and understand what is being taught in the lecture.
What is class types?
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 professor 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?
- lower division
- upper division
-remedial
What are Class levels?
Any student not maintaining satisfactory progress. 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 the Statement of Intent to Register (SIR)?