ADVISING TOOLS
UNIVERSITY POLICIES
Registration
FRESHMEN OR TRANSFER
ADVISING IN ACTION
100

An online platform that allows students to schedule appointments with a their Success Team and review notes from their advising appointments.

What is SDSU Navigate?

100

Students can view a chart in the University Catalog that showcases the articulation of an academic college placement exam score to the SDSU course it may satisfy. What University policy is this?

What is Academic Credit by Examination

100

In the Manage Classes tile, students are able to using the class search and enroll tab to do what?

What is Adding a class?

100

This process allows students to come to NSO with a full schedule.

 What is pre-registration?

100

Name three types of ways students can satisfy college level requirements before coming to SDSU

AP exam, IB exam, CLEP exam, and/or Community College Credit (like dual enrollment)

200

This tool is used for all students to view a static, non-changing, schedule for every semester until they graduate. It showcases graduation requirements, general education requirements, and major requirements a student needs to take each semester.

What is the Academic Roadmap?

200

Students have four of these that must be at a 2.0 upon graduation.
SDSU, Cumulative, Transfer, and Major

What is GPA requirements

200

Students who have added a class to their schedule but no longer want to take it can use this feature to remove the course during Registration.

What is Dropping a class?

200

This degree allows transfer students to satisfy all lower division GE requirement, major prep, and when they come to SDSU they are able to graduate within 60 units?

What is the Associated Degree for Transfer

200

During your breakouts sessions on an Orientation Day, a student asks if they are able to change their major today during registration labs? What do you say?

Students are able to request to change their major after Census, which is Sept 21

300

A tool found on my.sdsu that allows student to view a live and updateable breakdown of all degree requirements. It includes icons/pie charts that show how far they are away from completing their degree requirements.

What is Degree Evaluation?

300

American Institutions, GWAR, Language Requirements, and Ethnic Studies are a few of these types of requirements

What is Graduation Requirements

300

Some courses have requirements that must be met that may barr a student from registering for the course. What is this requirement called?

What is prerequisite requirements
300

First year students are batch enrolled into this University Seminar

What is GEN S 100 (e.g. BA 100, ENGR 100, CAL 100, GEN S 100A B or C) 

300

A student has a language requirement for their major, but they took three semesters of Spanish in high school. What would you recommend the student to take?

Student is able to take SPAN 201

400

This document is updated every year and outline the rules, regulations, and overview of SDSU. This document includes course descriptions and major requirements.

What is University Catalog?

400

These requirements for graduation profoundly influences undergraduates by providing the breadth of knowledge necessary for meaningful work, lifelong learning, socially responsible citizenship, and intellectual development. Comprises over one third of an undergraduate’s course of study, places specialized disciplines into a wider world, enabling students to integrate knowledge and to make connections among fields of inquiry.

What is General Education requirements

400

Students will be ranked on the this “blank” on a first-come, first-serve basis. If a spot becomes available, students will be automatically enrolled to a class on their “blank” provided that they are not enrolled in another section of the same course, the waitlisted course does not create a time conflict in their schedule, and the student remains eligible to enroll. An email will be sent to the student’s SDSU email regarding any enrollments from the waitlist.

What is Waitlist?

400

Where can both freshmen and transfers receiving tutoring?

What are the Writing Learning Center and the Math Learning Center in Love Library 

400

A student is seeking to change their major, but understands they cannot change their major until after census. What resources would you give that students so that they can register for the right classes?

Students can pull the Roadmap for the major they want to take. Students can pull a “what-if” degree evaluation. Students can meet with a Coordinated Care Advisor during NSO




500

This website is where students can view all of their academic and financial tools/information. It feature tiles for various resources/tools they need to review.

What is My.Sdsu?

500

Students must complete the Preparation for the Major Required courses, the pre-requisites to any preparation for the major courses, and minimum GPA requirements

What is Impaction Criteria

500

Students are recommended to drop not swap using this feature in the manage classes tile.

What is Swap Classes

500

Transfer students are recommended to register into this  University seminar

What is GEN S 350

500

A student has satisfied their lower division general education requirements with AP and dual enrollment credit. Can a student take upper division general education during their first semester at SDSU?

No. They may have lower division business requirements and American institutions they can take instead.