Advising & Advisors
Located in Killian Annex, this office offers comprehensive academic advising to undeclared and declared undergraduate students.
What is the Advising Center?
This office provides tutoring for more than 180 courses and is located in Belk 207.
What is the Writing and Learning Commons (WaLC)?
The unique code needed to register for classes each semester.
What is an Alt. PIN (or alternate PIN)?
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What is Barbie?
This converts letter grades into a cumulative numeric scale and is abbreviated by GPA.
What is Grade Point Average?
The one-stop shop for education majors, which includes advising, Admission to Teacher Education, Office of Field Experiences, licensure, etc.
What is Suite 201?
A student's road map to what classes he/she needs to take for his/her major at WCU.
What is a Degree Audit (or Degree Evaluation)?
The unique 5-digit number assigned to each individual class for any given semester.
What is a CRN (Course Registration Number)?
A 300- or 400-level course required within the Liberal Studies and abbreviated by ULP.
What is an Upper Level Perspective?
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What is Hocus Pocus?
The website used to make advising and/or tutoring appointments.
What is Navigate?
This system will allow you to apply for hundreds of scholarships with just one application.
What is ScholarCat (scholarships.wcu.edu)?
This video game, released in 2017, has drawn in more than 400 million players and earns hundreds of millions of dollars per month.
What is Fortnite?
Students transferring in 0-15 credit hours are required to take this course during their first year.
What is the First Year Seminar?
The number of hours from which a student can withdraw. This is also the number of hours a student can grade replace.
What is 16 hours?
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Who is Travis Kelce?
This resource provides services that empower students to engage in and be successful in a full range of academic, social, and cultural endeavors through fostering psychological wellness.
What is CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services)?
The office that assigns and distributes registration dates to all WCU students, processes transfer transcripts, and a host of other student record activities.
What is the Registrar's Office?
One of two liberal studies areas that requires 6 credit hours from two different subject areas.
What is C5 Science or P1 Social Science?
The minimum GPA that is required to remain in good academic standing at WCU. This is not the same as a program GPA requirement.
What is a 2.0?
For education majors, a 2.75 is required to remain in the Teacher Education Program. Other programs may have similar GPA requirements.
Three reasons why you might need to meet with an advisor.
What are initial meeting, 5th week grades, change major/minor, registration, course withdrawal, academic standing, etc.?
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What is Hawkins, IN?
Two reasons why a WCU student would be unable to register (for all courses or just one specific course).
What are holds, unknown alt pin, campus restriction, prerequisite/corequisite restriction, program restriction, class restriction, trying to register prior to assigned date, etc.
The amount of credit hours required to fulfill Liberal Studies.
What is 42 hours?
The percentage of classes that must be successfully completed (both semester and cumulative) to remain in good academic standing. This is determined by dividing the number of hours attempted by the number of hours earned.
What is 67%?