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Departmental Policies on Earning Credit Abroad College Clearance Requirements
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Departmental Adviser Questionnaire - Ethnic Studies Current as of March 20, 2007 Department Name: Ethnic Studies Undergraduate Adviser Name: Dewey St. Germaine Office Location: 530 Barrows (physical), 506 Barrows (mailing) Email Address: deweystg@berkeley.edu Phone: 643-6420 Fax: 642-6456 Departmental Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/ 1. Is there a specific time frame in which students are required to declare a major in your department? If yes, when? NO. 2. Does the Undergraduate Adviser (staff) sign the Education Abroad Program academic planning form, or must a faculty adviser (professor) sign? The Undergraduate Assistant. 3. Should we advise students to make an appointment to have their academic planning form signed in your department? If so, do they need to bring a transcript or any other supplemental materials with them to their appointment? Yes, please advise the students to bring course descriptions, syllabi, etc. Of the courses they plan on taking abroad and want to possible use towards any major requirements. 4. What is the maximum amount of major credit given for courses taken during the education abroad program? Is this maximum calculated by number of courses or by units of credit? Please explain. The maximum amount of major credit we give for EAP courses varies from student to student. The maximum amount generally depends on which major requirements the student has left and which requirements the student is trying to fulfill with EAP courses. The maximum number of EAP courses accepted generally ranges from 1-3 courses. 5. Are students in your department able to undertake senior honors theses the semester following EAP participation or are there restrictions? Please explain. Yes. They can undertake the senior honors thesis as long as they have met the departmental guidelines and they have the proper departmental and overall GPA's. 6. Does your department calculate EAP grades into the departmental GPA? Yes, as long as they are UC sponsored EAP programs. 7. Are EAP grades counted towards departmental honors? Yes. 8. If you represent a department which teaches foreign language, does your department award major credit for the courses taken during the Intensive Language Program (ILP) portion of the EAP program? If so, please explain. N/A. 9. Does your department distribute a special information sheet for your majors which includes advice on how to articulate participation with EAP with the major? No. Advice on how to articulate participation is given on a student to student basis. 10. If yes, do you also provide this information on your departmental website? What is the URL? N/A. 11. Finally, most EAP students are required to officially declare their major before departure. Returning EAP students who attempt to register through Tele-BEARS from abroad need adviser codes to pre-enroll for courses. What is your departmental policy on releasing advisor codes (AC's) to EAP students? Adviser codes are generally released to the students by email unless they have made another plan to get their code. |
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