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College of Letters
Advising Tips
25 March 2008From: Laurie Nussdorfer
To: All COL students and advisers
As we get ready for pre-registration, here are some tips to orient you in your COL course selections. For the full details on the major requirements please consult the COL web site.
Everyone:
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Colloquium each semester
Make sure grading mode is pass/fail
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Exceptions:
COL crosslisted courses that are graded only (Eugenia will email you during Drop/Add) Substitution courses (i.e. not COL courses) (Director's approval, then professor's okay)
Frosh (rising sophomores)
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Take a course in the language you will study when you go abroad
Try to take one of your COL seminar requirements
Sophomores (rising juniors)
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First semester:
- Take COL seminar requirements (aim to complete this year)
- Choose those that overlap with colloquia periods on which you will
be examined in the junior comps (ancient, medieval, modern)
- Take courses with professors or on topics that might possibly be relevant to your eventual choice of a thesis topic
- Same as first semester, but with even more emphasis on choosing
courses that prepare you for your thesis either in topic, tutor or
skills.
- Be wary of oversubscription in COL courses.
Second semester:
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Complete all COL seminar requirements, if you haven't.
Be careful of oversubscription in COL courses.