INTERCOLLEGE TRANSFER TO LAS

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1 PREPARING FOR INTERCOLLEGE TRANSFER TO LAS Student Academic Affairs Office of the Dean 01 S. Morgan Street rd Floor University Hall Chicago IL 00 (1) 99-

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREPARING FOR INTERCOLLEGE TRANSFER TO LAS Complete the following steps after you have submitted your application for intercollege transfer to LAS. Take Placement Tests, if Required, and View Results 1 Become Familiar with LAS Degree Requirements 1 Explore Requirements for Educational Goals in Pre-Professional Fields Check Your Degree Audit to View Transfer Credit, if Applicable, and Progress Towards Your Degree Review Course Options Consider the Number and Type of Credit Hours to Take Check for Holds on Your Account Register for Classes Meet with Your New LAS Academic Advisor, Once Admitted to LAS Step-by-Step Instructions for Registration How to View Your Degree Audit Report (DARS) How to Learn about Majors and Minors Using the Undergraduate Catalog How to View Course Information (including Course Descriptions) Using the Undergraduate Catalog How to Use the Schedule of Classes How to Use the Archived Schedule of Classes How to Search for General Education Courses 9 How to View Your Registration Time Ticket in my.uic.edu 10 How to View Holds in my.uic.edu 11 How to View Mid-Term Grades in my.uic.edu 11 How to Register for Classes in my.uic.edu 1 Information provided in this booklet was correct to the best of our knowledge based on information available at the time of publication. There may be changes subsequent to publication. Please check the online Undergraduate Catalog and the LAS website for the most current policies and procedures: and

3 TAKE PLACEMENT TESTS, IF REQUIRED, AND VIEW RESULTS Placement tests may be required in certain subjects. Unless you have AP or other college-level credit that determines your placement, you will not be able to register for some of your most important and required courses for the upcoming semester. Students who do not have college-level credit and fail to take required placement tests will find themselves unable to register for courses that complete the University Writing, Foreign Language, Quantitative Reasoning, or Chemistry requirements. The chemistry placement test is only required if it is needed for your major or educational goal. The foreign language placement test must be taken if you have prior experience in any foreign language. Placement test results are valid for one year, except for heritage speaker foreign language results, which do not expire. You may need to retake the placement test if you have not enrolled in the course within one year of taking the test. If you have questions about your placement test expiration and when to retake placement tests (if needed), speak with an LAS academic advisor at an intercollege transfer information session. Register here for a session. If you are unable to attend one of the regularly scheduled information sessions, you may contact ICT@las.uic.edu. To take your tests, log into my.uic.edu and select the Registration tab under Academics. You will need to submit a request for the appropriate test. Please make sure you enter a reason for requesting the test. Once approved, a link will be available within a few days to take the online test. Placement test scores may take up to a week to post. They will appear in the Placement Test portlet on the Registration tab under Academics. If you have any questions related to online placement testing or experience a problem while taking an online exam, contact the UIC Office of Testing Services by submitting a UIC Placement Testing Help Ticket Once you have placement test scores, you may begin planning your course schedule. Failure to take placement tests may delay your graduation as you may be unable to take the courses you need in your first semester as an LAS student. BECOME FAMILIAR WITH LAS DEGREE REQUIREMENTS College Requirements All LAS students must complete University Writing, Foreign Language, and Quantitative Reasoning requirements. If you have not yet completed these requirements, placement tests may be required before registration so that you are able to enroll in the courses you need to ensure a timely graduation. University Writing Students must start where their placement test, ACT score, or previous college-level credit dictates. Students must continue the University Writing sequence until successfully completing English 11, Academic Writing II. Foreign Language Students must complete the equivalent of the fourth semester of college-level foreign language. If you have a background in a foreign language, and have not yet completed the fourth semester of that language at a collegelevel, you must take a placement test in that language prior to registration. If a placement test is not offered in your language or if you are an international student, speak with an LAS academic advisor at an intercollege transfer information session. Register here for a session. General Education Requirements All students must fulfill the General Education requirements in order to graduate. General Education courses include the following categories: Analyzing the Natural World, Exploring World Cultures, Understanding the Creative Arts, Understanding the Individual and Society, Understanding the Past, and Understanding U.S. Society. Please note that LAS requires students to complete two Analyzing the Natural World laboratory science courses. Students also are required to take two additional General Education courses from any of the categories. Please familiarize yourself with the General Education requirements by looking in the Undergraduate Catalog For questions regarding LAS degree requirements, speak with an LAS academic advisor at an intercollege transfer information session. Register here for a session. If you are unable to attend one of the regularly scheduled information sessions, you may contact ICT@las.uic.edu. EXPLORE REQUIREMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL GOALS IN PRE-PROFESSIONAL FIELDS In addition to having a major, some students choose to pursue an educational goal in a pre-professional field (such as pre-medicine, pre-law, etc.). Pre-professional educational goals are not majors in LAS. The various professional programs often require specific coursework be completed prior to applying, and most require a bachelor s degree prior to admission. Students can often satisfy prerequisites for pre-professional programs with General Education and/or major requirements for a degree in LAS. Students with an interest in a pre-professional field should add an educational goal to ensure that they receive pertinent information applicable to their area of interest. For students with a pre-health interest, this can be completed on the LAS pre-health website under the Educational Goal link. For students with a pre-law interest, this can be completed on the LAS pre-law website under the Educational Goal link. Please visit the Pre-professional Studies section of the Undergraduate Catalog which lists the course requirements for each of the pre-professional programs. CHECK YOUR DEGREE AUDIT TO VIEW TRANSFER CREDIT, IF APPLICABLE, AND PROGRESS TOWARDS YOUR DEGREE The Degree Audit Report (DARS) is an individualized report showing all of your classes and your progress toward meeting graduation requirements. Step-by-step instructions on how to view your DARS are included on page. Toward the end of your DARS, you will find a section titled All Courses ; this section shows every course that UIC has record of you completing or for which you are currently enrolled (these courses show as IP, meaning they are in-progress). If, at the very end of your DARS, there is a section titled Courses to be Reviewed by the College for Credit/No Credit with UNKNOWN courses listed underneath, it means LAS has not yet reviewed, or is in the process of reviewing, the course(s) for credit toward your degree. If you have taken courses somewhere other than UIC that are not showing in this section of your DARS, that may mean either the transcript has not yet been sent to UIC (and needs to be), or it has been sent to UIC but has not yet been processed by the Admissions Office (processing can take weeks once the transcript has been received by the Admissions Office). Please send final transcripts as quickly as possible following the completion of courses taken somewhere other than UIC, as that will help ensure a smooth registration and advising experience. You are invited to discuss your DARS with an LAS academic advisor during an intercollege transfer information session. Please register for a session here Please also bring a copy of your DARS from your current UIC College. Quantitative Reasoning Students must start where their placement test score or previous college-level credit dictates and must complete a certain level of math, statistics or logic in order to satisfy this requirement. The appropriate course will depend on your major or educational goal. 1 Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01 Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01

4 REVIEW COURSE OPTIONS You are welcome to register for most LAS courses. Please use the information below to guide you. While the courses you take to complete the University Writing, Foreign Language, Quantitative Reasoning, and Chemistry (if needed) requirements may be dictated by your previous coursework, placement test results, choice of major, and/or educational goal, you have many choices when it comes to your General Education courses. Take a look at the General Education section of the Undergraduate Catalog For the General Education categories you have not yet completed, choose two or three courses that interest you from each category. It is your responsibility to ensure you have met prerequisites, even if the system allows you to register for a course. Once you have found a couple of courses from each category that sound interesting, check the Course Descriptions for prerequisites (courses you must take first or placement you must have in order to be properly prepared). It is your responsibility to ensure you have met prerequisites, even if the system allows you to register for a course. Not all courses will be available or open every semester. To see what is offered in a particular semester, go to my.uic.edu, select Schedule of Classes and then select Schedule of Classes Search to look for a particular course. To search for a course in a specific General Education category, go to the Schedule of Classes; under New General Education Sections select New General Education Dynamic Search Feature. Step-by-step instructions on how to view course descriptions, use the Schedule of Classes, and search for general education courses are included on pages,, and 9, respectively. You will be able to meet with an academic advisor in your intended major once you have been admitted to LAS. Please refer to the Undergraduate Catalog and the four year model plans to help you choose courses toward your intended major. Advanced courses in the major may be restricted to current LAS students only. Contact the department directly if you have any questions. For department contact information, please visit CHECK FOR HOLDS ON YOUR ACCOUNT You may have a hold from your current College preventing you from registering for classes. Please contact your advisor and/or department at your current College to lift your hold; LAS academic advisors are unable to remove holds that were put on by other colleges. In addition, Financial, Admissions, Dean of Students, and other holds must be removed by the appropriate office; LAS academic advisors are unable to remove these holds. Step-by-step instructions on how to view your holds are included on page 11. REGISTER FOR CLASSES Now that you have prepared, please register for classes as soon as you are able to do so according to your Time Ticket listed under my.uic.edu. You do not have to wait until speaking with an LAS academic advisor to register for classes. You are invited to discuss your registration questions with an LAS academic advisor during an intercollege transfer information session. Please register for a session here To register for classes, follow the step-by-step instructions on page 1. You must have course registration numbers (CRNs) for each of the classes for which you would like to register in order to follow this procedure. You may look up course registration numbers using the Schedule of Classes Search Step-by-step instructions on how to use the Schedule of Classes are included on page. MEET WITH YOUR NEW LAS ACADEMIC ADVISOR, ONCE ADMITTED TO LAS Once you are accepted to LAS, you will be assigned an LAS academic advisor. We strongly encourage you to meet with your advisor at the beginning of the semester you are admitted to LAS. The LAS Academic Advising Center offers walk-in hours for the first two weeks of fall and spring semesters for LAS students. You will receive a welcome from your LAS academic advisor outlining these office hours along with other relevant information. CONSIDER THE NUMBER AND TYPE OF CREDIT HOURS TO TAKE A semester hour is the University s unit of academic credit. Typical courses are three credit hours. Many science or math courses are four or five credit hours because they include a discussion or lab component. A minimum of 10 credit hours are needed for graduation. UIC requires that once you have junior standing (0 credit hours), you must earn an additional 0 credit hours at a -year institution. Therefore, even if you have taken more than 0 credit hours of community college work prior to attending UIC, you are still required to complete a minimum of 0 credit hours once you enroll at UIC. All students will need to complete 0 advanced credit hours prior to graduation. 00-level courses and above taken at UIC are considered advanced coursework. What is considered advanced from other -year institutions may be different, and no course work at a community college is considered advanced. In order to be a full-time student, you must register for at least 1 credit hours in the fall semester and 1 credit hours in the spring semester. If you take fewer than 1 credit hours in either the fall or spring semester, you will be considered a part-time student. Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01 Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01

5 STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR REGISTRATION HOW TO VIEW YOUR DEGREE AUDIT REPORT (DARS) HOW TO LEARN ABOUT MAJORS AND MINORS USING THE UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG 1. Go to: To review major and minor information, including course requirements, select the first option in the Degree Programs drop-down menu: Degree Program and Minor List. 1. Select the major or minor about which you are interested in learning more.. View major and minor information, including course requirements.. Under University Links, click DARSWeb for Student Audit.. To run a degree audit for your default program, choose the radial dial next to Run Default Programs Listed.. To run a degree audit for a hypothetical program or selected program,choose the radial dial next to Run Selected Programs. Then select the College, Degree Program, and Catalog Year. HOW TO VIEW COURSE INFORMATION USING THE UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG. Click Submit a New Audit.. After approximately 0 seconds, a new audit will be generated.. Click Open Audit to view.. Click Open All Sections to view the entire document. 1. Go to: To view course information, select Course Descriptions.. Select the subject about which you are interested in learning more.. View course information including description, prerequisites, and General Education categories fulfilled by the course. KEY RED X = Requirement not yet complete GREEN = Requirement complete GREEN IP = Requirement in-progress to be completed Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01 Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01

6 HOW TO USE THE SCHEDULE OF CLASSES 1. Go to: my.uic.edu.. Before logging in, select Schedule of Classes. HOW TO USE THE ARCHIVED SCHEDULE OF CLASSES While not a guarantee of future course offerings, the Archives will tell you what is likely to be offered in subsequent terms (i.e. the list of classes offered in the Spring 01 semester will likely look very similar to the list of classes taught in the Spring 01 semester). 1. Go to: my.uic.edu.. Before logging in, select Schedule of Classes.. To search for a specific course, select Schedule of Classes Search.. Select a Term from the drop-down menu.. Select a Part of Term from the drop-down menu.. On the top right side of the page under Schedule of Classes Archives, select a Term from the drop-down menu and click on Go.. Select a Subject from the drop-down menu.. Select a specific Course from the drop-down menu or All to view all courses offered in the subject selected.. Ensure that the Section Option Open is selected and click Search Sections. 9. View course information, including:. Select the subject you want to look up in the archived term. Catalog description Prerequisites General Education categories fulfilled by the course 9 Course Registration Number (CRN) Day(s), time(s), and location(s) Seats available Instructor. A record of all courses taught in that subject in that term will be displayed. Textbook information Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01 Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01

7 HOW TO SEARCH FOR GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES 1. Go to: my.uic.edu.. Before logging in, select Schedule of Classes.. Under New General Education Sections, select New General Education Dynamic Search Feature. HOW TO VIEW YOUR REGISTRATION TIME TICKET IN MY.UIC.EDU. Select Student Self Service Login Main Menu.. Select Registration & Records.. Select a Term from the drop-down menu.. Select a General Education Category from the drop-down menu.. Select a Part of Term from the drop-down menu.. Select a Subject from the drop-down menu or All to view all courses offered in the selected General Education Category.. Ensure that the Section Option Open is selected and click Search Sections. 9. View all open courses offered in the selected General Education Category. 10. Click on the course Subject, Number, or Title to learn more about the course, including: Catalog description Prerequisites. Select Registration.. Select Registration Eligibility.. Select a Term from the drop-down menu and click Submit. General Education categories fulfilled by the course Click View Open Sections to view course information, including: 10. View your Registration Time Ticket.. Also available on this screen is a notification if you do or do not have holds which prevent registration. Course Registration Number (CRN) Day(s), time(s), and Location(s) Seats available 11 Instructor 9 Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01 Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01 10

8 HOW TO VIEW HOLDS IN MY.UIC.EDU. Select Self Service Log in - Main Menu. Within Student Self Service, select Registration & Records.. Select Student Records and Transcripts. HOW TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES IN MY.UIC.EDU Reference: Select Student Self Service Login - Main Menu.. Select Registration & Records.. Select Add/Drop Classes.. Select View Holds.. View hold information, including the reason for the hold, who placed the hold (i.e. Originator), and university services affected by the hold.. Complete Registration Agreement. HOW TO VIEW MID-TERM GRADES IN MY.UIC.EDU. Select Student Self Service Login Main Menu.. Within Student Self Service, select Registration and Records.. Select Student Records and Transcripts.. Select Mid-Term Grades.. Select a Term from the drop-down menu and click Submit.. Select Term and click Submit.. Enter course numbers (CRNs) looked up in Schedule of Classes (see page ) and click Submit Changes.. After submitting enrollment, check results and correct registration errors. NOTE: You are not registered for courses that contain registration errors, you must correct and re-submit changes to fully enroll. For screenshots of common error messages and ways in which to correct them, visit: View Mid-Term Grades. 11 Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01 Preparing for Intercollege Transfer to LAS 01 1

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