TESU academic plan/advising

[Mamasaphire]

Well this is a new experience. I haven't contacted an advisor for a change on my academic plan for months.

Politely emailed with a change I want made (moving a planned class to "other" category), and this was the reply I received:

This move seems unnecessary. COM-210 will count towards your GPA whether or not it is being used to satisfy degree requirements. There really is not benefit in having your other course apply to general ed electives and having COM-210 removed.

Should you have additional questions, please create a new ticket by sending an email to academicadvising@tesc.edu with your degree program in the subject line. Thank you.

I guess I will open a new ticket. I want it moved because I may not end up using it at all, and if it really makes no difference, I feel the advisor should have just done it.

Or am I wrong?

[jsd]

wait, a PLANNED class you haven't even taken yet is supposedly going to count towards your GPA no matter what, even if you don't take it/send it to them?

you're right. that is a new one.

[TrailRunr]

It doesn't matter unless you are removing the planned class completely due to not taking it. I have two areas of study, and each one has its own AOS, GE, electives, and other pile. In one major, a course is in the AOS while the same course in the other major is in the other pile.

[Mamasaphire]

wait, a PLANNED class you haven't even taken yet is supposedly going to count towards your GPA no matter what, even if you don't take it/send it to them?

you're right. that is a new one.

Right. And it's a TECEP, which have never counted towards gpa, afaik. Plus, I didn't ask about/mention gpa in my email.

Where does TESU find these academic advisors? :ack:

[Mamasaphire]

It doesn't matter unless you are removing the planned class completely due to not taking it. I have two areas of study, and each one has its own AOS, GE, electives, and other pile. In one major, a course is in the AOS while the same course in the other major is in the other pile.

Yes, I had signed up for the TECEP because I was going to do an AA.COMM, but decided that at this point in my life, health issues, etc, it's not worth the extra 3 classes I'd need to take. So am focusing on finishing my BA. And don't need a planned TECEP bumping out the BA course I have completed which was already in the right place. I just felt like the advisor was being controlling, idiotic, or as unhelpful as possible.

[Mamasaphire]

I decided to reply to the ticket I had (my quoted email follows). Although, in retrospect, I probably should have just dropped it and opened a new one with hopes of a different advisor receiving it.

Thank you for the response.

I am confused as to the substance of the reply, however, as COM-210, like any TECEP, has no GPA potential. And as I mentioned in my initial email, the course I am asking to move is clearly a TECEP, so I'm not sure why your email below even mentioned GPA.

I will not be using the COM-210 for my BA.SS, and have more than enough completed credits to utilize for the BA-required GE Electives.

Again, please move the COM-210 TECEP to the Other Courses category.

[dfrecore]

Well this is a new experience. I haven't contacted an advisor for a change on my academic plan for months.

Politely emailed with a change I want made (moving a planned class to "other" category), and this was the reply I received:



I guess I will open a new ticket. I want it moved because I may not end up using it at all, and if it really makes no difference, I feel the advisor should have just done it.

Or am I wrong?

It's much easier to ask them to move a course back to where it was, and tell them you're not taking the planned course at all. Otherwise they get very confused. I would just open another ticket and tell them those 2 things.