Making an Appointment

Making an Appointment with your CLAS Academic Advising Center

Students are able to make an appointment by stopping into our Center, located in C-1-140 Mackinac Hall, or by calling us at 616-331-8585, or set up appointments online.

Making an Appointment with your Faculty Advisor

Once you know who has been assigned as your faculty advisor, there are a few ways to schedule an appointment. You may call your faculty member's office to schedule an appointment, send an email, or stop in during walk-in hours. If you are not certain of when your faculty advisor holds walk-in hours, contact the major department and they will be able to provide you with that information.

Checklist

• Are you willing to take spring/summer courses before and after year 4?:PSM 650 and STA 518 are offered in spring/summer

• Are you willing to pay grad rate for UG courses?:Students pay UG rate until they accumulate 12 grad credits.

• Ideal time to apply to combined degree program is during year 3.

  You should try to avoid taking STA 418, in favor of taking STA 518.  STA 426 is required as part of DS minor.

  Either (CIS 162 and CIS 500) (preferred) or (CIS 162 and CIS 163) should be taken as part of the undergraduate curriculum to be prepared for the graduate CIS courses.

Undergrad/Grad shared course policies

• Up to 12 credit hours can be dual counted (shared) in both undergrad and grad programs
• One of STA 518 or STA 526 as both a DSA requirement and a statistics elective.
• One of STA 518 or STA 526, not previously used, as both a DSA requirement and a free undergraduate elective.
• CIS 635 as both a DSA requirement and a statistics application cognate
• CIS 660 as both a DSA requirement and a statistics application cognate