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General Goals of Advising
- To give students an understanding of what constitutes a liberal arts education at Yale.
- To convey to incoming students an immediate sense that Yale faculty members are accessible and take a personal interest in them.
- To help students appreciate the need to strike a balance between academic commitments and extra-curricular activities.
- Academic Calendar
- Advice to Students: How to Prepare for Meetings with Your Freshman Adviser
- Advising Resources for Freshmen and Sophomores, especially the “For Advisers” section (see below)
- Calendar for the Opening Days of College (lists the main academic and student life events of freshman orientation)
- Center for International & Professional Experience (PDF)
- Center for Language Study (for foreign language tutoring and other resources and information)
- Directors of Undergraduate Studies
- Distributional Requirements
- DUS Handbook
- “For Advisers,”part of the “Advising Resources for Freshmen and Sophomores” website
- Foreign Language Requirement
- Freshman Adviser Orientation Handouts
- Guidelines for Freshman Academic Advising, including:
- A Constellation of Advisers
- General Goals of Advising
- Goals of the First Freshman Advising Meeting
- Follow-up Meeting
- Schedule Signing
- Check List for Reviewing Course Programs
- Some Suggestions for Ongoing Advising
- Helpful Details for Advisers to Remember throughout the Term
- Distributional Requirements for the Freshman Year
- Credit/D/Fail Option
- Deadlines and Academic Options to Keep in Mind
- Science, Engineering, and Premedical Students
- International Experience Options
- General Goals of Sophomore Advising
- What Sophomores Expect from Their Advisers, including
- Thinking about the Term at Hand, Thinking about the Next Three Years
- Drawing Up Tentative Schedules
- Mid-term and End-of-term Meetings
- Extracurricular Activities
- Summer Plans
- Helpful Details to Remember throughout the Year
- Distributional Requirements for the Sophomore Year
- Credit/D/Fail Option
- Deadlines and Academic Options to Keep in Mind
- Science, Engineering, and Premedical Students
- International Experience Options
- Sources of Information
- Thoughts from Sophomores
- Guidelines for Sophomore Academic Advising, including
- Information for Sophomore Advisers
- Online Course Information
- Quantitative Reasoning Courses without Prerequisites
- See also The Writing Center
- Sophomore Website, see new site name: Advising Resources for Freshmen and Sophomores
- Tutoring and Academic Support (Academic Strategies Program, humanities and social science tutoring, quantitative reasoning and science tutoring, and writing tutoring)
- Yale College Calendar with Pertinent Deadlines (academic and other deadlines)