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Questions about Advisement? Contact your coordinators and read on for more detailed information about the advisement process:
Department Chair:Claudia GoldsteinEmail: GoldsteinC@wpunj.edu
Graduate Director :Steve RittlerEmail: rittlers@wpunj.edu
Advisement for BA art majors starts in the Advisement Center in their first semester. BFA majors are assigned an advisor in the Department of Art. All majors in both programs may contact the Chair for additional advisement.
Each semester has a week of Advisement Days prior to registration. Students are informed through emails and class announcements when Advisement Days will take place (usually mid-October and mid-March). After receiving advisement, the student and advisor fill out and sign an advisement sheet with a list of courses for which the student should register, along with the student’s registration pin. Copies of the receipt are kept by the student and advisor.
As soon as the student becomes a junior, the advisor informs them that an appointment must be made with the Chair for an audit to see that all requirements are being met, and what is still required to graduate in a timely manner. When the student becomes a senior, they must apply for graduation, and once they receive the email from the registrar telling them what requirements they still need to fulfill, they and their advisor do another audit and confirm the information received from the registrar.
The Transfer Evaluation process takes place primarily online. The student’s transcript is posted by the Admissions office, the transfer evaluator in the department is notified via email, and the evaluator then enters the TIF area in Banner and does the evaluation. All BA students can receive a maximum of 18 credits in art through the transfer process. BFA students can receive a maximum of 49 credits in art through the transfer process. Once the evaluation takes place, the credited classes appear on the student’s WPU transcript/audit. Transfer student can then meet with the department of Art advisement coordinator during the coordinator’s office hours for advisement, or student can come in during the days assigned for in-person registration for transfer students. Once student is in the system, an advisor within the department is assigned by either the chair or the advisement coordinator.
For graduate advisement the Graduate Director emails students to facilitate individual meetings for advisement and course selections during registration periods. Graduate students can only register for a course via permission of the graduate director. The graduate director submits permits for each course the graduate student wishes to take.
Meetings take place from late March to late April. Control sheets provide the structure for the students to follow and are included on this page. In some cases, in-person meetings are not necessary — course selection and academic planning can happen via email conversation.
