PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT ADVISOR HELP SHEET
 Revised July 15, 1998

UNDERSTANDING THE ADVISEMENT DOCUMENT

? means the course is in progress this semester.

^E.  Only higher grade of repeated course counts on GPA.

@E.  Grade for repeated course earned before Fall 1994.  Both grades count on GPA.

Developmental courses are taken for imputed credit.  These imputed credits appear in the "In Prog" column, which is added to the "Compl" column to yield a sum in the "Total" column.  At the completion of the semester, the imputed credits are DEDUCTED from the the "Compl" and "Total" columns.

IP.  "In Progress."  Courses taken at another institution for which final grades have not been received.

T plus a grade (e.g., TB+) means that the grade was earned at a transfer institution, and does not count in Oneonta GPA.

TIP (Transfer In Progress).  Transfer credit will be awarded for a course when a final transcript is received.

TP.  Course was offered Pass/Fail at a transfer institution, and the student passed.

[   ].  A listed course shows somewhere else in the document (meeting more than one requirement).  Earns credit only once.

IMPORTANT FACTS:

Graduation.  Students may march in the ceremony if 6 credits short of 122, if they agree to earn these credits in the first Summer session.

Letter Grade.  All courses meeting General Education and Major Core requirements must be taken for a letter grade.

Maximum Credits Allowed in Psychology.  BA=45; BS=60.  A student who exceeds the allowable credits (e.g., BA candidate with 48 credits) must exceed 122 credits by the overage (122 +3 = 125) in order to graduate.

Maximum Internship and Teaching Assistantship Credits.   A student cannot exceed 16 credits for any combination of Teaching Assistantships and Internships.  Students are limited to 12 optional Pass/Fail credits (3 credits in any semester).  There is no limit to the number of required Pass/Fail credits.

PEN.  Grade given ONLY for deficient writing skills (in otherwise passing performance).  Letter grade is NOT supposed to change once PEN is lifted.

PHED maximum.  12 credits for students matriculated prior to Fall '97; otherwise 6 credits.

Residency in major.  Half of major core must be completed at Oneonta.

Residency.  30 of a student's last 60 credits must be Oneonta credit.

Writing Exam is a prerequisite for Psych 220.  Call 436-3691 to schedule.
TRANSFER ISSUES

Transfer students receive a PAD (Preliminary Advisement Document) that shows all courses completed at their previous institution, including those designed IP (In Progress)--courses for which grades have not been received.

Here are two examples of entries in the Advisement Document for courses taken at another institution.

SOCL 10E     *Intro to Criminology        3            TB+

SOCL is the OSC department the course would correspond to.  If transfer course fits into no OSC department, then the ELEC identifier is used.
 
10E.  The course is credited as a 100-level course (10), for which we have no exact equivalent (E).
 
*. Indicates that the course is not an EXACT equivalent to a course offered at OSC in Sociology.   

    A title in lowercase is the title at the transfer institution.
 
3.  Three credits are granted.

 TB+.  The student received a B+ at the transfer institution (T)--note: courses, but not grades transfer.

COMP 100    COMPOSITION                3            TA-

There is no "E" after course number and the course title is in UPPER CASE letters; this means that the course taken at the transfer institution (note T next to letter grade) is an EXACT equivalent to our course.

Transfer credit rules.  The default rule is that transfer credit is granted only for courses for which a C or better has been earned.  Here are two exceptions.  Credit is given for a D or better (a) for courses taken at four-year units of SUNY; and (b) for courses taken at two-year units of SUNY if the student receives an AA, AS, or AAS degree AND the courses are applied toward the degree earned.

Waivers.  On occasion, the Advisement Document places a transfer course in the Elective category that a student believes should fulfill a psychology core or related course-work requirement.  The department chair can deem such a course in fulfilment of a requirement of the major.
 
Credit Limitations.  Students may take courses at two-year colleges only if these courses do not bring the total semester hours completed (at OSC plus all transfer institutions) beyond 66 hrs.  Exceptions are 100-level courses that meet General Education, major, or minor requirements, and  courses taken at four-year institutions by students whose last 30 of 60 semester hours are taken at OSC.