Advising Guide
Media, Culture, and Communication 2008-2009 Undergraduate Advising Guide.

How to See An Advisor

Every student in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is assigned an academic adivisor. Students meet their advisor during the first week of classes in New Student Seminar. The instructor you have for this course will serve as your primary advisor throughout your career as a Media, Culture, and Communication major. Students should make appointments to meet with their primary advisor when they want to discuss registration issues or their degree progress, learn about study abroad options, or talk about personal issues that are affecting academic success. To make an appointment with your primary advisor, call the front desk at 212-998-5635. This is the general number for the Undergraduate Program in Communication Studies.

We also have a walk-in advisor on duty every weekday from the hours of 10am to 4pm. You may visit the walk-in advisor to address a basic registration issue such as signing a drop/add form or discussing the pass/fail option. In addition, you can also contact our undergraduate advisement staff at any time by e-mail. We encourage students to email basic questions to advisors rather than calling them since e-mail is often a more efficient method of contact.

Peer Advisors

The MCC Peer Advisor Program promotes student involvement and retention by connecting new students to student mentors, who in turn make available departmental and university resources and information. Trained and supervised by our academic advisors, peer advisors are able to assist new students in finding accurate registration and advisement information. They act as Teacher’s Assistants in New Student Seminar, hold weekly mentoring office hours, assist in organizing departmental programming and represent the department at admissions and recruitment events.

For more information regarding the Peer Advisor Program please contact Ivan Makar.

Registration Clearance

Students have two options in obtaining registration clearance each semester, individual and group sessions. Information on when to sign up for these registration clearance sessions will be e-mailed to you each semester. If you are currently studying abroad, you should e-mail your primary advisor with a proposed schedule for the upcoming semester and they will clear you to register. If you are going abroad during the upcoming semester, we will hold a special pre-registration meeting for you to get clearance for registration.

Students should come to their pre-registration advising appointments (individual or group) prepared with a proposed list of courses you would like to take. You may download a registration clearance form before meeting with your advisor to help you plan your schedule.

Advisors cannot clear these students over the phone or via email under any circumstances.

Registering for Classes with Albert

Once you’ve obtained advisor clearance you will be eligible to register via NYU’s registration system called Albert. Albert is available through your NYUHome account. Once you are on the Albert Home page you can access the various features of Albert including checking your registration time and status, viewing your schedule and transcript, checking course availability, and registering for classes.

Deadlines

It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of all registration deadlines. Registration deadlines are posted on the University Registrar’s academic calendar.

Registration Policies

Pass/Fail Option
Students in the Media, Culture, and Communication major can take up to 32 credits of their non-major courses on a pass/fail basis. Pass/fail forms are available at the department’s front desk and require an advisor’s signature. It is a student’s responsibility to fill out ALL personal and course information. If you receive a “D” or better you pass the course. Please keep in mind that once you file this form, you cannot rescind the pass/fail option. This means that if you find out you are getting an “A” in the course and you elected to take it pass/fail, your transcript will read a “P.”

Course Waitlists
Waitlists are active through the first week of class. You will not be notified if you are enrolled into a course for which you have been previously waitlisted, therefore you should check your schedule frequently. Following the waitlist period it is at the professor’s discretion to allow any over-enrollment into their course if it is closed. Courses for which you are a the waitlist are counted against your maximum allowable credit load (i.e. if you are registered for 16 credits, Albert will not allow you to waitlist a course for three credits or more since it would exceed the maximum 18 credit load.)

Leave of Absence or Withdrawal from the University
Students who need or wish to break their attendance for one or more semesters or who students who wish to completely withdraw from New York University should make an appointment with their advisor.

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