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>> Okay, good evening
and welcome
to the Understanding Your
Major's Requirements webinar
for the Associate in Science
in Information Sciences
and Technology degree.
My name is Richard Brungard
and I'm the Academic Support
Resource Coordinator
for Penn State World Campus
and I'm here this evening
with colleague Cliff Holmes,
who'll be presenting
with me, Cliff.
>> Hello everyone.
My name is Cliff Holmes.
I'm an Academic Advisor
and I work with the IST
and SRA programs.
>> So, this webinar is designed
to help you better understand
the requirements
for this degree.
Cliff will spend some time
actually the majority
of the time helping you
understand how
to run the degree audit
and read the audit
for this major
and help you understand the
requirements for this degree.
I'll spend a few minutes
in the beginning of the webinar
to discuss some important
support resources
that are available to you,
but let's start off
by taking a quick poll.
So, let me get that up here.
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Okay, here we go.
So, choose one of the responses
that fits best below:
I'm a new student at Penn State
and I've not scheduled courses
or I've already scheduled
courses for the next semester
or I'm already taking courses
at Penn State.
So, that'll give Cliff a better
chance or understanding to--
a chance to understand
where everybody is.
Okay, so it looks
like we have a mix of students
who are brand new
and haven't scheduled;
two students
who are already taking courses
here and that's really great,
so we have a nice mix
of people, okay.
So, I'm going to turn this
over to Cliff so he can find
out a little bit more
about you, Cliff.
>> So, we can see your name
in the chat.
So, I'd like to know
where you're from
and if you are currently working
in the IT field or not; so,
if you could just type
that in the chat.
Let us know where you're from
and if you're currently working
in the field or if you're not
yet in the field.
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Okay William, thank you.
[ Silence ]
>> Where are you from Edward?
Chicago.
[ Silence ]
>> Thank you Alexandra.
[ Silence ]
>> Thank you Allison.
[ Silence ]
>> Thank you Nancy.
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>> Thank you Justin and Chase.
[ Silence ]
>> So, it seems
like we have people from right
in Pennsylvania all the way
to across the other side
of the country.
Thank you everyone.
>> It looks like a nice mix
of people who are trying to get
into the IT field as well,
which is kind of cool.
>> Very nice.
>> So, we're going to go ahead
and take one more little
poll here.
And so how confident are you
that you understand the
requirements
for the two IST degrees?
So, you're not confident at all,
maybe a little confident,
somewhere in between,
pretty confident
or you feel very confident
about it.
So, go ahead and click
on the screen there
and we'll give you just a second
to do that.
And what we're going to do is
at the end of this presentation
we're going
to take this poll again and see
that hopefully you bumped
up a notch,
you feel a little bit more
confident about the requirements
for this degree.
Okay, so we have a mix of not
so confident to kind
of confident.
So, that's usually
where we stand.
So, let's go on and start going
over some things.
So, this evening I'm going to go
over some resources with you
such as the advising syllabus,
the academic calendar,
resources available
for World Campus
and how you can get involved
and stay connected
as an all night student.
And Cliff will spend most
of the time show you how to run
and read your degree audit
and understand the requirements
for your degree as well
as minors and certificate
programs that two IST students
might find interesting
and then I'll show you how
to use the schedule, of course.
And we'll have plenty of time
at the end of this webinar to go
over any questions
that you may have.
So, lets start off
with advising syllabus
which lists the roles
of your advisor
and what you're responsible
for as a student as well
as learning outcomes you should
be achieving and then a list
of commonly used
student resources.
So, the role
of advisor is different
from university to university,
so for those of you
who are transferring
in from other institutions this
is something you know you want
to make sure you understand what
it is here.
And then it's also important
each semester to mark
down important dates
for the semester such as
when classes begin and end
and late drop
and withdraw deadlines
because students aren't given
really any flexibility
when it comes to drop
and withdraw deadlines.
Well it's important to know how
to access this
semester calendar.
And the World Campus Helpdesk is
your tech support
for any course related
technology issue.
Tutoring is available
for World Campus students
in math, writing
and a few other
selected courses.
Penn State also has one
of the largest libraries
in the nation and all
of the resources are available
to you as an online learner.
And Career Services is not just
for you to use at the end
of your program
with your job hunting.
They can also help you
at the beginning of your program
to help you explore majors
that will help you meet your
career goals.
And finally get involved
and get connected.
You can join the Penn State Blue
and White Society,
which is the student group
of the alumni association
and students
with a very high GPA will be
asked to join Alpha Sigma
Lambda, which is a national
honor society
for adult learners.
Penn State will pay your Alpha
Sigma Lambda dues
and it's something
that looks great on your resume.
So, definitely consider it
if you're asked.
And then get connected
with what's going
on at Penn State
and World Campus
with out students
through our student blog the
Corner of College and Allen,
which is on the World Campus
website as well as Facebook,
Twitter and LinkedIn.
So, we're going
to take one more,
one more little poll
and that is how do you choose
to stay connected
to Penn State local campus?
Do you do that through Facebook,
Twitter, LinkedIn,
something on here
that we haven't listed,
maybe you're still on MySpace
or Google Plus
or you just don't use
social media.
Just go ahead
and click on there.
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We have a few other,
that's really cool.
So, probably Google Plus
I'm guessing.
Most people on Facebook,
a few don't do social media.
And for those of you
that don't do social media,
actually all of you
but especially those
who don't do social media
if you check the corner
of College and Allen,
which is our student blog
on the World Campus main page,
you really do get a lot
of really great information
that they put
out on a regular basis,
information that's important
to use as a student
and information about Penn State
and you can hear
from other students as well
who also blog,
who write for that student blog.
So, what we're going
to do now is go through--
I'm going to show you some
of those websites
that we talked about.
Give me a second here just
to pull up, just to pull
up that website.
Okay, there we go.
And I'm going to start off
by showing you the--
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The advising syllabus
so if we go here to the menu
on the right, this dropdown menu
and go to Roles
and Responsibilities it's going
to tell you all of the roles
and responsibilities
of the advisor
and what you're responsible for.
So, there's a lot
of really good information
on this page.
And down here near the bottom
you get into the academic
advising syllabus
and you can either print this
out as a PDF or view it here
in a webpage.
And it's going to start off
by telling you university policy
about academic advising,
what academic advising is here
at Penn State
and what our mission statement
is for World Campus
when it comes
to academic advising.
Then it's going to go
over those roles
and responsibilities that we saw
on the previous page
and then I think what's really
helpful for students is advising
learning outcomes for students,
what you should be learning
through academic advising each
year that you're here.
And then like I said earlier
at the bottom is the list
of commonly used resources
that are really helpful for you
and that can be used a lot while
you're here at Penn State.
I'm going to go back
up to the academic calendar.
So, if I go into Your Course How
to Guide and click
on Academic Calendar it's going
to take me right
to the academic calendar.
And this goes
through the summer calendar
and lists all the important
dates that you need to know
for this semester.
And up here closer to the top
under spring
and fall semesters you can click
on that hyperlink there
and that will take you
to the calendars for fall
and spring as well.
So you can get all of the dates
that you need
when classes start,
when they end,
especially late drop
and withdraw deadlines
because they're important dates
for you to know.
Academic Support Resources has a
whole page here
so I'm just going to click
on this page.
And when you get a time
or the chance,
go in and take a look at this.
So, there's some good
information especially
on the first one,
online tutoring
and the online tutoring programs
that we have and how
to use them.
Next one is ALEKS,
which is a math refresher,
which is a service that we use
through our math
textbook publisher.
Its 32 dollars for six weeks
and it's a really great way
to increase your math skills
so that you do better
in your math courses
or even placing
to a higher level math course.
You save a lot of money,
spend 32 dollars for six weeks
or 65 dollars a semester instead
of 1500 dollars,
however much a math
course costs.
It might be something worth
taking a look at.
Library services
like I said Penn State is one
of the largest libraries
in the nation.
Everything available
in that library is available
to you as a student.
So, you definitely want
to take advantage of that
and learn how to use
that knowledge
if you already haven't done so.
IStudy for Success Modules are
modules on a lot
of different topics,
but specifically
on study skills.
So, there's a lot
of good information there.
The Online Software Tutorials
are through lynda.com
and as a Penn State student you
have access to all
of the tutorials.
So, let's say you're taking a
course and you need
to put together a spreadsheet
and you're not quite sure how
to use Excel
or there's some parts
of it you don't understand how
to use, all
that information is going to be
on lynda.com.
So you have access to all
of that information.
And then I want to go
up to our community page
and this is where we talked
about getting involved
and getting connected.
If you were to click
on the events
and activities page it will list
all of the events and activities
that we have coming up here
at Penn State World Campus
and it includes things
like these webinars
and other activities.
We also have the Student Speaker
Series where we livestream.
Students can participate
in those and other events
that go on around the country
as well, also the Blue
and White Society,
as I mentioned,
our student organization,
and beside here we Facebook
and Twitter and how
to get connected with those.
And below we have our own
YouTube channel
and our own Fliker page
so you can kind of see what goes
on here at World Campus.
Okay, so what I'm going
to do now is I'm going
to turn this over to, to Cliff.
Actually I'm going to go
into the eLion demo.
I'm going to turn this
over to Cliff so he can go
to the how to run a degree audit
for you.
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So you want
to make sure you turn
on your microphone.
>> Okay, so we're in the demo
but what you're going
to see is very similar
to what you would see
in the actual site.
So you're going
to eLion.phu.edu.
And like I said
for our purposes we're going
to do the demo.
We'll click on students
and this screen would be
for you, would be
where you would enter your user
name and password.
So, under Menu here
on the left you're going
to click on Advising.
And then on the Advising menu
you're going
to select Degree Audit.
Now what you'll want
to do is you'll want
to run an alternative audit
by selecting this Radio button
here and then you will
hit Continue.
But for the purposes
of the demo I'm going
to select this link.
So, here is a series
of dropdown lists.
You're going
to select the dropdown list
that will say Information
Sciences and Technology.
I won't be able to do
that because I am in demo.
And then following
that you will select your major,
which would be Information
Sciences and Technology AS
and then you will select your
option and we'll go
over the different options
that are available to you,
but you'll select the one that's
appropriate
for what you will actively
pursue and then you're going
to hit Submit
to do audit request.
Okay and then once you see this
green box up here you'll know
that the audit has been
submitted properly
and then you're going
to select New Audit
Request Status.
Okay, now if you look here
to the far right here you can
see that your status is
not ready.
You won't be able
to view your audit
until it is ready.
So, what you'll do you'll just
hit the Recheck Status button.
Now, sometimes you may have
to select it more than once
until your status is ready,
but you'll click that
and then once you see your
status is ready you'll go
over here, select this button
for your appropriate audit
and then you'll select
New Audit.
And as you can see then your
degree audit will pop up.
So, now that we showed you how
to create an audit we'll go in
and show you how
to actually interpret
and read an audit
for your degree.
>> So, give me just one second
here and I'll pull
up that degree audit.
Okay, there we go.
>> Okay, so on--
I'm going to show you,
there's a lot
of information here
and we don't expect you
to be masters
of this information initially.
That's definitely why your
advisor is available
as a resource.
If you have any questions
regarding this he
or she will be more than happy
to help you out.
But I'm going to highlight some
of the more important areas
that you want
to be concerned about.
And as we're looking up here
and we will see the--
at the top you'll see a section
with your name and then
to the right
of that you'll see your Penn
State ID number
and also what you want to know
in this upper section is the
degree, where it says the
Associate in Science
in Information Sciences
and Technology.
And the option, like I said,
there are three different
options: There's the
baccalaureate option,
there's the individualized
option and then there's the
business option.
This particular audit is
for the baccalaureate option.
So, going further
down you'll see more information
and you'll see a code
for a major.
You'll also see, going further
down you'll also see your access
ID and you'll see your advisor's
information, his or her email ID
so you know who that person is
and how you can contact them.
After your first semester
in the future you'll have the
ability to schedule
courses yourself.
For your first semester
something you've already
scheduled so you know this,
but for those of you
who have not,
in order to add courses
to your schedule
in your first semester our staff
will be adding them
to your schedule.
In the future you'll go on eLion
when your appropriate window is
and you can schedule courses.
You'll know your time frame
or the time window that's
scheduled based
on how many credits you have
and that is shown here
on your audit, the exact date
and what you'll be able
to have access or scheduled.
So, if you go further
down we'll show you some
of the more important things
for you to understand.
The first thing I want
to draw your attention to is
on the far left
of the screen you'll see a
series of minuses
and in some cases you may see
plus signs.
A minus sign means
that this area is not
been completed.
A plus sign means
that this area has
been addressed.
And as we look
through the courses you'll see
that some courses are already
showing up in the audit.
And what happens is
when you're transfer credits
will come in and be evaluated
by admissions staff.
Some courses are directed
equivalents
to a Penn State course.
So if you have a transfer course
that is a direct equivalent
to a Penn State course
that automatically programmed
to your audit.
Now you may have some transfer
courses that you believe are
Penn State courses
who equivalent
to a Penn State course
and for some reason they were
not deemed as a
direct equivalent.
Your advisor will be able
to work with you
and identify both courses
and seeing that they fit
into your curriculum somehow.
So, as you can see this
student's transfer course is
English 15.
They took it
at another university.
They took an English course
and it transferred
in as English 15.
As you can see
in this first area you would
need English 15,
which is a composition course
in addition to CATS 100,
communications,
arts and sciences,
which is a public
speaking course.
So, going further
down you see there is another
more advanced English course,
English 202 C or D.
And underneath
that is computer science 101.
Now, I see [inaudible] is
required in this course
and this is a programming
course, specifically a course
related to C++.
Below that you'll see a series
of IST courses.
Again, a C or higher is required
for all IST courses.
And then next you'll see
where internship fits
in your curriculum.
Now if you had aspirations
for a bachelor's degree
in IST you would want
to take IST 495 instead of 295 A
or B and your advisor will help
you in that are once he
or she knows
that a bachelor's degree is your
ultimate goal,
he or she will instruct you,
advise you take IST 495 rather
than 295 A. IST 495 can be used
for the bachelor's as well
as the associate's degree.
As we go further
down this is the area
that may look different
depending on which option
you choose.
So, like I said this is a--
this is a baccalaureate
option audit.
And so your option is going
to be 15 credits that are geared
to be a supplement
to your degree.
In the case
of the baccalaureate option,
that option area a total
of 16 credits,
because it's a 4 credit course.
So, what we have here is a group
of courses,
like I said does intend
to supplement your degree.
In the baccalaureate area you
have Econ 102, IST 230, IST 240,
Stat 200 and Math 110.
Now, all of these courses work
directly towards the
baccalaureate degree.
So, all of these course can be
used in your bachelor degree
if you choose.
So, for the business option what
you would see here is a series
of business courses for you
to choose from
and for the individualized
option what you will be required
to do is to identify a series
of 15 credits worth of courses
that fit together with a theme
and that theme must fall in line
with your career
or academic goals.
You would need
to provide written justification
as how the theme
of courses you select fall
inline with your goals.
And your advisor will be able
to help you
and give you more direction
and guidance in this area.
But as we go
down the audit we'll see how the
rest of your courses will fit
in here.
You'll see where that English 15
course or above that fits right
into your writing
and speaking area.
This Quantification
that you see here,
you Computer Science 101 course
will fit into that area once you
complete it.
And as you scroll further
down you can see,
as you can see there's a plus
sign next to number three
indicating that this requirement
has been met
by this unit's biology course
that he or she transferred in.
As you go farther
down you can see
that three credits
in arts is required as well
as three credits in [inaudible]
and three credits
in social sciences
and this communication has
already been fulfilled.
And you will also need
to take three credits
in any General Education area.
Now for this degree,
computer science, excuse me,
CATS 100, will automatically
come and fill that area
in your degree.
The next area,
this is what happens
to all the elective courses.
Now you may have some courses
that we could not find a home
for in this degree program.
They will go
into this elective area.
As you go further
down you will need
to have a course that's writing
across the curriculum
or a W course that we call it.
In the case
of this degree IST 260 will fill
that requirement.
And you will also need
to identify a course to take
that satisfies the U.S. Cultures
or International Cultures.
And you'll be able
to identify those courses
on the you can identify
courses website.
As we go farther
down a little bit more a couple
of things that you do want
to know is that at least 18
of your last 30 credits must be
earned at Penn State.
And at least 30 must be earned
within the last three years.
So, that's two things
that you definitely want
to take note
at as you're progressing
through your degree.
A minimum GPA
of a 2.0 is required
for graduation.
And as we scroll further
down to the bottom this degree
is 62 credits.
Now, many of you will trans--
will end up with more
than 62 credits
as you bring transfer credits
in, as you progress
to the degree.
There's two things that you want
to definitely pay attention to.
Yes you need 62 credits
but you also must have all the
degree requirements met.
So, for some of you,
you may have 70 credits
and your degree requirement
is met.
Or you may have more than that,
but it's important
that you not only have the
credit amount
but that you have all the degree
requirements met.
And again, like we said,
we don't expect you
to be a master of reading audit
on this first shot,
but that's why your advisor
is there.
He or she will be happy
to address any further issues
you have as you go through with
and understanding the audit.
So, next I want
to show you a list of courses
that are required
for this degree.
And we got to this list
from the World Campus main page.
So, if you go
to worldcampus.phu.edu,
you're more than welcome
to go there now and work along
with us if you want.
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>> You can take control
if you want to Cliff.
[ Silence ]
>> So, on this area we're going
to look for associate's degrees
and then Information Sciences
and Technology right here.
So this area,
and then student section,
will just give you a different
view of all the requirements,
all the things that make
up your program.
For today's purpose we're going
to go to the course list
right here.
And what you will see here is
just a list of all the courses
that make up the degree.
And a lot of these will look
familiar to you
if you reviewed the audit
with us.
You see the IST 110, ICT 10,
and then a number
of other IST courses here.
And you scroll further down
and you'll have what we call the
General Education area,
which make up these courses
which is CATS 100, English 15,
English 202
and down here are the different
option courses.
So, if you choose the business
option, you see these are the
courses that would be required,
that would be available to you
to choose from in order
to complete the general business
option, if that's what
you desire.
And this lower part here
explains like I mentioned
individualized option
where you would develop a theme
in consultation
with your advisor.
And finally you saw these
courses already
for the baccalaureate option.
So, those are the three
different options that you have
to choose from for your
Associate's degree
and here it just rounds
out the other General Education
courses like I mentioned before,
the arts requirements,
the social sciences
and what have you.
So, I also would
like to show you now some
different certificates.
We offer a number
of different certificates
throughout all
of our academic programs.
But there are a few certificates
that are more applicable
or I would say more favorable
to some of our students.
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So if you go
down to the World Campus main
page, worldcampus.psu.edu
and select Degrees
and Certificates and from
that menu I'm going
to show you two
of the more popular ones
for our students
that as advisors we've
come across.
And the first one is the
Information Sciences
and Technology Certificate
and if you look
at this what you'll see here is
that all the courses
for a certificate are all
of the courses
that you're already pursuing
for your degree as you can see.
So, some students like to have
that stepping stone
of earning a certificate first
before they earn their
Associate's degree;
you can definitely do that.
You can see the IST 110,
IST 210, IST 220, IST 250,
all these courses make
up your Associate degree
program already.
So, if you would
like to have a certificate
in addition
to your Associate's degree you
can definitely do that.
We're going to go back
to the Certificates area
and I would
like to show you the other
certificate that's really
popular with our students
and that's the Digital
Arts certificate.
We come across a large number
of students that have--
are interested in web design
or graphic arts of some type
and they may want to integrate
that with their Information
Technology degree.
So, I'm just going
to show you the course list
for this degree as well.
And as you can see there are
some art courses
that you can choose from
and computer graphics
and web design fundamentals
and some other things.
And so what a number
of students do is they use these
courses for their theme
and their individualized option.
So, we have students
who pursue individualized
options and they'll use these
arts courses for that theme
and that's how they are easily
able to integrate these digital
arts courses in conjunction
with their Associate's degree
in IST.
And so you can,
in you leisure you can
definitely look through some
of these other certificates,
but I just wanted to highlight
like I said some
of the more popular ones among
our I--
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>> Okay, then I'll go ahead
and show you the schedule
of courses.
So, let me go ahead and do that.
The Schedule
of Courses is what you're going
to use to look for courses
if you haven't already scheduled
courses for the, you know,
any upcoming semester.
And I just want to show you some
of the features
so you understand how it works.
So, each time you go to look
for a course in the schedule
of courses,
you want to make sure
that you select the appropriate
semester and campus.
So, we're going
to select World Campus
and location is World Campus
and then the course you want
to select, so you'll go
by department number.
So, let's go ahead and open
up an IST course.
So, we're going to look
for Information Sciences
and Technology.
Now if I know the course
that I want to look
for specifically I can click
on course number and pull
up that course
or I can just click
on search courses
and this is going to pull up all
of the IST courses offered
for the fall.
So, let's go ahead
and take a look
at the first one here,
which is IST 110 and so
as an IST major you'll all take
this course,
which is Information
P1 Technology.
And it's going
to give you a brief description
of the course right here.
So, the use analysis and design
of information systems
and technologies to organize,
coordinate and inform
human enterprises.
And if I want to know more
about that course I'm going
to click on more and it's going
to take me to the university
bulletin where I'm going
to get a much more detailed
course description
so I can get a lot more
information about the course
if I want to get a
better understanding.
Now this course it says it may
satisfy General Education
for social and
behavioral sciences.
Now that is not the case for you
in IST because this is required
as a major.
So, for you this will fill the
major requirement
but for students
in other majors this is going
to fulfill a General Education
requirement and we're going
to look at those a little more
here in a few minutes.
When you go
to schedule the courses one
of the most important things you
need to know is the
schedule number.
So, if you're filling
out your registration form
to send into World Campus,
if this is the first time you're
scheduling you'll want
to put this number in
or if you're scheduling
on eLion, that's
if you already have an active
access account,
then this is the number you'll
type into eLion
to schedule the course.
The schedule number tells the
system here
at Penn State exactly what
course you want to take
and the section of the course.
No you can see this one
if we look at seats
that there are
for the first section,
seats open,
there are no open seats open
and there was 50 seats total.
If you're looking for the most
up to date information
and if I click this little green
refresh button it'll refresh
the information.
Of course, nothing's changed
since we pulled this up.
Day and time
and classroom really doesn't
apply to you
because you're taking it online.
You have the instructor,
the begin and end dates
and course detail.
Course detail
and course materials view here
is going to take you both
to the World Campus course
catalog where you're going
to get more information
about the course and some
of the information that you get
that you're not going
to find other places,
maybe a sample course syllabus,
some more remarks
about the course
from the instructor
and materials
and technical requirements
that you're going to need
for the course.
So, that's good information
to get there.
If the course has course
controls it'll say
so under a control column
which isn't here.
So, this course isn't
under course controls.
So, let's go back up to the top.
Let's do a new search
and let's say we're looking
for one of those General
Education courses.
So, you're not sure what you
want to take
but let's say you want
to take an arts course.
So, if I click
on Additional Search Criteria
you'll see that there's a lot
more search information
that opens up.
So, I want to take an arts
course and let's say I want
to pick an arts course
that also fulfills my U.S.
Cultures or International
Cultures requirement.
So, I want one
that fills U.S. Cultures
and International
Cultures requirements.
This is mostly information I'm
going to put in the day
of the week and time.
It doesn't really apply
to online courses so I'm going
to click Search Courses
and it's going to pull up all
of the World Campus courses
that fulfills the General
Education for Arts
and International Cultures
or U.S. Cultures.
So, let's look
at the first one here,
which is Ancient
to Medieval Art.
So, it gives me information
about the course.
I could click on More
for a course description
and it says may satisfy General
Education course
and International Cultures
and that's exactly what we're
looking for.
And as you can see
if we're looking
at the seats here there are 26
seats still open in this course
out of 75 that are available
for the course.
That's a way
to narrow your search,
especially when you're looking
for those General
Education courses.
And then let's go
into When Can I Schedule?
Now, Cliff showed you
on your degree audit
that your degree audit will
always have the date for the--
your next date
to schedule the course.
However, you can also get
that information here by going
to the Registration Time Table
and click on When Can
I Schedule?
You're going to make sure
that you put on--
put in the correct semester
campus and that you're an
undergraduate student,
do Time Table and it's going
to tell you exactly
when you can start to schedule
for the fall semester
as you can see
that first date passed.
Now you want to schedule
as close to your registration
date or on your registration
date as possible.
Courses do fill up and you want
to be able to get
into those courses
or get the courses
that you want.
You'll notice
that he more courses you've got
the earlier you get to register
because there is--
you need to get
into specific courses.
You don't have
as much flexibility
in scheduling okay.
So, then let's go
to past course offerings
and I think this is a nice site
to use.
Once again, we're going to go
to World Campus
and course abbreviation.
I don't know let's pick one
of these IST courses again
and maybe I'll put in IST 220.
And I want to view course
offerings and what I can see
from this is
when the course was offered
in the past
and so this will help you
as you're planning your schedule
for future semesters,
if you can see
that there's a pattern
that you-- that there's a
particular course that's usually
offered let's say in the spring
and summer but not the fall,
you know that it might be
that way in the future.
So, not all courses are offered
every semester.
So, it looks like though
for the past several semesters
this course has been offered
every semester,
so obviously this is something
they're starting
to offer every semester.
Now as you're scheduling
in the future
or planning your schedule
in the future,
you're probably pretty safe
in assuming
that that this course will
probably be offered
every semester.
So, that's information
on how the schedule
of courses works.
So, what we're going
to do now is we're going to go
and start answering some
of the questions that you have.
So, Cliff and I are going
to turn on our webcams here
and answer any questions
that you have.
So, you see
that there's a question box
here, a chat box.
So, go ahead and start jotting
down any questions
that you might have
and then Cliff will go ahead
and answer those questions
for us.
And hopefully our webcams will
open up.
It looks like they're being--
they're being a little--
[ Silence ]
They're not working too well
for us at the moment.
So, we'll give this just a
second to see
if the program responds.
But in the meantime, go ahead
and ask any questions
that you might have.
Okay, Cliff showed up.
[ Silence ]
I know you can't see me.
I'm going to try it again.
It looks like I'm having a
little bit of a problem.
[ Silence ]
Go ahead and type
in any questions
that you might have.
>> I see Nancy's working.
>> Yea, is there anything you
want to-- while people are
thinking of questions,
ask anything, any information
that you want to give
that I might have overlooked?
>> I would--
I think we pretty much covered
everything that is important.
I do see a question.
[ Silence ]
Now Nancy's question
in case anyone doesn't see is
regarding transfer credits
and whether they've been earned,
whether they need to be earned
in the last three years in order
to use credits
for those degree programs.
Well, yes and no Nancy.
The majority
of your transfer credits,
they can come
from it doesn't matter how long.
They can be from five years
or ten, twenty years.
The only difference is
that any technical
or programming related course
must be taken
from within ten years.
College of IST will not accept
any programming
or a technical related course
that is older
than 10 years old or older.
And that will be anything
that you're looking to transfer
in as Computer Science 101
or one of our IST courses.
But any other course, your math,
your sciences it doesn't matter
how old they are.
[ Silence ]
You're very welcome.
[ Silence ]
Samantha has a question.
[ Silence ]
So, in case any
of you can't see,
Samantha's question is
that she's taking SRA 111,
I believe, and
[ Silence ]
Yes, so after you,
Samantha wants to know
if she can still continue
towards her Bachelor's
in Security Risk Analysis even
though she has not fulfilled the
Math requirement.
Yes, you can.
You can continue
to progress towards your degree.
The Math requirement will
prevent you
from actually entering
that major and will prevent you
from certain courses
that have a certain
Math prerequisite.
But, any course
that does not have the Math
prerequisite you can
definitely take.
So, there are a number
of courses you can take in order
to continue to progress toward
that degree.
[ Silence ]
You're welcome.
[ Silence ]
One thing I do want to mention
so that everybody understands is
that this degree is--
does have a fair amount
of team related projects.
So, you won't be collaborating
with our classmates.
Of course, it will be all
virtually but there will be
times when you'll be
collaborating
with a various number
of projects.
So, I know some students
in the past have had--
come in with the misconception
that they will kind
of be all alone doing their
own work.
Just wanted
to make sure everyone
understands
that there will be a fair amount
of group projects
in various Information Science
and Technology courses,
not so much
in the general education courses
but definitely the IST courses
you will come
across group projects you'll
need to collaborate virtually
of course whether it's phone,
email, instant messaging, Skype,
things like that
with some other people
in your club courses.
[ Silence ]
Now see, Chase is agreeing
and he's already had--
did team projects.
[ Silence ]
And for the most part,
Chase made a good point.
For the most part students have
enjoyed working
with team projects
and they do get
to meet other students who are
in similar places in their life
and have various
different experiences.
So, it was good to learn
from students
who were already professionals
in the field
and already have made certain
advances in their career
and you get to get information
to talk to people outside
of just schoolwork
and things like that.
[ Silence ]
Anyone else has any questions
please feel free to type them
in the chat.
I'll be happy to answer them
for you, anything at all.
[ Silence ]
>> Cliff I should let you know
that it looks
like my webcam has frozen
up my screen
so I can't actually see what's
going on.
If we don't have anymore
questions than we--
>> We do-- you do have
another question.
Sam-- Samantha is asking her
question is how do those teams
generally work?
I also noticed that one
of my classes required a webcam
and mic.
Are there set times for that?
The teams generally work,
the professor
in most cases will assign you
to a team.
And that does vary
from instructor to instructor
on how that's handled
but they do assign teams.
And so that's how the
assignment goes.
As far as set times,
set times as far
as the team meeting really is
up to you and your team.
Now there are no set times
when you have to actually be
in class together and that's
to my knowledge any
of our courses.
But there are times
when your team will want
to get together
so you're instructor may
recommend a webcam and mic
for the course you guys can
collaborate online.
And Chase is noting
that there are times
when his current classmates
they've taken a poll
to establish best times
for meetings
and there are a number
of online schools
that will help you collaborate
with your team as far
as a good meeting time for you
to get together
and adjust course work.
Thank you Chase.
[ Silence ]
Does Penn--
William is asking does Penn
State offer job placement
for graduates?
We have a number of resources
that will help students
identify jobs.
World Campus has its own career
office and we have a staff
member, we have a few staff
members who can help you
with the whole career
selection process.
College of IST also has a Career
Services office
and they'll help you
with internships
and other career related aspects
and Penn State university
as a whole has a Career
Services department.
So, we have three right there.
We have a number
of different offices
and different resources as far
as career placement goes.
[ Silence ]
You're welcome William.
Chase has made a comment
in case you all can't see
that there are only four classes
left towards an IST degree
that he needs to do
and just wants to make sure
that he hasn't missed anything
and he has received help
from his advisors
and that's what I would
encourage everyone
to do along the way.
Continue to stay in contact
with your advisor.
You can suggest an email
to make sure
that you're scheduling the
appropriate courses and you're
on the right track.
The last thing you want to do is
to kind of self advise yourself
throughout your entire degree
program and then realize
that a requirement is missing
and that's a requirement
that can easily be noticed
by an adviser had you just took
a little bit of time to consult
with them along the way.
So, please feel free just along
the way just to make sure
that you're on track
and you continue to consult
with your advisor.
[ Silence ]
Chase you're very welcome.
It was my pleasure.
[ Silence ]
Does anyone have any other
questions, feel free
to ask us anything at all.
Any apprehensions
about online learning
or anything you want
to know we'll be happy to answer
for you, anything
about the university.
[ Silence ]
Someone is typing.
[ Silence ]
Yes, Samantha you can.
Samantha asked
if she can ask an off the
subject question.
[ Silence ]
Samantha says she keeps getting
emails about the planner
and taking the poll
but no planner.
What are the timeframes?
Which I'm not exactly sure what
she's referring to.
Do you have any idea?
Samantha are you referring
to the physical planner
that we send you in the mail?
Yes. Richard do what the
timeframe is
when students can expect
to receive their planner?
>> I don't.
I know that the mid point
motivator is what they call it
and we send it outwhen people
get halfway through the program,
but I don't know,
I don't know what the timeframe
is on that.
[ Silence ]
>> Samantha
if you wouldn't mind,
if you want
to send me an email my email is
CLH33@phu.du and just
to give me a little reminder
and I will look into that
for you and I'll respond back
to you.
Will that work for you?
[ Silence ]
Sure.
[ Typing sounds ]
So, I just put my email
in the chat
in case anyone needs it.
But if you would send me an
email just to remind me I'll
look into that and I'll get back
to you as soon as I can.
[ Silence ]
Okay, does anyone else have any
questions that we can answer
for you tonight?
>> Okay, then I think what we'll
do is let's go ahead and take
that final poll that we you know
that we talked about.
We kind of took in the beginning
and simply take here at the end.
And now that we've discussed the
Associate in Science
and Information Sciences
and Technology degree how
confident are you
that you understand the
requirements for the degree?
So, are you still not confident
at all, not too confident,
neutral, pretty confident
or very confident?
[ Silence ]
Looks like we moved
up a little bit,
which is exactly what we wanted
to do.
To give you more information
about this and hopefully have it
make a little more sense to you.
And you know one thing
that you want to,
or you should know
as well is each semester
as you schedule courses you work
with your academic advisor
like Cliff said
to make sure you're scheduling
courses will fulfill degree
requirements for you
and like you said just pass
that information by your advisor
if you want to just email it
to them and say this is what I
want to schedule,
how does this look to you?
Or if you're--
you know have more questions you
know give them a call or set
up a time when you can meet
with your advisor.
But you'll notice each semester
as you take courses how they
fulfill requirements
on your degree audit
and it'll start to make more
and more sense to you as you go
through the program
and it'll get easier and easier.
The more that you look
at that the degree audit the
more it will start to make sense
to you and you can go in
and run a degree audit
for any major here
at the university.
So, it doesn't have to be just
for your major.
It can be any major so,
it's a good opportunity as well
if you're think
about you know maybe some day I
want to go on
and do the Bachelor's degree
in Information Sciences
and Technology.
We can run a degree audit
for that degree and take a look
at it and see what's required
for it and get some good
information there as well.
So, I think that's all the
information we have.
I want to thank you
for taking the time to come
out this evening and sit
through the webinar
and let us show you information
that we think is important,
information
that we think you should know
about the Associate
in Information Sciences
in Technology degree.
Cliff, this there anything
that you want to add,
before we go?
>> No, I just want
to thank everyone
for joining us tonight and again
if you have any questions please
feel free to contact
your advisor.