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So I am just going to go through some tutorial information about how you find your APAS,
and general questions about what courses you might need to take if you are searching for
a course throught the university of mn Duluth and hopefully answer any other general question
you may have about reading your APAS. So what you are going to do is start of the
univeristy of mn homepage you are going to scroll all the way down to the very bottom
and you are going to see something listed at the very bottom here and it says register
for classes right here and so you are going to go ahead and click register for classes.
When you click that it should bring you to a page that is through the one stop and you
are going to go the right hand side here and you are going to click APAS report. Once you
click your APAS report on your screen if you are currently enrolled in a program this section
right here will state what section you are enrolled in, if you are undeclared it will
say undeclared, but for training purposes, of course I am not enrolled as an undergraduate
student I am just going to explain to you how to do this. So then once you get to this
page you are going to go ahead and click generate your APAS report which is right here. So we
are going to go ahead and click that. What is going to come up is at the top you are
going to see that is an audit, that it is looking at your information. You should see
your name stated, you should also see your student ID, your bulletin year, which is the
year that you actually started your program. It should have listed the major you are looking
at. For today's purposes we will be looking at exercise science a sports science major.
A series of charts and graphs. I always tell students that these aren't always going to
be definite but it a way that you can kind of visually see what is happening to all of
your courses. At the very top I always tell student to go ahead and click this button
open all and we are going to keep scrolling down. If you happen to have any holds that
are on your record you are going to see the college that you are enrolled in and right
underneath there is the holds, for example if you had a hold from the business office
or if you had a library book hold, you would see what the hold is and the room it needs
to be taken off of. And then you are going to see a series of x marks and check marks.
An X is something that you normally need to complete, so if for some reason this arrow
is facing down you can click on the arrow and it is going to say that this is for your
bachleor's of applied science degree. It says to graduate with this major from this college
you are going to need 123 total credits to graduate with a 2.0 GPA. Now the first GPA
that is listed here is the GPA with your transfer credits. If I took a course, for example from
another community college like LSC this is going to include all of your university of
MN courses plus it is going to include the course that you transferred in. The second
GPA that you are going to see here is university of MN GPA. This is the GPA that we use to
determine honors or we determine if you are on probation. That GPA is only going to be
the university of MN credits that you physically needed. So that is where you are going to
find that information. If you scroll down you are going to run into the liberal education
information. There are many categories that you need to satisfy. Student ask how do I
know what class I need to take for those items. This first category right here is writing
and information literacy. It says that currently you need three credits and how many courses
you need to be taken would be one course. If you are unsure what this course is you
can actually select it and you can pull up the current catelog. What you are finding
here if I make this a little bit bigger is it is going to say go ahead and find the information
and so we are looking for WRIT1120. We are going to select the current term, which the
next term would be let go ahead and put the fall in. We are going to select subject is
WRIT so if you hit the letter W and find WRIT or writing studies. Select that and it will
pull up every single writing course during that semester. If you go ahead and scroll
down. It says right here WRIT1120 is college writing. Here you are going to find information
about the name of the course, there is a course guide information section status. If there
is multiple sections and you want to know how many people are in the course, you will
also be able to find the description in the course catalog, how you know what that course
is. You will find a five digit number you would enter into the registration screen if
you are actually going to register for this class and of course you can hit the add now
button and that will automatically bring you to the registration screen. So you can add
it to your current registration. We are going to go ahead and close that and
look down through the rest of this APAS. You can see that there is multiple different categories
that you can actually do, logic and quantitative reasoning and sometimes there will be multiple
different things, just make sure after every individual X that you see, you read the information
that is underneath here. So we are going to go down within the major because I think that
it might be helpful too. If you keep scrolling down on your going to see more courses, sometimes
the courses are going to you to do two different courses versus one. We are going to read now
within your major with what you need to know. For exercise science if you were going to
be doing an exercise science degree it is saying in order to be an exercise science
major you need 90 total credits. There is also sub groups that you will have to complete
with a minimum of a 2.0 GPA to graduate. The required courses from other programs, so these
would be your prerequisites. Some of these courses will be not only be prerequisites
but they will also be things that actually meet your liberal education major courses.
Right here it is saying that you need how many total courses and that would be nine
courses. These are the courses that you physically need. I know that this is biology 1 and 2,
human nutrition, principles of anatomy and physiology, but in case you don't know what
those courses are you can definetely click on the course and use the search method that
we just used to find what they are. It also said that there were 4 total subgroups
so we are going to look through each of them. That was requirement one. Requirement 2 says
that you need to select from these chemistry courses and this class of these 2 courses
are chemistry one and these 2 are chemistry 2 with labs. Requirement 3 says that you need
these ESTAT core courses if you read it, it reads just like a book. 37 total credits need
to be taken, nine classes need to be taken.
You will also notice that they'll have a check mark with green writing if you have taken a course
If it says a check mark with an IP it means it's a course that's
in progress
it's something you're
taking currently right now
and so right now it's
saying that
this person
has actually
taken College Writing
however they're In Progress
with college writing and so
they have not received
a final grade
Please
feel free to ask
your advising office
if you have
questions about taking
any of these courses
or understanding your
APAS
I hope you have a wonderful day
and thanks for listening.