academic advising

Advising and FAQs

Important Dates

  • June 1, 2008 Fall graduation (December)applications due 
  • July 1, 2008 Applications due for Fall 2008 internships  
  • August 25, 2008 Fall classes begin
  • September 3, 2008 Last day to drop classes
  • November 1, 2008 Spring Graduation (May) applications due
  • November 1, 2008 Applications due for Spring 2009 internships
  • December 12 2008 Classes end
  • December 15-19, 2008 Final exams

 

" The reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once"
-Albert Einstein

Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism

Academic Advising

Academic Advisor

Betsy Cook, Ph.D.

Office Location: Annex C, Room 1096

Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 12:00-4:00pm
Appointments recommended. To schedule, please call Lorraine at 581-8542.

Office Telephone: 801-581-8215

Email: elizabeth.cook@health.utah.edu

PRT Main Office: 801-581-8542

PRT Fax:  801-581-4930

What is academic advising?

Advising is a relationship between you and your advisor and there are ways to make the time together productive and enjoyable.  Working with your academic advisor will help you get the most from your education.

As your departmental advisor, I will strive to:

  • Provide detailed information about the major in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism.
  • Help you understand the course requirements.
  • Officially declare you into the major.
  • Help you choose courses based on your career goals.
  • Help you plan your semester-by ¿semester plan.
  • Help you identify activities and opportunities to supplement your major coursework.
  • Meet with you throughout your education to make sure you are making appropriate progress.
  • Sign your graduation application.

I will not:

  • Make decisions for you.  The choices you make must be yours.  It is your college career and no one else¿s.
  • Officially clear you for graduation.  You are responsible for making sure that you have met all the general education, bachelor¿s degree, and major requirements.  The Graduation Office (250 SSB, 581-7852) has final authority in determining when you have satisfied all of the requirements for your degree.
  • Register you for classes.
  • Be your only source of information. You will need to contact those responsible for minor and graduate program requirements.
  • Waive major requirements or allow you to take courses out of sequence without departmental permission.
  • Give you permission codes for full classes. You will need to contact the PRT main office or the instructor to add the course. 

    Note:the internships have restricted course numbers that require an application process to obtain.

Things you must do as an advisee:

  • Be prepared for advising sessions by bringing a current DARS, your degree plan, your tentative schedule, and a list of questions or concerns.
  • Take responsibility for your learning.  Accept the consequences of your academic and personal decisions.
  • Be efficient. Make a semester-by-semester plan of courses for your degree.  Plot the deadlines, pre-requisites, courses, internships, and graduation.
  • Take responsibility to get into the required courses. Failure to do so may impact your graduation date.
  • Maintain your own advising file. Learn how to generate your DARS and use it along with your degree plan to track your progress. You may obtain additional copies of your degree plan from the PRT website.
  • Understand and comply with the prerequisites for classes and understand that if prerequisites are not met that you will be asked to leave the courses.
  • Meet regularly with your advisor.

Important Things to Know

  • If a course is a requirement for your major, it must be taken for a letter grade; CR/NC is NOT an option.
  • A minimum of 122 semester credit hours is required for a bachelor¿s degree. This minimum (122 cr.) does not guarantee that the requirements for the major have been fulfilled.
  • Choose general education coursework to support your educational and professional goals.
  • Some courses fulfill more than one GE requirement.
  • General education coursework is usually the only coursework that transfers.
  • A 2.5 is the minimum GPA to qualify for an internship and to graduate from the Department of PRT.
  • The quickest way to raise your GPA is to retake the courses in which you did poorly. You must file a ¿Repeated Class¿ petition with the Registrar¿s Office after repeating the course.
  • A number of the PRT courses have pre-requisites.  Use the degree plans to determine the pre-requisites and semesters offered.  Take the courses in the correct order and save yourself, your instructor, and your classmates time and headaches.
  • Lower division courses are numbered 1000-2999. Upper division courses are numbered 3000-5999. In general, take lower division courses before upper division courses and 3000 level courses before 4000 level or 5000 level courses.
  • Minimum grade requirements vary. Check with your advisor.

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