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RESOURCES FOR PRE-MAJOR ADVISORS
Download a PDF of the
Orientation Calendar
for Advisors.
Download the
Advisor Handbook.
Advising First-Year Students
Pre-major advising introduces first-year
students to the academic opportunities available at Tufts.
Effective advising makes an enormous difference; it helps
students experience intellectual excitement and engagement,
provides them with a sense of belonging to the academic
community, and guides them toward academic success.
There are five different
advising programs
in the School of Arts &
Sciences: the
Curricular Advising Program (CAP), the Faculty Seminar
Program, the Host Advising Program, the Explorations
Program, and the Perspectives Program. Students in the
School of Engineering take part in Host advising.
Pre-major advisors will be
matched with roughly 14 advisees (depending on which advising
program you participate in) and will receive a list of
their names and addresses during the summer. You are
encouraged to write to them and tell them a little bit about
yourself and how you expect to work with them.
To assist you in the work of advising,
you will be assigned two upper-level orientation leaders
(OLs). The names and addresses of your orientation leaders
will be sent to you along with your list of advisees. The
OLs are instructed to contact you during the summer and
arrange a meeting with you to discuss how you will work
together. Please let them know your expectations of them.
Helpful Hints for Advising During Orientation
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Have students fill out
their proposed schedules on the time block sheet.
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Be sure the students
choose and write down alternative courses in case their
first choices are closed when they register. Have
students list the department, course number and section,
time block, and course title for each alternative
course.
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Be sure to keep copies
of the students' schedules for your record and for their
advising folders.
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Make notes about
students' interests, especially possible majors and any
academic concerns.
General Undergraduate Information
Advanced Placement and Acceleration Credit
Foreign Language Placement
Exam and International
Diploma Credit
University Requirements, School of Arts & Sciences
For complete information on foundation,
distribution, and concentration requirements, please consult
The Bulletin of
Tufts University.
Courses taken to fulfill requirements (foundation,
distribution, concentration, minor) may NOT be taken
Pass/Fail. In addition to the requirements, students
in the School of Arts & Sciences need 34 credits and 8 semesters of full-time study.
See
The Bulletin for details on requirements for
major (concentration) and further graduation requirements.
Download a
Progress Report for Students in Liberal Arts.
Foundation Requirements,
A&S
The faculty recognizes the following elements as
basic to any program leading to a bachelor's degree in
liberal arts, whatever a student's particular interests
may be. First, an educated person in our society must be
able to write coherent English, and must be able to
apply that writing ability to the critical analysis of
information and ideas in any field. Second, the study of
another language and of foreign cultures is
indispensable to a liberal education; such study
provides a basis for locating oneself within a larger
cultural and international context. Courses in college
writing, foreign language and culture, and world
civilizations constitute the foundation of a liberal
arts education at Tufts.
The foundation requirements should be met early in a
student's college career, so that these courses may
serve as a foundation for later work. Please refer to
The Bulletin for more information on foundation
requirements.
Distribution Requirements,
A&S
The faculty holds that a student enrolled in any
program leading to a liberal arts degree must
demonstrate a reasonable acquaintance with each of the
following five areas of inquiry: the humanities, the
arts, the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the
mathematical sciences. As in the case of the foundation
requirement, a student may be granted credit toward
fulfillment of the distribution requirement in any of
these areas on the basis of an examination such as the
AP or International Baccalaureate.
Students are expected to
take two classes in each of the five areas, with
no more than two of the ten courses used to fulfill the
requirement may be from a single department or program.
Students are advised to attend to their distribution
requirements early.
Please refer to
The Bulletin for an updated list of courses that
fulfill the distribution requirements.
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