Academic and Advising Services .... Advisor Resources

Advising Resources for Academic Advisors
As you advise students, referece the information below to help your students:
Change Major
Declare a Major
Take Summer Classes Elsewhere
Create a Personalized Major
Declare or Drop a Pre-Health Track

Change Majors
Talk with the student about the hours implications, especially if this change takes the student from one college or school to another. Sometimes it's easy to do and the student will gain hours. Other times, such changes might dictate a need for summer school or additional time at Mercer. Remember to review not only the major hours requirements, but also the core curriculum for the new college or school, if the major change takes the student from one to another. Once the student has decided, s/he must complete the major change form available here. Note: this applies to changes in and out of pre-professional tracks and concentrations as well.

Declare a Major
Try and ascertain the student's interests and suggest majors within that area of interest. Career Services also has great resources for these students. Check out their information here.

Take Summer Classes Elsewhere
Reminder: Participants in one of the health-related Guaranteed Admission Programs need to be reminded to check their program's track-specific student handbook before making plans to take transient coursework. If the student has no program restrictions, talk with the student about the transient process.

For students eligible to take courses away, advisors should encourage them should figure out which course they want to take that they think will count at the transient school. They then fill out the transient request form, available off the Registrar's Office's website. The Registrar will evaluate and mail the form back to the student and to you, the advisor, either denying or approving the course.

Create a Personalized Major
Ascertain which areas the student wants to study and give them contact information for the chairs of those departments. Help the student coordinate this information by potentially setting up meetings with the various people who would be involved.

Declare or Drop a Pre-Health Track
Encourage the student to review the requirements and implications of this change. If declaring, check the sequencing of these courses to ensure that students can complete the requirements in time to take placement exams and apply for professional school.

Additional Questions?
For more information, contact the offices listed below:

Registration & Scheduling	Registrar's Office	(478) 301-2680
Student Holds Preventing Registration	Bursar's Office	(478) 301-1111
College of Liberal Arts Academic Policy and Procedure	Associate Deans	(478) 301-2916
School of Enginnering Academic Policy and Procedure	Associate Deans	(478) 301-2012
Tift College of Education Academic Policy and Procedure	Teacher Education Program	(478) 301-5394
Townsend School of Music Academic Policy and Procedure	Undergraduate Programs	(478) 301-2748
Stetson School of Business Academic Policy and Procedure	Program Office	(478) 301-2140

Office of Academic & Advising Services
Penfield Hall, Macon Campus
Phone: (478) 301-2078 | Fax: (478) 301-2015
E-mail: academicservices@mercer.edu