Pre-Registration

Pre-registration is an important catalyst that helps to drive your exploration. At this very busy time, you will be responsible for defining the agenda of our pre-registration meetings.

Preparation Content

Prior to meeting, you should post at least 6 course selections (4 top choices and 2 alternatives) to your journal. Please include the course number, full name, and schedule meeting time(s). For each course, write one or two sentences explaining how the course
Next, you should synthesize this by writing a few sentences about any other thematic goals and/or co-curricular activities contributing to them.
If there are any changes to your four-year plan, review your previous written rationale or journal posts and comment on these changes. In particular, you should highlight how your new course selections continue to relate to elements of the liberal arts.
You may also wish to post any outstanding questions you have. It is conceivable that you may have more questions than declarations (i.e., course selections)-this is OK. If that is the case, you must still reflect on these and put them in writing as helpful preparation for our meeting.
If you are uncertain about my expectations, you may want to read example pre-registration posts of both major and tutorial advisees from previous semesters.

Meeting

I will signal approval of your preparation with a comment on your journal or else ask you to make enhancements. Once I have approved your preparation, you may sign-up for a pre-registration meeting via the time slots on the advising Wiki: http://grinnell.campuspack.net/Groups/weinman-adv/Pre-Registration_Meetings.
Before our meeting,
print a hard copy of your current (or proposed) four year plan, your course selections and the justifications/reflections (from your journal) to bring with you. If we've agreed on your course selections, bring a completed pre-registration form for me to sign.
During our meeting
you should take notes regarding your questions (i.e., answers or referrals).
After our meeting,
you should post any information gathered or clarification received to your journal (particularly if another meeting is required).
If pre-registration elements are not satisfied after our initial meeting, you should do whatever work is necessary and post relevant clarifications, reflections, etc., to your journal so that you may sign-up for another meeting.
The process above will allow us to have an expedient, productive discussion from which you can gain the greatest benefit. Time is valuable for both of us and I value your curricular choices. Thus, if you are not prepared for pre-registration, I may not sign your pre-registration card.