After five years at Bradley, I am over-enthused to be done with my undergraduate studies.
Last Friday, I had my last two advising meetings ever. I have two majors in psychology and sociology, and two minors in women’s studies and anthropology.
With my sociology major and women’s studies minor requirements already completed and my anthropology minor only needing one more course, I have been preoccupied with fulfilling requirements for my psychology major and general education requirements.
I spent hours looking through my degree audit and double-checking all my courses only to find I need two more psychology courses from two categories to complete my major.
So, I met with my advisor. She looked through everything and said I was on track to graduate in the spring of 2015. However, as I signed onto Webster one week later and attempted to sign up for my courses, I ran across a problem.
A notification read: “You do not meet the prerequisite(s) for PSY 452.”
Not only was this completely overlooked by my advisor, of course, but there are no other courses offered to fulfill the Category D requirement for my major.
When are academic departments going to be held accountable for their course offerings? How many more students is this going to happen to before we do something? When are our academic advisors actually going to be knowledgeable about the prerequisites for courses within their own department? How are students supposed to plan their registration when the courses offered every year are unpredictable? How many more stories does Bradley need in order to change the registration system?
Apparently, course registration is just another way this university can completely take advantage of a student who is at the mercy of the course schedule every semester.
– Gresa Lec
glec@mail.bradley.edu
