Dr. Broughton,
I am a senior graduating in May of this year and, I am currently in all upper division biology courses to finish out my coursework here at OU. I am petitioning/discussing my mis-advisement from sophomore year that has now caught up with me before I graduate. Tim Bradford explained to me that the biology electives were “flexible” and that there were lots of options to take for them, which made sense and is partially true. However, he advised me to take medical vocabulary and biochemistry, a total of 6 hours, that he said could be counted towards my biology specific electives under major requirements. He explained to me that many students did this and that he would get it all sorted out for me, especially since I was in the pre-health field and this was just something that people …show more content…
I have been taking heavy course loads the past several semesters at 17 hours and It wasn’t until this past summer, I had a graduation check with Sara Olzawski and met with Dr. Thompson to find out that I was behind 16 hours of biology electives, because these classes I was told originally would count, did not. After finding this out, I scrambled to try and enroll myself in 16 hours of upper division biology electives before I graduated as well as finish my other requirements (my minor and major support credits). I took one of my lab courses last semester and have enrolled in the other 13 hours required to graduate this semester. I am concerned however, because my immunology class is one that I am struggling in, no matter how hard I am working, as I have A’s and B’s in all my other courses this term. I do not want to get to the end of this semester and not get my diploma, because of one 3-hour class that, in my opinion, I should have been correctly advised to take long before this past summer in case a situation like this occurred so that I could
I am a senior graduating in May of this year and, I am currently in all upper division biology courses to finish out my coursework here at OU. I am petitioning/discussing my mis-advisement from sophomore year that has now caught up with me before I graduate. Tim Bradford explained to me that the biology electives were “flexible” and that there were lots of options to take for them, which made sense and is partially true. However, he advised me to take medical vocabulary and biochemistry, a total of 6 hours, that he said could be counted towards my biology specific electives under major requirements. He explained to me that many students did this and that he would get it all sorted out for me, especially since I was in the pre-health field and this was just something that people …show more content…
I have been taking heavy course loads the past several semesters at 17 hours and It wasn’t until this past summer, I had a graduation check with Sara Olzawski and met with Dr. Thompson to find out that I was behind 16 hours of biology electives, because these classes I was told originally would count, did not. After finding this out, I scrambled to try and enroll myself in 16 hours of upper division biology electives before I graduated as well as finish my other requirements (my minor and major support credits). I took one of my lab courses last semester and have enrolled in the other 13 hours required to graduate this semester. I am concerned however, because my immunology class is one that I am struggling in, no matter how hard I am working, as I have A’s and B’s in all my other courses this term. I do not want to get to the end of this semester and not get my diploma, because of one 3-hour class that, in my opinion, I should have been correctly advised to take long before this past summer in case a situation like this occurred so that I could