Undergraduate Students
Advisement
►Application/Advisement Handout
Once admitted to the Family Studies Program, you are required to meet with your FS faculty advisor prior to each registration period to discuss your course plans. The name of your initially assigned FS faculty advisor will appear in your admission letter. It is your responsibility to make sure you are on track with your course work. It is also necessary to meet with an advisor each semester in order to remove the advisement hold the College has placed on your registration. Plan to meet with your advisor at least several days ahead of your scheduled registration time to ensure that the hold is removed by your designated registration time.
Graduate Check
Time goes by quickly and no later than 92 hours, and at least one semester before graduation, you must complete a GRADUATION CHECK. Obtain the Graduation Check from the College of Education Advisement Office*, Hokona Hall. You also will need to obtain a current transcript and a copy of any transfer credits. If you are enrolled in a minor program, take the form and transcript to a faculty member or advisor in your minor field of study. She/he will need to complete the minor part of the form. Take the entire packet to your faculty advisor in Family Studies. The faculty member will specify your remaining requirements, making sure you have completed at least 128 hours, 40 hours above 300, have a 2.0 GPA or better and have completed all UNM core curriculum and FS major requirements. After your faculty advisor signs your graduation check, return the completed packet to the College of Education Advisement Office (deadlines: for fall graduation - May 1; spring – October 1; summer – March 1). If you believe there is a problem at any time, check on it at that time rather than later and thereby delaying graduation.
* Arts and Science students: Please follow your home college procedures for all UNM core curriculum requirements and your graduation check with advisor(s) in Ortega Hall.
Graduate Students
►Application/Advisement Handout - MA
►Application/Advisement Handout - PhD
Students whose cumulative GPA falls below a 3.0 at any point will be placed by Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) on academic probation and will remain on academic probation until the cumulative GPA reaches 3.0. The student will be disenrolled from graduate status if the GPA does not reach 3.0 after 12 semester hours on probationary status. A student receiving two grades of F and/or NC even if his/her cumulative GPA remains above 3.0, will be disenrolled if a third NC or F is earned. Students placed on probationary status are not eligible for assistantships, nor are they allowed to take comprehensive exams, file for candidacy or graduate. If a student’s GPA drops below a 3.0 due to incompletes, she/he will be placed on Type 2 probation and will not be allowed to graduate. A student may not graduate with an incomplete in any course nor will she/he be allowed to take comprehensive exams. A student must be registered for at least 1 credit hour the semester she/he takes a comprehensive exam/oral thesis defense or schedules a dissertation defense When students are notified of admission to the program, they are assigned an initial advisor. By the end of the second semester or first year, a Family Studies faculty member must be named by the student as her/his advisor. It is the student’s responsibility to inform, in writing, the initial advisor, the Graduate Coordinator, and the new advisor, if applicable.
Undergraduate Students
Advisement
►Application/Advisement Handout
Once admitted to the Family Studies Program, you are required to meet with your FS faculty advisor prior to each registration period to discuss your course plans. The name of your initially assigned FS faculty advisor will appear in your admission letter. It is your responsibility to make sure you are on track with your course work. It is also necessary to meet with an advisor each semester in order to remove the advisement hold the College has placed on your registration. Plan to meet with your advisor at least several days ahead of your scheduled registration time to ensure that the hold is removed by your designated registration time.
Graduate Check
Time goes by quickly and no later than 92 hours, and at least one semester before graduation, you must complete a GRADUATION CHECK. Obtain the Graduation Check from the College of Education Advisement Office*, Hokona Hall. You also will need to obtain a current transcript and a copy of any transfer credits. If you are enrolled in a minor program, take the form and transcript to a faculty member or advisor in your minor field of study. She/he will need to complete the minor part of the form. Take the entire packet to your faculty advisor in Family Studies. The faculty member will specify your remaining requirements, making sure you have completed at least 128 hours, 40 hours above 300, have a 2.0 GPA or better and have completed all UNM core curriculum and FS major requirements. After your faculty advisor signs your graduation check, return the completed packet to the College of Education Advisement Office (deadlines: for fall graduation - May 1; spring – October 1; summer – March 1). If you believe there is a problem at any time, check on it at that time rather than later and thereby delaying graduation.
* Arts and Science students: Please follow your home college procedures for all UNM core curriculum requirements and your graduation check with advisor(s) in Ortega Hall.
Graduate Students
►Application/Advisement Handout - MA
►Application/Advisement Handout - PhD
Students whose cumulative GPA falls below a 3.0 at any point will be placed by Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) on academic probation and will remain on academic probation until the cumulative GPA reaches 3.0. The student will be disenrolled from graduate status if the GPA does not reach 3.0 after 12 semester hours on probationary status. A student receiving two grades of F and/or NC even if his/her cumulative GPA remains above 3.0, will be disenrolled if a third NC or F is earned. Students placed on probationary status are not eligible for assistantships, nor are they allowed to take comprehensive exams, file for candidacy or graduate. If a student’s GPA drops below a 3.0 due to incompletes, she/he will be placed on Type 2 probation and will not be allowed to graduate. A student may not graduate with an incomplete in any course nor will she/he be allowed to take comprehensive exams. A student must be registered for at least 1 credit hour the semester she/he takes a comprehensive exam/oral thesis defense or schedules a dissertation defense When students are notified of admission to the program, they are assigned an initial advisor. By the end of the second semester or first year, a Family Studies faculty member must be named by the student as her/his advisor. It is the student’s responsibility to inform, in writing, the initial advisor, the Graduate Coordinator, and the new advisor, if applicable.