Registration

When your future is on the line, you’d better hope you’re prepared.
USU’s academic advisors have experienced an onslaught of priority registration students for the spring 2009 semester students in search of guidance.USU seniors were able to begin registering this morning at 12:01 am which explains the students’ sudden need for direction. They understand that the choices made during registration set the course of their life for the next few months. An error in judgment here may be the difference between a good learning experience and wanting to bang your head against the wall until you lose the memory of your last chemistry class.
If you haven’t done it already, you may be hard pressed to find a chance to talk to academic advisors this week but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be doing what you can to prepare for registration. Whether you are as lucky as to get a session with an advisor or not, you may want to make sure that the classes you are registering for are the ones that both fulfill requirements and interest you.
USU offers a variety of options that are designed both to make students well rounded and engage their interests in new ways. The difficulty comes in finding which classes will play to your specific interests. To ease the strain of this process Pease’s Pissant has compiled student recommendations of classes and professors whether you are looking for elective credits or something more specific.
Biology 3000 taught by Alice Lindahl fulfills a depth life/physical science credit and comes highly recommended. Shannon Ballard, A junior in the Broadcast Journalism program says, “Alice is so great and she really knows her stuff!” The class involves a lab every Friday “For our field trips we have gone hiking for plants, canoeing to look at birds, gone up the mountains to look at geological formations, ect. It’s is not a very large class and Alice gives lots of one on one attention.” This class is offered during spring semester at 1:30 pm- 2:20 on Monday- Wednesday but if you’re interested you’d better be quick as Professor Lindahl is expected to retire after this semester.
For students in need of a class that covers breadth social science requirements Trisha Budge, a junior majoring in Occupational therapy says take Psych 1010. According to her, the class is involved in a lot of group projects that got the students involved in the curriculum. “A lot of the things you learn you can say “I do that!” Of the professors that are teaching this spring, ratemyprofessors.com- and website where students to evaluate their professors- has Scott Bates rated as the best teacher for this class. His class for this semester will be on MWF 10:30 am to 11:20 am.
Several students that were interviewed recommended Andrea Jensen, professor of Interpersonal Communication. “[The class] had the most practical application of anything I’ve taken. I would go home and see people acting ways that we’d talked about in class.” Alison Gibbs, an English secondary education major said, “[Professor Jensen] talked to us on our level and made everyone feel like they were on equal footing”.
Family finance came up several times as a popular depth social science elective. Lisa Lee, a senior majoring in community and family services took the class last year. She said, “It was great because it teaches you things like how to balance a check book and it shows you how financing will work once you’re married and have a family.” The spring semester class will be taught by Alena Johnson on MWF at 10:30 am to 11:20 am
Tomorrow registration will open for juniors with 60 credits or more, sophomores with 30 credits or more will be able to register Thursday. On Friday the 14th registration will open to freshmen who have attended student orientation. For more resources on what professors to chose visit www.ratemyprofessors.com