Advising

American Studies Advisor
 

Advisor
Cristina Ruotolo

For advising in American Studies email Cristina Ruotolo at ruotolo@sfsu.edu.

You may sign up as a major or minor via your Student Center.

  1. Before you meet with the advisor, please download and study the advising worksheet and fill out as much as you can, using your unofficial transcript as needed. The advisor will help you develop your list of electives, reviewing what you have already taken and helping you plan what to take going forward.
  2. Get SF State unofficial transcripts from the Student Center link via SF State Gateway. We've found that using Firefox works best when downloading materials from Campus Solutions. (NOTE: the unofficial transcript link at MySFSU takes you to the older version of transcripts that doesn't go beyond Spring 2014.)
  3. Finally, take a look at your Degree Progress Report (DPR) and take note of any red boxes in the section devoted to your major/minor. There will likely be errors on it, which the advisor can help sort out. Given the degree to which the American Studies major is self-designed, you will need to have the advisor enter your electives list.

Comparative World Literature Advisors

Advisors
Dane Johnson
Persis Karim
Shirin Khanmohamadi
Christopher Weinberger

To ensure adequate planning of a student's program, all majors must consult an advisor at least once per year.

Students are advised to take CWL 400GW - Approaches to Comparative and World Literature - GWAR as early as possible in the major.

All students in the Comparative World Literature major are urged to acquire reading competence in at least one language in addition to English.

All full-time Humanities faculty are undergraduate advisors. Consult the professors with whom you are taking courses for advice on your coursework and career prospects. We strongly recommend that you talk to your advisors at least once a semester.

Before you meet with an advisor, be sure to download the Humanities B.A. Advising Worksheet and to fill it out as much as you can, using your unofficial transcript as needed.

Get SF State unofficial transcripts from the Student Center link via SF State Gateway. We've found that using Firefox works best when downloading materials from Campus Solutions. (NOTE: the unofficial transcript link at MySFSU takes you to the older version of transcripts that doesn't go beyond Spring 2014.)

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Undergraduate Advising

Majors in the College of Liberal & Creative Arts (LCA) should consult with two advisors each semester:

  1. an advisor in the major and
  2. a general education and university requirements advisor in the Undergraduate Advising Center

Students who are completing a minor or an additional major should see an advisor in those programs as well.

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Graduate Advising

The Division of Graduate Studies offers counseling and advising regarding issues ranging from applications to graduation.