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Links for My Students and Advisees:

First Things First: Registration Stuff | Placement Test Info | Rules You Should Know | Getting Academic Help
Your Degree: COM Bingos  | COM Courses | Minors | IPFW Requirements | A&S Requirements | Transfer & AP Credit | Graduation
Opportunities: Scholarships | Study Around the Country & Around the World | Careers & Internships | Grad & Law School
 

Registration Stuff:

Dates for Priority Registration
myIPFW
How to Register Using myIPFW | Troubleshooting when you have problems registering on myIPFW |
What do those Registration Error Messages Mean?
Instructions for Course Waitlists
Building Abbreviations on your schedule: On-Campus and Distance Learning | Off-Campus
University Schedule of Classes: All Classes | Weekend, Online, and Off-Campus Classes only
Directions to Off-Campus Classes
Current IPFW Bulletin
Archived IPFW Bulletins
Other Useful Links From The Registrar
Great Info for New Students

Placement Test Info:

Writing, Math, Reading | Foreign Language

Rules You Should Know:


IPFW Academic Regulations  |  IPFW Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct

Getting Academic Help:

Some help and advice from CASA (Center for Academic Support and Advancement)
The Writing Center
Also see the useful links on my Research Resources page

COM Bingos:

Which BINGO sheet you follow depends on which bulletin you're enrolled under.  
Most majors are enrolled under one of the three most recent bulletins:

Interpersonal & Organizational 2010-2011 Bingo Sheet | Media & Public 2010-2011 Bingo Sheet
Interpersonal & Organizational 2009-2010 Bingo Sheet | Media & Public 2009-2010 Bingo Sheet
Interpersonal & Organizational 2008-2009 Bingo Sheet | Media & Public 2008-2009 Bingo Sheet

COM Courses:


COM Course Descriptions

Upcoming 500 Level COM Classes

Minors (2011-2012 Bulletin):

If you're not one of our majors you might be interested in the Communication Studies minor

Some Popular Minors for our Majors:
Media Production | OLS | Journalism | PR
| Professional Writing | Creative Writing | Film and Media Studies
Peace & Conflict Studies Certificate International Studies Certificate | Psychology | Sociology | Women's Studies
Business Studies

IPFW Requirements:

General Education Courses (2011-2012 Bulletin):
Area I: Ling and Num Foundations | Area II:
Phys and Natural World | Area III: The Ind, Cult, & Soc | Area IV: Humanistic Thought
Area V: Creative and Artistic Expression | Area VI: Inquiry and Analysis
(if it says "withdrawn by department Fall 2011" next to a course name, it's no longer an Area VI)

A&S Requirements:

Arts and Sciences Distribution Requirements
Western & Non Western Tradition Classes:   Complete List  | Summer 2012 | Fall 2012 Western | Fall 2012 Non-Western (all PDF)
Which Level of Foreign Language Class Should I Take?  (PDF)
Take ASL as your foreign laguage if you complete this petition and it gets approved
(PDF)
Follow this procedure if you're a native speaker of a foreign language (PDF)
Additional Info for Arts and Sciences Bachelor's Degrees

Transfer & AP Credit:

Common Transfer Courses for Indiana Public Colleges from Indiana Core Transfer Library
AP Credit Info | CLEP Credit Info | Ivy Tech Credit Info [PDF]

Graduation:

Graduation Application
    Important: use your local address on the graduation application
Commencement Information

Scholarships:
IPFW Common Scholarship Application
Withers Scholarship | Rachdi Scholarship for prospective freshmen and for current majors [both PDFs]
IPFW Freshmen ScholarshipsMore Scholarships for COM Majors - click on "Communication" tab

National Search on Fastweb.com

Study Around the Country & Around the World:

National Student Exchange | Study Abroad

Careers & Internships:

What can you do with a communication degree?
Read an older edition of the National Communication Association's "Pathways to Careers in Communication"

How about Internships?
Start with the IPFW Communication Department's Internship Page

Then look at the Indiana Chamber of Commerece's Indiana INTERNnet
and the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce's Graduate Retention Program

What jobs are out there?
Take advantage of IPFW Career Services



 Grad & Law School:


• Thinking about grad school? 

First, make sure you really want to go.  This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, written by an English professor at Hope College, is pretty blunt

The National Communication Association's Graduate Program Database, an Excel file to download,
is a great place to start, but also check the web pages of individual programs that look interesting
and talk to me or another faculty member.

Of course, one grad program to consider is our very own in the IPFW Communication Department

And wherever you want to go to grad school, follow this good advice from a communication professor at the University of Illinois and from the Chronicle of Higher Education on completing your application

Thinking about law school?


Read the American Bar Association's "Preparation for Legal Education" for their advice

And read this good advice from Slate Magazine  and the National Law Journal and this Associated Press article

Then check out the Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools

And the Department of Political Science's Pre-Law Handbook [PDF]

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