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The following
questions have been provided to help you with
troubleshooting issues related to Degree Works (DW). If, after reviewing these questions and
answers, you need additional information, please contact
your academic advisor or the Registrar's Office.
Degree Works
Availability and General Information
Placement of
Courses
Majors,
Minors, Concentrations, and Patterns
Grade Point
Averages
Resolving
Errors or Questions
Who can use Degree Works?
Undergraduate
degree-seeking students
Are there requirements that Degree
Works
doesn't check?
Yes. Degree
Works does
not check your assessment requirements (i.e., portfolio,
junior and senior tests, etc), and is not programmed to
review dual degrees. There are also
occasionally requirements of a particular major (i.e.,
upper-level competency testing in Music) that are not
checked in Degree Works. You should use Degree Works in conjunction
with your General Catalog and any information that your
major discipline provides to you to ensure that you remain
on track for graduation.
The degree worksheet placed one of my
courses in two places. Is that okay?
In most cases, yes.
DW is programmed to recognize that some courses can
“double fulfill” requirements, such as writing enhanced
courses, intercultural courses, and some
required support courses. Be sure to look through
requirements for your major in the General Catalog to make
sure that this duplicate placement is appropriate. If
you have any questions, contact your academic advisor or the
Registrar’s Office.
What should I do if Degree Works placed a
course in one section, when I wanted to use it in another?
Stop by the
Registrar's Office and we will discuss whether or not a
change is necessary.
How will courses that I've substituted
or waived appear on Degree works?
This information
will be programmed after your substitution or waiver is
approved by your advisor, academic dean, and the Vice
President for Academic Affairs, and after you have
completed the substituted course. The course that you
substituted will automatically be used to fulfill the
requirement specified, and you will see that course listed
next to the requirement.
I tested out of Speech. Does the
system know that I don't have to complete COMM 170?
Yes, as long as
we’ve received your test out or place out information from
the Speech Placement Coordinator. If you placed out of
COMM 170, your place out exam and your additional course
will be used to fulfill the Speech requirement. If you
tested out of COMM 170, the system will note that you have
an exam record that waives this requirement (see the E in
the right column), and will mark this requirement as
fulfilled.
I earned an AA degree before I came to
Truman. How does this appear on my degree audit?
Your degree
worksheet should reflect the AA as fulfilling your Essential
Skills and Modes of Inquiry as well as part of the
Interconnecting Perspectives. If your audit has not been
updated with your AA degree, please inform the Registrar.
When will Learning Plans be entered on the system?
After your Learning
Plan is approved, a copy will be forwarded to the
Registrar’s Office. At that time, we will program your
courses into your personal learning plan, and they will
appear when you process a degree worksheet after that time.
How do I check to see if I'm eligible
for a minor?
Use the “what-if”
tab at the top of the Degree Works page.
Select the items your are contemplating from the drop down
menus then click on "Process New."
My major requires me to complete a
concentration or pattern, but it didn't appear on the
worksheet.
What's wrong?
Either you haven’t
declared your concentration yet, or you ran a “what-if
analysis” without adding a concentration.
How can
I find my major gpa?
Your major GPA will appear
in the top of the Major block.
What if I think my worksheet is wrong?
Please contact
either your advisor or the Registrar’s Office immediately!
While we have done everything we could to make sure that
your worksheet runs correctly, it would have been impossible for
us to predict every possible situation or problem. If
this occurs, you should print a copy of your worksheet and bring
it with you to our office.
Who should I contact if I still have questions?
Again, you
should first contact your academic advisor. If you
still have questions after that meeting, contact the
Registrar’s Office, McClain Hall 104. If you have
questions about the information you received on your
degree worksheet, you should print a copy of your audit and
bring it with you to our office.
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