Mar 25, 2024
News/Notes for Undergraduate Advisors: Academic Dates to Note | Summer/Fall 2024 Advanced Registration Begins Today! | Summer 2024 Course | Legal Studies Minor Courses | UNIFI Links in 2024-25 UNI Catalog | Referral for Office of International Engagement
Please review these items to assist with your work with advisees as well for professional/personal information - or if appropriate to pass along to your students. Academic Dates to Note | Summer/Fall 2024 Advanced Registration Begins Today! | Summer 2024 Course | Legal Studies Minor Courses | UNIFI Links in 2024-25 UNI Catalog | Referral for Office of International Engagement Coaching | Institutional Academic Advising Vision & Mission Statement
Academics Dates to Note
- See all academic and schedule adjustment deadlines at the Office of the Registrar Calendar Dates to Observe
- Tuesday, April 9, 2023
Summer/Fall 2024 Advanced Registration Begins Today!
- Registration Dates by Classification
- March 25 - Grads & Seniors | March 27 - Juniors | April 1 - Sophomores | April 5 - Freshman | April 10 - Unclassified
- A student is assigned a specific day/time to register at or after through MyUNIverse which can be found in My Student Center.
- March 25 - Grads & Seniors | March 27 - Juniors | April 1 - Sophomores | April 5 - Freshman | April 10 - Unclassified
- Student Account Holds & Service Indicators
- Approvals for Closed Classes/Late Adds
- Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes - Policies & Procedures (also attached to this email as a pdf file)
- See p. 4 for academic programs assigning an advisor hold to require students to see an academic advisor beyond the first year from high school.
- See p. 4 for academic programs assigning an advisor hold to require students to see an academic advisor beyond the first year from high school.
Summer 24 Course
- Please encourage students to consider MUSIC 1100 Soundscapes: Music in Culture is being offered in Summer 2024 as a 4-week online course that satisfies the UNIFI: Discover - Human Expression category or a UNIFI: Connect Elective
- Class# 50835 | 3 credit hours | Section 60 June 4 week | June 10 - July 5, 2024
Legal Studies Minor Courses
- Courses offered in the Fall 2024 semester for the Legal Studies minor:
- Required:
- PHIL 3370 - Philosophy of Law
- Elective Group 1: Foundation of Law and the American Legal System
- ENGLISH 1059* - Law & Literature (Course # changed from 1050 to 1059)
- PHIL 1030 - Elementary Logic
- POL AMER 3141 - Constitutional Law
- Elective Group 2: Rights, Liberties and Justice
- Please note that there are no courses offered in Elective Group 2.
- If you have an advisee graduating in December '24 needing a Group 2 course, please advise them to take an additional course from another category and fill out an Academic Student Request for a substitution.
- Elective Group 3: Law, Politics and Society
- MGMT 3101 - Business Law
- MGMT 3905/5905 - Employment and Labor Law
- POL AMER 3146 - Judicial Politics and Policy-Making
- PSYCH 2302 - Psychology and Law
- PHIL 1040 - Justice and The Good Life: Philosophical Perspectives
- Required:
UNIFI Links in 2024-25 UNI Catalog
- The Office of the Registrar has added UNIFI links in the 2024-25 UNI Catalog in response to the need to more easily find updated UNIFI information!
- University of Northern Iowa Foundational Inquiry (UNIFI)/General Education information can be found in catalog under General Information / Undergraduate Information and Degree Requirements.
- At the top of this page is a legend/table of information for the section. For the 2024 catalog, this hyperlink was added to take a reader to the start of the UNIFI details. A hyperlink was also added to the start of the UNIFI Multidisciplinary Certificates from the legend/table of information.
- Furthermore, the UNIFI Certificates are also linked from the section "Interdisciplinary Majors, Minors and Program Certificates" through the Undergraduate Studies bullet. From this area you will be able to link to each specific UNIFI Certificate.
Referral for Office of International Engagement Coaching
- UNI Faculty are encouraged to use this form to refer an international student or scholar for coaching related to grammar, writing, pronunciation, and more. Please complete as much information as possible and to strongly recommend coaching to international students if they need it.
- Once the form is received, a coach from OIE will reach out to the student and CC you in the email.
- For more information about OIE Academic Coaching, please see our website.
Institutional Academic Advising Vision & Mission Statement (revised Spring 2016) [See Academic Advising Mission, Vision, Goals & Outcomes webpage]
- Vision Statement: UNI aspires to create the best possible advising experience for each student.
- Mission Statement: Academic Advising is a critical component of the teaching and learning environment at UNI. Advising is a personalized educational experience, empowering students to explore, articulate and achieve their academic, career and life goals.