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Advising
and FAQs
Click here
for a list
of history department advisors and here for advising
assignments for history majors.
 Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I get an advisor?
- Who is my
advisor?
- What do advisors
do?
- What is
the upper level humanities requirement and what courses fulfill
it?
- What
counts as a humanity?
- Can my minor,
if it is a humanity, count to fulfill the upper level humanities
requirement?
- Do history
majors have to fulfill the upper level social science requirement?
- Can
I use courses required for my minor to count for my major,
too?
- Can I use
history courses that carry W credit to count for my major requirements?
- What
credit can I get for a three or better on an A.P. history exam?
- Why
doesn’t my AP language credit show
in the degree progress report?
- What do I
need to do to keep my Life Scholarship?
- Who can evaluate
transfer credit in history?
- How do I get
credit approved for courses I plan to take at another university during the
summer?
Frequently
Asked Questions and Answers
Q: How do I get an advisor?
A: The director of undergraduate advising assigns each new advisee
to one of our departmental advisors. Unless the student expresses
a preference for a particular advisor, the director’s choice
is random, based on the need to keep the number of advisees assigned
to each person roughly equal. Ordinarily students keep the same
advisor throughout students’ careers. You can email the
director of undergraduate advising, Elizabeth
Carney.
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Q: Who is my advisor?
A: Check
this list
of advisors.
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Q: What do
advisors do?
A: The primary task of the advisor is to help
the student choose individual courses and a minor. They make
sure that students
meet the various and confusing requirements of the major, the
college
and the university and they give advice about their course load. Advisors
do offer some help about career choice and applications to graduate
or law school. More generally, advisors can also help students
make difficult academic choices and function as advocates for
advisees in terms of the university as a whole.
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Q: What is
the upper level humanities requirement and what courses
fulfill it?
A: Students in the departments in the School of Humanities
must earn 12 credits in humanities (see below for what courses
count
as a humanity) courses numbered 300 or higher (A A H 210, MUSIC
210 and THEA 210 are exceptions that will count toward the
requirement).
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Q: What counts
as a humanity?
A: Art and architectural history, English (except English 304,
312,314,316, 331, 334, 335, 485, 490, 495), languages, music,
philosophy, religion, speech (except Speech 362 and 364),
theater (except Theater
377, 487, 497), women’s studies, as well as courses
entitled “humanities.”
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Q: Can my
minor, if it is a humanity, count to fulfill the upper level
humanities
requirement?
A: Yes, it can.
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Q: Do history
majors have to fulfill the upper level social science requirement?
A: Completing a history major automatically fulfills that
requirement as well.
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Q: Can I use
courses required for my minor to count for my major, too?
A: No, you can’t.
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Q: Can I use
history courses that carry W credit to count for my major requirements?
A: Yes, you can.
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Q: What credit
can I get for a three or better on an A.P. history exam?
A: If you took A.P .US, then you get credit for History
101 and History 102. These courses can count toward
your major.
If you
took A.P. Modern European, then you get credit
for History 173. This course does not count toward your
major, but
it does fulfill
half of the western civilization requirement of
the School of Humanities in our college. Students who
have credit
for this
exam will still
need to take History 172 in order to complete the
requirement.
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Q: Why doesn’t my AP language credit
show in the degree progress report?
A: It won’t show until you have completed 202 in whatever
language you are studying.
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Q: What do
I need to do to keep my Life Scholarship?
A: Go to CHE
Life Scholarship Program for the latest information.
Basically, you need to maintain a 3.0 by the end of the academic
year (this
includes
summer school,
if
courses are taken at Clemson), having taken at
least thirty hours. If you lose your scholarship,
you can
reapply if
you meet those
standards for the next year. So a student who
lost a Life scholarship at the end of his/her freshman
year might be
able to get one
back for junior year.
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Q: Who can
evaluate transfer credit in history?
A: Any history advisor as well as the chair of
the history department.
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Q: How do
I get credit approved for courses I plan to take at another university during
the
summer?
A: You need to get a course approval form
from the Registrar’s
office or Student Records in 104 Sikes (sometimes
your advisor or the head of advising for
history may have some, but we do run
out). Your advisor will need to sign the
form, but so will someone in the department
at Clemson that teaches the course. They
will
probably want a description from a catalogue
or web site of exactly what the course is.
Check this list
of CU course equivalents for a number of colleges.
Once the form has been filled out and the
courses approved, turn it back in at Sikes.
Once you’ve completed the course, you
will still need to arrange to have the other
university send Clemson the record of
your course. Clemson will then give credit
for the course but it will not record the
grade and the grade will not become part
of
your average. It’s a good idea to check
after a month or so to make sure that the
transfer credit has been recorded; always
keep a copy of the form and give one to your
advisor.
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