Academic Advising Agreement
College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University
Office: Academic Building 7, Room 109
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Phone: 239-590-7196 Fax: 239-590-1576
Email: casadv@fgcu.edu
Webpage: http://www.fgcu.edu/CAS/Advising
Team:
Name
Position
Kendra Carboneau Executive Secretary
Allison Bacigalupi
Academic Advisor
Laura Brazzeal
Academic Advisor
Lucero Carvajal
Academic Advisor
Kim Hemler
Academic Advisor
Jennie Littell
Academic Advisor
Melanie Stanis
Academic Advisor
Email Address
kcarboneau@fgcu.edu
abacigalupi@fgcu.edu
lbrazzeal@fgcu.edu
lcarvajal@fgcu.edu
khemler@fgcu.edu
jlittell@fgcu.edu
mstanis@fgcu.edu
Responsibilities and Expectations
For Students
For Advisors
Treat students, staff, and faculty with respect.
Treat students, staff, and faculty with respect.
Arrive on time and prepared to advising appointments. Arrive on time and prepared to advising appointments.
Know degree requirements and sequencing.
Stay current on curriculum changes and educate students on
degree requirements and sequencing.
Know where to find answers to questions on campus
and online.
Know resources on campus and online, and build
relationships with offices that serve students.
Be engaged in the decision-making process regarding
your academic career.
Empower students to make purposeful decisions about their
academic career.
Maintain active communication with advisors and other Be accessible to students and faculty. Respond to phone calls
offices on campus by checking Eagle Mail regularly.
and email within a reasonable amount of time.
Know how to use Gulfline to search for courses and
register.
Know how to use the online degree evaluation.
Know how to use Gulfline, Banner, online degree evaluation,
Know where to find the academic calendar and adhere and Eagle Mail efficiently and accurately. Educate students
to relevant deadlines.
on the effective use of the tools available to them.
Schedule an advising appointment at least once per
semester for proactive planning.
Effective 6 FEB 2012
2011-2012 Catalog
Degree Requirements
Complete all general education requirements
Complete the Computation and Communication Skills requirement (formerly known as Gordon Rule)
o 12 credit hours of writing intensive courses with a grade of C or better AND
o 6 credit hours of math courses at the level of College Algebra or above with a grade of C or better
Meet the foreign language admissions requirement
o two years of the same foreign language at the high school level OR
o 8 credit hours of the same foreign language (including American Sign Language) at the collegiate level
Complete the service learning requirement
o Students admitted as first time in college or lower-level transfer students must complete 80 hours
o Students admitted as upper-level transfer students must complete 40 hours
Complete major course work with a minimum grade of C in each course (C minus is not considered a C)
o common course prerequisites AND
o required courses in the major AND
o electives in the major AND
o concentration coursework (if applicable)
Earn a minimum of 120 credit hours
o Maximum of 27 credit hours of business courses may count toward a non-business degree (per
accreditation standards for Lutgert College of Business)
o 30 of the final 60 credit hours must be completed at FGCU
Earn a minimum of 48 credit hours in upper division courses (those numbered 3000 to 4999)
Earn a cumulative GPA of 2.0 in all course work attempted at FGCU
If entering FGCU with fewer than 60 credit hours: earn at least 9 credit hours by attending one or more summer
sessions at a State University System member institution in Florida
Policies
Applications to graduate must be submitted via Gulfline in the term of expected graduation by the deadline
noted in the academic calendar.
Transient coursework should be approved prior to enrollment at the visiting institution.
A student enrolled in the same undergraduate course more than twice will be assessed an additional per credit
hour fee. See current catalog for details.
For students enrolling in a state university for the first time in or after the fall 2009 semester (but before the fall
2011 semester), a tuition rate surcharge will be applied for credit hours that exceed 120% of the completion
requirements for the chosen degree program. The surcharge will apply to all “excess hours” and will amount to
50% of the tuition rate. For a program that requires 120 credit hours to graduate, all hours that exceed 144
would count as excess.
For students enrolling in a state university for the first time in or after the fall 2011 semester, a tuition rate
surcharge will be applied for credit hours that exceed 115% of the completion requirements for the chosen
degree program. The surcharge will apply to all "excess hours" and will amount to 100% of the tuition rate. For
a program that requires 120 credit hours to graduate, all hours that exceed 138 would count as excess.
Effective 6 FEB 2012
2011-2012 Catalog