AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL of COMMUNICATION
Degree Audit Review
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL of COMMUNICATION
What is the Degree Audit
report ?
• A tool that can assist you with short term
and long term academic planning
• A tool that you can use to review degree
requirements (major, minor, University,
General Education, etc.)
• A comprehensive audit of credits/classes in
progress and completed (including AP, CE,
TR, etc.)
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SCHOOL of COMMUNICATION
How to find your Degree Audit
Report
• Go to your portal myau.american.edu
and login
• Click on ‘Academics’ on the far right
hand side
• Click on ‘Degree Audit Report’ (This
list is alphabetical)
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How to view your active degree
program
• To see your current academic program
click the appropriate program under
‘Choose an active program’
• This will only show things that are in
the system as actual majors or intended
majors in the system
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SCHOOL of COMMUNICATION
The Degree Audit will
show you information
about your current
program - Intended
Graduation Date,
Academic Catalog Year,
and Intended Major.
The Program Summary
section will help you
determine:
-How many credits you
have earned, in
progress (anticipated
additional), and the
anticipated remaining
in order to meet the
minimum 120 credit
hours for graduation
requirements
-Your Cumulative GPA
(major GPA listed
above Program
Summary box)
-Credits completed in
residence at American
University
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College Writing
Requirement:
This student is
currently enrolled in
WRTG-100 for the fall
term.
This student will need
to complete WRTG101.
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SCHOOL of COMMUNICATION
University Mathematics Requirement:
This student is currently enrolled in STAT-202
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Your Degree Audit will
detail the five areas of
the General Education
Program.
This student has
completed the FA4
and is in progress with
FA2. Students must
complete two courses
per foundational area.
As you can see, a list
of the approved
courses for each area
are listed in each
block.
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SCHOOL of COMMUNICATION
Hours Outside of
SOC
SOC students are
required to
complete credits in
hours outside of
COMM (72-80
depending on
major) Film and
Media Arts/Foreign
Language and
Communication
Media majors are
not required to
complete hours
outside of COMM
Liberal Arts (LA)
ACCT, EDU, FIN,
HFIT, IBUS, ITEC,
KSB, MGMT & MKTG
are not LA.
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SCHOOL of COMMUNICATION
SOC Related Course Requirements
SOC students are required to complete approved courses in both
U.S. History and Economics
Journalism students must take Economics. Other SOC majors may
choose Marketing 250 instead. Foreign Language and
Communication Media majors do not have this requirement.
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As you can see, this student is a film major. This part of the degree audit shows all
major requirements needed and which ones have been completed.
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Major requirements include choices from our special topics list. These are electives
in the major that change each semester. They are posted on our SOC
Undergraduate Advising website under “curriculum” and “special topics”.
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45 of your last 60 earned credits must be in residence: AU courses in any
instructional modality are considered in residence
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This student is pursuing a minor in Marketing. Your minor or
second major will show below your first major.
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SCHOOL of COMMUNICATION
The last part of your degree audit will show a section called “Other
Courses”. Courses that are not meeting specific requirements will fall in
this area. As a note, special topics courses will automatically fall in this
area. Please make sure you contact your academic advisor to move the
course to the appropriate place. Below the “Other Courses” section is a
list of all courses you have taken each semester.
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SCHOOL of COMMUNICATION
What if I changed my program of
study?
• In the portal click on ‘Academics’
• Click on ‘Degree Audit Report’
• Choose a program of study from the
drop down box
• Do not click on one of the active programs if you
are running a ‘what-if”
• You may only choose one major, not a second
major and/or a minor
• Choose the catalog year of the year you
started at AU
• This does not change your major