Tips for Successful Advising Appointments

Class Schedule and Registration Appointments

If the purpose of your meeting with your advisor is to discuss degree progress and selection of classes for the upcoming semester, attention to the following list will ensure a more productive discussion. The material that follows is in addition to, rather than instead of, that listed under Making the Most of Your Time.

• Know the earliest date of your registration eligibility and see your advisor well in advance of that time. The date of your eligibility will be mailed to you at your MU e-mail account just prior to the beginning of each registration cycle.
• Check myZou to see if you have any holds on your registration. Do what you need to to remove the hold so you'll be allowed to register.
• Develop a list of course possibilities to discuss with your advisor. To do this you need to use:
  • A list of current degree requirements.
  • A list of courses that can be used to meet your degree requirements.
  • A course number and title, day and time of class meetings (found in myZou) for each of your course options.
  • myZou to see how many seats are still available in each class. Remember, this number is fluid and changes all the time.
  • Remember to check, for each course, whether you have successfully completed the prerequisite.
  • Develop a list of courses that is larger than the number of courses you will actually take. This will help you work around time conflicts and closed classes while still making significant degree progress.