undergraduate bulletin - LaGrange College

REGISTRATION AND ADVISING
All students should register on the dates specified. All registration procedures for all terms are
under the direction of the Provost. Students have not completed registration until they have
cleared the Registrar, the Office of Student Life, and the Business Office. Students enrolled for
twelve or more hours must obtain a campus post office box. Communications to the student will
be through campus e-mail or campus mail.
Each student is assigned to a faculty advisor, who assists the student in planning an academic
program. However, the ultimate responsibility for meeting all requirements rests with the
individual student.
Students who enter LaGrange College and have attempted fewer than 30 semester hours will be
assigned a Cornerstone advisor as their primary advisor and an area-of-interest advisor as their
secondary advisor. The area of interest is determined from the student‘s application for
admission. The Cornerstone advisor will act as the student‘s first contact person. The area-ofinterest
advisor will act as a consultant in matters pertaining to major requirements.
Since students may declare their major at any time, the Cornerstone advisor will still remain as
the primary advisor and the major advisor will continue in the secondary advisor role for the
entire first academic term and during the final registration period for the second term. After the
drop/add period of the first spring academic term and before pre-registration for the next summer
and fall semesters, the Cornerstone advisor will become the secondary advisor. The area-ofinterest/major
advisor will assume the primary advisor role and become the first contact person
for the student for advising and class scheduling. The Cornerstone advisor is released from all
advising responsibilities for the student and becomes the secondary contact person when needed.
Students with no area of interest or major will remain assigned to their Cornerstone advisor as
their primary advisor.
A major may be formally declared any time by contacting the SOURCE Center. The student
must declare his or her major in writing to the Department by the time the student has earned
51 semester hours of credit. A student's major program requirements are those described in the
College Bulletin at the time of declaration of the major.
PLACEMENT
Appropriate placement in certain courses is essential. Placement in mathematics and English is
based on skills assessment or standardized test scores. Students who are not predicted to be
successful in MATH 1101 are required to enroll in MATH 0100. This is a pre-Core Curriculum
mathematics course, and credit in this course does not count toward the fulfillment of the 46
hours of Core requirements, but does count toward hours required for graduation. English
placement is based on scores obtained on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Based on scores
obtained, students are placed in an appropriate section (standard or honors) of ENGL 1101 (see
description of English program).
Students entering LaGrange College with two (2) years of high-school-level foreign language
are placed in an intermediate level course of that language; or if the students choose, they may
start the study of another language at the beginning level. Any student for whom English is not
the native language may have the language requirement waived by submitting a written request
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