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Summer and Fall 2013 Course Registration.

Posted by Apostolos K. on January 23, 2013 at 10:30am

As information becomes available, we will be posting information on how students can register for Summer and Fall Courses.

 

** UPDATE: MAY 2013 **

5/13/2013: Everyone who has received advising and signed-up with their advisor is now registered.  If you go into WISER you will see your courses for the fall.  If you do not see courses, it is because you have a hold!  Please remove your hold by 5/16 so you can be registered. Otherwise you will be registered when I come back from vacation and there will be late-registration fees :)  The most common type of hold is the EMC hold (emergency contact updates), although I did see some Immunization holds.

Registration letters seem to have gone out early this year :-)

If you are a matriculated student, you must have all received an email from the Registrar's office for Fall 2013 registration, and you might be eager to register, but you cannot yet because you probably have holds. You also have, most likely, not met with your advisor.

In this blog you will find out a bit more about the Fall (and Summer) 2013 advising timeline and when things will happen.  As new information is available, this blog post will be updated, so keep it in mind when you have questions :-)  If your questions are not answered by this blog post, please see the following discussion forums where you can post a question, and we will do our best to answer :-)

 

PREPARATORY WORK:

Before meeting your with advisor, please log into WISER (http://wiser.umb.edu) and make sure you don't have any holds on your account!  The only hold that we (applied linguistics) can remove is the "Advising Hold." If you have other holds on your account you need to get those resolved ASAP with the appropriate departments otherwise we will not be able to register you for courses.

Immunization Hold:

If you are an online student, and you opt to apply for the immunization exemption, then you have to fill out the form every semester and mail it to Pat.Halon@umb.edu so that the immunization hold can be removed. The form can be found here: http://cdn.umb.edu/images/healthservices/Immunization_Form_Updated_May_31_2012.pdf

 

If you complete the immunization form, and provide proof of immunization, University Health Services will not bug you again! (until some specific immunization expires)

 

 

Note for new students (On-campus & Online):

Even though new students will not be registered right away (since you probably have not been admitted yet :-) ) no need to worry. There will be spots available in introductory courses for you! We will be registering you for APLING 601 and APLING 605 (our two introductory courses). If you would like to register for a 3rd course, please contact applied.linguistics@umb.edu for more information.

 

COURSES:

The tentative list of courses has been posted in the Classroom Group for quite some time :-).  Instructions, as well as days and times of courses (for on-campus courses) will be posted here as they become available.

 

SUMMER Online Courses

Elective courses

  • APLING 669: Writing Theories (MAY 28 – AUGUST 22, KISS)
  • APLING 633: Discourse Analysis (MAY 28-  JULY 11, CARHILL-POZA)

 

 

FALL Online courses

Core courses

  • APLING 601: Linguistics  (TBA)
  • APLING 605: Theories & Principles of Language Teaching (KISS)
  • APLING 623: Sociolinguistics (BECKMAN-BRITO)

Concentration Courses

  • APLING 612: Integrating Culture into the Curriculum (Foreign Language Pedagogy & English as a Foreign Language (KISS)
  • APLING 614: Foundations of Bilingual Education (ESL/K-12 Licensure Track) (GOUNARI)

Elective Courses

  • APLING 670: Testing in the ESL Classroom (MARTINEZ)
  • APLING 673: Teaching Readings in the Bilingual/ESL Classroom (BARTOLOME)
  • APLING 685: Internet in the Language Classroom (COMPTON)

 

 

FALL On-Campus Courses

Core Courses

  • APLING 601: Linguistics (Th @ 7pm; MEYER)
  • APLING 603: Cross-Cultural Perspectives  (W @ 7pm; LEISTYNA)
  • APLING 605: Theories & Principles of Language Teaching (M @ 4pm; LEISTYNA)
  • APLING 621: Psycholinguistics (Tu @ 4pm; ETIENNE)
  • APLING 623: Sociolinguistics (Tu @ 7pm; MACEDO)
  • APLING 698: Practicum (Licensure) (BY ARRG – CARHILL-POZA)
  • APLING 698: Field Experience (non-licensure) (BY ARRG – CARHILL-POZA)

Concentration Courses

  • APLING 611: Methods & Materials in Foreign Language Instruction (Foreign Language Pedagogy & English as a Foreign Language)   (M @7pm; ETIENNE)
  • APLING 614: Foundations of Bilingual Education (ESL/K-12 Licensure Track) (Th @ 4 pm; GOUNARI)
  • APLING 618: Methods & Approaches in ESL (ESL/K-12 Licensure Track) (Tu @ 4 pm; CARHILL-POZA)

 

TIMELINE:

April 1 – April 15: Your advisors will be contacting you via email. Please check both your UMass Boston student email and any emails you've given to us as part of your application process. Your advisor will contact you to setup an appointment to meet with you.  You can meet by phone, by email, by skype, or if you are local you can meet in person! :-)  Be prepared to discuss your goals, and what courses you might be interested in signing up for. In consultation with your advisor you will pick 2 or 3 courses for next semester. Your advisors will tell us (AK, Evy, Beth) which courses you decided to sign up for and we will sign you up.

Please note that you advisor is not listed on WISER. We keep an internal departmental database to keep advisors and advisees :-)

 

Student Checklist Item:If you haven't heard from your advisor by April 10 (Wednesday), please email aplingonline@umb.edu and let us know :-)

 

April 16 – May 1st: During this period of time we will be going through and registering all students for courses. This is true for both online and on-campus students. If you log into WISER and you are not registered for a course yet, don't panic!  By May 1st you will be :-) We will be monitoring this forum to make sure everything's going well and answering questions as they come up. If, for some reason, you aren't registered May 2nd – May 10th will be a catch-up and correction week for registrations.

 

Student Checklist Item: On May10th, please check your WISER account to make sure that you are registered for courses, and that you are registered for the courses you and you advisor agreed upon. If you are not registered for courses, please go into the appropriate Registration Q&A forum. 

 

May 10 - May 28th: Non-Degree Registration period (for summer semester). If you are a non-degree student, once all currently enrolled students are registered, we will begin processing non-degree registrations.  It's important to note that prior to May 10th we will not know how many available spots there are in courses :-)

 

Student Checklist Item: If you are a non-degree student who wishes to register for a Summer 2013 course, please check in on May 10th to see what courses are available. Once you submit registration paperwork, you should be registered within a few days (depending on how busy the registrar's office is :-)  )

 

May 10 - 20: Book Lists will be posted, for Summer Semester courses, in the Classroom group. Please be patient until then and refrain from emailing us about book lists :-)

 

 

August 15 - August 30th: Non-Degree Registration period (for fall semester). If you are a non-degree student, once all currently enrolled students are registered, we will begin processing non-degree registrations.  It's important to note that prior to August 15th we will not know how many available spots there are in courses :-)

 

Student Checklist Item: If you are a non-degree student who wishes to register for a Fall 2013 course, please check in on August 15th to see what courses are available. Once you submit registration paperwork, you should be registered within a few days.

 

July 20 - 23: Book Lists will be posted, for Fall Semester courses, in the Classroom group. Please be patient until then and refrain from emailing us about book lists :-)

 

 

FAQ

  1. Who is my advisor?
     Advisors can be found on the Spring 2013 advising spreadsheet here: - TO BE POSTED SOON!
  2. Can I change advisors?
     Of course! If you would like to change advisor, please email aplingonline@umb.edu. Please include your UMS number in the request, and the reason you would like to change advisors.
  3. Can I register without meeting my advisor?
    You will not be able to register without meeting your advisor

 

 

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Can I change my advisor?

Posted by Apostolos K. on October 22, 2019 at 4:00pm

Advising is one of the important aspects of being in a Master of Arts program. Sometimes advising is quite quick because you know what you want, and you've done copious amounts of research into the courses that you want to take, and other times it's a bit longer because you are looking for that advice from your advisor.  Either way, an advisor is available for you as soon as you start in our program!

 

In the beginning, you are assigned an advisor by the program coordinators (me or Evy), but that doesn't mean that you need to stick with the same advisor throughout your course of studies!  Each of our professors has a different specialty, so you might decide you want to have another professor because your interests much more closely align to what the professor's interests are.  You can, at any time, switch advisors!  All you need to do is the following:

 

1.  Have a look at our faculty listing: http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/appling/faculty

Even though their profiles are brief, these profiles give you a better idea of what the professor's interests are, what courses they teach, and what areas some of their scholarship is in.

2.  Pick a professor as a potential advisor.

The faculty listing lists more people than we have advisors.  Only some faculty do advising.  Here is who is an academic advisor:

  • Carhill-Poza, Avary (avary.carhillpoza@umb.edu)
  • Chun, Christian (christian.chun@umb.edu)
  • Etienne, Corinne, (corinne.etienne@umb.edu)
  • Gounari, Panayota (panagiota.gounari@umb.edu)
  • Leider, Chris (christine.leider@umb.edu)
  • Sclafani, Jennider (jennifer.sclafani@umb.edu)
  • Urbanski, Kimberly (kimberly.urbanski@umb.edu)

You should contact one of these professors to see if they would be able to have you switch advisors and for them to be your advisor.  

3. Once you get the all-clear - please email me (aplingonline@umb.edu) to let me know that you will be switching advisors, and I can make a note of it :)

 

That's it! :)

 

 

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