Introduction

As mentioned in Part 1, registration for Spring 2024 begins on Nov 1st. Part 2 is intended to get you to think more deeply about your plans by hearing the perspectives of your peers.

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Step 1 - goals and plans

Each person in your group should provide a 1-2 informal summary of their future plans (at Grinnell or beyond). This summary should be broad rather than specific, and you choose to focus on one or more of the following:

  1. What major (or majors) are you currently interested in and why?
  2. What career goals or plans do you currently have?
  3. What are you hoping to gain from your college education?

You do not need to record any information in this step.

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Step 2 - course selection critiques

In this part you should focus on the four courses you’d most like to take. For each member of your group (excluding yourself), look that the these four courses and their 1-2 sentence reflections and answer the following:

  1. Does this set of courses seem appropriate for the pursuit of a balanced liberal arts education?
  2. Do you see any conflicts or challenges that might arise from this set of courses? These could be time conflicts, an overly high workload, etc.
  3. Given the goals and plans this person shared in Step 1, do these courses seem appropriate for those goals? Are there any changes you’d recommend?

You should record something brief for each member of your group (excluding yourself). I encourage you to consider adopting the following format:

Person: Ryan
1. It includes 3 science division courses, which may not be the most well-rounded.
2. No, it looks reasonable
3. Yes, but I might add a humanities class to have at least 1 class from every division.

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Step 3 - alternate courses

In this part you should focus on the three alternate courses listed by the group member. Looking at these courses and their 1-2 sentence reflections, answer the following:

  1. Would you recommend swapping any of these courses with one of the four “most like to take” courses?
  2. Given your own search of the Spring 2024 schedule, are there other classes this person should consider (as either “most like to take” or “alternate”)?

Again, you should record something brief for each member of your group (excluding yourself). I encourage you to consider adopting the following format:

Person: Ryan
1. Yes, taking PHI-101 Logic would be a great humanities compliment to someone interested in computer science
2. STA-209, STA-230, or STA-295 are great courses to have on your radar for someone interested in statistics

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Step 4 - future plans

In this part you should focus on the two future courses (beyond Spring 2024) listed by the group member. Looking at these courses and their 1-2 sentence reflections, answer the following:

  1. When do you think this student could fit this course into their four-year plan? In answering this, you should consider the course prerequisites and the semesters/years the course is offered.
    • For example, STA-330 is only offered in the spring and might not be offered in consecutive years. It requires CSC-207 and STA-230, which each have their own prerequisites. Consequently, it might make the most sense for STA-330 to be planned for the third or fourth year in the Spring.
  2. Given your own search, are there any other courses you saw that you believe this person might find interesting?

Again, you should record your responses for each member of your group (excluding yourself) in this step.

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Next steps

After you’ve finished discussing each of these items with your group, you should submit your recorded responses to P-web for completion credit.