DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES

STUDENT AFFAIRS

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Professional Mentoring

Undergraduate advising in the Department of Earth Sciences is designed to allow you close professional contact with our faculty and staff. Each student is assigned a mentor who is a faculty member with a Ph.D. This mentor has two functions:

1. Provide advice regarding career goals
2. Integrate you as soon and as thorougly as possible into the community of research geoscientists that is your department

Questions that you should ask a mentor:

• Should I learn Fortran or C++?
• Where are the best Ph.D. programs in hydrogeology?
• What electives are best for engineering geology?
• Is ESRI a good company to work for?
• What is the use of the integral calculus I'm learning?
• Would you look over my resume?
• Could I do a senior thesis on fossil sponges?
• Should I take a physical chemistry course?
• What advantage would a Masters degree give me?
• What is state registration?

Curriculum Counseling

In addition, the department has a course curriculum advisor who can answer any questions regarding University policies and procedures. To ensure uniform interpretation of these rules, the curriculum advisor keeps your records, checks your registration each quarter, and advises you on your schedule of classes.

Questions that you should ask a curriculum counselor:

• Will these courses be OK next quarter?
• Did my history class transfer?
• Must I take English next quarter?
• Can I graduate next spring?
• May I go part time?
• What does "subject to dismissal" mean?
• How do I change my major to geophysics?
• Can I take this class S/NC?
• May I take a summer course at Berkeley?
• What summer field camps are open this year?
• May I repeat that class?

For more information, contact the Course Curriculum Advisor - Carole Carpenter
(909) 787-3435 or email: carpen@ucrac1.ucr.edu

Graduate advising in the Department of Earth Sciences is the responsibility of the Graduate Advisor. The Graduate Advisor advises on anything relevant to graduate studies. In consultation with the Graduate Advisory Committee, the Graduate Advisor determines the student's background deficiencies, approves study lists, recommends committee membership (examination, thesis, dissertation), monitors progress to the degree, and enforces regulations concerning graduate studies.

For more information, please fill out the following form
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contact the Graduate Secretary - Carole Carpenter,
(909) 787-3435 or email: carpen@ucrac1.ucr.edu
or the Graduate Advisor - Michael McKibben.
(909) 787-3441 or email: mckibben@ucrac1.ucr.edu

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