Dear Students,
Please be advised that AVT students have never been allowed to use any AVT courses to count for the Fine Arts general education requirements. Your degree audit may have once put AVT 104, 222, 215 into your Fine Arts requirement but this was a MISTAKE. This issue has been resolved by the Registrar's office and should not happen from here on out. Even though the audit used to continually make this mistake, messages about this policy have always been in the degree audits, advising sheets, and university catalogs.
Furthermore, students may not double count ARTH 203 for Global Understanding and their 200-level ARTH requirement. This was another mistake made by the audits, but is clearly stated in advising sheets, degree audits, and catalogs.
As I mentioned before, the degree audit mistakes should all be fixed now. The degree audits are great tools and I will be holding a workshop on 10/8 on how to use them. Please, please come in for advising. Don and I am here to help you and catch any of these technical errors.
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I use the degree evaluation, and I visit my advisor fairly regularly. And I think that is a good idea for all students to do. However, I would not tell students to use a system that is flawed. I think if Patriot Web is having problems producing accurate degree evaluations, students should steer clear. After all, we're talking tuition dollars here :)
Of course, a system that benefits from inaccurate degree evaluations is pretty clever... go mason!
As I said in my post, the audits should all be fixed now. I would never encourage students to rely solely on this tool, but I believe the bugs are worked out now. This is also why I have never mentioned the degree audits before because they used to be so unreliable. Today, using the audits in combination with advising is the way to go.
Furthermore, the UNIVERSITY expects every student to know the Mason catalog and to follow what is written in there. Even if the degree audits are flimsy (some degree programs don't even have audits yet), students are still expected to know what it says in the catalog for your degree. Advisors are here to guide and audit are a tool we all can use, but ultimately, responsibility for knowing and following degree requirements falls to the student
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