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Department of Communication, Media, and Persuasion Advising Information

Take a look at the for changing your major if you need help declaring a major or minor.

Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors: Please contact a department faculty advisor to make an advising appointment. You can contact the CMP department for help in getting set up for program advising.

Freshmen, or those who have more general university questions (general education requirements, financial aid, transfer credit, etc.), please contact your designated academic advisor to make an advising appointment.

General Helpful Advising Information

Financial aid

  • Financial aid is awarded for a full year (August-August). Students need to notify the ISU Financial Aid office if they want to attend during the summer. Otherwise, their entire allotted award is dispersed during fall and spring with nothing left for summer.
  • Full time enrollment for financial aid purposes is twelve credits. At eleven credits students are charged the full-time tuition price though.

Registration

  • Spring registration usually starts the first full week of November.
  • Summer registration usually starts the first full week of February.
  • Fall registration usually starts the third week of April.
  • The specific dates for each class level registration is listed on the Registrar’s website under Calendars/Schedules.
  • Registration always starts at 12:01AM, Seniors on a Monday, Juniors on Wednesday, Sophomores on Friday, and Freshmen the following Monday.

Waitlists

  • When a course section becomes "Full," additional waitlist spaces will be available for students wishing to register for the course.
  • Waitlisted students are able to register for the course if seats become available.
  • Waitlist students need to know that, if they are waitlisted for a course, they must check their email daily. When a slot opens the next person on the list is emailed and has only 24 hours to respond. If they fail to do this they are deleted from the waitlist and have to reregister.

Dropping a class

  • Students can only drop a class without having it appearing on their transcript during the first ten days of school. Any time after the second week, a “W” will appear on their transcript; however, a “W” does not affect a student's GPA.
  • The final drop date is the Friday of the tenth week of the semester. To drop after this date requires a petition, which would only be approved for hardship reasons.

Graduation/Commencement

  • Students are strongly encouraged to meet with a department faculty advisor by the end of their Junior year to review their matriculation form. This should help ensure they are on track.
  • Graduation applications must be submitted no later than Friday of midterm week of the semester in which you plan to graduate. For those wishing to graduate in August, applications must be submitted by the last day of the Spring semester.