Need Help? Information for Communication Majors
Visit the Communication Undergraduate Advising Office (ILC N323) for:
- Applying to the Comm major
- Course selection
- Help with add/drop or registration
- Checking your progress toward graduation
- General questions about the major
Peer advisors are available on a drop-in basis Mon-Thu 10-5 PM and Fri 10-Noon, or by email at askcomm@comm.umass.edu
Make an appointment with your academic advisor (Allison Butler, Aaron Hoholik, Marianne Neal-Joyce, or Nicola Mare Usher) for:
- Academic planning
- Checking your progress toward graduation
- Advice about careers and graduate study
- Opportunities beyond the curriculum
- Approval of Comm transfer credits
- Prior approval to take Comm courses at another college or university
- Prior approval to count courses in another UMass department toward the Comm major
- Approval of study abroad courses
- Approval of domestic exchange courses
- Approval of 5-College courses
Schedule an appointment with an advisor:
- Prof. Allison Butler, Director of Undergraduate Advising, ILC N322
- Aaron Hoholik, ILC N327
- Marianne Neal-Joyce, ILC N325
- Nicola Mare Usher, ILC N327
Visit the SBS Pathways Center for:
- Declaring your Global Ed option
- Questions related to the Global Ed requirement (including language classes)
- Requesting late adds, late drops, late withdrawals, or late changes to pass/fail
- Requesting to enroll in more than 18 credits in one semester
- Petitions to enroll beyond the 10th semester
- Reinstatement from probation or suspension
- Complicated questions about Gen Ed requirements
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