Screwed up FFC (Freshman Foundation Course)

angryporcupine
Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:05:26 +0000

My son just experienced the same thing. Since he was unable to attend the advising sessions in CA (we’re OOS), he went through the online tutorial. He was assigned an FFC that he was excited about but once he started to populate his schedule with classes, he realized there was a conflict with one of his required film courses (a lab) and the assigned FFC. Since it was past office hours and he was scheduled to register at 9am the next morning, we thought we’d email his advisor for a solution. No assigned academic advisor or email could be located (in Webadvisor, previous emails, etc).

Several frantic calls to the advising office finally put him in touch with a young man that told him this is common and that he should drop the assigned FFC and simply choose another one (which he did). Most of the FFCs were closed so he picked one that fit into his schedule, not necessarily one that interests him.

Hopefully this course of action works out and more importantly, he will be assigned an academic advisor because we’re currently not seeing a name / email addy listed in Webadvisor.

I’d like to extract myself from this process as well. Already went to college once… don’t really want to do it again ;)