Your first semester is the only one that you should think about right now. You will plan your entire four years in T 101, Introduction to the College of Textiles and NCSU, which is a required course for all Textiles students.
General Information
1. When your schedule is complete, we expect you to have at least 15 to 17 credits. The maximum you are allowed to take without special permission is 18 credits. Taking an average of 15 credits per semester is necessary to graduate in 4 years.
2. Certain courses, such as math or economics, may have problem sessions or labs assigned with the class. When you register for one of these classes, you will be alerted to register for the corresponding problem session or lab. Some of these sections will be paired with one specific problem session that you will be alerted to add when you register for the class. In these cases, you cannot take a problem session for a different class. Even though these problem sessions show as ZERO credits, they are required in order to receive credit for the class.
3. Courses are identified by a set of letters and numbers.
SOC 202, for example, is a sociology course. “202” identifies it as Principles of Sociology. You can view all of these abbreviations by visiting the Registration and Records website and clicking on “courses” then on “Course Catalog.”
4. Unless you are a PCC student or planning to be a TE, do NOT take chemistry in the fall.
5. "Q" Classes
These classes are WONDERFUL and we encourage you to include one of them in your schedule. They are taught by outstanding faculty and are all smaller than most classes. They are only for new students in their first year.
What are these courses?
They are courses that will count in your degree just like any course that is NOT a "Q" course. The "Q" is only added to the course number so that everyone will know they are for new first year students only. You will also hear them called First Year Inquiry or FYI courses.
Why take one of these courses? The classes are small, usually not larger than 25 students, and the teachers are superb!
NOTE: The only "Q" classes that fit in textiles degrees are the following: EC 201Q, ENG 209Q, ENG 220Q, FLS 201Q, HI 216Q, HI 251Q, HI 252Q, IDS 201Q, MA 131Q, MUS 180Q, MUS 200Q, SOC 202Q, SOC 203Q, SOC 205Q and any PE course. Students considering TE can take COM 110Q or COM 112Q.
The web site for First Year Inquiry Courses (“Q Courses”) is below.
http://www.ncsu.edu/firstyearinquiry
NOTE: If you are in the University Scholars Program, Q classes count for the scholars credits you need to graduate with this distinction.
6. Honors and Scholars Programs
The one major difference between the Honors and Scholars programs is that the Honors Program requires a research project. For this project, “you must complete a minimum of 6 credit hours of Honors Independent Study or Honors Undergraduate Research that culminates in a creative project or thesis. Students work in consultation with a faculty member on the project design and in selecting a research topic. Typically, students choose to pursue the research or creative project in the major.” This is an exciting opportunity that many students decide to pursue.
If you have been invited to be part of one of these, or both, I strongly urge to do so! If you were not invited to join one of these groups, both accept applications.
Each of these programs requires you to be enrolled in certain seminars and classes. The directors of these programs will work with you to accomplish this. If you are already accepted for the Scholars Program, you should add HSS 110 to your schedule.
Honors Program
Scholars Program
7. AP and IB Credits
Please make sure your scores have been sent to the Admissions Office at NCSU. Many students take AP or IB courses in their sophomore and junior years and forget to request that scores be sent to colleges. .
Only official scores requested from College Board’s reporting services are accepted.
Register for your classes based on what credits you expect/hope to get as a result of these courses. You can easily adjust your schedule later if needed.
AP Credit Information
IB Credit Information
8. Dual Enrollment College Credit
If you have taken college-level courses through a community or four-year college, you must request that a transcript be sent to the Admissions Office at NCSU.
A Bit of Advice
• Night classes, ones beginning after 5:30 pm, are not a pleasant alternative to getting up early. You will likely be tired by the end of the day and less motivated to attend classes in the evenings.
• Make sure you have 45 minutes to travel from main campus to a textile class and vice versa.
• Try to minimize the amount of down time between classes if possible. This will make it easier to organize your day.
• Be careful when you decide to drop a class. Some classes have waitlists that allow students to be automatically added to a class if someone currently registered drops the class. Dropping a class where someone is on a waitlist will mean that you cannot add it back. The people on the waitlist will be added until there are no students left on the list. Since you are registering early, this should not be a big problem.
• 8:00 am classes are not for everyone. If you are not a morning person, be cautious about adding these early classes to your schedule.
Contact Philip Dail or Liz Moran with any questions.
Email is strongly encouraged and preferred.
philip_dail@ncsu.edu
Director of Advising and Admissions
Phone: 919-515-1177
liz_moran@ncsu.edu
Academic Advisor
Phone: 919-515-0030