Quality advising and mentoring are vital to you, your CS faculty and your future industry employers or graduate schools. While advising and mentoring can happen at many times and places during your time at the College of Charleston, the CS department also engages in a two week window of time for advising during each of the spring and fall semesters.
General Information
Appointments typically last for at least 20 minutes, but consider a longer appointment to talk more broadly about
your educational and career goals. In addition to planning courses for the fall semester, ask your advisor:
How to Prepare & What to Bring
Here are a few tips to help you make the best of your Advising session:
Registration Holds
Before you have completed an advising session, a registration hold will be placed on your account. In order to
sign up for courses, you must either meet with your advisor as most students do, or fill out a "Refusal of
Student Advising" form. This form is available in the Computer Science office, JC Long room 216.
Changing Advisors
If you want to change your advisor, send an email to Kristi Kratzer (kratzerkn@cofc.edu)
with the name of your new
advisor you are requesting. Available advisors for majors and minors in computer science and computer information systems
are Professors Anderson, Boetje, Leclerc, Manaris, McCauley, Pothering, Starr and Stalvey. Dr. Starr also advises Discovery Informatics Majors. There are no hard feelings
if you change advisors! Find someone YOU can connect and work with.
Changing Majors
If you wish to change your major, go to myCharleston for more information.
Declaring a Leave of Absence
If you do not plan to take classes in the fall because you are taking some time off, you still should be advised
so that you can properly declare a leave-of-absence from the College. Study abroad does not constitute a
leave-of-absence.
Early Registration
For information on Early Registration, see myCharleston. Entry times are based on earned hours.
