Your Transitional Guide Advising Syllabus

Your Transitional Guide is your first academic advisor at the University of Miami. This guide explains what that partnership looks like, from the day you deposit through the end of Cane Kickoff Orientation: what happens and when, how your first schedule gets built, who to ask when something comes up, and how you are introduced to the Cane Navigator who will work with you through graduation.

Choose the edition that matches when you start.

Cards

Fall Start

August

For students beginning classes in August. Covers your summer month by month, placement and credit, building your first schedule, and Cane Kickoff Orientation.

Fall Edition

Spring Start

January

For students beginning classes in January. Covers making the most of your fall, housing and recruitment timing, placement and credit, and your January arrival.

Spring Edition

What you will find inside

  • What your Transitional Guide does, and what they do not
  • What happens and when, from deposit to your first day of class
  • How placement results and incoming credit shape your first schedule
  • Why majors and minors are added later, with your Cane Navigator
  • What to expect from us, and what we ask of you
  • Who to contact for questions outside academic advising
  • A section written for families

 

This guide covers the first stage of your student success journey. Your Academic Navigation Syllabus picks up where this one leaves off and continues through graduation.

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