Hello Meteorology-Climatology Majors,
I hope that you continue to be healthy and well as we continue to march through the last third of the Fall 2021 semester. I hope the semester is going well for you. However, the deadline to withdraw from courses is the end of the day on Friday, November 12, so you still time to make a change this semester if you having trouble.
The Degree Planner is a newer tool available through MyRed to help you plan courses for future semesters to ensure that you are meeting all of your degree requirements. The Degree Planner shows you all of your degree requirements like the Degree Audit, and it allows you to place requirements into future semesters and then pick courses for those requirements. You can then upload your degree plan to the Degree Audit and the Enrollment Scheduler. This will allow you to double check that you are meeting all of your degree requirements and use your planned course to build future semester schedules.
The Degree Planner is a very good tool, but it does have a few issues that you will want to be aware of going forward. First, I would recommend that you start with a blank degree plan rather than the generic degree plan. Otherwise, you may find yourself have to remove and add a lot of requirements to each semester as very, very few students follow the generic degree plan. Second, the Degree Planner struggles with recognizing and accounting for overlapping your degree requirements. The Meteorology-Climatology major is going to overlap with your ACE 3, ACE 4, ACE 10, CDR Science, and CDR Lab Science requirements, and you can overlap your CDR: Human Diversity in U.S. Communities requirement with either your CDR: Humanities or your CDR: Social Sciences requirement. The Degree Planner is unlikely to recognize this overlap, but the Degree Audit will after you upload your degree plan.
Remember, there are certain requirements that you can overlap within your degree and certain requirements that you cannot. Your Meteorology-Climatology major coursework can overlap with your ACE 3, ACE 4, ACE 10, CDR Science, and CDR Lab Science requirements as well as the 60 hours of Scientifically Based Courses and 30 hours of Upper-level Courses requirements. Any minors that you are pursuing can also overlap with your ACE, CDR, science, and upper-level requirements. Additionally, your Meteorology-Climatology major and minors that you are pursuing can overlap. However, your coursework cannot overlap to complete both an ACE and a CDR requirement. Thus, you will need to two ACE 1 writing courses to complete your degree for example.
I would be happy to help you identify overlap within your degree, so please don't hesitate to schedule a meeting with me to discuss your degree plan and courses for the Spring 2022 semester and beyond.
Best wishes, Doug
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