Office of Graduate & Undergraduate Studies
Welcome to H&S Graduate and Undergraduate Studies (GUS)!
The Office of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies is a division of the School of Humanities and Sciences that works with academic departments and programs in support of curricular matters and the departments' and programs' services to students, both graduate and undergraduate. We work closely with departments and programs on curricular development and changes, enrollment patterns, graduate diversity recruitment and retention, and all other matters pertaining to supporting students, such as graduate student aid and advising in the major (undergraduates). We also work in partnership with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education to provide services for students in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
You will find a description of our programs and services on this website, along with links to other important campus resources. We also invite you to visit us on the second floor of Building One in the Main Quad.
Why should you visit/contact the
Office of
Graduate and Undergraduate Studies (GUS)?
Why should an undergraduate visit/contact GUS?
- Need information about H&S departments, programs, and faculty
- Need information about advising in the major
- Seek guidance about approaching H&S faculty
- Find out more about university diversity efforts
- Seek advice about academic grievance process or sexual harassment concern
- Find out about programs offered in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
(VPUE) (Undergraduates should also be sure to avail themselves of the many other services of the VPUE.)
- Interest in Individually Designed Major (IDM) program
- Interest in taking the GRE and applying to graduate school
Why should a graduate student visit/contact GUS?
- Questions about graduate degree progress or graduate aid policies
- Interest in applying for humanities dissertation fellowships or Graduate Research Opportunity (GRO) program
- Seek advice about emergency/discretionary funding sources
- Seek advice about academic grievance process or sexual harassment concern
- Find out more about university diversity efforts
- Just need a friendly ear
Why should faculty, department administrators, and student services officers visit/contact GUS?
- Curricular support
- Seek advice about curricular design/changes
- Seek help with coordinating course content and course scheduling with other departments and programs
- Seek advice about graduate student degree progress, graduate student dismissal process, and graduate aid policies
- Inquire about workshops for graduate and undergraduate Student Services Administrators
- Concern about the welfare of a graduate student
- Interest in contributing to ongoing graduate diversity recruitment and retention programs, including recruiting visits to other campuses and national conferences, the H&S Diversity Fellowship Program, the Summer Research Early Identification Program (SR-EIP), and Graduate Recruitment and Diversity Day (G-RADD)
- Seek advice about increasing numbers of students in a major
- Request to host a "Major Dinner" to inform students potentially interested in the major
- Seek advice about organizing advising in the major
- Seek information about other campus resources
- Administrative
- Department graduate aid budget process
- Request for PeopleSoft Student Admin/GFS access
- Get answers to any questions about the Senate mandated review process for Departments/Programs.
- Request any enrollment totals for department, program, school, individual courses, degree conferral by department and degree, faculty evaluation data, data on grades or other matters
- Seeking advice about sexual harassment concern
