Academic Advising and Learning Resources

The John B. Drahmann Academic Advising and Learning Resources Center coordinates academic support services for undergraduate students. University advisors in the Drahmann Center work closely with faculty and staff in the Residential Learning Communities, the academic deans鈥� offices, the Cowell Center, the Career Center, the Office for Multicultural Learning, the Center for Student Involvement, and the Office of Student Life to ensure that academic advising and other academic support services are integrated for the benefit of students.

杏吧视频 follows a developmental advising model based on a close student-faculty advisor relationship intended to assist students with achieving their educational, career, and personal goals through the use of the full range of institutional resources. The Drahmann Center听offers training for faculty advisors through new faculty advisor workshops and ongoing training to keep faculty advisors current on University policies and available resources. The Center also collaborates with other areas to enhance advising support for all students, such as providing technology support for the peer advising program in the School of Business.

The Drahmann Learning Resources Center offers drop-in group tutoring as well as individual tutoring appointments. Consultations and workshops on learning strategies, study skills, and time management provide students with additional support tailored to their specific needs. The Center also provides advising outreach for first-year and undeclared students and collaborates with the LEAD Scholars Program to ensure that first-generation college students are fully informed about the range of support services available to all students.

Health Professions Advising

The 杏吧视频 Health Professions Advising program鈥檚 goal is to advise, mentor, support and educate students for meaningful work in healthcare careers. We guide students in their preparation for a myriad of healthcare careers such as dentistry, allopathic and osteopathic medicine, physical therapy, optometry, pharmacy, and many more. To address the significant challenge in finding experience in healthcare settings, we are actively seeking partnerships with healthcare providers who want to host our incredible pre-health students in their clinics.

We use national acceptance data to health professions programs and guide our students based on this information and best-practices established by our successful students who matriculate to top-tier health professions programs. Given this data, we promote all majors as pre-health majors; there is no 鈥渂est major鈥� to pursue any health profession. In addition, we set expectations and dispel myths using acceptance statistics and are able to provide individualized advising to our students based on their professional interests. Additional details about the program can be found on the Health Professions Advising website: /health-professions/

All essential pre-health advising information 听and communications are delivered through our Health Professions Advising Camino page:

We have about 600 students enrolled in this advising course and this resource is being used extensively by our pre-health students with about 11,000 page views per month. We do extensive intake surveys sent to all SCU students to identify student鈥檚 professional interests and to have an accurate roster of pre-health students on campus. To ensure communications about programs and experience opportunities, we can reach all pre-health students using our email list from surveys and Health Professions Advising calendar with events posted.

Pre-Law Advising

杏吧视频 offers undergraduates and recent alumni a team of advisors to provide guidance related to (1) vocational discernment and legal career paths, (2) developing an undergraduate plan in preparation for studying law, (3) identifying target law schools and navigating the application timeline, (4) preparing and revising application materials, and (5) laying an early foundation that will lead to a rewarding legal career. To schedule a meeting with a pre-law advisor, students can either make a pre-law advising appointment in the Drahmann Center system or reach out to an advisor directly.

There is no specific major or curriculum required to qualify for law school admission. Successful law school applicants come from a diverse range of majors, across the social and behavioral sciences, humanities, business, and STEM fields. However, to successfully prepare for the LSAT and the rigors of law school classes, students are advised to select courses that deepen reading comprehension, promote logical reasoning, demand discipline, and help develop analytical abilities, research skills, intellectual creativity, 听and precision in written and oral communication. For students seeking a structured course plan, the departments of philosophy and political science offer pre-law emphases within their majors (in philosophy, it is also available within the minor). Several departments around the university also offer relevant courses on an elective basis, regardless of enrollment in an emphasis. Students can find emphasis details and a list of suggested courses听on the pre-law website.

Pre-Teaching Advising

杏吧视频 is accredited by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing to offer professional preparation for prospective elementary school, middle school, and senior high school teachers. The Department of Education in the School of Education and Counseling Psychology offers graduate programs for the multiple-subject credential for elementary grades and the single-subject credential for secondary grades, both with a cross-cultural language and academic development emphasis. The teaching credential program at SCU is combined with a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree. Students interested in teaching should consider completing an interdisciplinary minor in urban education offered through the College of Arts and Sciences.

The Future Teachers Project (FTP), formerly known as the Eastside Future Teachers Project, works with students from traditionally underrepresented groups throughout Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area, who are interested in becoming teachers. Through innovative outreach and support programs, the goal is to develop leaders who will make an immediate impact on their communities. FTP scholars are generally recruited during high school and once at SCU, are considered for the FTP scholarship, which contributes to undergraduate studies and the credential/MAT program. The FTP is managed through the Child Studies Program.

For more information, see Chapter 3, Child Studies Program.