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Name __________________________________________ Date ___________________
ACA 122 College Success
HW5: Course Planning Research and Academic Timeline
Purpose
HW5 will bring you further into the second phase of goal discernment: academic goal exploration. In this assignment, you will begin to understand the course requirements for your program and develop a timeline for completing them.
Learning Outcomes
This assignment supports the following course learning outcomes:
· Students will develop a strategic plan for completing community college academic goals, including certificates, diplomas, and/or associate degrees.
· Students will develop a strategic plan for transferring to a university and preparing for a new career.
Grading
This assignment is worth 100 points. See the rubric on the last page of this assignment for details about requirements and scoring. The assignment grade will count as 10% of your total grade in ACA 122.
1.) Step 1: Download the planning document for your chosen program here at Durham Tech. Use the Durham Tech Programs and Pathways website to find your pathway and program. Download the appropriate planning document. (If you are a university transfer student, download the Course Selection Guide. For all other programs, download the Plan of Study. **You will need to submit your Course Selection Guide or Plan of Study with this assignment in order to receive full credit!**
2.) Step 2: Download any additional planning documents (see below).
In addition to your Course Selection Guide, university transfer students should also download the “Baccalaureate Degree Plan” for your future major at the university you plan to transfer to. Use the information page for your chosen program at the Durham Tech Programs and Pathways website, and click on the link for Baccalaureate Degree Plans.
3.) Step 3: Review your planning documents to understand all classes needed for your credential.
Look over your Plan of Study or Course Selection Guide to see what courses, and how many, are required for you. Some Plans of Study are organized by semester, but your course loads and sequencing may vary depending on whether you are part-time vs. full-time, and depending on which prerequisites you may need.
4.) Step 4: For each course listed on your Plan of Study or Course Selection Guide, use the Durham Tech Course Catalog within SelfService to identify the credit hours, and any pre-requisites or co-requisites for that course, and list these on the Course Planning Worksheet (p. 3).
You will need to look up each course on your Plan of Study or Course Selection Guide, to get the necessary information about it! In some cases, you may have options. For example, your course planning document may list “Humanities elective”, and you may have the choice between several different courses to fulfill that one requirement. In that instance, you do not need to look up each Humanities option, just the one that YOU plan to take in order to fulfill the requirement. Each course description will tell you how many credit hours the class is worth, and any prerequisites and/or corequisites for the course. You should write down all of this information for each course you will have to take. Use the table on the Course Planning Worksheet (page 3 of this packet) to document the necessary information about all your required courses. You can add additional lines or attach an additional sheet if necessary.
Let’s pretend that when I look at my
Plan of Study or
Advising
Guide for my program, I see that one class I need is ENG 111. When I look it up in the Durham Tech course catalog in SelfService, here is what I find:
If a class has prerequisites or corequisites, they will be listed here. This class has both.
This course is worth 3 Credit Hours.
· Prerequistes are requirements that you must complete BEFORE enrolling in a particular class. Some courses have prequisites and some do not. ENG 111 above has three possible prerequisites: students must have placed out of, or completed one of the following: DRE 098 or ENG 002 or BSP-4002 before they can enroll in ENG 111.
· Corequisites are requirements that you might need to take at the same time as being enrolled in a particular class, unless you have already done the specified requirements in a previous semester. Many classes do not have corequisites, but some do. ENG 111 has a corequisite of ENG011 that may be required based on your placement.
Wondering about your ENG and MAT placement, based on your high school GPA?
Starting Fall 2025, Durham Tech’s English and math transition and corequisite courses will change. The following chart shows your English and math placement based on your unweighted high school GPA:
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High School GPA |
English Placement |
Math Placement consult Plan of Study for required MAT coursework |
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2.8 or above |
ENG 111 |
MAT 121, MAT 143, MAT 152, MAT 171 |
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Between 2.2. and 2.799 |
ENG 111 and ENG 045 |
MAT 121 and MAT 045A MAT 143 and MAT 045Q MAT 152 and MAT 045S MAT 171 and MAT 045P |
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2.199 or lower |
ENG 025 |
MAT 110 MAT 025 or MAT 035 |
Course Planning Worksheet
Your Name: _________________________________________
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Type of Credential you are pursuing (Circle one): |
AA Degree |
AS Degree |
AE Degree |
AFA Degree |
AATP Degree |
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AAS Degree |
AGE Degree |
DIPLOMA |
CERTIFICATE |
ASTP Degree |
For AAS, Certificate, and Diploma students, list your specific program: _________________________
For University Transfer students, list your future major: _____________________________________
Total credit hours required for your credential (look at bottom of last page of your planning document) : _____
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Courses |
Course Pre-requisite(s) |
Course Co-requisite(s) |
Credit Hours |
Special Notes (if any) |
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ACA 122 |
None |
None |
1 |
Example: I have previous credits from another college for this requirement. |
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ENG 111 |
ENG 002 or DRE 098 or BSP 4002 |
ENG 011 |
3 |
Example: I am currently enrolled in ENG 111 and do not need the ENG 011 corequisite |
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Total number of credit hours planned on this worksheet: |
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5.) Step 5: Log into Self-Service.
· To log in to Self-Service, go to: https://selfservice.durhamtech.edu
· Use the same username and password that you use to log into Sakai, or into your email.
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Once in Self-Service, select “Student Planning.” (See screenshot below for assistance)
On the next screen, you will see several tabs: Click on the tab that says “ Timeline.” (see screenshot below)
The default semester being shown is your current semester. Click the small blue arrow (<) sign to the left to scroll all the way to the first column, which should say “Non-term Courses.” (see screenshot below for an example)
Classes in the “Non-term Courses” column to the left represent the student’s existing course placements. The student does not need to enroll in any of the courses in this column, because they have “placed out” of them. For example, if a Durham Tech class has a prerequisite of ENG 002, this student has already met that prerequisite, and does not need to enroll in ENG 002.
· The “Non-term Courses” column will list any course placements that you have, based on high school GPA, placement test results, or courses already completed.
If you have completed EFL 074 and EFL 094, you have completed the equivalent of ENG 002/ENG 025 and do not need plan ENG 002/ENG 025 in your Timeline.
· You may see a check mark () or the letters “CC” or “EP”, but they all mean that you have “placed” out of those courses and should not plan to take them. You should not include any of these courses in your future semester’s planning!
· In the screenshot above, the student has “placed out” of ENG 002, MAT 003, and other ENG and MAT courses. If a class on the student’s Plan of Study or Course Selection Guide required one of those prerequisites, this student would not need to take them. The same applies for the courses ENG 011, MAT 010, MAT 021, and MAT 043 that you see in the student’s Non-term Courses column. If the student wanted to take a class that had one of those as a corequisite, the student would not need the corequisite, because they have already “placed out” of it.
· Note – course placement is not the same as course credit!!! Just because a course appears here does not mean that you have earned the credit hours for it toward your degree!
Summer 2025
HW5 – Page 9
Spring 2020
HW3 – Yancey – Page 7
6.) Step 6: Use the information that you gathered in the Course Planning Worksheet (page 3 of this packet) to search for and add classes to your future semesters on your Academic Timeline.
One-by-one, you will search for and add each course from your Course Planning Worksheet to a future semester in your “Timeline” on Self-Service.
Even if you plan to leave Durham Tech or transfer out before completing your full credential, you should plan ALL of your future courses as if you will be here until you finish your program. Failure to do so will result in points lost for this assignment!
Below are instructions for adding courses to your Timeline in Self-Service:
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Use the
Search for Courses box to type the name/prefix of a course to add to your Timeline
(for example, you might type “ENG 111” or “ENG”).
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Once you have found the course you want to add, click “
Add Course to Plan,” as in the screenshot below.
· Next, from the “Select a Term” pull-down menu, select the semester you plan to take the class, then click Add Course to Plan. (see screenshot below for assistance)
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After trying to add a course to your plan, you may see a yellow warning reminding you of the pre-requisite(s) or co-requisite(s) for the course. Check that you have either
added the appropriate requisite to your plan, or that you have
already fulfilled the appropriate requisite. If you still get the alert after doing so, just continue adding courses to your Timeline.
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If you run out of future semesters to add to your Timeline, you may need to click the blue button that says “
Add a Term” as in the screenshot below.
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Once you have added EVERY class from your Course Planning Worksheet, double check your Plan of Study or Course Selection Guide to be sure that you have not missed any. View your completed Timeline. (Click the
Timeline tab, as in the diagram below). Review each future semester and ensure that you have included every course and/or requirement from your planning document(s).
7.) Step 7: Attach or upload a copy of your Plan of Study or Course Selection Guide and Transfer Guide as part of your submission of this assignment. I also need to see where you have filled out p. 3 of this packet (the ‘Course Planning Worksheet’), so be sure that you also upload at least that one page. If you are a transfer student, you may also need to upload any related documents (Course Selection Guide or Transfer Guide). You do not need to upload a screenshot of your completed Timeline from Self-Service…I can access it!
ACA 122 College Success
HW5 Grading Rubric
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Course Planning Worksheet |
Points Possible |
Points Earned |
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The correct planning document for the student’s program is uploaded/attached. ( Course Selection Guide and Transfer Guide for university transfer students; Plan of Study for all other students.) |
10 |
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The top portion of the Course Planning Worksheet (p.3 of this packet) is completely filled out with the appropriate credential circled, and total number of credit hours required for the credential correctly filled in. |
10 |
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The Course Planning Worksheet (p. 3 of this packet) is filled in with all courses required for the student’s program/credential (as listed on the student’s planning document). |
10 |
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The credit hours on the Course Planning Worksheet are correctly identified for each course. |
10 |
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The prerequisites and corequisites for each course on the Course Planning Worksheet are correctly identified for each course. |
10 |
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Timeline in Self-Service |
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The student’s Timeline in Self-Service includes all the required courses and credit hours for the student’s program/credential. |
30 |
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The student’s Timeline in Self-Service reflects reasonable semester course loads (for example, the student has not planned more than 6 classes in a fall/spring semester, or more than 2 classes for a summer session) |
5 |
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The future semesters on the student’s Timeline in Self-Service do not contain errors in pre-requisites or corequisites (for example, ENG 112 is not planned to happen before ENG 111). |
5 |
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The student’s future semesters on the Timeline in Self-Service are listed in a logical and realistic order. |
5 |
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The student’s total credit hours on the Timeline in Self-Service match the total number of hours required for the student’s chosen credential. |
5 |
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TOTAL HW5: ACADEMIC COURSE PLAN GRADE |
100 |
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HW5 – Page 4
