Advising

IAFS Students
CU Boulder Students

 

FAQs

 

  • Schedule an appointment with your advisor through Buff Portal Advising and click on your advisor to schedule a meeting.
  • All communication from your advisor will be through your COLORADO.EDU email. Check your email regularly!
  • You can view who your IAFS advisor is by checking your MyCUInfo. If you do not have one, you may either visit walk-in hours of the advisors, or email iafs@colorado.edu.
  • Also, you can make an advising appointment on the CU Advising webpage which will notify you of your advisor.

 

  • After doing your online New Student Welcome experience, take a look at your degree audit located on Buff Portal and start to familiarize yourself with it.
    • All first-year IAFS students should take IAFS 1000.
    • Optional: Look for classes that look interesting to you or hit on themes/topics you enjoyed in High School.  Consider courses that also work for GenEd or MAPS deficiencies, especially foreign language if you did not complete three years of one foreign language in high school.
  • Speak with an academic advisor on Buff Portal Advising
  • Optional: Take a look at a sample schedule on the CU University Catalog

 

 

  • Continuing students can enroll, drop, or adjust their Fall schedules up until mid June (exact deadline is in the academic calendar), so please do not delay!
  • If you are worried about picking the correct courses, use your degree audit on Buff Portal to search for classes that cover your requirements.
  • You will also be able to adjust your schedule during certain times in August.

 

  • Start by running a degree audit to see what remaining requirements you have for GenEd, your major, etc. Review the list of pre-approved courses on the Education Abroad website, filtering to your program, then check to see if any courses have already been approved to cover those specific requirements.
  • If there are courses being offered by your study abroad program that are not on the pre-approved list, you can have courses evaluated (please note this process can take 3-5 weeks). Please review the information available on the Fulfilling Credit Abroad website.

 

  • Please read carefully through the notes about your hold on Buff Portal. It should let you know what the hold is for, and which department or unit put the hold on your account; they are the only ones that can lift it.
    • For example, if the hold is from the Bursar’s Office, then most likely you need to pay an overdue bill and can contact them with questions.
  • Most likely you will not see an advising hold, but if you do have one and it is preventing you from enrolling, please contact one of the advisors.
  • General note: New incoming transfer and first-year students may see holds related to requirements addressed in the New Student Welcome online experience. Most likely any hold will be put on later in the summer, but if you go through the online experience and complete all of the required tasks now, this will decrease your chance of a hold later.

 

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