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Graduation Information

Graduation Application Help

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  • Print your name exactly how you want it to appear on your diploma
  • Biology majors apply for a B.A., Microbiology and Medical Technology apply for a B.S.
  • List your current semester courses and courses you plan for the future semester (if you are not sure exactly what courses you will be taking, put in your best guess; if you end up taking something different from what is on your graduation application, then you will just need to fill out a change of graduation application form).
  • In the next section, you will calculate the total number of credits for your degree.  “Number of earned credits on transcript” is the total number of credits you have earned thus far, including transfer courses already on your UM transcript (“Overall Earned Hours” on your transcript).
  • “All credits yet to be completed:” for “semester,” put Autumn, Spring, Summer, or Winter; for “year,” put in 2007, etc.; for “credits,” put in the total credits for that semester.
  • To calculate total credits for degree, add your earned credits, each semester’s credits to be completed, incompletes and N grades to be completed, and transfer work to be completed, and put this total under “total credits for degree” (must be at least 120).

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  • The governing catalog is typically the catalog for the year you started school
  • Courses offered for major:   list all of the following courses for your specific major (even if not required) that have been completed or will be completed in the order they appear on your transcript (for transfer courses, list the actual course you took, not the UM course it subs for):

                  Botanical Sciences —BIOL

                  Cell & Molecular Biology —BIOL, BIOC, & MICB

                  Ecology—BIOL & MICB

                  Ecology & Organismal Biology —BIOL, BIOC, & MICB

                  Field Ecology—BIOL & MICB

                  Human Biological Sciences—BIOL, BIOC, & MICB

                  Natural History—BIOL

                  Zoological Sciences —BIOL

                  Biological Education—BIOL & MICB

                  Teach General Science—all science and math

                  Microbiology—upper division MICB, BIOC, and BIOL

                  Medical Technology—upper division MICB, BIOC, and BIOL     

Other courses required by major department outside of the major:  required MATH, PHYS, CHEM, PSYC, etc. (just list the course subject and number; title, credits, and grades are not necessary)

Kerry will complete the portion on departmental waivers and substitutions

*If you are applying for a minor or a second major or degree, there is a separate one-page form