The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences hosts Transfer Thursday Events for LAS transfer students. Download the flyer for all of the dates and locations!
Here’s a description of the events:
Transfer Thursday Warm-up: Free Food, Hot Chocolate and giveaways just for you!! Come meet and mingle with other Transfer students. You are welcome to bring a Friend or two and any questions you may have.
Registration Refresher: Will provide information about registration, degree progress, and policies including time-tickets, late drops, GPA recalculations, credit/no credit options, accessing and understanding your Degree Audit Report (DARS), and how to schedule an advising appointment with your advisor.
What’s Next?! LAS Internships: Gives you an amazing opportunity to meet with the LAS Internship Coordinator, Robin Hursey, and learn how to not only begin your internship search, but how to earn credit for your intended internship. Employers recommend at least 2 internships before graduation, so don’t miss out on how to get started!
Skills & Strengths: What do you like to do and what do you do well? Skills are an important part of our professional identity and can share a story of what areas we can do well, highlight our achievements, and help us set goals to areas we want to strengthen further. In this workshop, you will have an opportunity to participate in activities to identify the skills you enjoy and how to consider ways you would like to use further and apply them toward your major and career exploration.
Work Vales: Why consider work values? Values help us understand what is important to us in terms of job satisfaction. They help provide a framework to assess and evaluate options. Within this workshop, we will dive deeper into identify your core work values and how to apply them toward your major and career exploration!
Exploring Educational Goals: Discover how to maximize your educational goal at UIC during this workshop. Topics will include information about the pre-health team, what educational goals are offered, and resources you can utilize during your time in LAS.
Interested in one or all of these sessions? Go to student.las.uic.edu, sign in, and click the “Events” tab to see the dates, times, and locations of the sessions and RSVP! For more information please contact your assigned general advisor for more information about Transfer Thursdays.
