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Clackamas Print
Featu
Wednesday. Oct. 12, 2005
Student finds calling
What classes do I nee
CJ Ciaramella
Feature Editor
Katie Wilson
One of the biggest chal
lenges that new students here
at Clackamas face is trying to
figure out which classes they
actually need to take. Luckily,
first term students have a
wealth of resources available
to them that they might not be
aware of.
’‘Ariane
Armstutz,
the
lead academic advisor at
the Counseling Center, said
that one: of the mo'st com
mon mistakes1 new students
make is “taking classes that
they don’t meet the require-
- meht for or just don’t fit in.
That can be overwhelming. ”
This is where Armstutz and
the Counseling Center come
in. The Counseling Cqjnter
helps students determine what
classes they should take and
develop an educational plan.
When asked about other
mistakes new students often
make, Armstutz replied, “Not
meeting with^an advisor is a
big one.” Setting up a meeting
with an academic advisor is
- simple. Armstutz explained
that that the advisors see stu
dents on a drop-in basis. There
is no need for an appointment.
The Counseling Center
makes a point of working
with each student personal
ly to develop a schedule that
works.
As Armstutz
explained, there is no one plan
that works, for everybody. “We
say in our new student advis
ing-session that we don’t have
one list that works for every
body,.she; said. ../‘We,. like to
work individually.”
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To this end, the advisors
tell students to ease their way
into the college life. Armstutz
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“I grew up with music
always there,” said Clackamas
music student Kathryn Erland,
“I can’t imagine life without
music.” She has been singing
ever since she can remember,
but according to Erland it
was never really a focal point
until several years ago.
Before attending the col
lege she had been, for the
most part, home-schooled.
She started at Clackamas two
years ago, when she was 16,
with teaching in mind. What
exactly-she wanted to teach,
however, was still undecided.
“I always knew I wanted to
be a teacher,” she said, “just
not what kind. I took some
writing classes and decided I
didn’t want to teach that. So I
started thinking about other
things I liked and I thought:
music.”
Erland began taking music
classes right at the time the
music department was begin
Katie Wilson Clackamas Print
ning the transition from
Kathryn Erland, a second year music student, wants to
the Randall hallways to the
teach and bring the skills she’s learned to others.
Niemeyer Center for the
. Performing Arts last year.
She is now a second-year she said.
As-she enters her second
music student, and a part
This summer, hardly two year of study in the music pro
of two Clackamas choirs, weeks after school got out, she gram, she has begun to think
Mainstream and
went to France. more about "where she would
Choir,
Chamber
She made
a like to go after Clackamas.
work-
and
is
rapid tour of And while not quite certain
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Paris and stayed about where she will go, she is
ing towards her
a week at a tiny sure about what she wants to
Associate’s Degree
knew I
in music.
medieval village do with what she has learned:
wanted to
“It’s a very tight-
in the southwest be a vocal studio -instructor.
knit group,” she
of France.
be a teach
“I have an- idea ' where T
said of the music
“Going into could branch out,” Erland
er,
just
department. “The
[the trip] I won said. ‘‘Everyone has a good
not what
teachers seem to
dered how ste voice inside of them.
communicate well
reotypical the
kind.”
with one another.”
French would
Erland
stays
be,” she said. “It
very
busy,
in
ended up being
school and out. She
about
Kathryn Erland,
50/50,
sings in her church
Some
Music Student
people
choir, takes a part
were
really
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in various church
nice, and some
plays, and sings in
weren’t ... and
a band with- several
I still love [the
of her friends.
Frenchlanguage].”
“It’s fun to get together and
This term she is a tutor for
have good Christian fellow the French language program
ship in the content of mtfsic,” here at the college.
MT HOOD
MEADOWS
SKI
said that the best adviq
give to new students regal
how many classes or credi
take is to “start smaller al
successful at those. Then]
it from there. For full-
students we say no more
12 to 15.” .
The New Student Adv
Sessions Offered by
Counseling Center are an]
option for students wondl
what classes they need to]
The session consists of am
ing that orients students]
college and the- different!
grams and degrees it offej
The New Student Col
Success course, HD-I
which requires a meeting!
an academic advisor, il
a good resource for first]
students.'
‘“the student success I
we highly recommend,’1
Armstutz. “It makes sure]
a couple weeks in, you a
start looking long term.”]
Besides offering advil
what classes to fake hel
Clackamas, the Counsl
Center also, gives stul
opportunities to look at I
fer options for when]
careers here are over. It bl
in four-year colleges and j
-versifies to set up tabla
. the Community Centel
the coming month, Lini
Marylhurst, and PSU w|
be tabling, among others]
The Counseling Centel
takes students to prospel
colleges and universities!
have transfer tours comil
where, we take a van oil
dents to tour the collegl
meet with admissions,”]
Armstutz. There .will be«
of Portland State on Now
well as a tour of Universl
Oregon on Nov. 14.
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