The GPAS planner is for students to map out future coursework within Student Center in MyU. Students also submit the GPAS planner for degrees that require the 0804 milestone and for minors. While reviewing a submitted GPAS planner, faculty and staff can add or remove coursework from the planner. The GPAS planner appears in MyU as a link called GPAS.
After a student submits their GPAS planner, the student’s program and college each need to review and approve the planner. Programs and colleges determine who is responsible for reviewing and approving the GPAS planner at each approval level.
A student’s faculty advisor has access to approve the program approval level. The graduate program coordinator (GPC), director of graduate studies (DGS), and college coordinator have access to approve both the program and college approval levels.
Guides for reviewing and approving the GPAS planner
For all minors, students are required to submit a new GPAS planner. Please note: students will not graduate if they have not fully satisfied both their major and minor requirements within their GPAS.
The process for submitting and approving minors in GPAS include the student, their major’s GPC and advisor, and their minor's GPC and DGS. The process below outlines the required steps for minors.
Process flow for minors in GPAS
A student with a graduate minor first completes a workflow request to elect a minor. If the student has a doctoral oral preliminary exam, the workflow must be submitted before the exam.
The student then needs to submit the minor in a new GPAS planner, separate from their major. The major advisor and GPC will receive a notification of the student’s plans and the minor GPC and DGS will receive a request to approve the minor.
Next, the graduate minor’s GPC and DGS approve the minor in the new GPAS planner.
If the student’s minor credits apply toward the total credits needed for degree completion, the major credits may be decreased by the number of credits used for the minor. This action is a GPAS exception that modifies overall major credits to incorporate a minor.
At degree clearance, if the student has not fulfilled the minor requirements in GPAS, the minor’s GPC and major’s GPC need to work together to complete additional exceptions.
Guides for reviewing and approving the GPAS planner and GPAS minor
Reviewing and approving a minor GPAS (Google Doc)
Incorporating a minor into GPAS
Note: If you do not have access to this page, please enroll in the staff/faculty GPAS exceptions course.
