Odyssey and Guidebook
(for MLS advisees)
Please send comments to: brownm6@southernct.edu


Department of Information and Library Science
Southern Connecticut State University

501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515
Fax: 1.203.392-5780 / Phone: 1.203.392-5781
Toll Free: 1-888-500-SCSU, then press 4

All students expecting to graduate must file a Degree Application form. Additional information is available below the Degree Application Deadlines .

It is strongly recommended the form be filed as soon as it is available on the Registrar's Office website.

The deadlines for submitting a Degree Application for a May 2010 degree is Friday, November 13, 2009. Future dates will be posted on the Registrar's website.

To prepare for the degree audit (activated with the filing of the Degree Application):

• Check your unofficial transcript in Banner to verify that all courses taken and all transfer credits are properly recorded and all course grades are properaly recorded.
• Check that any changes to the Planned Program have been approved through the Change in Planned Program (available from your advisor)
• Check that the Special Project has been passed. (This will be recorded on the unofficial transcript in Banner)

Courses are valid toward a degree for six years. Any course that has become invalid (six years have lapsed since the course was taken) must be revalidated through examination or re-taken otherwise it may not count toward a degree. If you are approaching the six year limit for the first course taken, contact the department office before the course becomes invalid and ask the department to file a request for an extension (for one year).

NOTE: The degree will not be posted until the Degree Application is properly filed and the degree audit is successfully passed. If the degree is not posted, the student has not be granted and does not hold the expected degree.

Commencement is held each Spring: an Undergraduate Commencement and a Graduate Commencement. Students must petition to participate in commencement. Petition to participate in commencement will be included in the Degree Application form. Information on Commencement will be mailed to students who petition to participate.

Academic regalia (cap, gown, hood, stole) may be ordered through the university bookstore (scroll down to below the textbook section to "Announcement" -- you will find links to place Cap and Gown and Class Ring orders - yes, you can get a ring for the MLS degree!). Master's hoods are ordered in the color designated for the discipline (e.g. lemon yellow for library science; gold for computer science; crimson for communication; light blue for education).