PCC Geography: Mr. Lee

IMPORTANT TRANSFER INFORMATION

Effective Transfer Tips & SCANS

Get the latest information on UC/CSU transfer requirements from the PCC Counseling Office. (See hotlink at the bottom of this page.)

Your transfer to a four-year college will be smoother and easier if you follow these basic tips. These are based on personal experiences from having studied at 4 different American universities in Hawaii, Arizona, North Dakota, and New Jersey and on conversations from many students over the past 20 years. These ideas are also based on the fact that we are living in the Information Age. While much of the information you have comes from others, the critical watchword for a successful college transfer is "Don't rely on what others tell you. Get the facts directly from the source." Remember; don't rely on what others tell you…

For more information, read the article "Effective Transfer Tips" in PDF section of this website.

SCANS (the US Dept. of Labor, Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) is a pragmatic checklist of employer specified workplace skills. Use the checklists to periodically inventory yourself. Use the results to guide your education plan to adequately prepare yourself to get and keep a job.

You can read more about SCANS in by using the hotlink at the bottom of this page.

The PCC Career and Job Counseling Center is another source of free information available to you. (See hotlink at the bottom of this page.)

For Geograhy Majors

Web links to Geography Departments in the greater Los Angeles area are available on this site. Use the link below to get to that page.

Attend the L.A. Geographical Society free public lectures. Meet other geographers, hear what geographers are doing, and talk with other geographers about their profession, their educational background, career development, and other germane topics.

Don't Forget PCC

When the time comes to finally transfer (and if you are staying in the LA area), seriously consider taking a 1 unit class at PCC to keep your enrollment status active here as "back up registration insurance."

After arriving at your transfer campus, you may find:
A) some transfer requirements changed, and you need to take some additional classes. These could be available at PCC at much lower cost than the transfer school. Your continued PCC enrollment kept your priority number enabling you to register for those classes. If you did not continue your PCC enrollment, you have to start all over again, and that means a very low priority number for registration. And you remember how hard it was to get classes back then, right?

B) Classes for your major are "impacted" or filled by the time you get to enroll with your "new" low priority registration number. You are the "newbie" at the transfer school. You could take other classes at PCC to build up your minor, strengthen your major, or broaden you skills at lower cost than taking those classes at the transfer school.

(c) 2005, G.K. Lee. All rights reserved.

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