Once you are in a major/minor or near to declaring one, in most academic departments at CWU, you will have BOTH a faculty advisor and an academic support advisor. We work as a team. Together, we address all the details of your academic progress with the goals of getting you to degree completion and graduation in a timely manner.

The Major advisor will address topics such as:

• Course choices and specialization within the major
• Career pathways within that discipline
• Internship and Research opportunities
• Mentoring and letters of recommendation
• Progress to degree completion and graduation

The academic support advisor will address topics such as:

•  General Education (basic and breadth) requirements
•  Progress to degree completion and graduation
•  General academic planning
•  Academic warning/ probation/ suspension
•  Advising holds

The World Languages Academic Support Counselor is Greg Rankin he is located in Academic Advising - 145 Randall, Phone 963-3423 greg.rankin@cwu.edu

The WL Major and Minor advisors are:

ASL: Dr. Taralynn Petrites, Language and Literature 102C Phone 676-6090 Taralynn.Petrites@cwu.edu

Chinese: Yuanxia Liu, Language and Literature 1020 yuanxia.liu@cwu.edu

French: Dr. Michael Johnson, Language and Literature 102I Phone 963-3343 michael.johnson@cwu.edu

German: Dr. Laurie Moshier, Language and Literature 102G Phone 963-1219 laurie.moshier@cwu.edu

Japanese: Dr. Josh Nelson, Language and Literature 102K Phone 963-1768 Joshua.nelson@cwu.edu

Russian: Dr. Volha Isakava, Language and Literature 102F Phone 963-3338 Volha.isakava@cwu.edu

Herritage Spanish: Andrea Herrera-Dulcet, Language and Literature, Andrea.Herrera-Dulcet@cwu.edu

Spanish: Dr. Eric Mayer - Dr. Nathalie Kasselis - Dr. Natalie Lefkowitz, Language and Literature, Eric.Mayer@cwu.edu - Nathalie.Kasselis@cwu.edu - Natalie.Lefkowitz@cwu.edu

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