Planning Your Classes

ACTION ITEMS:

❍ Complete the following on myPugetSound:

BY JUNE 1

Mathematics Placement Test

Advising Placement Questionnaire

BY AUG. 12

Academic Integrity Survey

❍ Complete the following this summer:

Send your final high school transcripts and, if applicable, your college/university transcripts, Advanced Placement scores, and/or International Baccalaureate scores as soon as available.

Explore possible majors and review requirements on the Puget Sound website.

The campus store provides textbook information at bookstore.pugetsound.edu. After you receive your fall schedule, you can order your books, and they will be ready for pickup upon your arrival in August.

ACADEMIC LIFE

We will build your fall schedule on your behalf based on your responses to the Advising Placement Questionnaire, as well as your high school coursework (including Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes), academic interests, and postbaccalaureate plans. You will be able to view your fall schedule on myPugetSound in mid-July. For future semesters, you will self-register for classes after consultant with an advisor.

For students interested in studying business, economics, engineering, exercise science, math, any of the natural sciences, or psychology, or students who have an interest in health professions (medicine, dentistry, physical therapy, occupational therapy. etc.), we ask that you complete the Math Placement Test on myPugetSound before completing the Advising Placement Questionnaire so you can select an appropriate math course in your first year. This diagnostic tool gauges your math skills in relation to our curricular offerings. That means there is no need to study for the test, nor do you need a calculator or to seek assistance to complete it. The results are only used to help you select an appropriate math course, with the placement recommendations emailed to your Puget Sound account.

To ensure that you get an advising class and seminar that appeals to you, rank your top choices. After meeting with your academic adviser, you will have time during Orientation to finalize your fall schedule and make changes. You’ll have time and space in the curriculum to investigate potential majors, minors, and other academic interests. Your academic journey is just beginning!

Campus Bookstore

PURCHASING BOOKS

The Campus Store is a nonprofit owned and operated by Puget Sound and dedicated to serving the academic needs of the Puget Sound community. It is the central hub to get all your course materials and school and office supplies, as well as technology products and accessories, personal care items, over-the-counter medicine, drinks and snacks, and a great selection of Puget Sound clothing and gifts.

STUDENT CHARGE ACCOUNTS (LOGGERCARDS)

Student charge accounts simplify transactions by allowing you to use your LoggerCard to make purchases in the store and online. By setting up an account, you can purchase textbooks, supplies and other class essentials early and opt to pay later when work-study, financial aid, and other income becomes available. Not only does this assure that you are fully ready on the first day of classes, but early ordering also goes a long way toward maximizing the number of lower-cost used textbooks. Please note that your student charge accounts need to be set up separately from Campus Store web/online accounts.

TEXTBOOKS

The Campus Store stocks all required and recommended course materials and offers them used, new, and, when available, in electronic format. In addition, we provide a rental option on hundreds of titles each semester (in many cases saving students up to 50 percent of the price of the book).

We recommend pre-ordering your textbooks on our website (bookstore.pugetsound.edu) in July and August to assure that you have all necessary books on the first day of classes and to increase your chance of getting used textbooks. We will pull your order and have it ready for pick-up when you arrive on campus–no waiting in line during our busiest time of the year!

The textbook price comparison tool on our website allows you to compare Campus Store prices with those offered by Amazon and other online retailers, and then order directly from your preferred source in one transaction.

At the end of the semester, the Campus Store provides an easy way for you to sell back your textbooks for cash during finals week.