Student Learning Goals

As you seek to develop during your time here at BYU, here is a list of goals you should consider:

• Live a purposeful and satisfying life
• Prepare for careers, civic responsibilities, and life roles
• Identify, clarify, and articulate your personal, academic, and career values and goals
• Relate your career exploration to your skills, values, interests, and major(s)
• Relate your values and goals to your selection of careers, majors and courses
• Identify your strengths and areas of development
• Make timely progress towards the completion of your academic and life goals
• Identify campus resources that help you reach your goals
• Enjoy meaningful relationships with others based on interdependence and collaboration
• Develop a personal identity
• Develop self-understanding and self-respect
• Live ethically and with integrity
• Increase your spiritual awareness
• Understand the basics of university majors and minors
• Understand the BYU General Education (GE) requirements
• Correctly interpret information on your progress report
• Navigate and use the university registration system
• Apply the information on your MYMAP report to appropriate course selection
• Understand the academic policies and procedures at BYU
• Decide which classes to register for in a given semester or term

Advisor Roles

Here is a list of what you can expect your advisor to do with you:

• Help you discover interests, values, goals, and experiences when you felt most happy and successful
• Dream with you about possibilities for a lifelong career and personal development
• Work with you to design both general and specific development plans to help you achieve your goals
• Support and encourage you throughout your development at BYU
• Engage you in exploration activities that align with your development goals
• Review your academic experiences and help you identify improvements
• Evaluate your schedule for difficult course combinations, course timing, and balance
• Encourage you to own your decisions about educational plans and life goals
• Identify realistic timeframes to complete your educational and life goals
• Raise your awareness of institutional and community resources and services and make referrals as needed
• Work to ensure you feel comfortable sharing your thoughts and concerns
• Keep your records and other sensitive information you discuss in advising sessions confidential