Orientation

Attend a New Student Orientation/Assessment Session! The Counseling Department offers a variety of orientations to students. Orientation is designed to acquaint students with everything they need to know about Mission College. Students who attend an orientation get priority registration for the following semester and all other semesters after that. Therefore, students who have gone to an orientation can often register within the first week of regular registration. This priority greatly enhances the probability that they will get the classes that they want.

The regular orientation runs approximately two hours and runs the gamut from how to find a room to how to get a degree, the difference between grades and CR /NC, your rights and responsibilities as a student, and how to negotiate through the educational maze as easily as possible. We also provide orientations in Spanish and in Vietnamese.

We also offer Online Orientation. Become oriented to Mission College online! In addition, we also have half hour video orientations that explain some important points about getting a degree at Mission College. Students can pick up the video at the counseling desk, see it at our Audiovisual Center at W2-501, fill out a questionnaire and return it and the video to the counseling desk. Although this is not nearly as comprehensive as our two hour orientation, it will give you priority status.

Students who take Counseling 1 (College Survival Skills) , Counseling 900 (Orientation to College), or Counseling 12 (Careers and Life Styles) also receive an orientation which provides priority status. For more information about these courses, please see our page on Counseling Classes.

Counseling 900, a half-unit course, is taught on several high school campuses as well as on the Mission College campus.