• Download the Program Plan to your hard drive.
• Name the document, "SSE[[your last name]]ProgramPlan.doc".
• Complete the plan as best you can based on your personal plans to complete your coursework and the prerequisites and recommended sequence.
• Email a copy to your advisor as an attachment prior to your program plan advising session.
• Print out a copy and bring it with you to your advising session.
• At the end of the advising session, you will be given a copy and the signed and dated original will be forwarded to the COEDU Graduate Studies Office for approval.
• You are then expected to manage your program plan to completion.
• If you have not received an OFFICIAL copy of your program plan within a month of your advising session, contact Ms. Judy Oltz, Admissions/Registrar Officer oltz@tempest.coedu.usf.edu to determine its status.

FTCE Scores 

Unless your GKT scores (they are considered part of the FTCE scores) appear on the official transcript in the COEDU Graduate Office, you must provide an ORIGINAL of the scores to the Graduate Office.

Even if you request the State to send your FTCE scores (Professional Exam and SSE Subject area exam) to USF, YOU MUST PROVIDE an ORIGINAL to the COEDU Student Academic Services Office (EDU 106). When you receive your passing scores in the mail from the FTCE office, you will receive two ORIGINAL "score reports" [your score report will be perforated in half, providing two originals].  Keep one of these originals for your files and provide the other original to the COEDU Student Academic Services Office either by:

1. sending it via the U.S Post Office Certified Mail/ Delivery Confirmation to
   Dr. Diane Briscoe,
   EDU 106
   College of Education
   The University of South Florida
   4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa FL 33620-5650
   [Keep your Delivery Confirmation receipt]
   
   or

2. delivering it in person to the COEDU Student Academic Services Office (EDU 106). If you choose to deliver it by hand, have a person in the office sign a piece of paper that you prepared beforehand indicating, "I have received the original copy of --YOUR Name's--official FTCE scores" and then have the person print their name, sign, and date the piece of paper (keep this in your files).

You must be registered for 2 credits in the semester you graduate. Procedure:

• 1st week of June for Summer
• 2nd week of September for Fall
• 4th week of January for Spring

1. Complete the Graduation Application Form (go to Registrar's Forms and select Graduate Degree Graduation Application).
2. If you choose to deliver it by hand, place it in an envelope addressed to Dr. Berson. Go to the Secondary Education Office (EDU 302) and have a person in the office sign a piece of paper that you prepared beforehand indicating, "I have received [[your name’s]] graduation application." Then have the person print their name, sign, and date the piece of paper; you should keep this in your files.
3. If you choose to send it via the U.S Post Office, send it Certified Mail/ Delivery Confirmation to:
   Social Studies Education Dr. Berson
   Program Coordinator
   Secondary Education
   EDU 302
   College of Education
   The University of South Florida
   4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa FL 33620-5650
   [Keep your Delivery Confirmation receipt]
4. If you wish, at any time, to verify the receipt or status of your degree audit, contact Ms. Judy Oltz (813-974-5264) oltz@tempest.coedu.usf.edu EDU 106.

Getting Certified After Graduation