College of Liberal Arts

Purdue Fort Wayne students who choose a College of Liberal Arts major benefit from faculty advising and mentoring. Whether helping you understand the requirements for your major or how to structure your curriculum to achieve your postgraduation goals, our award-winning, expert faculty advisors are available to guide and mentor you from your first semester of college to graduation and beyond. Indeed, many of our graduates maintain mentoring relationships with their faculty advisors for years, even decades, after graduation. Faculty advising and mentorship is the cornerstone of the College of Liberal Arts approach to helping you successfully complete your degree while finding courses that will engage and challenge you.

Your advisor can help connect you to a wide range of department-specific programs and mentoring opportunities to help you successfully transition from high school to college—or reenter school if you are a returning student—and then successfully navigate college and beyond.

Any special guidance for transfer students?
Transfer students are required to consult with the lead advisor in the Student Success Center prior to starting their first semester to ensure that transferred courses are properly credited and to avoid enrolling in duplicate or overlapping courses.

How often should I met with my advisor?
As a student in the College of Liberal Arts, you must consult with an advisor at least one term prior to your anticipated graduation date. However, to get the most out of your education, we strongly encourage communication with an advisor throughout your academic career.

Find Your Advisor

Marietta Frey

COLA Director of Advising and Student Success

[email protected]

Sydney Miracle

COLA Assistant Director of Advising and Student Success

[email protected]

Keith Malueg

COLA Advisor

[email protected]

With so many classes and programs to choose from, you’ll want to take advantage of all the resources and opportunities available to you for a smooth registration process. Set yourself up for a successful semester with early registration. 

Make it a priority to register as early as possible. This will give you the best selection of classes and allow you greater flexibility with your schedule. It will also allow you more time to make any adjustments (if needed) and let you focus on classes or other items you need to take care of.

See the academic calendar for early registration dates.

You have two ways to sign up for classes. You can go to goPFW or use the Purdue Fort Wayne mobile app. Choose the platform that works best for you.

To register for classes in goPFW you will need to log in to goPFW with your username and password, click the Enrollment tab, and use the registration tools to search for and add classes to your schedule. For detailed registration instructions, check out this video.

To register for classes in the Purdue Fort Wayne mobile app you will need to download the app, log in with your username and password, click My Registration in the menu, and start searching for classes to add to your cart. For detailed registration instructions, check out this video.

Once you’ve completed registration, you can see your schedule for the upcoming semester in goPFW under the Enrollment tab by clicking Summary Schedule of Classes.

#1: Who's Your Advisor

If you have fewer than 30 credit hours, you work with Tyler Schoditsch in the Student Advising and Advocacy Center:
 [email protected]

If you have more than 30 credit hours, your advisor will vary depending on your major. 

For COM, ENGL, HIST, ILCS, POLS, WOST, your primary advisor is Keith Malueg:
 [email protected]

For ANTH, SOC, CJPA, your primary advisor is Sydney Miracle:

 [email protected]

For ECON, your primary advisor is Marietta Frye :
[email protected]

Faculty advisors are listed in MyBluePrint, or you can contact your major’s lead advisor from the list below:

ANTH – Hal Odden: [email protected]

CJPA – Daniel Patten: [email protected] 

COM – Sarah LeBlanc: [email protected] 

ENGL – Andrew Kopec: [email protected] 

HIST – Ann Livschiz: [email protected] 

ILCS – Ana Benito: [email protected] 

POLS – Mike Wolf: [email protected] 

SOC – Curt Hosier: [email protected] 

WOST – Suzanne LaVere: [email protected]

#2: When can you register

Priority registration start dates by class standing are as follows:

October 28 – Degree Candidates, Graduate Students, Seniors November 4 – Juniors, Honors, Athletes, Students with Disabilities 

November 11 – Sophomores

November 18 – Freshmen & Others

November 25 – Transfers

 

#3: WHY YOU SHOULD REGISTER AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE 
 

There are several reasons why you should not procrastinate with this task:

• You have the best chance of getting the classes and/or professors you want

• You have the best chance of creating a convenient schedule that works around your many other obligations

• Classes could fill if you wait too long

• You’ll get fewer reminders from us!

• All COLA majors who register for Spring 2025 by Nov. 27th will be entered into a raffle to win $200 in Don Dollars.