Fun Talk: Preparations for the UAD Guidance and Counseling Study Program before entering the Even Semester of the 2023/2024 Academic Year
On Monday, 19 February 2024 AD to coincide with 9 Sha’ban 1445 AH, the Guidance and Counseling Study Program (BK) of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) of Ahmad Dahlan University held a meeting with students. The meeting was called “Fun Talk Preparing for the Even Semester of the Academic Year (T.A. 2023/2024)”. The aim of this activity is to provide students with preparation for taking all lectures in the even semester of the 2023/2024 academic year.
Present at this activity were the Head of the BK FKIP UAD Study Program (Kaprodi), Irvan Budhi Handaka, M.Pd., along with the Secretary of the BK FKIP UAD Study Program (Sekprodi), Dr. Muya Barida, M.Pd. as leader and performer of the event. Around 200 students attended the meeting from semesters 2, 4, 6, to semester 8.
The Head of the BK Study Program said that learning strategies are important for students in studying, apart from that he conveyed tips for students to be able to graduate on time, one of which is by taking courses in the upper semester. The courses that can be taken in the upper semester are of course regulated in the BK Study Program curriculum which has been stated in the UAD Chancellor’s Decree (SK) No. 340 of 2020 concerning the UAD FKIP BK Study Program Curriculum. Apart from that, he also conveyed the elective courses that will be taken by semester 4 students. There are 3 concentrations in the elective courses that students can take. These concentrations are Guidance and Counseling in Family Settings, Guidance and Counseling in Special Needs Children (ABK) Settings, and Guidance and Counseling in Crisis Settings (Addiction and Disaster). Students are free to choose a scientific concentration that suits each student’s passion.
The Secretary of the BK Study Program added that students can always communicate intensively with the Academic Supervisor (DPA) to determine and implement the targets to be achieved in taking their studies. Apart from that, he added, for 8th semester students, they are asked to actively contact the Final Assignment Supervisor in order to facilitate students’ timely studies at the UAD FKIP BK Study Program.
The Student Final Task Force Team (Tetas Team) was also present at this activity. They explained about the preparations for semester 6 students to be able to take the BK Seminar course. In the BK Seminar course, students will prepare a final assignment proposal, which will later be presented in a seminar as a form of student readiness in completing the final assignment. Apart from that, they also said that 8th semester students must remain focused in completing their final assignments, so that they can graduate before 4 years or on time.
