Ok...I just got off the phone with Steve and he said it's a request to take the two hours this semester. But I think in the request, we should also try to NOT take the 2 hours this semester and have his graduation date retroactive to December as soon as his thesis is approved and defended as we were originally led to believe.
It's going to be hard copy, delivered in person on Friday.
oooh! The plot thickens. I dearly hope that the dean can take care of this for Steve.
I sorta know/understand what he is going through. Happened to me as an undergrad (in a way), and then my mother was one of the graduation advisors at UTA for years. Now she is an undergraduate advisor. She didn't like telling people they couldn't graduate.
Delivering letters in person is always a good idea. If he can get the dean to approve a retroactive graduaton date, then the sectretary can't do anything about it. She will have been bypassed, and at the same time, the advisor who gave the bad info. will be reprimanded (doesn't look good when it's time for a raise, etc.) Deans can always trump a rule, it's part of their job. You just have to prove that you are doing what you say you are doing and have done your best, yada yada.