Undergraduate Advisor Directory

Undergraduate Advising

Business | Education | Engineering | Health and Human Sciences (including Undeclared Pre-Nursing) | Humanities and the Arts | Professional and Global Education | Science | Social Sciences | International | Interdisciplinary | Undeclared by Exploratory Student Success Center

For updates to the Advisor Directory, email curriculum@sjsu.edu. The Office of Graduate Admissions and Program Evaluations (GAPE) maintains a directory of graduate programs and advisor information.

Business Advising

Major/Minor/General Education Advisors

Jack Holland Student Success Center
Boccardo Business Center (BBC) 008
408-924-3435
www.sjsu.edu/lcobssc
jackholland-center@sjsu.edu

Department Chairs

Accounting and Finance
Elizabeth Grace, Department Chair
Concentrations in Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, Corporate Accounting and Finance, and Finance.

Marketing and Business Analytics
Michael Merz, Department Chair
Concentrations in Business Analytics, General Business, and Marketing.

Global Innovation And Leadership
Taeho Park, School Director
Concentrations in Entrepreneurship, Operations and Supply Chain Management, and International Business. 

Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management
Tsu-Hong Yen, Department Chair
Concentration in Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management.

Information Systems and Technology
Leslie Albert, School Director
Concentration in Management Information Systems.

Management
Susanna Khavul, School Director
Concentrations in Human Resource Management, and Management.

Education Advising

General Education Advisors

Lurie College of Education Student Success Center
Sweeney Hall 106
408-924-2700
www.sjsu.edu/luriessc

Major/Minor Advisors

Child and Adolescent Development
Ravisha Mathur, Department Chair
Terry O’Donnell-Johnson, ChAD Program Coordinator
Laura Pirazzi, ChAD Program Coordinator

Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Marcella McCollum

Educational and Community Leadership concentration in Interdisciplinary Studies, BA
Caroline Ouyang

Engineering Advising

General Education Advisors

Engineering Student Success Center
Engineering Building 116
408-924-3990
www.sjsu.edu/essc/

Major/Minor Advisors

Aerospace Engineering
Nikos J. Mourtos, Department Chair
Jeanine Hunter, First Year Advising
Radha Aravamudhan
Alyssa Villanueva

Biomedical Engineering
Alessandro Bellofiore, Department Chair

Chemical Engineering
Anand Ramasubramanian, Department Chair
Melanie McNeil, Academic Advisor​

Civil Engineering
Student Last Name A-J: Akthem Al-Manaseer
Student Last Name K-S: Jae Pyeon
Student Last Name T-Z: Udeme Ndon

Computer Engineering
Rod Fatoohi, Department Chair
Monica Serna
Bryanna Ortiz

Electrical Engineering
Thuy Le, Department Chair
Lili He, Graduate Advisor
Birsen Sirkeci, Graduate Coordinator
David Parent, Undergraduate Major Advisor
Robert Morelos-Zaragoza, Undergraduate Advisor

Engineering Technology
Fred Barez, Department Chair
Richard Grotegut, Academic Advisor
Armin Moghadam, Academic Advisor
Ali Zargar, Academic Advisor

Industrial and Systems Engineering
Yasser Dessouky, Department Chair

Interdisciplinary Engineering
Jack Warecki, Director
Ahmed Banafa, Academic Advisor

Materials Engineering
Ozgur Keles, Academic Advisor

Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor Group Email
Raymond Yee, Interim Department Chair
Lin Jiang, Robotics Minor

Software Engineering
Rod Fatoohi, Department Chair
Monica Serna
Bryanna Ortiz

Health and Human Sciences Advising

General Education and Undeclared Pre-Nursing (UPN) Advisors

College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) Student Success Center
MacQuarrie Hall (MH) 533 / Health Building (HB) 105
408-924-2910 / 408-924-8601
www.sjsu.edu/chhs-ssc

Major/Minor Advisors

If you are unsure who your advisor is or are in need of a KIN advisor, please contact Victoria Duval

Cole Armstrong, Graduate Program Coordinator
Matthew Bejar
Daniel Bohigian, Advising Manager
Stanley Butler
Ted Butryn
Seung Ho Chang, Activity Program Coordinator
Gong Chen
Jessica Chin
Craig Cisar
Michael Dao, Associate Chair
Yang Hu
Areum Jensen
Li Jin
Jihyun Lee
Peggy Plato, General Education Program Coordinator
Tamar Semerjian
Erin Siebert, Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Lamont Williams
Emily Wughalter

Kinesiology, Preparation for Teaching
David Daum

Nutrition, Food Science and Packaging
B.S. in Nutritional Science (by Student Last Name)

         Student Last Name A - B: Alex Feng
         Student Last Name C: John Gieng
         Student Last Name D: Giselle Pignotti
         Student Last Name E - F: John Gieng
         Student Last Name G - H: Susan Chen
         Student Last Name I - L: Kasuen Mauldin
         Student Last Name M: Adrianne Widaman
         Student Last Name N - O: Giselle Pignotti
         Student Last Name P: Mi Zhou
         Student Last Name Q - S: Jacqueline Bergman
         Student Last Name T - U: Mi Zhou
         Student Last Name V - W: Adrianne Widaman
         Student Last Name X - Y: Alex Feng
         Student Last Name Z: Mi Zhou

Packaging
Packaging Majors
Edmund Tang, Packaging Program Coordinator

Packaging Minors
Izzie Brown

Public Health

Anji Buckner-Capone, Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Vicky Gomez, Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate and MPH Program
Eliana Oropresa, Faculty Advisor
Charles Park, Faculty Advisor
Miranda Worthen, Undergraduate Advising Coordinator
Ni Zhang, Faculty Advisor
Kevin Roe, Online and Campus Coordinator and Advisor, MPH program

Social Work
Asha Thomas, Advisor and School Coordinator - On-Campus BASW and MSW Programs
Timothy Nguyen, Advisor and Program Coordinator - Online/Hybrid MSW Program
Stephanie Deveaux, Field Education Director
Sadhna Diwan, BASW Program Director
Jennifer Price Wolf, MSW Program Director
Peter Allen Lee, School Director

Humanities and the Arts Advising

General Education Advisors

Humanities and Arts Student Success Center
Clark Hall 244
408-924-5095
www.sjsu.edu/ha-advising

Major/Minor Advisors

Advertising
Dona Nichols, JMC Lead Advisor
John Delacruz, JMC Director
Advising appointments scheduled via journalism@sjsu.edu (leave message).

Art and Art History
Rhonda Holberton, Interim Chair
Anthony Raynsford, Coordinator, Art History and Visual Culture
Sarah Mills, Art History and Visual Culture

Susan Trimingham (Art Education)

Craig G. Hobbs (Coordinator, Digital Media Art / DMA)
Andrew Blanton (Digital Media Art / DMA)
Rajorshi Ghosh (Digital Media Art / DMA)

Shannon Wright (Coordinator, Spatial Art)
Adam Shiverdecker (Spatial Art)

Shaun O’Dell (Coordinator, Pictorial Art)

Binh Danh (Coordinator, Photography)
Valerie Mendoza (Photography)

Chinese
Chunhui Peng

Creative Arts
Shannon Rose Riley

Dance
Chafin Seymour, Dance BA/BFA

Design ​
Virginia San Fratello, Chair

Animation & Illustration, BFA & Design Studies, Animation & Illustration Concentration, BA
David Chai
John Clapp
Raquel Coelho
Kevin Mannens
Angela Wu ​

Graphic Design, BFA & Design Studies, Graphic Design concentration, BA and Graphic Design Minor
Yoon Chung Han
Connie Hwang
Marjan Khatibi
Chang Kim

Design Studies, Industrial Design concentration, BA & Industrial Design, BS and Interior Design MInor
Kohar Scott
Joshua Nelson
Leila Ensaniat

Interior Design, BFA & Design Studies, Interior Design concentration
Eleanor Pries
Diana Seah

Interaction Design Minor
Dana Ragouzeos

English
Noelle Brada-Williams, Department Chair
Linda Mitchell, English, BA & Preparation for Teaching, English, BA
Nicholas Taylor, Creative Writing Concentration, English, BA
Mark Thompson, Professional and Technical Writing Concentration, English, BA

French
Jean-Luc Desalvo

Humanities (Concentrations: American Studies, Liberal Arts, and Religious Studies)
Funie Hsu, BA Humanities (all concentrations)
Kim Knight,BA Humanities (all concentrations)
J. Todd Ormsbee, Department Chair, BA Humanities (all concentrations)

Japanese
Michiko Uryu

Journalism
Dona Nichols, JMC Lead Advisor
Phylis West Johnson, JMC School Director
John Delacruz, JMC Associate Director
Advising appointments scheduled at journalism@sjsu.edu (leave message).  

Liberal Studies
Erica Colmenares, BA Liberal Studies Teacher Preparation
Rebecca Kling, BA Liberal Studies Teacher Preparation
Susan Verducci, BA Liberal Studies Teacher Preparation (Spring Semesters)

Linguistics
Stefan Frazier, Department Chair
Julia Swan, Linguistics Coordinator
Hahn Koo, Major Advisor
David Malinowski, Major Advisor
Yining Nie, Major Advisor
Scott Phillabaum, Major Advisor
Jon Rawski, Major Advisor

Music
Craig McKenzie, BA Music
Diana Hollinger, BM Music Education
Catalina Barraza, BM Composition, Jazz Studies, & Performance
Fred Cohen, School of Music Director

Philosophy
Janet Stemwedel, Department Chair
Noah Friedman-Biglin, Major Advisor
Jordan Liz, Major Advisor

Public Relations
Dona Nichols, JMC Lead Advisor
Matt Cabot, PR Major Coordinator
Phylis West Johnson, JMC School Director
John Delacruz, JMC Associate Director
​Advising appointments scheduled via journalism@sjsu.edu (leave message).

Radio-Television-Film
Raha Shojaei
Capri Burrows
Hojeong Lee

Spanish
Damian Bacich, Department Chair
Ángel Ruiz Blanco
Vanessa Fernández
Avizia Long
Eleanor Marsh
​Cheyla Samuelson

Theatre Arts
Amy Glazer
Sukanya Chakrabarti
Kathleen Normington

Information, Data and Society Advising

College of Information, Data and Society ​Student Success Center
Housed within the Exploratory Student Success Center, located within the Student Services Center.
https://www.sjsu.edu/information-data-society/students/advising.php
https://sjsu.edu/exploratory/

Information Science and Data Analytics
Dr. Frank Cervone, BSISDA program coordinator - 2-year degree completion program through SJSU Online
Dr. Dan Nathan-Roberts, BSISDA program coordinator - 4-year hybrid program

Science Advising

General Education Advisors

College of Science Student Success Center 
Duncan Hall (DH) 212
408-924-5193
www.sjsu.edu/cosac

College of Science Student Success Center, formerly College of Science Advising Center (CoSAC), provides lower and upper division and general education advising support for students declared in a College of Science major. For additional information please visit the College of Science Student Success Center or the San Jose State University Advising Hub.

General Education Advising

All students declared in a College of Science Major (Biology, Chemistry, Climate Science, Computer Science, Data Science, Geology, Mathematics and Statistics, Meteorology, and Physics) can receive general education advising from the Student Academic Support Specialists in the College of Science Student Success Center. https://www.sjsu.edu/science-ssc/​

College of Science Minor Advising

Information regarding minor advising for College of Science minors can be found on Department Websites.

Atmospheric and Seismic Hazards Minor
https://www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/academic-programs/atmospheric-seismic-hazards-minor/index.php

Biology Sciences Minor
https://www.sjsu.edu/biology/programs/undergraduate-programs/minors/minor-biological-sciences.php

Bioinformatics Minor
https://www.sjsu.edu/biology/programs/undergraduate-programs/minors/minor-bioinformatics.php

Broadcast Meteorology Minor
https://www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/academic-programs/broadcast-meteorology-minor/index.php

Chemistry Minor
https://www.sjsu.edu/chemistry/academic-programs/undergraduate-programs/index.php

Computer Science
https://www.sjsu.edu/cs/students/advising/index.php

Climate Science Minor
https://www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/academic-programs/climate-change-strategies-minor/index.php

Geology Minor
https://www.sjsu.edu/geology/programs/undergraduate/minor-geology.php

Mathematics Minor
https://www.sjsu.edu/math/academic-programs/undergraduate-programs/index.php

Physics Minor
https://sjsu.edu/physics/programs/minors.php

Science Education Minor
https://www.sjsu.edu/scied/academic-programs/minor-science-education.php

Wildfire Science Minor
https://www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/academic-programs/wildfire-sciences-minor/index.php

Social Sciences Advising

General Education Advisors

College of Social Sciences Student Success Center​, formerly Academic Counseling Center for Excellence in the Social Sciences (ACCESS)
Clark Hall 240
408-924-5363
Website: Social Sciences SSC

Major/Minor Advisors

African American Studies
Website: African American Studies Advising
Travis Boyce
Wendy Thompson

Asian American Studies
Website: Asian American Studies Advising
Yvonne Kwan

Anthropology
Included Majors: Anthropology, Behavioral Science, Organizational Studies
Website: Anthropology Advising
Melissa Beresford
AJ Faas
Roberto Gonzalez
Marco Meniketti
Charlotte Sunseri
John Marlovits
Erika Carrillo

Chicana and Chicano Studies
Website: Chicana and Chicano Studies Advising
Kimberly Miranda (undergraduate)
Juan Pablo Mercado (graduate)

Communication Studies
Website: Communication Studies Advising
Jennifer Morrison
Felipe Gómez

Economics
Website: Economics Advising
Ghislaine Lang

Environmental Studies
Website: Environmental Studies Advising
Rachel O’Malley (MS Graduate Program Coordinator)
Lynne Trulio

Geography / Geographic Information Science​
Website: Geography Advising
Ahoura Zandiatashbar

Global Studies
Website: Global Studies Advising
Katherine Cushing

History
Website: History Advising
Alberto Garcia (undergraduate)
Katharine Olson (graduate)
Victoria Harrison (Social Science Teacher Preparation)

Justice Studies
Website: Justice Studies Advising
Alessandro De Giorgi
Sambuddha Ghatak
John Halushka
Grace Howard
Sang Kil
Edith Kinney
Wilson Yuan

Forensic Science
Mark Barash
Shawna Bolton
Mary Juno
Jodie Warren

Political Science
Website: Political Science Advising
Mary Currin-Percival​
Danijela Dudley
Garrick Percival

Psychology
Website: Psychology Advising
Arlene Asuncion
Cheryl Chancellor-Freeland
Patrick Cravalho (winter and summer intersession advising)
Megumi Hosoda
Mark Van Selst

Social Studies Teacher Preparation (SSTP) Program
Victoria Harrison

Sociology/Social Sciences 
Website: Sociology/Social Sciences Advising
 

Women Gender and Sexuality Studies
Website: Women Gender and Sexuality Studies Advising
Tanya Bakhru

International Student and Scholar Services

International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS) centralizes immigration advising resources and co-curricular support programming for international students and scholars on campus. Our goal is to serve the needs of our international students and scholars to enhance their experience in the United States and to integrate them into our community, while also contributing to their success during their tenure at SJSU and beyond.

Student Union
408-924-5931
www.sjsu.edu/isss

Interdisciplinary Studies BA/BS

The Office of Undergraduate Education sponsors undergraduate degrees as an Interdisciplinary Studies, BA or BS. The Interdisciplinary Studies is designed for situations in which an existing SJSU undergraduate degree major does not adequately accommodate academic professional aims. Students who complete Interdisciplinary Studies shall be able to demonstrate the characteristics of “intentional learners” who can adapt to new environments, integrate knowledge from different sources, and continue learning throughout their life.

Office of Undergraduate Education (UE)
ADM 159
408-924-2447
www.sjsu.edu/ue

Educational and Community Leadership, Concentration in the Interdisciplinary Studies, BA

View the College of Education website.

Undeclared: Exploratory Student Success Center

The Exploratory Student Success Center, formerly Undergraduate Advising & Success Center (UASC), provides advising to undeclared students. Transition advising is provided by this office through Frosh and Transfer Orientations. Advising Hub website is meant to serve as a resource for all undergraduate students to aid in student success. As the name suggests, it’s at the center of many advising and academic support services available at SJSU. This site can be used to locate and access the information and people you need to help you progress smoothly to your degree objective.

Student Services Center 1st Floor 
www.sjsu.edu/exploratory/

Note: Undeclared pre-nursing students are advised by the College of Health and Human Sciences Student Success Center

MacQuarrie Hall (MH) 533 / Health Building (HB) 105
408-924-2910 / 408-924-8601
www.sjsu.edu/chhs-ssc