Advising
As a currently enrolled student, you must be advised each term before you pre-register for the next term’s classes. Your advisor will review your progress and discuss course options for your degree requirements; and, you will receive an advisement form with remaining degree requirements. After you have been advised your advisor will clear you for registration.
Advising appointments are times generally reserved for the planning of coursework and “clearing” students to Register, and should be made each semester.
All SPIA students may make an advising appointment on-line through SARA (Student Advising and Registration Assistant) at appoint.franklin.uga.edu. Appointment-making starts for everyone on Wednesday, September 7th. Your first available appointment is based upon the number of hours which you have completed:
90 + hours* . . . . Thurs., Sept. 8th
89-75 hours . . . . Mon., Sept. 19th
74-60 hours** . . Mon., Oct. 3rd
59-45 hours . . . . Mon., Oct. 17th
44-30 hours . . . . Mon., Oct. 31st
< 30 hours . . . . . Mon., Nov. 7th
* Honors students with 75 + hours and students registered with DRC^
** Honors students with < 75 hours
You can learn their overall hours on OASIS by choosing the “Student Records Main Menu,” then “View Courses Previously Taken.” The “overall hours” are listed in the lower right-hand corner.
If you have a problem making an appointment, please call the front desk at (706) 542 0096.
Access to major-level courses is largely determined by when you are advised. At your appointment, you will be assigned no more than two PODs* for major-level courses. Students who need only one major course to complete requirements, will be assigned one POD. If you need three, then you will seek the third via late addition POM* courses or as soon as OASIS opens on Reading Day (Dec. 8th) when unused POD seats change to POM seats.
Walk-In Hours for follow-up questions related to advising or other issues (study abroad, internships, etc.) are from 2 to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. These times are not for advising and being cleared for registration; that requires an advising appointment.
No Show Policy: If a student misses his/her advising appointment, then he/she is be required to attend a special “no-show” advising time. This will negatively affect the student’s access to classes. Please contact the advising office for no-show advisement times.
Study Abroad & D.C. Program Advising: If you are abroad or in D.C. please e-mail your adviser directly for advising via e-mail.
DRC Students: Please bring your letter of accommodations which you show to your instructors to the front desk of Candler Hall so that we can update your advising status appropriately. We cannot independently identify students registered with DRC.
*POD & POM stand for “Permission of Department” and “Permission of Major,” respectively. POD means that each seat is assigned to an individual student and only that student can access the seat. POM means that OASIS checks a student’s major and, if the major is allowed and there is space in the course, allows the student to register for the class.
