Weekly Digest: Home Office Edition

This week's background photo comes from Michael Hill. I've had occasion to visit his property and it's just as beautiful in real life as it looks in this picture!

If you have vacation photos you'd like to share, please feel free to email them to me with a brief description of what they feature!

Please contact me at mjenn@uga.edu if you have suggestions or if there is anything you'd like me to include in the digest.

Nominated by: Kellee Green

Qualifications: Enjoying the quarantine and hoping we never go back to campus.

New Transfer Course Evaluation System (from Judy Iakovou)

• A new version of the transfer course evaluation platform is available, and students can now begin submitting their syllabi for review. A huge thank you goes to Matt Head for creating this new, sleeker version! Here is the link to the new platform: : https://advising.uga.edu/student-resources/transfer-students/transfer-student-intake. This link is behind CAS and will auto-fill identifying information for the student.

• If the student is, for some reason, given the old link they will be redirected to the new one. However, the old survey may be deactivated at some point in the future, so it is best if you delete the old link and make sure that you distribute the new one.

MATH 1113 Updates

MATH 1113 and I-Pharmaceutical Sciences

• I-Pharm Sci is not currently on the list of STEM majors allowed to sign up for Math 1113. Amber is working to get that fixed. In the meantime, if you advise an I-Pharm Sci student who needs MATH 1113 and can’t get it, you or the student can email Amber with the student 81 number, MATH 1113 CRN of the desired open section, and a brief explanation.

POD MATH 1113 sections for Intensive 5 day Precal (will open to all students on August 1st)

• CRN 15227, M/W/F 10:10 am - 11:00 am, T/R 9:30 am - 10:45 am

• CRN 15365 M/W/F 11:15 am - 12:05 pm , T/R 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

POD MATH 1113 CRNs reserved for transfer business majors (will open to all students on August 1st)

• CRN 15211

• CRN 15356

• CRN 15365

• CRN 15391

• CRN 41094

MATH 1113 and MATH 1113E

• Thanks to Kevin James for discovering that right now, student can register for both MATH 1113 and MATH 1113E in the same term.

• Please note: The Registrar's Office has confirmed that students can sign up for ANY two courses that have an E version and a non-E version. Please alert your students and keep an eye out.

Foreign Language Placement Test Scores (thanks to Kate Daley-Bailey)

• Foreign language placement exam scores will take a few days to post so students need to be patient and wait for the score to be updated in Athena.
• Here is the information about this from the University Testing Center:
• "Results:Exams are scored on Tuesday. Once scored, it can then take up to a week for scores to be posted to Athena."

Freshman College

• Freshman College students can't register for summer courses until June 26th at 9:00 am.
• I've attached the registration guidelines for students as well as the final course information guide for advisors
• We've discovered that these students can register for fall, provided of course, that they're not trying to get a class for which they're taking the prerequisite this summer.

Franklin Residential College and Restricted FYOS Sections (from Chera Watts)

The following sections are reserved for Franklin Residential College students only.

Incoming first-year FRC members must take one of the three designated FYOS courses.

• Instructor: Dr. Ben Ehlers
• CRN: 44220
• R from 2:00 – 3:15 PM Aug 20, 2020 - Dec 09, 2020
• Reacting to the Past: Revolts and Revolutions in Europe

• Instructor: Dr. Naomi Norman
• CRN: 47579
• TR from 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Aug 20, 2020 - Oct 08, 2020
• Reacting to the Past: Democracy or Something Else? Athens in 403 B.C.E.

• Instructor: Dr. Brandy Burgess
• CRN: 44271
• MW from 10:10 – 11:00 am Aug 24, 2020 - Oct 12, 2020
• Reacting to the Past: History and Modern Day Public Health–Learning From the 1854 Cholera Epidemic

Chera has flagged each Franklin Residential College participant in SAGE, and they have a corresponding SAGE note with the CRN’s of the designated FYOS courses. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the FRC, feel free to reach out to Chera Jo Watts cheraw@uga.edu or Dr. Ben Ehlers behlers@uga.edu .

• SOCI (AFAM) 4580 flyer
• Freshman College Final Course Information for Advisors Sheet
• Freshman College Student Registration Guide
• WMST 2010 flyer

New Director of Student Transitions

• Donald A. Coleman Jr. has been named as the first director of Student Transitions at the University of Georgia. The Director of Student Transitions will play a vital role in the provision of programs and services to ensure the retention, progression, and success of UGA students.
• For more information, see this website.

SOCI(AFAM) 4580, Topics in African American Sociology and Health, TR 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm, Fall 2020

• A timely class with topics including COVID-19, racial discrimination and health inequities, colorism and mental health, police shootings of blacks, and issues of well-being.
• Course flyer is attached

CMLT 3250E: Children’s Literature, online course for Fall 2020

• Selected works written for children from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Special emphasis on historical, cultural, religious, social, and linguistic contexts.
• This course has no prerequisites!

WMST 2010 Introduction to Women's Studies, 2pm TR, Fall 2020, CRN 46180

• See attached flyer for details.