Weekly Digest: Home Office Edition

Congratulations again to Edie Parsons! Edie, who received the 2019-2020 UGA Outstanding New Advisor Award, has been awarded a NACADA Certificate of Merit for the Outstanding New Advisor Award - Primary Advising Role! This recognition from the NACADA Global Awards Program for Academic Advising honors individuals who are making a significant impact on academic advising.

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.

Orientation this Week

• Tuesday May 5th - Incoming Summer matriculants will get module access.
• There is a slight chance you will be assigned a summer orientation student late this week, but more likely you'll begin to see them on your schedule next week.
• There shouldn't be many of them.

Orientation Information

For those that weren't able to attend the AACC workshop, see below for information that admissions shared. The Admissions' Power Point is also attached

Orientation Modules

• Advisors can view the modules that students will complete
• You can access the page by CLICKING THIS LINK. Be sure you push the home page button on the bottom left, if you aren't already on the home page.

Orientation Communication to Students

• Admissions has shared with us a condensed version of the communication they will be sharing with incoming students. It's a great opportunity to see what they've been asked to do and what information they've received.
• See the attached sheet for details.

Summer Start will be May 6th from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm.

• See the attached agenda, which includes the Zoom meeting link
  

• Details about placement testing, Freshman College, best practices etc. will be shared

• Summer Start Agenda and Zoom meeting link
• LING 4910 flyer
• DANC 2040 flyer
• Pre-Allied Health Workshop Series flyers
• WMST 1110 and 2010 flyers
• Newly approved core courses approval letter
• GEOG 1112 promotional images
• Summer GEOG courses handout
• AACC Workshop Presentations (SCO, Stress Management, Outreach for Students with GPAs below 2.0, Admissions' Orientation Power Point, Advising vis Zoom Power Point)
• PORT Flagship Program Power Point

Seats Added to CSCI courses this Summer

• CSCI 1320, 40 seats added
• CSCI 1301L, 30 seats added
• CSCI 2610, 70 seats added
• CSCI 3030E, 40 seats added

The seats will likely appear on Athena early this week.

AACC Workshop Presentations

• Thanks to everyone who shared such great information at the workshop. For those that weren't able to attend or who had to choose between breakout sessions, workshop presentations are attached.

• Organizational Hacks and Creative Outlets for Advisors Breakout Group information

  Jessica Couch: BUJO (aka Bullet Journal)

  How to link

  Top 10 Tips

  Favorites

  I also like the hashtag #minimalistbujo because it shows the range from super austere and no-frills/all business, to the creative.

• Advising via Zoom Power Point (Thanks to Anne Marie Vencill) - see attached

Newly Approved Core Courses

• Please see the attached approval letter for a list of courses recently approved to satisfy core requirements.

Position Posting

• Biology is excited to announce a new advisor II position.
• https://www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/150561
• It will be in Franklin College, housed in the Biological Sciences building (120 Cedar St) advising Biology and Psychology majors with 60+ hours.

Biology Enrollment

• Elizabeth is monitoring BIOL sections and will be adding incrementally to 1103 and 1104, 4 sections of 1107, and 2 sections of 1108.
• 1 section of 1107 and 3 sections of 1108 are at max capacity.
• 2107H will not be offered in the fall and 2108H is loaded to capacity.

RUSS 1000 and Russian Flagship Program

• This course will be taught for the first time Spring 2021
• RUSS 1000, the new Kazakh Tutorial, will be especially important for the Russian Flagship students who will study in Kazakhstan, and interested students will need permission of the department.
• All Flagship students who reach the Capstone year should take the Kazakh course the fall and spring before the Capstone year. Students who already took the Kazakh course before their summer abroad can take it again - the course is repeatable 4 times.
• The course is not limited to Flagship students. Anyone with questions can contact the department at german@uga.edu or Sofia Ivanova at sivanova@uga.edu

Portuguese Flagship Program Meeting

• The Portuguese Flagship program presented information to the EC and Franklin College advisors last week. Please find the Power Point attached or view the presentation video at the link, and with the password, listed below.
• https://zoom.us/rec/share/7pdfP4_t8ztJRtKS-ULSQpQRGZvGaaa8hnUd-qVYmRuRn190uz3LpMfhtKfBlg2Y Password: 5l#qi57#
  
  

Additional Math Seats for summer courses

• Additional seats in MATH 2250E and 2260 have been authorized for summer and should have posted last week.

Summer Theatre Courses still available

• THEA 3290 (Script Analysis) has just been added for Short Session 1, CRN 66070. This course is required for theatre majors and one of a group required for theatre minors (especially those who might want a chance to take more acting classes later).
  
• THEA 3600 (Fundamentals of Acting on Camera) has FIVE remaining seats for Short Session I, CRN65253. This course is open to any major without prerequisites, and is one of the few acting classes that non-majors can take.
  
• The other Theatre classes and Film Studies classes for summer are full.

Summer GEOG Courses

• The Geography Department sent us an excellent list of summer courses.
• See the attached handout for details.

Summer 2020 Music Courses

Music 3030, America Vernacular Music

• This online class will explore vernacular musics that shaped the U.S. soundscape, including Anglo-American, African-American, Native-American, and Hispanic-American streams of music.

Music 4000, Music Entrepreneurship

• This course was specifically designed and developed as an online course to introduce entrepreneurial concepts and approaches to help aspiring artists launch and sustain successful careers.

GEOG 1112 Summer 2020

• This is an online version of GEOG (ATSC) 1112, Introduction to Weather & Climate, and will be taught by Dr. Christopher Elcik.
• This is not a course that was hastily switched over to an online format; it was always intended for remote learning but didn't make it through the CAPA approval process in time to have the E added this semester.
• Images appropriately sized for sharing on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are attached.

DANC 2040, Maymester

• Yoga: Asana Practice I
• MWF 1:00-2:15 p.m. (online)
• CRN# 65741, open to all students
• This class does not count toward PEDB credit
• See attached flyer and contact Barbara Powers (barbara.powers@uga.edu) for more information.

Linguistics Courses Summer 2020

• Seats have been added to LING 2100E The Study of Language.
• Linguistics is also offering a new course in Summer 2020, under their special topics number LING 4910: The Digital Life of Language (cross-listed with ROML; see attached flyer). This course was originally scheduled for Maymester, but has been moved to thru session in an online format.

FDNS 2100E, Summer 2020

• A new section of FDNS 2100E, Human Nutrition and Food, is open, with over 40 seats available. (CRN 66049) Dr. Alex Anderson is the instructor. This course has no pre-reqs.

WMST 1110 and 2010 Fall 2020

• Seats available in multiple sections of WMST 1110 and WMST 2010.
• See attached flyers for details

Pre-Allied Health Virtual Workshops

• Chelsea has shared that she'll be offering a series of workshops to pre-allied health students this May.

• The workshops are geared toward Pre-Nursing, Pre-PT, and Pre-OT students and she will be including any updates that she has regrading COVID impacts on their respective programs.

• Students are encouraged to ask questions and voice concerns, and Chelsea will offer a presentation as well.

• See the attached flyers for details.

A great DAE resource to help students finish the term strong

• https://dae.uga.edu/Top_Ten_Tips_for_Finishing_Strong-2.pdf

Study Participants Needed

• My name is Dr. Baldwin-White, Assistant Professor of Social Work, and I am conducting a study about sexual assault. The study aims to understand students’ perceptions of sexual assault and how those beliefs might be changed through a digital game-based sexual assault prevention program. For the purposes of this research, we are looking for a maximum of 50 undergraduate college students ages 18 to 25 to participate in a 2 hour study.

Study details:

• Students will participate in a pretest that asks questions about their perceptions of sexual assault. They will then complete a text based video game. After the video game, they will participate in an interview, and complete a post-test survey that assesses the same perceptions of sexual assault, their game engagement, and technology acceptance. All components of the study will be completed online using the platform Zoom. Each participant will receive up to $20 in gift cards to Amazon. Participation is completely voluntary and separate from any class activity, credit or grades. Participants will provide their first name and email address when scheduling a session. Therefore, your name and email will not be connected to your survey information
• To participate in this valuable research, follow the link to the consent document and pretest below:

https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_77NszPn4xTtGBH7

• At the end of the survey will be a link to sign up for a day and time to schedule to play the game and participate in a one on one interview.