Weekly Digest

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Important Core Area I and III Changes with Regards to STAT 2000 (from Diane Miller)

• Fiona Liken has confirmed that STAT 2000 can now share in Areas I and III, and students with STAT credit won’t need any additional math for the core.
• In Franklin this will mainly affect AB, BFA, and non-pre-med PSYC students. For advisors in those areas who’ve been telling students with STAT that they need an Area I math, Fiona said she’ll try to run a report of students who have credit for STAT but not for MATH 1101. If she’s able to get that report, we can email those students to let them know about the change. There won’t be a more general notice sent to students, since overall this affects a minority of the student population.

• For majors that require STAT 2000 in Area VI, STAT will satisfy Areas I, III, and VI. STAT will appear in Areas III and VI and a waiver of the math requirement will be noted in Area I.

• Please follow up with Diane at dmiller@uga.edu if you have other questions about this.

Reminder, Orientation on the 10th and the 12th and Area Meeting Room Changes

• Admissions has changed the area meeting rooms once from their original assignments, and may do so again, so please be aware and note any updates from Kellee.
• I'll be sending out a seats report on the morning of both the 10th and the 12th.

Finals and Commencement

• Finals run through Thursday, December 12th. Commencement will be on Friday, December 13th. I haven't heard yet about any parking restrictions for Commencement day, but will pass those on if I get them.

OSAS Holiday Party! Wednesday, December 18th from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, Room 327 Brooks Hall

• If you work in the Franklin College Office of Student Academic Services or are an advisor in one of our departments or advise Franklin majors in the Honors program, you are cordially invited to our annual holiday gathering in Brooks Hall!
• We've got a lot of fun stuff going on this year, including our usual potluck, cookie and dip contests, and a white elephant gift exchange. To sign up to bring stuff or to participate in the cookie/dip contest and/or white elephant exchange, please go to: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wlVXsLoF48GgWTsPl34XAnlSfwDHkZQ5NAsjWaJUI2M/edit#gid=0
• We'll also have our annual charitable donation opportunities, including the mitten/hat tree for donations of mittens/hats, scarves etc, and our stuffed animal/soccer ball collection. The tree is set up in hall outside of 327 Brooks if you'd like to bring anything by early.

• No meetings this week due to Orientation

New Psychology Advisor!

• Please welcome Matt Jordan, our new Psychology advisor! He'll be in Brooks for training before heading down to Psychology.

Parking Services Changes

• Beginning December 16, 2019, customer service representatives currently located in the Transportation and Parking Services office at Joe Frank Harris will move to the One Stop Shop at Tate Plaza (view on map) to provide a more streamlined customer service experience in a central campus location for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
• This move allows customers to visit one location for help on a variety of services as opposed to visiting multiple offices located in individual buildings across campus. Joe Frank Harris will continue to house offices for Transportation and Parking Services, however, any customers needing assistance should visit the One Stop Shop.

• The phone number for parking information will remain the same: 706-542-7275.
• The One Stop Shop office address is: 40 Baxter Street, Room 100, Athens, GA 30602

Save the Date: UGA Connect Conference (also for students!)

• The Connect Conference is a single-day conference held by the University of Georgia’s LGBTRC and is centered on the LGBT community, creating solidarity, and community-building. The conference will be held on February 29, 2020, and will be free to UGA students, staff, and faculty. All other individuals will need to purchase tickets before the event online at $25 per ticket or on the day of the conference at $30. The LGBT Resource Center's staff is committed to providing access to all those who would like to attend the event; if you are unable to pay the registration fee, please contact the LGBT Resource Center staff at lgbtrc@uga.edu.
• Event flyer is attached

NACADA Webinar, December 11th from 2-3pm in New College 315.

• The Office of Academic Advising Services will be hosting another NACADA webinar.This webinar is titled: Academic Advising and Trans Equality: Building our Tomorrow.
• For a full description on what the webinar will cover and who the presenters are, please visit the NACADA Web Events website.
• There is no RSVP necessary to attend this event!

• COMM 2520 flyer
• COMM 4320 flyer
• UGA Connect Conference flyer
• EL Scholarship Information (Smarty Pants flyers)
• UGA Munich Study Away flyer
• WMST 4070 flyer

COMM 2520 - Introduction to Interviewing, 3 hours, Summer 2020 short session I

• See attached flyer for details

COMM 4320 - Communication Strategies in Political Campaigns, Spring 2020

• See attached flyer for details

UNIV 2900 - Joy and Achievement Seminar, Spring 2020

• This 1 hour course, taught by Dr. Wendy Biddle, explores happiness-increasing behaviors and how students can integrate them into their own life.
• See attached flyer for additional information

ASTR 1660 - History of Astronomy - 3 credit hours - (TuTh 12:30-1:45), Spring 2020

• This course will introduce non-science major students to essential ideas, predictions, and discoveries in the History of Astronomy, ranging from those of the ancient Greeks (such as determining the size of the Earth and the distance to the Sun) to the modern day revolutionary concepts of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. We’ll run into some of the greatest scientists in history: Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Hubble, Zwicky, and Chandrasekhar. And we’ll encounter truly bizarre astronomical objects, like white dwarfs, pulsars, and black holes, and concepts, like relativity, the Big Bang, and gravitational waves.

BIOL 1990, Spring 2020, Orientation to Biology Degree Programs

• BIOL 1990 is a great 1 hr seminar for any 1st year biological science major. It’s a weekly seminar that will have each life science department head talking about their major and how it is the best, some “biology in the news” (ex. Ebola crisis, Zika), research, etc.

BIOL 3910 (3 hrs) -Special Topics - Biology Writing Intensive Courses, Spring 2020

Biology is excited to offer 2 writing courses for Spring 2020. Both are open to all undergraduates with no pre-requisites.

• “Science and Health Writing” is for any student who is interested in communicating science effectively. We have 2 sections T/R 8-9:15 or T/R 9:30-10:45
• As complex scientific and medical issues have ethical and social implications, it is important to communicate about science effectively. In this course, students will analyze the ways that scientists’ messages must change with the audience they address, whether scientific, lay or government. We will learn different types of scientific writing formats and strategies, such as science and health writing for a broader audience.
• “Scientific Research Writing” will be more typical of writing for scientific journals, MWF 11:15-12:05
• In this course, students will examine recent peer-reviewed scientific writing, consider the strategies of successful scientific writers, learn writing conventions of scientific journals, and workshop student writing. Students will develop skills for achieving concise wording and clarity of thought while communicating science. If you are engaged in undergraduate research (e.g. BIOL 4960), you can work on your required research paper during the course. This course will count as an upper-level general elective (towards the 39-hour rule)

All sections are taught by Holly Gallagher, PhD hmgalla@uga.edu

If students experience any difficulty with registration, contact Elizabeth Fuller at elfuller@uga.edu

WMST 4070, North American Asian Feminisms Spring 2020

• Meets the Franklin College multicultural requirement.
• A flyer is attached.
• In this course, we will critically analyze North American Asian feminisms. Students will evaluate the use of the category of “Asian Americans” and the model minority myth. We will consider historical and contemporary lived experiences and students will be asked to examine the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, nationality, and sexuality in a variety of topics. Topics of interest to be covered in the course may include, but are not limited to the following: politics and citizenship, activism, migration, land, environment, subjugated feminist histories, labor, sexualities, health, food, families, pop culture, and literature.

• Burn off the stress of finals by attending a group fitness class for free
  

The University of Georgia’s Neuroscience Program is hosting a 9-week Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Neuroscience (NSURE) this May 2020.

• The program seeks undergraduates interested in non-clinical, basic lab neuroscience research and is designed to train students in preparation for PhD programs in neuroscience. Applicants do not need prior lab experience. Students underrepresented in STEM are encouraged to apply.

• See the website linked above for details.

Experiential Learning Scholarships

The Office of University Experiential Learning is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for our Spring EL Scholarships! The deadline is 2/10/20 and will include activities taking place in Maymester, Summer and Fall. Awards are in amounts up to $2500 and may be used for any activity approved for Experiential Learning at UGA.

Eligibility:

• Open to undergraduates who have completed at least one semester of UGA coursework

• Minimum GPA of 3.0

• Must be pursuing an activity approved for Experiential Learning at UGA

• Students can access the application at: https://el.uga.edu/resources

Study abroad in Munich, Germany!

• Students may now apply to study year-round or for one semester at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich through the UGA-LMU International Student Exchange.
• The Office of Global Engagement brochure may be found here.
• Franklin College students who are interested in this program may contact: Dr. Inge DiBella, dibella@uga.edu, 542-3663