What is advising?

• Advising is a required appointment to be cleared for registration.  At this appointment, we help you to plan your program of study, review the curriculum of your major and institutional requirements, identify your academic/intellectual goals, and answer any questions concerning academics and institutional procedures

How does advising work?

• Advising is by appointment only. You are assigned an advisor and can make an appointment on the web at appoint.franklin.uga.edu.  We meet for 20 or so minutes, at least once a term.  You will get a DARS, an advisement form, and sometimes other materials as appropriate (information on study abroad for example).  Your advisor will do their best to answer all of your questions or refer you to an appropriate office.

What do you do?

• Schedule an appointment at appoint.franklin.uga.edu!
• Advising appointments start as early as the Monday after the end of Drop/Add Registration
• If you cannot make an appointment at appoint.franklin.uga.edu, please call 706/542-0096 or come to Candler Hall to make an appointment
• Prepare for your appointment!
• Think about your academic and career goals
• Review materials from your last appointment
• Download the Course Request Form
• Review major courses offered at the departmental websites:

  Political Science
  International Affairs

• Rank your choices for major courses on the Course Request Form
• Check your choices against non-SPIA courses you may need or want to take
• Come to your appointment!
• Bring your Course Request Form to your appointment
• If you wish to change your requests after meeting with an advisor, be sure to remember to return your Course Requests by the deadline
• If you miss an appointment without canceling, you will not be able to make another for at least two weeks! If you miss a second appointment, we will not meet with you until AFTER FINALS
• Return your Course Request Form to the Undergraduate Office by the deadline!
• The deadline is always the Friday before the very first day of Registration (the registration schedule is posted by the Office of the Registrar)
• You must be advised to turn in a Course Request Form

What happens at the appointment?

You will review your academic progress and goals with your advisor.  We’ll check your course selections and make any recommendations based upon your goals and any requirements which still need to be met. 

We will often take your Course Request Form at your appointment.  It helps if you have already thought about which POLS/INTL courses you would like to take: our appointment will go much better if you come prepared.  By the time registration starts, you will be assigned POLS/INTL courses based on your eligibility and your academic progress.  These will be viewable on OASIS.

Students must recognize that demand for courses in POLS & INTL is greater than the supply.  As such, all major courses are permission of department (POD).  In order to take course in SPIA, a student must complete the entrance requirements to be a major in POLS or INTL and have all pre-requisites for the courses they wish to take (all SPIA courses have POLS 1101 or INTL 1100 as a pre-requisite and many INTL courses require credit in INTL 3200 or 3300).  We offer enough appointments that all students can be advised before registration begins.  At the end of your advising appointment, you will be cleared for registration. 

**Please note that your advising appointment and registration time are two different dates.  Your advising appointment should be done well in advance of your registration time!