Degree Program Checklist
Your Advisors, and Program Coordinator are the best personel to obtain information regarding your degree program. Also, the University provides a supplimentary program checklist called the DARS What if checklist through OASIS.
Graduate Advisement
Upon admission a major professor will be assigned to each student. Prior to the end of second semester in residence, the student must be certified as proficient to pursue a chosen area of specialty by a review board composed of faculty in the appropriate specialty area. Students who fail to establish proficiency will be dropped from the program. Under rare circumstances, they may be encouraged to pursue a different specialty, if strength is evident there. After successful completion of a proficiency review, the student must pass a written conprehensive examination (three hours), which is usually scheduled in the third semester in residence. If the student's performance on the comprehensive examination is satisfactory, a program of study is made out and the student is admitted into candidacy. Upon admission to candidacy, the student is assigned a committee of two to work with the major professor and the student on thesis project preparation, potential internship or special projects.
Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Freda Scott Giles, , fsgiles@uga.edu
Duties and responsibilities of the Graduate Coordinator:
- Maintaining liaison with the Graduate School.
- Administering the graduate programs of the Department.
- Overseeing the processing of admissions into the graduate programs.
- Supervision of advisement for departmental majors including the assignment of advisors, major professors, advisory committees and reading committees.
- Chairing the Graduate Faculty Committee in addressing policy governing graduate programs.
Undergraduate Advisement
Students and their faculty advisors or major professors have as a mutual goal the acheivement of a productive academic program. The faculty advisor recognizers the responsibility to be knowledgeable about the requirements of the degree programs and will always seek to make the student aware of them. The student has the ultimate responsibility to know the requirements and deadlines for his or her total program. Undergraduate students in their freshmen and sophmore years are advised by professional advisors in the offices of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Beginning with the junior year, drama majors are advised by the departmental faculty. Students must seek out their advisors during the appropriate times of preregistration, registration, and "add/drop." Decisions about a student's academic/artistic program are reached jointly by the advisor and the student so that the student may progress in a timely manner towards a degree.
B. Don Massey, , bdonm@uga.edu, 306 Fine Arts
Duties and responsibilities of the Undergraduate Coordinator:
- Overseeing the Department's production program.
- Chairing the Production Committee which oversees the production program of the Department.
- Coordination of the productions through appointment of production staffs for each production and calling meetings of these staffs.
- Establishing with the Department Head the budgets for the productions and controlling the established budgets.
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