Registration Help for Students
POD Sections and Other Registration Hacks
Registration Basics
Registrar's Office Assistance
For registration tutorials and FAQs, see the Registrar's Athena website.
Registration Help and UGA 101 Modules
- After you finish viewing their UGA 101 modules, you can go back and re-watch them any time!
- There's a fantastic video on the "Advising and Registration" module that will take you through the registration process step-by-step and that can answer lots of your registration questions!
Common Definitions
Course ID – consists of three parts: prefix, number, and occasionally a suffix, e.g., ENGL 1101S
Prefix – a four four-character alphabetic code designating an area of study, e.g., ENGL – English
Number – a four-digit number designating the course level, eg: ENGL 1101
- Suffix – a letter that may appear at the end of a course number to designate the format in which the course is taught, e.g., ENGL 1101S . See the suffix letter definitions below:
- D – Non-Credit Discussion Group – included in the course credit, so you don't get extra hours of credit for doing it, but offered at a different period from the lecture
E – Online Learning Course
H – Honors Course, must be an Honors student to enroll
I – Integrated Language Course
L – Laboratory Course
Can be credit or non-credit
Non-credit lab – included in the course credit, but offered at a different period from the lecture
R – Research Course
S – Service-Learning Course
W – Writing Intensive Program Course
CRN – Course Reference Number – the five-digit number specific to a single section of a course. It appears in front of the course listing at the left of the registration screen in Athena.
Course Section – a specific instance of a course with a unique combination of instructor, day, time, and location
Day of the Week Abbreviations:
- M - Monday
- T - Tuesday
- W - Wednesday
- R - Thursday
- F - Friday
Credit Hours - indicate the number of hours you will earn upon successful completion of the course
- Full-time enrollment is 12+ hours
- 121+ credit hours are required to graduate
Prerequisite Course - a course you must complete prior to registering for a subsequent course
Corequisite Course - a course that must be taken at the same time as another course
- Many labs are corequisites to science courses; therefore, you must register for the lab at the same time as the lecture.
Pre- or Corequisite Course - a course that you must complete before or at the same time as another course.
Waitlist - a list that tracks the students interested in a course section that is currently full/at capacity.
POD Sections
ENGL 1101/1102 for Non-Native Speakers Fall 2024
Below are the ESOL options for First-year Writing this coming fall. These sections are cross-listed, protected by Permission of Department, and capped at 15. The sections are as follows:
MWF 1:50-2:40pm:
- 1101: 25164
- 1102: 25446
MWF 3:00-3:50pm:
- 1101: 25105
- 1102: 42074
MATH PODs
Only MATH 2260I sections have PODs The CRNs are 25064 and 41470.
Fall 2024 COMM 1110 for STEM majors
Communication Studies is offering two STEM specific Public Speaking sections:
- CRN 38757; TR 9:35-10:50a; 253 MLC
- CRN 38772; TR 9:35-10:50a; 367 MLC
You need permission of the department to sign up for one of these sections. For permission, please email Angie Switon at commadvs@uga.edu with the following information:
- Name
- Course which a POD is needed
- Major
- 81#
Fall 2024 CSCI 1301 Lecture and Matching Lab Combinations
CSCI 1301 AND CSCI 1301L, Fall 2024
Athena requires that students take a matching lecture and lab for CSCI 1301. Any lab cannot match any lecture. Students should write down the matching CRNs and register for them together.
CSCI 1301 15032 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 19917 - MW
CSCI 1301L 19921 - TR
CSCI 1301 60020 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 58038 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 58039 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 19944 - MW
- CSCI 1301L 19954 - MW
CSCI 1301 60269 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 58043 - MW
- CSCI 1301L 58044 - TR
CSCI 1301 16242 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 19960 - MW
- CSCI 1301L 19963 - MW
CSCI 1301 60278 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 58040 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 58041 - TR
CSCI 1301 16260 - TR
- CSCI 1301L - 36715 - MW
- CSCI 1301L 36719 - MW
- CSCI 1301L 38021 - MW
- CSCI 1301L 59840 - TR
CSCI 1301 55008 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 55029 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 55030 - MW
- CSCI 1301L 58035 - TR
- CSCI 1301L 58036 - MW
CHEM 1212 and 2211 POD Sections for Fall 2024
- For the fall semester, CHEM 1212 51552 at 10:20-11:10 MWF will have a POD override and is for transfer or at-risk students.
- Likewise, 2211 will have a POD for at-risk students 13095, 10:20-11:10 MWF, recitation T 3:55-4:45.
- Please send POD requests to chemreg@uga.edu.
Other Registration Hacks
Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese Registration Help Fall 2024
- If you have AP, IB, or dual enrollment credits for Spanish, French, Italian, or Portuguese that are not at UGA yet, you can email Kate Daley-Bailey at rladv@uga.edu with your 81 number and a screenshot of your score or registration and she can process a prerequisite override for you for fall. This will allow you to register for the next level class before your test scores or grades from previous work have been officially posted to your transcript.
Biology and Chemistry Time Conflicts
Biology and Chemistry Schedule Conflicts and Exam Dates
- When you register for Biology and Chemistry courses, you'll notice that there are evening hours listed. These evening hours are not class time. They are hours reserved for exams. You won't actually have exams every week at this time, and even though it looks like the Biology exam times conflict with the Chemistry exam times, they don't; the exams are actually on different days. For that reason, you should be good to sign up for both Biology and Chemistry without having to worry about a schedule conflict.
Fall 2024 CHEM 1211 AND 1212 Labs and Recitation/Discussion Groups
- When scheduling, students will need to register for the following: CHEM 1211/1211L/1211D or for CHEM 1212/1212L/1212D.
Waitlisting
To view the available seats in a class and the number of waitlist seats open, look at the Status column in the Find Classes section on the Register for Classes page.
If you are attempting to register for a course that is full, you can add yourself to the waitlist if the option is available (Not all classes have waitlists).
- For instructions on how to waitlist a course see this page.
Waitlisting Courses with a Lab
- Many science courses require you to waitlist the lab section that you want rather than the lecture. If you try to waitlist a lecture and can't, select a lab and see if you can waitlist that instead. Many departments will open enough lecture seats to cover those who are in labs.
Once you have waitlisted a course:
- As soon as a seat becomes available in the class, the next student in line receives an email in their UGA email inbox notifying them to register for the course. You will have the next 18 hours to register for the course. If you do not register within that timeframe, you will lose your seat in the course.
- If you are waitlisted for a course, it is critical that you check your UGA email at least once per day. You will have 18 hours to take an available seat (no exceptions).
- If notified that a seat is available, go to the “Add or Drop Classes” menu in Athena, use the Action drop down to select “Web Registered” on the appropriate course, then click the “Submit” button to take your seat. The selected course should now show a status of “Web Registered” and be reflected in your enrolled hours.
Other Important Waitlist Information
- You cannot be on a waitlist for a course and register for the same course at a different time.
- Hours of a waitlisted course do not show in your credit hours.
- You may only be added to the waitlist for one section of a course.
- You cannot be added to a waitlist for a course if it would cause a time conflict with another course.
AP Credit
If you took an AP exam and think that the scores should already be at UGA and they aren't, check with College Board and have them resent.
- To request College Board AP results, please contact the College Board:
Web: https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/view-scores
Phone: 888-225-5427
UGA’s College Board AP Code: 5813
NOTE:
- Official AP scores must be sent directly from the College Board to UGA for a student to receive credit for qualifying scores.
- AP scores from exams taken your senior year in high school are typically released in early July, and prior years’ AP exam scores will be included with the this release.
- It can take 5-7 business days for ordered AP scores to post to a student’s Athena record.
- Test scores which have been correctly submitted to UGA can be viewed by logging into Athena and selecting “View Test Scores” from the Student Information Menu.
Transferring AP Credit from another Institution
- Transfer students will receive the AP credit for college-level courses they were awarded by their transfer institution as it appears on that institution’s official transcript.
- Transfer students who did not receive credit for their AP work at a former college or university are encouraged to submit their AP scores to UGA.
Dual Enrollment Credit
- Check degreeworks.uga.edu to see if your dual enrollment credit is posted here at UGA.
- If not contact the Registrar's Office at the college that granted the credit. Dual enrollment credit cannot be accepted from your high school transcript.
For Art Majors and Minors Only
Art major & minor students should use the following link to find the correct CRNs to use when registering:
Franklin College Summer and Fall 2024 "Silver Bullet" Courses that Fulfill Multiple Requirements
How to Register for a First Year Odyssey (FYOS)
- Go to this website: https://fyo.uga.edu/
- Find the Odyssey you want to sign up for.
- Note down or copy the Odyssey CRN Number. This is the 5 digit number following the Odyssey title.
- Go back to the registration screen in Athena.
- Enter the Odyssey CRN in the box at the bottom of the screen.
- Seats in Odysseys open gradually throughout the summer so you can keep trying if your top choices aren't available. Keep in mind that eventually, you may need to pick one to get it on your schedule, but you can make changes throughout the summer and drop-add.
Need an Extra Hour or Two on Your Schedule?
- See a list of Summer and Fall 2024 One or Two Hour Electives here.
Are you a Transfer student needing an upper division elective course?
Look at Past Course Syllabi
Do you want to see what sorts of material a course might cover?
- All you have to do is look up the course here in the UGA Bulletin.
- Scroll to the bottom of the course description and look for the box beside the word "Syllabus". You can then select your instructor, if you know who that is. If you don't know your instructor, or can't find a previous syllabus from your instructor, you can still look at syllabi to get a sense of the material covered in the course.
Course Listings that look unusual
Evening Tests
- When you register for certain courses, such as BIOL 1107, CHEM 1211, CHEM 1212, and CSCI 1302, you might see the typical lecture times – M, W, F or T, R – in addition to class periods with no classroom listed: Example: Class, 5:45 pm - 7:40 pm, No Classroom Required
- This is the time when you will take exams for this course. You won't have exams every week, but the department wanted to make sure this time was open in your schedule for when you do have exams.
Foreign Language Labs
- When you try to register for a 4-hour foreign language course like SPAN 1001, you may see 3 hours of lecture time on MWF or TR and an additional time from 12:01 am - 11:59 pm with no classroom listed. This additional time indicates the 1-hour language lab that you'll complete each week at a time of your choosing.
Common Registration Error Messages (in alphabetical order)
Accounts Acknowledgement Hold
You have a Student Accounts Acknowledgement Hold. The instructions for removing it can be found here.
Campus Restriction
- The course you are attempting to register for is only for students on a specific campus (e.g., Griffin).
Cohort Restriction
- These classes are only open to students in the Living Learning Communities program. If you did not apply and get accepted into this program, then you cannot sign up for these classes.
Contact Information Hold:
- You have a hold from the Registrar's Office that will prevent you from registering. Instructions for clearing this hold are located here.
Housing Hold
- Contact the appropriate Housing Office phone number provided in the hold description.
Immunization Hold
- Contact the Health Center for information on clearing this hold (706)542-8617 or see their website here.
Permission of College Required
- You need to be in a specific college (e.g., the College of Engineering) to be able to take this course.
Permission of Department Required (POD)
- You must have the permission of the department to register for this class. Ask your advisor or an OL how to get the permission of the department or choose a different section.
Permission of Major Restriction (POM)
- You must be a student in this major to register for this class (for example, you must be an Engineering major to register for an ENGR class).
Permission of Program Required
- You need to be in a specific academic program.
Prerequisite Course(s) Not Met
- You have not taken the required prerequisite course. If you are unsure of the prerequisites, visit bulletin.uga.edu to view the course’s prerequisites. If you believe you have taken the prerequisite course, contact your advisor or the Office of the Registrar for assistance.
Seats Reserved for Waitlist
- You will not be able to register for this class at the current time. Try to add yourself to the waitlist. (See 'Waitlisting' above.)
Student Attribute Restriction
- You must be an Honors student to register for this section.
Verification of Lawful Presence (VLP) Hold
- Information on how to have the hold removed is located here.