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Important
News for Biology Majors
Reminders:
Advising:
Make
advising appointments EARLY. Watch for notices of when Ms. Palevitz
will take appointments. She will notify BIO majors via our e-mail
list serve, as well as with flyers in the Biosciences lobby. IF
YOU ARE NOT ON THE LISTSERVE, see Ms. Palevitz in room 411.
And
please, if you don’t want e-mail, don’t sign up. If you
do sign up, don’t complain when we send information to help
your classmates! We try to keep e-mail traffic down to a minimum,
but after all, this is an informational service to students, and
that means we send messages.
Graduation:
This
year’s seniors: you must do a GRADUATION CHECK at least one
semester before you graduate. You will probably receive a reminder
from the College, so make sure to tell your advisor that you need
a graduation check. You cannot graduate without being certified.
If you have any questions, contact your advisor or Ms. Nancy Bray
in the College of Arts and Sciences. Ms. Bray handles graduation
certification for BIO majors.
SENIORS:
Please fill out one of our exit questionnaires and return it to
Ms. Palevitz. The questionnaires are available in room 411. They
enable us to evaluate our program and keep track of your plans.
Please take just a few minutes of your time to help us improve our
services to students.
We
will again host receptions for our fall and spring graduating BIO
majors. Please see Ms. Palevitz to find out more about the reception
and what you need to do to attend. Make sure she has your latest
address and telephone/e-mail information.
BSSA
and AMSA:
BIO
is proud to sponsor two student organizations, the Biological
Sciences Student Association (BSSA) and a new chapter of the
American Medical Student Association (AMSA). Both groups
will be active during the year with a variety of informative and
entertaining programs. We encourage BIO majors to get involved with
either or both groups. It will help you meet faculty, network with
scientists and health professionals, give you leadership experience.
Both organizations have bulletin board space near room 404E. Inquire
in Room 411 for more information.
Checksheets
and Program of Study:
We
supply checksheets for semester system students (those who matriculated
at ANY college or university fall, 1996 or later) as well as revised
checksheets for any remaining quarter system students with the old
BIO requirements translated into semester courses. Pick one up in
room 411 BioSciences. We also will have the checksheets listed on
the BIO Almanac at the BIO website. We have tried to encapsulate
as much important information as possible into the checksheets,
to make planning your program as painless as possible. Please study
the new checksheets, and if you have any questions, contact us.
Remaining quarter system students should be aware that certain courses
(e.g. in statistics) are no longer available, so alternatives must
be selected. Those alternatives are listed on the revised checksheet.
In
collaboration with Franklin College, we have prepared a sample four
year program of study for BIO majors. Pick one up in room 411 BioSciences.
It will also be on our website shortly. Remember, it is only a SAMPLE;
there are other ways to arrange a program, in consultation with
your advisor.
We will also have available in the office hardcopies from the college
website describing courses that qualify for Areas C and E of the
core curriculum, multicultural courses, etc. Note that we now have
a hotlink to College, core and multicultural requirements on the
BIO website. Just click on ‘Other Requirements’.
Health
Professions:
Those
of you interested in medicine, dentistry and other health professions
should check in with the Health Professions Advising Office in the
College of Arts and Sciences, 210 New College (2-1541). The office
is headed by Dr. Alan Langford.
All students interested in a career in the health professions should
contact the Health Professions Advising Office and make arrangements
to attend one of their orientation seminars, which are offered several
times a semester. You must attend a seminar before making a personal
appointment. The office offers a website (http://ben.franklin.uga.edu/premed)
as well as an informational booklet (‘grey book’). You
can pick up the booklet at New College, or in room 411 BioSciences.
Students interested in veterinary medicine can get information from
the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of the Veterinary School,
Dr. Sheila Allen.
Constitution
and History Exams:
To
provide as much flexibility as possible in your programs of study,
we encourage students to use qualifying exams to satisfy the Regents’
History and Constitution requirements instead of taking courses.
The constitution exams can now be taken twice before resorting to
POLS 1101, while there is no limit on repeats for the history exam.
Talk to the History and Political Science departments for more information.
39
Hour Rule:
Semester
System Students: Remember, you must complete at least 39 semester
hours at the 3000 level or higher in order to graduate. Since the
BIO major comes to only 29-33 hours, that leaves 6-10 addtional
hours of 3000 level courses required to graduate. You can obtain
those hours in a number of ways. For example, you can use a 3000
level course to fulfill the multicultural requirement. Consult the
list of eligible multicultural courses for one with minimal or no
prerequisites. You can also consider upper division courses for
which you have already fulfilled prerequisites as part of the Core
Curriculum. Thus, you can take an advanced history or anthropology
course. You can also use additional research hours in BIOL 4960/4960H
beyond the 4 credits allowed for the Biology degree. Or, you can
take additional research under another department prefix/number,
once you have completed BIOL 4960. You can also take BIOL 3900 as
a directed readings course with an eligible biological sciences
professor of your choice. While BIOL 3900 does not qualify for credit
towards the BIO major, it can be used to satisfy the Regents 39
hour rule.
Other
Sources of Information:
Franklin
College has a lot of useful information about semester conversion,
core requirements, the multicultural requirement, environmental
literacy requirement, the 39 hour rule, etc on its website (http://ben.franklin.uga.edu).
Likewise, the University Bulletin is also online at (www.bulletin.uga.edu/index.html).
It has lots of information on courses, prerequisites, etc. You can
also access these sources from the BIO Almanac homepage.
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