Registration Help for Students

Please see the Office of the Registrar’s Registration Basics website for more information on registration in Athena.

For registration tutorials and FAQs, see the Registrar's Athena website.

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.

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 class will be MWF 9:10-10:00 AM.

The sections are as follows:

• ENGL 1101 CRN 27603
• ENGL 1102 CRN 67336

Students should reach out to Clare Reid either at clare.reid@uga.edu or fywsupport@uga.edu (both are good!) to obtain POD. They should make sure they include their name, 811 number, and the CRN of the course they want.

• There are no specific precal sections that have PODs this spring.

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 – Fall 2025

CSCI 1301 CRN 15032

• 1301L Corresponding CRNs: 19917, 19921

CSCI 1301 CRN 60020

• 1301L Corresponding CRNs: 58038, 58039

CSCI 1301 CRN15033

• 1301L Corresponding CRNs: 19944, 19954

CSCI 1301 CRN 60269

• 1301L Corresponding CRNs: 58043, 58044

CSCI 1301 CRN 16242

• 1301L Corresponding CRNs: 19960, 19963

CSCI 1301 CRN 60278

• 1301L Corresponding CRNs: 58040, 58041

CSCI 1301 CRN 16260

• 1301L Corresponding CRNs: 36715, 36719, 38021, 59840

CSCI 1301 CRN 55008

• 1301L Corresponding CRNs: 55029, 55030, 58035, 58036

Please send POD requests to chemreg@uga.edu.

• CHEM 1212 CRN 67448

• CHEM 2211 CRN 58185
• CHEM 2212 CRN 70061

• 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 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.

CHEM 1211 & 1212 Discussion/Recitation Group Registration Reminder

• When scheduling, students will need to register for the following: CHEM 1211/1211L/1211D or for CHEM 1212/1212L/1212D.

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.

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.

• 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.

Art major & minor students should use the following link to find the correct CRNs to use when registering:

• https://art.uga.edu/academics/student-resources/dodd-class-registration

"Silver bullet" courses fulfill multiple requirements for Franklin College majors. Some courses have prerequisites. Check the bulletin (bulletin.uga.edu) to see prerequisites. This list includes courses offered summer and fall of 2021.

• Silver Bullet Courses

• 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.

• See a list of Summer and Spring and Summer 2025 One or Two Hour Electives here.

This is a list of Spring/Summer 2025 upper division electives without prerequisites

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.

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.

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.