The CLASS Advisement Center advises undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences with majors in Anthropology, Art, English, Foreign Language, History, Justice Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Pre-Communication Arts, Psychology, Sociology and Writing and Linguistics. All CLASS upperclassmen are advised by a faculty advisor within their major department. In addition, the CLASS Advisement Center advises all General Studies majors until graduation.

More specifically, we advise the following groups of students:

• Anthropology, Art, English, Foreign Language, History, Justice Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Writing and Linguistics majors with fewer than 60 earned hours
• Pre-Communication Arts majors as follows:
1) Communication Arts, Communication Studies, Journalism, Public Relations and Theatre students with less than 45 earned hours and/or
less than a 2.35 GPA
2) Broadcasting students with less than 45 earned hours and/or less than a 2.5 GPA
• General Studies majors until graduation

All Accel students are advised by Tifani Landing Pool in the Registrar’s Office

All Learning Support students, regardless of major, are advised in the Academic Success Center

All Undeclared students are advised by the Office of First Year Experience

Advisement Process

Prior to being advised, students must schedule an appointment by stopping by the CLASS Advisement Center and signing up for a date and time in the notebook located in the front office. Students are notified of when they can begin to schedule appointments through an e-mail sent by CLASS Advisement Center staff. Students are not allowed to schedule advising appointments through phone or e-mail.

When scheduling an advisement appointment, students are encouraged to review the advisor schedule (located in the front of the sign-up notebook) to see when a faculty advisor from their respective department may be available to advise students. However, outside of General Studies, students may see any advisor available during their appointment.

After an advising appointment is scheduled, students will come to the CLASS Advisement Center on their assigned date to be advised and supplied their RAN for the upcoming semester(s). Students will then check their WINGS account to see when they are eligible to register for classes. Students cannot register for classes before seeing an advisor.

Change of Major

Students wishing to change their major should schedule an advising appointment with the CLASS Advisement Center, in which they would fill out the appropriate “Change-of-Major” form and then run a “What-If Analysis” from their WINGS account. The “What-If Analysis” is a new feature within WINGS that displays how course credits transfer between different majors. Students then can be advised according to their new major.

Students wishing to change to another major in a different college at Georgia Southern University should follow the same steps detailed above. After a “Change-of-Major” form and a “What-If Analysis” have been completed, the CLASS Advisement Center has 48 hours to hand-deliver a student’s folder to the appropriate college or advisement center. Students are not allowed to deliver the folder themselves. Students then should take the proper steps to be advised in their new college.

Students wishing to change to a liberal arts major should first schedule an appointment with their current college or advisement center, in which they would fill out the appropriate “Change-of-Major” form and run a “What-If Analysis” from their WINGS account. Students then should schedule an appointment with the CLASS Advisement Center so that they can be advised for their new major.

Transfer and Transient Information

Transfer Students

Students interested in permanent transfer to Georgia Southern University should submit an admissions application to the GSU Office of Admissions. Applications may be submitted online or by paper. Complete information about transfer admission policies and application submission is available here or by contacting the GSU Admissions Office at 912-478-5391.

GSU Student as a Transient

Georgia Southern students may take courses at another institution for academic credit at GSU. However, courses taken as a transient are not calculated in your GSU grade point average (GPA). Steps to becoming a GSU transient student:

-1) Student must be in “Good Standing” (GPA of 2.0 or greater)

-2) Student must submit a completed Transient Permission Form to the Office of the Registrar. These forms are available in the CLASS Advisement Center (Williams Center, Room 1016, or the Registrar’s Office (Rosenwald Building, 3rd Floor), or online here. This form requires the following information: a) Name/Address/Phone/ID; b) Name of the institution you plan to attend; c) Subject/Course Number of the course(s) for which you plan to enroll NOTE: Information about transfer course equivalencies is available here; d) signature of your academic advisor

-3) Student should submit a completed admissions application to the school he/she will be attending

-4) Student must request the transient institution to send an official transcript of completed course work to Georgia Southern University’s Office of the Registrar (after transient semester is completed)