Additional Information & Resources for Prospective Transfer Students Start Here for UGA Transfer Information Everything you need to know about applying to UGA, transferring credits, deadlines, new student events, etc. Office of Transfer Advising: Pre-Transfer Advising This section has pre-transfer advising, planning worksheet, recommendations for transfer students like transfer mentors, UNIV 2302: Success for Transfer Students, and more. Theatre Classes, Film Studies Classes, and Transfer Credit First, check the transfer equivalency page If Admissions has confirmed that your classes will count for credit at UGA, they often come in looking like "THEA 2TXX," “FILM 1TXX,” and the like. That means they are not necessarily direct equivalent to our classes, and our department would need to evaluate those syllabi. If classes are not on the transfer equivalency page, that doesn't mean they won't count in some way. They just haven't been evaluated yet since people come from many different schools inside and outside of Georgia. Once you know these can come in as UGA credits, we can evaluate your theatre-specific courses to see if we can offer equivalent credit for them or not. Keep in mind that we can accept up to 15 hours of equivalent credit towards major requirements. Non-equivalent credit can count towards your overall hours to graduation (and often in area 6 fine arts), though. If you need credits evaluated for equivalent credit for film or theatre, contact Dina Canup or Vivian Appler. See below for additional advice on transferring and credits if you want to plan ahead for transferring to UGA. Auditions or Applications for Our Majors Are Not Required No additional application, portfolio or audition is needed to major in theatre at UGA or any of the areas of emphasis. The musical theatre certificate program (added to the major) does require an audition, which will happen in the first few weeks of classes. Auditions for UGA Theatre productions occur within the first two weeks of classes in fall, and during October for spring. Individual student-run groups have a variety of audition and participation plans. New/Incoming Transfer Students Visit our New Student page, which has particular advice for transfer students. You can also contact advisor Dina Canup with your particular questions and especially around the time of your UGA orientation and advising. We have had many transfer students from many colleges over the years – and they tend to thrive in our program. We want to make you feel very welcome in the Fine Arts Building! Some Additional Advice If you are considering transferring to UGA for theatre or film: If you want to major in Film, take your college's equivalent of our FILM 2120 intro to cinema if you can and if you know it will transfer correctly. It's an important prerequisite for many film courses. Don't take a general single-semester overall history of cinema course, as it will not count for our film major (we take three semesters to cover history of cinema so it is not equivalent). In general, don't take too many THEA or FILM classes before you get here, as you might end up with many classes that don't count as equivalent or exceed the number of equivalent hours we can count towards a major. For theatre majors, courses like stagecraft, script analysis, and foundations of design are frequently-taken equivalents. We don't count transfer lab or practicum hours for our major. Some acting classes count for the major course and others might only count for non-major acting courses. If you know your acting class will count for our THEA 3500, that can be helpful to have in advance. Transfer after one year rather than two if you can, especially if you are hoping to double major. However, if you transfer after completing two years or more elsewhere, you may decide not to spend the extra credit hours (and semesters) for double majoring. You may or may not be able to add a minor or certificate. Assume you will need at minimum 2 years (four full semesters) or more to complete one of our majors after you transfer. Some classes typically don't count in a particular way towards one of our degrees (see the Bulletin for full requirements) but instead would count as general electives, so keep this in mind if you want to maximize your elective or minor/certificate/second major hours: World history. You'll need to meet the US/GA history requirement at UGA, so taking an American history (pre-or-post 1865, HIST 2111 or 2112 equivalent) in the state of Georgia would be better. Extra life science or physical science courses. You should only need to take one of each for UGA and Franklin College requirements, though one of them needs to count for UGA's environmental literacy requirements. If you take the equivalent for ECOL 1000, you'll need to have the lab for it to count for Franklin biological science but otherwise only one of the two science classes needs a lab. Algebra can be tricky. See the Math department website on this. POLS 1101 out of state equivalent won't count for UGA's US/GA constitution requirement. Best to take it here or in state. A foreign language or American Sign Language is required by Franklin College and you must take up to the third level in order to graduate (you may test out of some levels or be able to waive it if you are fully fluent in another language, receive an official accommodation, or your native language is not English).
