Resources for Prospective Transfer Students Everything you need to know about applying to UGA, transferring credits, deadlines, new student events, etc. UGA TRANSFER INFORMATION Office of 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. PRE-TRANSFER ADVISING Theatre, Film, and Class Transfer Credit If Admissions has confirmed that your classes will transfer to UGA for credit, they may appear as courses such as “THEA 2TXX” or “FILM 1TXX.” These are not necessarily direct equivalents to UGA Theatre or Film courses, so our department may need to evaluate the course syllabi. If a course is not listed on the transfer equivalency page, that does not mean it cannot count toward your degree; it simply has not yet been evaluated, as students transfer from many different schools in and outside Georgia. Once Admissions confirms that your courses will transfer as UGA credit, we can evaluate your theatre- or film-specific courses to determine whether equivalent credit can be awarded. Up to 15 hours of equivalent credit may count toward major requirements. Non-equivalent credit can still count toward your overall hours required for graduation and often toward Area 6 Fine Arts requirements. For equivalent-credit evaluations in Film or Theatre, contact Dina Canup or Jeff Sherwood. See the additional information below for advice on transferring to UGA and planning your credits in advance. TRANSFER EQUIVALENCY CHECK Program Auditions No additional application, portfolio, or audition is required to major in theatre or any area of emphasis at UGA. The Musical Theatre Certificate, which is added to the major, requires an audition in mid-fall each year. UGA Theatre production auditions occur within the first two weeks of fall classes and during October for spring productions. Student-run groups have varying audition and participation processes. Additional Advice for Transferring Majors 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 and many general film "appreciation" courses may not be equivalent to our FILM 2120. 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). Courses that cover both film and TV/other media aren't likely to be equivalent to our FILM 2120 or other film history classes. If you don't transfer in with FILM 2120's equivalent, you'll want to make that course top priority for your first semester at UGA. 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 rarely 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. Georgia Film Academy courses can be tricky: these lower level classes do not count towards major requirements for film, the film production emphasis, or theatre. You may wish to avoid taking too many of those classes before transferring, as they entail a lot of credit hours and only count as general electives. 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, due to prerequisites and sequencing. The film production emphasis or adding the musical theatre performance certificate will likely add to that time. If all of your core is complete, it could be challenging to fill up your schedule with major required courses if there are scheduling conflicts, prerequisites you need to take first, etc. It's recommended that you get one of the earlier orientation sessions, as some classes fill up quickly. 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). Keep in mind, though, that AMSL classes can be limited to AMSL minors, so you may not be able to get all three semesters of sign language without minoring.
