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Advising and Registration

The Kinesiology Department’s faculty and staff are dedicated to the academic success of our students, but it is ultimately the individual responsibility of the student to make satisfactory progress and complete all graduation requirements. Advisors are ready and able to assist with career planning, course sequence planning, navigating applying to graduate school, and more.

ADVISING FOR Spring 2026

The advising period for the Spring 2026 semester begins for continuing students on Wednesday, October 15, 2025.

All Day Advising & Registration (ADAR) will take place on Friday, October 31, 2025 from 8AM to 4PM in Coleman Gym (Coleman Building, Room 248.) Advising at ADAR is by appointment ONLY and students must follow the instructions and submit their advising survey in order to sign up.

*Kinesiology majors whose PRIMARY advisor is a KIN faculty member MUST ATTEND All Day Advising & Registration. Failure to do so will result in a delay in the release of the student’s advising code.

SPRING 2026 ADVISING INTRUCTIONS

Advisor Assignments

Primary Academic Advisors

Finding your primary advisor assignment is as easy as opening your Degree Works! Log into degreeworks.uncg.edu and take a look at the top information box:

Level Undergraduate; Classification 4-Senior; Major Kinesiology (BS); Program BS - School of Health and Human Sciences; Concentration Sports Medicine and Movement Science (BS); College Sch of Health/Human Sciences; Advisor Adam Berg, Lauren Griffin; Campus Greensboro Main; Academic Standing Chancellor's List; UNCG Credits Earned 33; Transfer Credits Earned 64; Overall Credits Earned 97; Overall GPA 3.90; Pre-Professional Interests Pre-Physical Therapy

Look at the top box and find the section that says “Advisor.” If you have more than one advisor listed, the first person is your PRIMARY advisor and the name you will use when filling out Kinesiology department forms. Your primary advisor will also be your first point of contact for questions about your academic progress.

In the example here, Dr. Adam Berg is the student’s PRIMARY academic advisor and Dr. Lauren Griffin is their preprofessional advisor for Pre-Physical Therapy.

If you have more than one major, are a member of the honors college or one of the residential colleges, are a student athlete, or are enrolled in a special advising program, you may see other names in this box. If this is your situation, please use the first KIN faculty member or HHS advisor listed for all Kinesiology Department business.

Students can also find their primary advisor assignment by logging into UNCGenie and looking at their Student Profile page.

Students can contact their primary academic advisor at any time with questions or concerns, even if it is not the official advising period.

*If you recently changed your major to Kinesiology and you still see an old advisor listed, please let us know.

    HHS Advising Center

    Some First Year and Sophomore Kinesiology majors are advised through the HHS Advising Center. Log into Genie or take a look at your Degree Works to see your advisor assignment. If you see more than one name, your PRIMARY advisor is usually the first name in the list.

    *Kinesiology majors assigned the HHS Advising Center DO NOT have to attend All Day Advising & Registration (ADAR.)

    HHS Advisors:

    • Megan Cayton
    • Erin Fox
    • Deja Kenion
    • Madison Wilson

    If your primary advisor is one of the above-listed people, or if you see “Health and Human Sciences (HHS) Advising Center” listed on your Degree Works, contact HHS Advising directly for help.

    HHS ADVISING CENTER
    336.334.9753
    askhhs@uncg.edu
    Margaret C. Moore Building, Room 413

    Kinesiology Faculty Advisors

    All other Kinesiology majors are assigned a Kinesiology faculty member as their primary academic advisor. Students are highly encouraged to communicate with their advisor regularly to address questions and concerns about career planning, graduation requirements, graduate school planning, advising and registration, and more.

    *Kinesiology majors assigned to KIN faculty advisors MUST ATTEND All Day Advising & Registration (ADAR.) Failure to do so will result in a delay in the release of the student’s advising code.

    KIN faculty advisors:

    • Adam Berg
    • Anne Brady
    • Ang Chen
    • Greg Daniels
    • Paul Davis
    • Eric Drollette
    • Donna Duffy
    • Omari Dyson
    • Lauren Griffin
    • Hannah Koch
    • Jaclyn Maher
    • Jessica McNeil
    • Traci Parry
    • Louisa Raisbeck
    • Teah Rawlings
    • Aaron Terranova

    KIN faculty biographies and contact information can be found in the Kinesiology Faculty and Staff Directory.

    All students majoring in Physical Education and Health Teacher Education (PEHTE)* are advised by the program director, Dr. Judy Fowler, jafowle3@uncg.edu.

    *PEHTE + Kinesiology double majors are also advised by Dr. Fowler.

    Advising procedures for PEHTE and PEHTE/KIN majors will be communicated by Dr. Fowler in advance of advising for the upcoming semester.

    *PEHTE majors and PEHTE/KIN double majors DO NOT have to attend All Day Advising & Registration (ADAR.)

    New first year and transfer students either have to attend a SOAR orientation or ARA session -OR- they will receive communication from UNCG with alternate advising instructions. Readmitted students also must wait for instructions from the university or department. Be on the lookout for information regarding orientation (if required) and advising and registration in your UNCG iSpartan email inbox.

    Interested in seeing what courses may transfer to our B.S. in Kinesiology? Read our transfer student page for links and course equivalency information from North Carolina Community Colleges.

    PreProfessional Advisors

    Students who are enrolled in one of UNCG’s preprofessional programs will have a secondary advisor assigned for that purpose. Preprofessional programs include Pre-Physical Therapy, Pre-Physician Assistant, Pre-Occupational Therapy, Pre-Medical, etc. The purpose of the preprofessional advisor is to help students plan for and navigate issues related to applying to graduate programs in their chosen career path.

    In Degree Works, the preprofessional advisor’s name will appear after the student’s primary academic advisor.

    General advising and registration issues should be referred to the student’s PRIMARY academic advisor, not their preprofessional advisor.

    REGISTRATION

    Registration for Fall 2025 for continuing UNCG students opens on Monday, April 14, 2025, but not everyone can register on the same day. UNCG has established registration access windows according to classification. (This is determined by your official classification as stated at the top of your Degree Works, which is based on your earned/completed credit hours.)

    To find your specific registration open date, simply log into UNCGenie:

    • Log into UNCGenie > Student tab > Registration > Check Your Registration Status > look for your “Time ticket”  on the Registration Status page
    • Your registration window will open at 12:01 AM on the date specified in Genie
    • Registration window information is not available until a few weeks before registration opens.

    Kinesiology and Physical Education (PEHTE) virtual student folders are in Microsoft SharePoint.

    • Most KIN majors assigned to the HHS Advising Center DO NOT have virtual folders yet. Please contact the HHS Advising Center if you need copies of your advising notes or you have lost your advising code.
    • KIN and PEHTE majors assigned to Kinesiology faculty advisors can find their virtual folder by selecting the appropriate option:
    KINESIOLOGY MAJORS
    PHYSICAL EDUCATION MAJORS

    PEHTE-Kinesiology double majors, please select “Physical Education Majors”

    You must be logged into your UNCG email or Microsoft 365 account ( m365.uncg.edu ) to access your folder

    Students who attended All Day Advising can find their course selection form and advising code in their student folder.

    Course Overloads

    An approved course overload is required for students who want to take more than 18 credit hours in Fall or Spring, or more than 7 credit hours in any one summer session. Students planning on taking winter session courses should keep in mind that the credit hours are added to Spring (i.e. 6ch in Winter plus 15ch in Spring would total 21 credits for a spring semester overload request.)

    Generally, overloads are granted to students with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher, or students who are within one or two semesters of graduation.

    Students who are advised by the HHS Advising Center must request an overload through the center.

    PEHTE majors and students with Kinesiology faculty advisors must submit a KIN Course Overload Request Form. Once submitted, your overload request will be forwarded to your academic advisor for review. Please make sure that you provide all information requested in detail so that your advisor has all of the information needed to evaluate your request.

    KIN COURSE OVERLOAD REQUEST FORM

    Registration Errors

    There are any number of reasons that a student may encounter a registration error when trying to sign up for classes. Some common registration errors and troubleshooting solutions include:

    A Corequisite error will happen when you are trying to register for only one part of a set of two or more courses that are corequisites. For example, when registering for a course with a separate lab component you must select both a lecture section AND one of the corresponding lab sections. You must register for all corequisites at the same time.

    A Prerequisite / test score error will pop up if you don’t have the required prereqs for the course OR, in some cases, if you transferred in your prereqs. 

    • If you don’t have the prerequisites, we cannot override that restrictions. Consider enrolling in the prerequisite course so that you can enroll in the target course in a future semester.
    • If you transferred in your prerequisites and you are encountering a prerequisite/test score error, please fill out the KIN Registration Error Form linked below.

    A Field of Study error occurs if you are not in the required program, major, or minor to register for a certain course. For example, KIN 477 is only open to students who are officially enrolled in the Sport Coaching minor.

    An H next to a section number denotes an Honors section. If you are not a student in an honors college, you cannot register for any H section. Find another section that does not have the H designation.

    A Maximum hours exceeded error occurs if you are trying to register for more than the maximum allowed credit hours for a certain semester.

    An approved course overload is required for students who want to take more than 18 credit hours in Fall or Spring, or more than 7 credit hours in any one summer session. Please refer to the Course Overload instructions above.

    If your issue is still occurring after review of the common registration errors above, please submit a KIN Registration Error Form and don’t forget to upload a screenshot or picture of the registration error message that you are receiving.

    KIN REGISTRATION ERROR FORM

    The form linked here is ONLY for errors with KIN prefix courses. If you are having trouble registering for another department’s course, please contact the corresponding department for help.

    KIN 475 Independent Study

    KIN 475 (Independent Study) allows students to complete intensive, independent work in an area of special interest in Kinesiology. Many students volunteer in Department of Kinesiology research labs and earn course credit through KIN 475, but this is not the only option. There are any number of projects that students can explore under the guidance of a supervising Kinesiology faculty member.

    KIN 475 can be a 1, 2, or 3 credit hour course, depending on the scope of the project or the number of hours working in a research lab. KIN 475 can be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours total.

    Students cannot register for KIN 475 without a completed and signed KIN 475 Independent Study Form (PDF).

    Kinesiology Appeals

    An appeal can be completed for a range of issues including but not limited to: course substitution from a UNCG course, course substitution from a transferred course, prerequisite to be admitted to a course, GPA needed to be admitted to a course, etc.

    To file a formal appeal, please submit a UNCG Kinesiology Department Appeal Form and follow all directions and submit all documents requested. Most appeals are reviewed by the KIN Undergraduate Studies Committee. Please see the sample student appeal letter for proper formatting of the appeal letter.

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