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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 2027

The advising period for the Spring 2027 semester begins for continuing students on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.

All Day Advising & Registration (ADAR) will take place on Friday, October 30, 2026 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. (More to come in October!)

*Kinesiology majors whose PRIMARY advisor is a KIN faculty member MUST ATTEND ADAR. This includes ALL Juniors and Seniors, and a few Sophomores and Freshmen as well.

SPRING 2027 ADVISING INTRUCTIONS

You may need a PDF copy of your Degree Works for advising or when filling out various departmental forms. Follow the instructions here to save your DW in a snap!

When trying to save your Degree Works as a PDF, the download button very often does not work properly. (Sometimes there is a “network error” message, sometimes the download simply doesn’t happen, sometimes the download does happen, but the file is unreadable.) This is a known glitch that has a very simple workaround ….

Follow these easy steps to save your Degree Works as a PDF:

  • Log into degreeworks.uncg.edu
  • Click the printer icon in the upper right (if you hover over the icon, it will say “Create PDF”)
  • Make sure “Letter – Portrait” is selected and click OPEN PDF
  • A new window or tab will open with a formatted PDF version of your Degree Works
  • Instead of the “Download” icon, click the “Print” icon in the upper right corner

Please edit the file name so that it includes your first and last name.

Select “Save as PDF” instead of a printer

Save the file to your computer … somewhere that you can find it!

Advisor Assignments

Primary Academic Advisors

Example of UNCGenie Student Records menu with Student Profile listed first

Finding your primary advisor assignment is as easy as logging into UNCGenie!

  • Log into UNCGenie
  • Select the Students Main Menu.
  • Under Student Records click on the Student Profile link. 
  • Once you have accessed your student profile, look at the bottom left of the page and your advisor(s) will be listed with the type of advisor specified.
    • You may have only one advisor or you may have several.
Example of the UNCGenie Student Profile page

Some Kinesiology students are assigned to Kinesiology faculty members as their primary advisor and some have advisors in the HHS Advising center.

In the example below, Deja Kenion is the student’s Primary / Major Advisor. Deja Kenion is an advisor in the School of Health & Human Sciences (HHS) Advising Center. Students whose primary advisor is an HHS advisor will complete their course planning for the upcoming semester and obtain their advising code from HHS Advising.

HHS Advisors are Megan Cayton, Erin Fox, Deja Kenion, and Madison Wilson. 

A list of KIN faculty advisors can be found below. Students whose PRIMARY advisor is a KIN faculty member MUST attend All Day Advising & Registration (ADAR) to obtain their advising code for the next semester.

If you have more than one major, you may see another name listed as your primary advisor. If this is your situation, please use the KIN faculty member or HHS advisor who appears as a major advisor for all Kinesiology Department business.

Example of the Advisors block: Primary / Major Advisor Deja Chenel Kenion; Major Advisor Teah Chanelle Rawlings; Pre-Professional Aaron Terranova

Students can reach out to their major advisor(s) or Preprofessional advisor at any time with questions or concerns about their career goals and academic progress.

If you recently changed your major to Kinesiology and you see an old advisor listed, please let us know. Still not sure who is your primary advisor for KIN? Email Ms. Becky Kates at rekates@uncg.edu to inquire about your advisor assignment.

    HHS Advising Center

    Some First Year and Sophomore Kinesiology majors are advised through the HHS Advising Center. Log into Genie to see your primary advisor assignment.

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

    HHS Advisors:

    • Victoria Adams Halvorsen
    • 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
    127 McIver Street (across the street from the McIver Parking Deck)

    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 whose PRIMARY advisor is a KIN faculty member 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
    • Paul Davis
    • Eric Drollette
    • Donna Duffy
    • Jennifer Etnier
    • Lauren Griffin
    • Hannah Koch
    • Kathryn (K-Lynn) McKey
    • 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.

    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.

    Transfer and readmitted students can reach out to:

    • Dr. Adam Berg, Director of Undergraduate Studies, apberg@uncg.edu

    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.

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

    REGISTRATION

    Example of the registration Notices box

    Registration for Fall 2026 for continuing UNCG students opens on Monday, April 13, 2026, 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 > Student main Menu
    • Student Profile (if prompted select Fall 2026)
    • click Registration Notices in the upper right
    • Your registration window will open at 12:01 AM on the date specified
    • **Registration window information is typically not available until a few weeks before registration opens

    Kinesiology 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 majors assigned to Kinesiology faculty advisors as their primary major advisor can find their virtual folder by clicking the button below:
    KIN VIRTUAL STUDENT FOLDERS

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

    If you are unable to access your folder, please email Ms. Kates: rekates@uncg.edu

    **Once you have opened your KIN folder, you can create a Microsoft shortcut. This will add your KIN folder to your personal UNCG OneDrive under “My Files” for easier access.

    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).