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Academic and Pre-Professional Advising
Advising Coordinator: Ericka Thompson
Email: arc@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2729
Location: Academic Services Building, Room 102

Undeclared/Exploratory and Pre-Profession and Allied Health students without an academic major should come to the office in room 102 Academic Services to make an appointment

Administrative and Managerial Sciences
Advising Coordinator: Marcia Croteau
Email: croteau@umbc.edu |Phone:410-455-2178
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 342

Advisors and Staff are available for advance registration.
Advisor arrangements can be made in the Public Policy Building, Room 343.

Africana Studies
Advising Coordinator: W. B. Lamouse-Smith
Email: lamouses@umbc.edu |Phone: 410-455-2158
Location: Math/Psychology Building, Room 225

Africana Studies Department Students should sign up outside individual advisors' offices.

American Studies
Advising Coordinator: Patrice McDermott
Email: mcdermot@umbc.edu |Phone: 410-455-2027
Location: Fine Arts Building Room 458

American Studies Department
Communications & Media Studies
Advisor: Dr. Dabrina Taylor
Email: dtaylor@umbc.edu |Phone: 410-455-2319
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 423

Students should sign up outside individual advisors' offices.

Ancient Studies
Advising Coordinator: Marilyn Y. Goldberg
Email: goldberg@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2106
Location: Fine Arts 454

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Advising Contact: Michelle Bulger
Email: mbulger@umbc.edu|Phone: 410-455-1718
Location: Biological Sciences Building Room 456

Advising Coordinator: Philip Farabaugh
Email: farabaugh@umbc.edu|Phone: 410-455-3018
Location: Biological Sciences Building, Room 324

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology students should check their UMBC email accounts for advisor assignments and further instructions.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Advising Contact: Michelle Bulger
Email: mbulger@umbc.edu| Phone: 410-455-1718
Location: Biological Sciences Building Room 456
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology students should check their UMBC email accounts for advisor assignments and further instructions.

Effective Fall 2006, students declaring Bioinformatics and Computational Biology as a major must meet a set of gateway requirements in order to continue with the degree.
For a detailed description of these requirements, see http://www.umbc.edu/biosci/Undergrad/ugbireq.html.
All newly declared BINF majors will be advised by Michelle Bulger until the completion of their gateway requirements can be verified.

Biological Sciences
Advising Contact: Michelle Bulger
Phone: 410-455-1718 | Email: mbulger@umbc.edu
Location:Biological Sciences Building, Room 456

Advising Coordinator: Nessly Craig
Email: craig@umbc.edu | Phone: 455-2248
Location: Biological Sciences Building, Room 315

Biological Sciences students should check their UMBC email accounts for advisor assignments and further instructions.

Business Technology Administration
See Information Systems

Chemistry
Advising Contact: Michelle Bulger
Phone: 410-455-1718 | mbulger@umbc.edu

Advising Coordinator: Sandy Tabler
Email: tabler@umbc.edu| Phone: 410-455-2491
Location: Chemistry / Meyerhoff Building Room 100

Students should call the department office, or stop by for advisor assignment.

College of Engineering and Information Technology
Advising Staff:
Director of Advising: Cathy Bielawski
Email:bielawsk@umbc.edu

Academic Advisor: Bethany Spore
Email: bethany.spore@umbc.edu | Phone:410-455-3096

Advising occurs in ITE 203-206 for ENGR/CMSC students who have not yet met the Gateway requirements and/or are new to the University in the following majors: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. Sign up sheets will be posted outside the Advising Offices (ITE 205-206). All students must make an appointment.

Admitted Chemical Engineering Majors: Sign up sheets are available outside ENG 314
Admitted Mechanical Engineering Majors: Sign up sheets available outside ENG 210.
Admitted Computer Science and Computer Engineering Majors: Students should contact their assigned faculty advisor for an appointment

Dance
Advising Coordinator: Carol Hess-Vait
Email: hessvait@umbc.edu |Phone: 410-455-2951
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 419

Students should check the list posted on thew door of the department office (FA 467C) for the name of their advisor. Students should sign up for an advising appointment on the list posted on their adivsor's door.

Economics
Advising Coordinator: Bill Lord
Email: lord@umbc.edu |Phone: 410-455-2498
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 328

Existing majors receive the name of their advisor via UMBC e-mail prior to the advising period. New majors must check wall-charts outside the economics department (window of PUP 367) where new advisees are assigned alphabetically to advisers. Students still uncertain about who their advisor is may speak with economics department secretaries between the hours of 8:30-4:30 in Public Policy Building Rooms 344, 338, or 343. Sign up sheets for advising are posted outside advisor doors the week before registration commences and running through the following week. Students with non-standard circumstances may email Robin at schmidba@umbc.edu for additional direction.

Education
Advising Coordinators: Vickie Williams (elementary and secondary admissions advising)
Email:vwilli5@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2327
Location: Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 419

Pat Scully (all early childhood advising)
Email:pscull1@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2307
Location: Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 427

Barbara Bourne (ongoing elementary advising)
Email:Barbara.Bourne@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2308
Location: Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 426

Linda Olivia(ongoing secondary and K-12 program advising)
Email: oliva@umbc.edu | 410-455-2382
Location: Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 410

An appointment book will be available at the front counter in ACIV Room 428.

Emergency Health Services
Advising Coordinator: Dwight Polk - (Clinical Track)
Email: polk@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-3782 | Phone: 410-455-3775
Location: Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 316

Students should sign up for appointments on the schedules posted on the advisors' office doors.

English
Advising Coordinator: Michael Fallon
Email: fallon@umbc.edu |Phone: 455-2021
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 444

Students who do not have an advisor should see Patty Bach and sign up at the front desk, room 449. Students who do not remember the name of their advisors should consult the list posted on the bulletin board outside room 449.

Erickson School
Advising Coordinator: Kristanna Jones
Phone: 443-543-5637 | Email: Kristanna.Jones@umbc.edu

Academic Advisors:
Dr. Leslie Morgan
Email: lmorgan@umbc.edu

Dr. Robin Majeski
Email:majeski@umbc.edu
Location: 5523 Research Park Drive, Suite 230, Baltimore, MD 21228

Students will be contacted to be given their advisement assignments and further instructions. Students should contact the department to schedule appointments with their assigned advisor.

Financial Economics
Financial Economics Advising Coordinator: Scott Farrow
Email: farrow@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-5922
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 334, 338, or 343.

Existing majors will receive name of advisor via UMBC e-mail prior to advising period. New majors should check alphabetical allocation in Department. Sign up sheets are outside advisor doors for the weeks of April 9 and April 16

Gender and Women's Studies
Advising Coordinator: Carole McCann
mccann@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2001
Location: Academic IV, Room 439

Students who have an advisor should sign up out side the advisor's office. Students who need an advisor should call or drop by the main office.

Geography and Environmental Systems
Advising Coordinator: Tom Rabenhorst
Email: Tom.Rabenhorst@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-3845
Location: Social Science Building, Room 211J

Students being advised for the first time may request to see any member of the faculty. Students without advisors will have one designated by personnel in Room 211. Sign up sheets will be on faculty office doors during pre-registration period.

Health Administration and Policy
Advising Coordinator: Joyce Riley
Email: riley@umbc.edu |Phone: 410-455-2342
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 220

Students should sign up on sheets posted on the bulletin board outside the HAPP office.

History
Advising Contact: Carla Ison
Email: ison@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2312

Advising Coordinator : James Grubb
Email: grubb@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2091
Location: Admin Building, Room 717

Students with assigned advisors should see them during office hours. Students not yet assigned should call the advising contact or check with the departmental secretary.

Honors
Advising Coordinator: Maureen McCormick
Email: mccormic@umbc.edu| Phone: 410-455-3720

Honors College students who have not declared majors are advised in the HonorsCollege , Honors College students who have declared majors should first see an advisor in their major department(s) and then consult an Honors College advisor to ensure that they maintain their membership in the College. Students should contact the Honors College to make appointments.

Information Systems
Advising Coordinators: Tate Redding
Email: redding@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-3942
Location: ITE Building , Room 404B

Karen Lewis
Email: klewis@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-3931
Location: ITE Building , Room 402

The IS Department assigns students alphabetically to faculty advisors based on the initial of the student's surname. The assignments and the appointment schedules are posted outside the faculty advisors' offices during advance registration. Students should sign up for appointments with their assigned advisors.

Interdisciplinary Studies
Advising Coordinator: Carrie Sauter
Email: csauter@umbc1.edu | Phone: 410-455-2004

1INDS Advisors:

Patricia La Noue
Email:lanoue@umbc.edu

Steven McAlpine
Email: mcalpine@umbc.edu
Website: http://www.umbc.edu/INDS
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 546

Students interested in the INDS major should view the website, then e-mail inds_info@umbc.edu for an appointment.
Current majors should schedule an individual appointment with their advisor.

Judaic Studies
Director: Jonathan Finkelstein
Email: finkelst@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-3712 or 410-455-2427
Location: Physics 329 or Math/Psychology Building Room 336

Students should call or e-mail binkelsf@umbc.edu for appointments.

Mathematics and Statistics
Advising Coordinator: Yoon Song: song@math.umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-5751
Location: Math/Psychology Building, Room 418

Media and Communication Studies
Advisment Coordinator: Jason Loviglio
Email: loviglio@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2041
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 416

Students: Should email loviglio@umbc.edu for appointments and information.

Modern Languages and Linguistics
Advising Coordinator: Elaine Rusinko
Phone: 410-455-2153 | Email:rusinko@umbc.edu
Location: Academic IV Building, Room 128

Students should sign up for an advising appointment on the list posted on their advisor's door. Students who do not have an advisor or do not know to whom they have been assigned for advising should call or visit the departmental office in Academic IV, room 146, x52109.

Music
Advising Coordinator: Joyce Hubbard
Email: hubbard@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-3123
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 020

Students should sign up for an advising appointment on the door of FA020.

Philosophy
Advising Coordinator: Roye Templeton
Email: rtemplet@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2155
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 526

Students should check the list posted on the door of the department office (FA 539) for the name of their advisor.

Physics
Advising Coordinators: Philip Rous
Email: rous@umbc.edu| Phone: 410-455-2598
Location: Physics Building , Room 217

All newly declared Physics students (Freshman, Transfers, & new to the major) and any students without a departmental advisor should contact the department’s Advising coordinator, Philip Rous. Other Physics students should contact their individual advisor. Students can learn who their advisors are by referring to the master list posted outside room 217 or by contacting Philip Rous.

Political Science
Advising Coordinator: Elyse Grossman
Email: elyse2@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2063

Department Director: Cheryl M. Miller
Phone: 410- 455-2568
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 357 and 311

Students assigned to advisors should sign up for appointments outside individual advisors' offices. Students without advisors should call or visit the department office for assignment to advisors. Students can learn who their advisors are by referring to the master list on the department bulletin board outside Room 357.

Psychology
Advising Coordinator: Debra Wolff-Sanford
Email:dsanford@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2366
Location: Math/Psychology Building Room 321

All newly declared Psychology students (Freshman, Transfers, & new to the major) should meet with the department advisor, Debbie Wolff Sanford (MP 321), for their first semester. If you have already met with Ms. Wolff-Sanford, students are assigned to a faculty advisor based on the first letter of their last name. Faculty advising assignments are posted throughout the department, and sign up sheets will be posted outside each advisor’s office.

Religious Studies
Advising Coordinator: James Grubb
Email:grubb@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2091
Location: Admin Building , Room 717

Students should call for appointments.

Social Work
Advising Coordinator: Dr. Carolyn Tice
Email: tice@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2144
Location: Academic IV Building, Wing B, Room 322

Students with advisors should sign up outside their advisors’ office or contact them. Students without advisors should call or visit the departmental office to be assigned on advisor at Academic IV, Wing B, rm. 322.

Sociology and Anthropology
Advising Coordinator: Janet Burgee
Email: jburgee@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-3979
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 252

Day and evening students should sign up according to their advisors' appointment schedules, posted on the board adjacent to room 255.

Theatre
Advising Coordinator: Lynn Watson
Email: jwatson@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2892
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 467

Students with advisors should sign up outside their advisors' office or contact them. Students without advisors should call or visit the department of Theatre office (FA467) to be assigned an advisor.

Visual Arts
Advising Coordinator: Melanie Berry
Email: mberry@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-2219
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 108A

Advising assignments are posted in FA 108 and to the visual arts student listserve. Students should contact assigned advisors for appointments.

Visual and Performing Arts(InterArts Studies)
Advising Coordinator: Anna Rubin
Email: airubin@umbc.edu | Phone: 410-455-3190
Location: Fine Arts Building Room 519
Students should call for appointments.

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