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UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING PROCEDURES

Administrative and Managerial Sciences Advisement Coordinator: Marcia Croteau 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.
Academic Advising, Office of Academic Services Advisement Coordinator: Ericka Thompson Phone: 410-455-2729 *Location:* Academic Services Building, Room 102 Undeclared/Exploratory students should come to the Advising Resource Center (ARC) in room 102 Academic Services to make an appointment.
Africana Studies Advisement Coordinator: W. B. Lamouse-Smith Phone: 410-455-2158 *Location:* Math/Psychology Building, Room 225 Africana Studies Department Students should sign up outside individual advisors' offices.
American Studies Advisement Coordinator: Patrice McDermott Phone: 410-455-2027 *Location:* Fine Arts Building Room 458
American Studies Department Certificate in Communications & Media Studies Advisor: Dr. Dabrina Taylor Phone: 410-455-2319 *Location:* Fine Arts Building, Room 423 Students should sign up outside individual advisors' offices.
American Studies Department Certificate in Communications & Media Studies Advisor: Dr. Dabrina Taylor Phone: 410-455-2319 *Location:* Fine Arts Building, Room 423Students should sign up outside individual advisors' offices.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Advisement Contact: Michelle Bulger Phone: 410-455-1718 Email: mbulger@umbc.edu Location: Biological Sciences Building Room 456 Advisement Coordinator: Philip Farabaugh 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 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. Advisement Contact: Michelle Bulger Phone: 410-455-1718 Email: mbulger@umbc.edu *Location:* Biological Sciences Building Room 456 Bioinformatics & Computational Biology students should check their UMBC email accounts for advisor assignments and further instructions.
Biological Sciences Advisement Contact: Michelle Bulger Phone: 410-455-1718 Email: mbulger@umbc.edu Location: Biological Sciences Building, Room 456 Advisement Coordinator: Nessly Craig 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 Advisement Contact: Michelle Bulger Phone: 410-455-1718 Email: mbulger@umbc.edu Advisement Coordinator: Sandy Tabler Phone: 410-455-2491 Location: Chem./Physics Building, Room 100 Students should call the department office, or stop by for advisor assignment.
Computer Science & Computer Engineering See College of Engineering and Information Technology
Dance Advisement Coordinator: Carol Hess Phone: 410-455-2951 *Location:* Fine Arts Building, Room 419 Students should sign up outside individual advisor's offices
Economics Advisement Coordinator: Michael Bradley Phone: 410-455-2170 Location: Public Policy Building, Room 334 Students will be assigned to advisors between the hours of 8:30-4:30 in Public Policy Building Room 344, 338, or 343. Existing majors will receive name of advisor via UMBC email prior to advising period.
Financial Economics Financial Economics Advisement Coordinator: Scott Farrow Phone: 410-455-5922 *Location*: Public Policy Building, Room 334, 338, or 343. Existing majors will receive name of advisor via UMBC email prior to advising period.
Education Advisement Coordinators:Vickie Williams (elementary and secondary admissions advising) Email: vwilli5@umbc.edu Phone: 410-455-2327 *Location:* Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 419Pat Scully (all early childhood advising). E-mail: 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 Phone: 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 Advisement Coordinator: Dwight Polk - (Clinical Track) Phone: 455-3782 Stephen Dean - (Management Track) 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.
College of Engineering and Information Technology 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 203-206) on Wed., November 1 to schedule appointments beginning Mon., November 6th. All students must make an appointment. *Advising Staff:* Advisement Coordinator: Cathy Bielawski E-mail: bielawsk@umbc.edu Academic Advisor: Bethany Spore E-mail: bethany.spore@umbc.edu Academic Advisor: Courtney Topolski E-mail: topolski@umbc.edu Phone: 410- 455-3096 Admitted Chemical Engineering Majors: Sign up sheets are available outside ENG 314 on Wed., November 1 st. Admitted Mechanical Engineering Majors: Sign up sheets available outside ENG 210 on Wed., November 1 st. Admitted Computer Science and Computer Engineering Majors: Students should contact their assigned faculty advisor for an appointment
English Advisement Coordinator: Michael Fallon 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 of Aging Studies Advising Coordinator: Kristanna Jones Phone: 443-543-5637 E-mail: 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.
Geography and Environmental Systems Advisement Coordinator: Tom Rabenhorst 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 Advisement Coordinator: Joyce Riley 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 Advisement Coordinator: James Grubb Phone: 410-455-2091 E-mail: grubb@umbc.edu *Location:* Admin Building, Room 717 Students with assigned advisors should see them during office hours. Students not yet assigned should call the coordinator or check with the departmental secretary.
Honors Advisement Coordinator: Maureen McCormick Phone: 410-455-3720 Honors College students who have not declared majors are advised in the Honors College. 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 Advisement Coordinators: Tate Redding Phone: 410-455-3942 Location ITE Building, Room 404B Karen Lewis Phone: 410-455-3931 *Location:* ITE Building, Room 402 is now assigning 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 Advisement Coordinator: Dianna Thayer INDS Advisors : Patricia La Noue E-mail: lanoue@umbc.edu James Scott E-mail: jscott8@umbc.edu Steven Mcalpinme E-mail: mcalpine@umbc.edu Dianna Thayer E-mail: thayer@umbc.edu Phone: 410-455-2004 Website: http://www.umbc.edu/INDS *Location:* Fine Arts Building, Room 546 Drop-in advising for any student: Tuesday 9am-10am and Wednesday 12pm-1pm. View website, then e-mail INDS office for an appointment. Current majors should schedule an individual appointment with their own INDS advisor
Judaic Studies Director: Jonathan Finkelstein Phone: 410-455-3712 or 410-455-2427 *Location:* Physics 329/Math/Psychology Building Room 336 Students should call for appointments.
Mathematics and Statistics Advisement Coordinator: T. Armstrong Phone: 410-455-2235 *Location:* Math/Psychology Building, Room 418 Students should come to Math/Statistics Office room 410 to check on assignment to a faculty advisor. They should then make an appointment with their assigned advisor.
Modern Languages and Linguistics Advisement Coordinator: Elaine Rusinko Phone: 455-2153 E-mail: 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 Advisement Coordinator: Joyce Hubbard Phone: 301-455-3123 *Location:* Fine Arts Building, Room 020 Students call or visit the department office for assignment to individual advisors.
Philosophy Advisement Coordinator: Roye Templeton 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 Advisement Coordinators: Philip Rous 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 advisements 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 Advisement Coordinator: Cheryl M. Miller Phone: 410- 455-2568 *Location:* Public Policy Building, Room 357 and 311 Students’ assigned 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, Room 357.
Psychology Advisement Coordinator: Debra Sanford E-mail: 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. 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. For Spring 2006 advanced registration, sign up sheets will be posted outside of each advisor's office.
Religious Studies Advisement Coordinator: James Grubb, grubb@umbc.edu Phone: 410-455-2091 *Location*: Admin Building, Room 717 Students should call for appointments.
Social Work Advisement Coordinator: Dr. Carolyn Tice 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 Advisement Coordinator: Janet Burgee Phone: 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 Advisement Coordinator: Lynn Watson Phone: 410-455-2917 *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 departmental office to be assigned an advisor, Room FA
Visual Arts Advisement Coordinator: Melanie Berry 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) Advisement Coordinator: Anna Rubin Phone: 410-455-3190 *Location:* Fine Arts Building Room 519 Students should call for appointments
Women's Studies: Advisement Coordinator: Anne Brodsky Phone: 410-455-2001 Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 452 Students should sign up for appointments in the Women's Studies Office, Room 452 Fine Arts.

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