Part 4 CLASSES Upper level elective courses and their descriptions can be found on the Law School’s web site. https://law.uga.edu/course-offerings.
Course Registration All information pertaining to course schedules, registration dates, drop/add schedule adjustment, and registration guidelines are available online at https://www.law.uga.edu/class-schedules-registration and is distributed via email to students’ official UGA email accounts. Students may access the University’s Athena online registration system at http://athena.uga.edu. Students who have unpaid parking fines, library fines, health service fees, etc. will have a "flag" placed on their registration by the University. Students cannot register while a flag is on the student's record. Information regarding loan disbursements, tuition, and fee deadlines is available on the University Bursar’s website at https://www.bursar.uga.edu/.
Class Attendance Regular and punctual class attendance is an integral part of the learning process. Under Standard 308 of the ABA Standards for Approval of Law Schools, all schools must “adopt, publish and adhere to a written policy requiring regular class attendance.” In compliance with this Standard, it is Law School policy that students must attend classes regularly. Specifically, a student should not incur during a semester a number of absences in excess of twice the number of times a particular course is scheduled to meet per week. Absences in excess of this number may result in an administrative withdrawal and/or entry of an automatic “F” in a course. An instructor may, but is not required to, establish his or her own more demanding attendance policy at the beginning of a particular course. Any such policy must be clearly communicated and enforced by the instructor. Professors who excuse absences for purposes like job interviews or participation in advocacy competitions should also excuse absences for service in the military reserves.
Auditing Courses Full-time students at the Law School may audit courses only under special circumstances and with the permission of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the professor teaching the course. No additional tuition charge will be assessed. Permission to audit must be in writing and provided to the Law School registrar prior to registration in the course. Individuals who are not full-time students at the Law School may audit a course only if the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, in his or her discretion, determines that there is sufficient reason for such audit commensurate with the general purposes of the Law School and only with agreement of the professor teaching the course. Permission to audit must be in writing and provided to the Law School registrar prior to registration in the course. Tuition will be charged for such an audit.
Withdrawal from a Course/Withdrawal from Law School A student may withdraw from a course without penalty during the first half of each semester. A grade of "W" is assigned if the student adheres to the requirements for withdrawal. Grades of “Withdraw-Pass” and Withdraw-Fail” are not permitted. Until the withdrawal deadline for a semester, withdrawal from a course is accomplished online through the University’s Athena e-withdrawal system at http://athena.uga.edu. Withdrawal after the withdrawal deadline is permitted only in exceptional Page 22 of 58