Undergraduate Advising

Advising Availability & Upcoming Registration Deadlines

August 26 - Sept 11: Email, virtual or in-person drop-ins for Fall 2024 registration questions only. Please email your advisor for any questions or stop by our office in GEA 37 during business hours! See contact information below.

Advising appointments for longer-range academic planning will resume on Sept 12.

Fall 2024 Registration Deadlines

You should verify your schedule online before 5 pm, on or before the 12th class day. See your Class Listing and manage your Waitlists.

Add Deadline: Thursday, August 29 by 5:00 pm (4th day of school)
- Adds can no longer be done online and are considered ‘late adds’ after this time. Students wishing to add a course must contact the department offering the course directly, and permission is at the discretion of the department and is not guaranteed.
- CNS Departmental Contacts
Drop Deadline: Wednesday, Sept 11 by 5:00 pm (12th day of school)
- Drops after this time can still be initiated as a Q drop which will remain on transcript as an attempted course without a refund (but will not affect GPA). More details about the Q drop deadline and procedure for this semester will be shared soon.

Financial aid questions: For questions on how a drop may affect you financially, reach out to the Texas One Stop for more information.

Transferring credit from another school: If you have taken any courses away from UT, please also send a transcript from that school to UT as soon as possible to keep your record and Interactive Degree Audit up-to-date. Learn how to submit and check the status.

Biology Course Number Updates Fall 2024

To better reflect the diversity of Biology coursework offered at UT Austin, most upper-division Biology courses will be listed under the fields of Integrative Biology (INB) or Molecular Biosciences (MBS) rather than Biology (BIO) beginning with the Fall 2024 course schedule.

Courses

The majority of lower-division BIO courses, BIO 325 (Genetics), and BCH 369 Biochemistry will not be affected by this change. Here’s a highlight of the courses that you may be taking as a Public Health Major, BS Nutrition major, and/or as a student on a Pre-Health Track:

BIO 326R→ MBS 326R (General Microbiology)
BIO 326M→ MBS 326M (Medical Microbiology)
BIO 226L→ MBS 226L (Microbiology Lab)
BIO 365S→ INB 365S (Physiology)
BIO 165U→ INB 165U (Physiology Lab)
BIO 446L→ INB 446L (Anatomy)

View equivalency guide for all BIO courses

Contact

You must leave your FULL NAME and UT EID in any communication with our office in order for us to get back to you.

Email: headvising@austin.utexas.edu

Location: Mary E. Gearing Hall, GEA 37 (basement level on east side of the building)

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8 am-12 pm and 1 pm-5 pm

Unsure who your academic advisor is? Check here. If you do not see an advisor listed, email us for assistance.

Angela Patterson, Coordinator of Academic Advising

Jill Lawler, Academic Advisor

Briana Denham, Academic Advisor

Ty Finley, Academic Advisor

Vivi Vargas, Academic Advisor

Dr. Ladia Hernandez, SoHE Honors Coordinator

Graduate School Contacts

In-Residence M.S. and PhD Programs: Abby Black, Graduate Program Administrator

Online Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences (MSNS): Lauri Lashinger, Associate Professor of Instruction, Director

Other CNS Resources

Public Health Advising Resources: Concentration Lists & Foreign Culture

Concentration Requirement

For 2020-2022 and earlier catalogs, the Public Health major offers six concentrations: Biostatistics and Public Health Informatics, Environmental Health Science, Health Policy and Management, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Nutrition.

The concentration requirement for the PBH degree requires at least 9 hours of coursework from approved concentration lists. The concentration hours can be completed by taking courses from a single approved concentration list, or through taking approved upper-division PBH courses. Students can choose to take all 9 hours from one approved list, some from an approved list and some from upper-division PBH courses, or all 9 hours from the upper-division PBH courses. The concentration does not need to be “declared” and the concentration you choose will not be noted on your transcript.

The approved concentration course lists do not guarantee availability of courses. If you have questions about registering for a course that is outside of the School of Human Ecology, please reach out to the department offering the class for more information about registration. The Human Ecology Advising Center will not be able to help students register for courses outside of SoHE.

Concentration Lists

The following lists contain the approved courses for the 16-18, 18-20, and 20-22 catalogs. You must choose at least 9 hours of coursework to fulfill the concentration. Courses must be taken from the same list.

**Students on the 22-24 catalog and later catalogs do NOT have to take concentration courses. Students are instead required to take PBH 363 and 6hrs of additional Advanced Public Health courses (excluding PBH 354, 356, 358D, 334, 338). These courses can be chosen from the above list.**

20-22 and earlier catalog concentration lists:

Biostatistics Public Health Informatics

Environmental Sciences

Health Policy Management

Infectious Diseases Microbiology

Nutrition

Social Behavioral Sciences

Additional options for any Concentration list: Students can also count any of the Upper-Division PBH classes listed below towards any concentration list. There is no maximum, and you can fulfill your entire concentration requirement with just Upper-Division PBH courses:

PBH 341R Public Health Research (internship program, details here.)
PBH 337: Diverse Communities and Health Equity
PBH 337: Maternal and Child Health
PBH 362 Epidemiology II
PBH 363 Project Management, Planning and Evaluation
PBH 364 Field Epidemiology
PBH 365 Public Health Informatics (in development)
PBH 366 Global Health in Action
PBH 367 Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases

Please note:

Concentration courses CANNOT satisfy other major requirements
ALWAYS confirm prerequisites, restrictions, and flags in course schedule

Foreign Culture Requirement:

Students pursuing the BS in Public Health are required to complete foreign language and/or a foreign culture courses for their degree.

There are three ways that students can satisfy this degree requirement.

2^nd semester proficiency in a single foreign language (ex. Spanish 1 and Spanish 2)
1^st semester proficiency and a foreign culture course from the same language area (ex. Spanish 1 and a Central and South America culture course)
Two foreign culture courses from a single foreign culture category (ex. Two courses from the Central and South America culture category)

Students can take their foreign language at UT, outside of UT, or can claim foreign language credit gained through advanced placement or credit-by-exam.

If students plan to take foreign culture courses, they must be taken from the pre-approved Natural Sciences Foreign Culture category lists.

Foreign Language/Culture Categories