SVAD - School of Visual Arts & Design

Regularly scheduled appointments will be seen 9am-4pm on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Appointments will be taken up to two weeks in advance. No walk-ins will be seen on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can schedule an appointment by calling 407-823-2676 and someone from our front desk staff will assist you.

No appointments will be scheduled on Wednesday and instead the advising office will be open for walk-ins (no appointment necessary) from 9am-4pm.

Walk-In-Wednesdays have the potential to get extremely busy. Please be aware that if there is a long line of students waiting to see an advisor and its getting close to 4pm, some of you may be asked to leave and either schedule an appointment at a future date or come back early on the next walk-in day. We will do our best to see everyone.

SVAD Advising is open for appointments on Friday from 9am-12pm. No walk-ins will be seen on Fridays. This will give the advising office the time they need to process paperwork, review and process course substitutions, and keep the svadadvising@ucf.edu email account answered. You can schedule an appointment by calling 407-823-2676 and someone from our front desk staff will assist you.

You must bring a current printout of your degree audit from MyUCF to any advising session, both appointments and walk-ins; so that we can be sure we are giving the most current advice. Your audit is updated regularly by UCF, so even bringing an audit that is only 4 weeks old might result in out-of-date advice.

You can access and print your degree audit from the MyUCF Student Center, and the Registrar's Office provides a helpful handout with instructions for printing: http://www.registrar.ucf.edu/pdf/UCFStudentHelpGuideForDARSDegreeAudits.pdf

Please also note that we do not currently have computers/printers available for use in the SVAD front office or SVAD advising office, so if you show up and do not have a printed copy of your audit you will be turned away until you have one! We thank you in advance for your cooperation with this new policy.

You are welcome to email us with any questions you may have at svadadvising@ucf.edu. If you decide to email any questions, please be sure to include the following information:

1. First name & last name
2. PID
3. Current degree program or program of interest
4. Your detailed question. The more detailed the better. If you have course numbers, names, and/or semesters related to your question then include them!
5. Any documentation/emails that need to be referenced from earlier advising appointments.

Please come prepared with your questions and printed degree audit to both appointments and walk-in advising sessions! Here are a few tips for being prepared.

You must have a printed copy of your degree audit before an advisor will see you. Use your degree audit as a guide to plan your classes for future semesters, but please note that courses listed on your audit are subject to availability in the semester schedule, open seats in the courses, and prerequisites for the courses being met.

Your advisor will review your classes and give you feedback, and while they will help guide you through decisions, they are not there to make them for you.

Writing down questions helps you remember why you have come to see an advisor in the first place, and it makes for a much more efficient advising session. If you have documentation or emails that you need to reference from earlier advising appointments then bring printouts with to your session.

Check the catalog for your major requirements and prerequisites before coming in to see your advisor. If something is confusing, add it to your question list and your advisor will be happy to clarify it for you. UCF provides a PDF version of the catalog for each catalog year, and the most current catalog course descriptions can be found at this link: http://www.catalog.sdes.ucf.edu/courses_and_descriptions/UCF_Courses_and_Descriptions.pdf