Finding HIPs at UGA
At UGA, courses representing the four initial High-Impact Practices can be found in
several ways. For instance, First-Year Odyssey seminars are listed by semester of
availability on the First-Year Odyssey website. Service-learning, undergraduate research, and writing-intensive courses carry a particular suffix in UGA’s CAPA system. Additionally, the Office of Curriculum Systems has added “attributes”
for these courses using tags provided by the University System of Georgia.
To see what courses have been approved with these suffixes, click here.
To find which courses identified as high-impact practices are offered in a given semester,
see the step-by-step instructions below for how to search in Athena by term using the attributes added by the Office of Curriculum Systems.
Navigating Athena to find HIPs
Courses that support these HIPs can be found by browsing the course listing in Athena.
- Log into Athena.
- Click on “Faculty.”
- Under Classes and Grades, click on “Classes and Courses Search.”
4. Click on “Browse Classes.”
5. Select a term/semester.
6. On the next screen, you’ll see “Enter Your Search Criteria” at the top. Click on the option to open up “Advanced Search.”
- 7. Place your cursor in the “Attribute” box, and start typing in “HIP.”
- 8. Four options will appear:
- HIP Capstone
- HIP Service Learning
- HIP Undergraduate Research
- HIP Writing Intensive
9. Once you select an attribute, click “Search” to pull up the full set of classes for that term that have that attribute.
Course Listings
More HIPs courses have been approved than are offered in a given semester. Here are a few more resources for finding other relevant courses.
- • The Writing Intensive Program maintains a listing, updated each spring, of writing-intensive courses offered during the upcoming academic year.
- • For undergraduate research, most prefixes have a university-wide progressive course sequence designated with
numbers 4960R, 4970R and 4980R (for research courses), and 4990R (the capstone of
the sequence, a research thesis). Currently approved courses can be found by searching for these course numbers using
the particular departmental prefix in CAPA’s browse menu.
- • First-Year Odyssey seminars currently available can be found online, by searching keywords, titles, instructors, or college/department.
- • Courses that have been approved with the S suffix or with the W suffix can be found by clicking on the appropriate box in the advanced search in UGA’s course bulletin website.
