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Undergraduate Program. Tim Smalley Undergraduate Coordinator. Core Curriculum. Area A - Essential Skills - 9 hrs English Comp I and II, Precalculus Area B - Institutional Options - 4 hrs Area C - Humanities/Fine Arts - 6 hrs Intro to Public Speaking, Elective Area D - Science - 12 hrs - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Undergraduate Program
Tim SmalleyUndergraduate Coordinator
Core Curriculum• Area A - Essential Skills - 9 hrs
– English Comp I and II, Precalculus• Area B - Institutional Options - 4 hrs• Area C - Humanities/Fine Arts - 6 hrs
– Intro to Public Speaking, Elective• Area D - Science - 12 hrs
– Biology or Botany I and II, Chemistry I• Area E - Social Sciences - 12 hrs
– American History and Government required– 2 Electives
Core curriculum - continued• Area F - Courses Related to Major - 17 hrs
• Microeconomics (Horticulture and Landscape)• Chemistry II• Hort Science• Hort Professionalism• Surveying (Landscape)• Physical Science and Organic Chemistry (Turf)• Electives (4,6,0)
New Courses since 1993• 2100 - Horticultural Professionalism• 3300 - Organic Gardening• 3440 - Herb, Spices and Medicinal Plants• 3450 - Residential Design• 3900 - Horticultural Study Tour• 3910 - Internship requirement• 4930, 4931 - Agriculture and Ecology in Tropical
America• 4990 - Environmental Issues In Horticulture
Classes in Approval Process
• HORT 3130 - Interior Plant identification• HORT 3460 - Residential Design II• HORT 4091 - Landscape Professional
Practices
New Curriculum- Junior/Senior• Horticultural Foundation - required
– Horticultural Physiology– Soils– Plant Propagation– Internship– Nutrition– Postharvest Physiology– Environmental Issues in Horticulture Discussion– One Elective (Genetics, Anatomy,Taxonomy,
Ecology, Weather and Climate)
New Curriculum - Jr/Sr - cont.• Commodities - 10 credit hours
– Introduction to Vegetables – Introduction to Fruit– Interior Identification– Herbaceous Perennials– Woody Identification and Use– Organic Gardening– Herbs, Spices, and Medicinals– Introductory Turf Management
New Curriculum - Jr/Sr - cont.
• Agribusiness/ Marketing - 3 credit hours– Agribusiness Marketing– Food and Fiber Marketing– Agribusiness Accounting– Intro to Agribusiness Management
New Curriculum - Jr/Sr - cont
• Production/Management - 12 credit hours– Interior Plant, Nursery, Greenhouse, Turf or
Landscape Management– Olericulture or Pomology– Residential Design I and II– Irrigation– Agriculture and Ecology of Tropical America– Plant and Garden Study Tour
New Curriculum - Jr/Sr - cont• Plant Protection - 6 credit hours
– Pesticide Management– Weeds– Ornamental or Turf Pest Management– Plant Pathology– Agricultural Entomology– Integrated Pest Management– Diagnosis and Control of Plant Diseases
New Curriculum - Hort - cont
• Free Electives - 5 credit hours• All electives but free electives are directed
electives requiring the approval of advisors
Assessment Techniques
• Test, lab reports, papers, computer projects, oral presentations
• Senior exit survey• Senior exit interview
Response to Assessments• Repair greenhouse• Obtain new design lab• New building initiative • Prompt changes in service class - less focus
on row crops• Spread advising load• Hire new landscape design professor
Recruiting
• UGA Entrance standards– GPA: 3.53 - 3.96 – SAT: 1160 - 1320– ACT: 25 - 29
• Hope Scholarship effect• College recruiter in Academic Affairs• Major Fair for undecided majors
Increasing Diversity
• UGA diversity requirement• Academic Affairs recruiter
– High school summer interns– Georgia Plant Science Scholars– 4-H summer camps - propagation class
• Spanish recommended• International Courses
Advising
• Armitage, Berle, Mills, Randle, Rieger, Smalley
• Appointments - students notified at orientation to contact advisor
• Open door policy
Internships
• 3 hrs required, 6 hrs allowed• Informal (journal plus paper)• Information during Hort Professionalism• Listed on web site and in departmental
office • Interviewing during Career Day
Scholarships
• Listed on web site and in departmental office • College-wide Scholarships• Departmental Scholarships
– Bartlett Foundation (2 x 1,000)– Albert Dirr– Horticulture Club (endowed)
• Top ten percent personally contacted
Hort Club• Required for Horticultural Professionalism• 2 plant sales, Valentine’s Day• Southeastern Flower Show• Service
– Landscape senior citizen homes– Teach elementary and project children
• Fall and spring trip• Attend SASHS and ASHS
Landscape Club
• Since 1998• Meetings
– Speakers– ALCA Student Career Days training
• Attend ALCA Student Career Days– Funded through industry solicitations
• Landscape Habitat for Humanity Homes
International Travel• Agriculture and Ecology in Tropical America
– Costa Rica - every year– Guatemala - in the past
• Plant and Garden Tour– England - 2001– England, Wales, Scotland - 2003
• Internships possible– Ireland (Birr Castle)– England (Hilliers)– New Zealand (cut flowers)
Career Planning and Placement
• UGA Career Center• Horticultural Professionalism
– Speakers, resumes, mock interviews• Annual Departmental Career Day
– 8 interviews before graduation in department• South Campus Career Day
Courses for non-majors• Horticultural Sciences• Interior Plant Identification• Interior Plant Management• Organic Gardening• Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants• Horticultural Study Tour• Agricultural and Ecology in Tropical
America class and tour
Horticultural Minor• Choose one of the following
– Introduction to Vegetable Crops– Introduction to Fruit Crops– Organic Gardening– Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants
Horticulture Minor - cont.
• Choose one of the following– Nursery Management– Greenhouse Management I– Greenhouse Management II– Landscape Horticulture
• Elective Courses (9 to 10 credit hours)• Total of 15 credit hours