Welcome to the College of Agriculture, Food and
Environment
Agenda• Introductions• Learn about college• Review degree requirements• Questions• Break• Advising• Check-out in front of Agriculture
Information Center (Beginning at 10:45 a.m.)
• Register for classes (Beginning at 11 a.m.)
• Wait in lobby until all students are finished registering
• Board bus for main campus
Introductions
• Your Name• Where You Are
From• Your Major
How can you make the most of your UK experience?
• Go to class • Pay attention and participate in class • Come to class prepared • Take good notes • Get help if needed• Make good grades• Get involved• Use a planner• Study a lot
College is Your Job
• Take 12 credit hours and study 3 hours outside of class for each hour in class
12 hours in class+36 hours outside
class 48 hours total per
week
• Take 16 credit hours and study 3 hours outside of class for each hour in class
16 hours in class +48 hours outside
class64 hours total per week
Terms You Should KnowCredit Hours
• 3 credit hour class=150 minutes in class each week
Example meeting patterns:
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AMTR 8:00AM-9:15AMW 6:00PM-8:30PM TR 9:30AM-10:20AM and W 12:00PM-12:50PM
• 4 hour class=200 minutes in class each week
Example meeting patterns:
MTWR 8:00AM-8:50AMMF 10:00AM-11:40AM
Terms You Should Know• myUK• Blackboard• GPA – semester/Cumulative• Full time – 12 credit hours• Syllabus• UKY email address• FERPA - Family Educational Rights &
Privacy Act• Protects educational records of students• We do not disclose academic records, or other information, without
written consent of student
www.uky.edu/Registrar/docs/CONSENTFORM.pdf
How to Read the Course Catalog
GEO 130 EARTH’S PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT 3.0
001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM LEC CB 214 Stallins002 MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM LEC CB 234 Liang003 TR 09:30-10:45 AM LEC CB 238
Phillips
CHE 105 GEN COLLEGE CHEMISTRY I 4.0
001 TR 09:30AM-10:45AM LEC CP 139 Staff
001 W 11:00AM-11:50AM REC POT 9 Staff002 TR 09:30AM-10:45AM LEC CP 139
Staff002 R 11:00AM-11:50AM REC DH 203 Staff
How to Read the Open Class List
Resources
• UK Bulletin: www.uky.edu/Registrar/bulletin.htm
• Academic Advisor• Important part of the College Experience• Approximately 75 Faculty advisors• Professional advisors• Academic Coordinators
• Office of Academic Programs • N6 Agricultural Science Center - Student Services• N8 Agricultural Science Center - Advising
Resource Center
Resources• Writing Center • Basement W.T. Young Library
• The Study • 3rd Floor of Commons
• UK Counseling Center • Frazee Hall
• Instructors - Office Hours
• APEX - Academic Program Evaluation & eXploration
• Other Students
ResourcesKeep up with what’s going on around !
• “Like” us on : UK College of Agriculture Academic Programs
• Blog: ukagstudents.blogspot.com• Twitter: @UKAgStudents
• Find us on YouTube!
Degree Requirements• UK Core• College requirements• Major Requirements• Specialty Support,
Professional Support or Area of Concentration
• Total hours
Degree RequirementsUK CORE
• Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity (3 hrs.)• Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities (3 hrs.)• Intellectual Inquiry in the Social Sciences (3 hrs.)• Intellectual Inquiry in the Natural, Physical, &
Mathematical Sciences (3 hrs.)• Composition & Communication I (3 hrs.) • Composition & Communication II (3 hrs.) • Quantitative Foundations (3hrs.)• Statistical Inferential Reasoning (3 hrs.)• Community, Culture & Citizenship in the USA (3 hrs.)• Global Dynamics (3 hrs.)
Degree Requirements
COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS
GEN 100: ISSUES IN AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT
All first year freshmen are required to take GEN 100.
Satisfies Inquiry in Community, Culture & Citizenship in the USA.
Degree RequirementsPre-major Requirements
• CHE 105• CHE 107• CHE 111 & 113• ECO 201• MA 123• BIO 148• BIO 152• CLD 100• STA 291
• Courses required by a degree program that prepare students for courses in major
Degree RequirementsMajor Requirements
• ABT• AEC• AED• ASC• CLD• ENT• EQM• FOR• FSC
• LA• NRE• PLS• SAG
• Courses required in the major
Degree Requirements
Additional Classes• May be called Specialty Support,
Professional Support or Area of Concentration.
• Courses outside the major requirements which are related to or support your degree program.
Degree Requirements
Upper Level Credit• All degree programs except
Landscape Architecture and Forestry require students to complete 45 hours at the 300 level or above
Degree RequirementsTotal Hours
• 120 for most majors except • 121 for Sustainable Agriculture• 128 for Food Science• 128 for Ag. Biotechnology• 129 for Landscape
Architecture
Questions?
Agenda• Introductions• Learn about college• Review degree requirements• Questions• Break• Advising• Check-out in front of Agriculture
Information Center (Beginning at 10:45 a.m.)
• Register for classes (Beginning at 11 a.m.)
• Wait in lobby until all students are finished registering
• Board bus for main campus