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Page 1: Undergraduate Program Tim Smalley Undergraduate Coordinator

Undergraduate Program

Tim Smalley

Undergraduate Coordinator

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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

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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)

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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

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Classes in Approval Process

• HORT 3130 - Interior Plant identification

• HORT 3460 - Residential Design II

• HORT 4091 - Landscape Professional Practices

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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)

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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

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New Curriculum - Jr/Sr - cont.

• Agribusiness/ Marketing - 3 credit hours– Agribusiness Marketing– Food and Fiber Marketing– Agribusiness Accounting– Intro to Agribusiness Management

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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

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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

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New Curriculum - Hort - cont

• Free Electives - 5 credit hours

• All electives but free electives are directed electives requiring the approval of advisors

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Assessment Techniques

• Test, lab reports, papers, computer projects, oral presentations

• Senior exit survey

• Senior exit interview

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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

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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

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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

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Advising

• Armitage, Berle, Mills, Randle, Rieger, Smalley

• Appointments - students notified at orientation to contact advisor

• Open door policy

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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Horticultural Minor• Choose one of the following

– Introduction to Vegetable Crops– Introduction to Fruit Crops– Organic Gardening– Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants

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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