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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
– 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