Undergraduate Program

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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, Valentines 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