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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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