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