Welcome to the College of Agriculture, Food and

Environment

Agenda• Introductions• Learn about college• Review degree requirements• Questions• Break• Advising• Register for classes (Beginning at 11:00AM)• 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• Study a lot

How can you make the most of your UK experience?

Get involvedo Seek out Leadership

PositionsParticipate in

Education AbroadComplete an

InternshipParticipate in

Undergraduate Research

Get help if needed

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 studentwww.uky.edu/Registrar/docs/CONSENTFORM.pdf

How to Read the Course CatalogGEO 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 Staff001 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 Writing Center & Presentation U!

o Basement of W.T. Young Library The Study & The Study North

o 3rd Floor of Commons & Champions Court I Math Resource Center (Mathskeller)

o Basement of Whitehall Classroom Building General Chemistry Learning Center

o 133 Chemistry Physics Building UK Counseling Center

o Frazee Hall Education Abroad Resource Center

o 315 Bradley Hall

RESOURCES Disability Resource Center

o Multidisciplinary Resource Center Instructors-Office Hours APEX-Academic Program Evaluation &

eXploration Other Students Office of Academic Programs

o N6 Ag. Science Centero N8 Ag. Science Center

Faculty & Staff

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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 RequirementsCOLLEGE 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 RequirementsAdditional 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 RequirementsUpper 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