1991-1993 Catalog - Catalogs - West Virginia University

ment. The study of ecology, then, is interwoven throughout the courses offered in thecollege to give the student a comprehensive understanding of the basic elements atwork in our environment.Such emphasis on ecology is designed to offer students the education necessaryfor careers emphasizing the protection of environmental quality and the management,utilization, and conservation of our soil, water, forests, wildlife, domestic animals, ourfood and our fiber.The college, too, is the site of the state's Agricultural and Forestry ExperimentStation, so the University maintains extensive land for research purposes. This land isdivided into areas devoted to dairy, livestock, poultry, forestry, wildlife, horticulture,agronomy, and soils. Students and professors use these areas regularly for instructionand research, and information generated at these holdings is used to update subjectmatter in the classroom.AccreditationThe programs offered by the College of Agriculture and Forestry are accredited bythe American Society of Landscape Architecture, Society of American Foresters andthe National Recreation and Parks Association.Honoraries and Student AssociationsStudents in the College of Agriculture and Forestry are encouraged to becomeactive in student associations. Those students with sufficiently impressive grade-pointaverages may be selected for membership in Phi Kappa Phi, the University-widehonorary for excellence in scholarship, or Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Zeta,honoraries specific to Agriculture and Forestry.AdmissionGraduates of accredited high schools are required to present credit for four unitsof English; one unit of biology; three units of social studies; two units of collegepreparatory mathematics, of which one unit must be algebra; eight units chosen fromthe areas of fine arts, science, mathematics, computer science, foreign languages, andcommunication. In addition, agriculture and forestry require one unit of geometry.Students who wish to major in areas of animal sciences, family resources, forestry,plant sciences, or resource management are admitted directly into the College ofAgriculture and Forestry.Applicants desiring admission to the landscape architecture program should checkadmission requirements with the associate dean's office of the College of Agricultureand Forestry or the WVU Office of Admissions and Records.Transfer CreditsStudents transferring into the College of Agriculture and Forestry from one or twoyeartechnical programs, or from unaccredited programs, must take examinations todemonstrate proficiency for any required course offered by the College of Agricultureand Forestry for which transfer credit is sought. In addition, the Division of Forestryapplies this rule to dendrology and surveying. All other credits are accepted subject tothe regulations of the Office of Admissions and Records.Credit Load Per SemesterTo be considered a full-time student in the College of Agriculture and Forestry,students must enroll for a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester. The maximumwork per semester is 20 credit hours.Students may petition the College's Academic Standards Committee to reverse adecision rendered by the student's adviser.Admissions 55