Jan 31, 2025  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Exploratory Program


The Herbert College of Agriculture’s Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Exploratory Program is designed for students who are deciding among one or more majors in the College. It allows students to explore major options as well as make progress toward graduation through the completion of general education courses. Exploratory students are required to meet with their advisor every semester. Students pursuing the Herbert’s exploratory program are advised to follow the Discovery Herbert process.

All full-time, degree-seeking students who first entered Fall 2013 or later must transition out of the exploratory track into a major no later than the end of the fourth tracking semester. Transfer students admitted as exploratory students must transition out of the exploratory track into a major no later than the end of their first tracking semester.

Requirements for the Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Exploratory Major


Term 1 Hours Milestone Notes
AGNR 100  or AGNR 103  or 1FYS 101   1 2.0 cumulative GPA
ALEC 211 * or PLSC 115 * or AGNR 180 * 3  

2FDSC 100 * or other Natural Sciences  Elective*

3-4  
ENGL 101 * or ENGL 118  3  
3Quantitative Reasoning Electives * 3-4  
Term 2
4AREC 201 * 4 One Volunteer Core  elective*
2FWF 250 * or other Natural Sciences  Elective* 3-4  
ENGL 102  3  
3ESS 220 * or FDSC 150   3  
Term 3
5ALEC 240  3 One additional Volunteer Core  elective*
PLSC 180 * or other Arts and Humanities  Elective (AH) 3-4  
3ESS 120  3  
6ESS 210  or Physical Science Electives 3-4  
2Social Sciences  Elective* 3  

 *Meets Volunteer Core Requirement .

1 Students should enroll in the Herbert College section.
2 Biological Sciences Elective – Select sequence from BIOL 101 *-BIOL 102 *, BIOL 113 *-BIOL 114 *-BIOL 115 , BIOL 150 *-BIOL 160 *-BIOL 159 *, or BIOL 158 -BIOL 168 *-BIOL 167 *. Meets a Natural Sciences  (NS) General Education requirement. Students choosing BIOL 150 *-BIOL 160 *-BIOL 159 * should take CHEM 122 * and CHEM 123 *, or CHEM 128 *; CHEM 132 * and CHEM 133 *, or CHEM 138 * for their physical science electives.
3 Chosen from the Volunteer Core Requirements  list.
4 Meets a Social Sciences  (SS) Volunteer Core Requirements .
5 Meets an Oral Communication  (OC) Volunteer Core Requirements .
6
Physical science courses include any chemistry, physics, geology, or soils. Most Herbert College of Agriculture majors will require chemistry.