General Agriculture

Nolan Arthur

Program Chair

205 Agriculture Building

479-575-2035

Faculty members are from all the agricultural sciences.

Degree Conferred:

M.S. (GNAG)

Students desiring general education in agriculture may pursue a course of study leading to the master’s degree in general agriculture. The general program requires a minimum of 15 semester hours of graduate-level course work in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. The total 30-hour program, including work outside the general fields of agriculture, will be outlined by the student’s graduate committee in terms of individual needs. A supervisory committee provides guidelines to determine the student’s eligibility to enter the program and what course deficiencies, if any, should be assessed. As a minimum, an applicant must meet all of the requirements for admission to the Graduate School. A major adviser is selected by the student, the Chair of the General Agriculture program, with approval of the Dean of the Graduate School. The major adviser should be from the department in which the heaviest concentration of agricultural courses (at least 9 hours) will be developed. The major adviser, in consultation with the student, will recommend four additional faculty members, one of whom will be from the supervisory committee and one outside of the major interest department to serve as the student’s graduate committee.

To meet the 30-week residence requirement for the master’s degree, 24 semester hours of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, courses may be taken at off-campus locations. At least six semester hours of course work must be completed in a minimum of six weeks of residence on the Fayetteville campus. This may be accomplished by taking courses in two three-week sessions in the same summer or in different summers. Each student will complete one three-hour special problem in which a technical paper will be developed. A student cannot receive credit for more than six hours of special problems or directed study for this degree. Special problems cannot be used to satisfy the six-hour on-campus requirement.

This program is not intended to prepare a student for a doctoral degree.