Student Responsibility
Computer Requirement
Normal Credit Hours
Academic Advising
Residence Requirements
Correspondence/Extension Courses
College Probation and Suspension
Drop Policy
Withdrawal Policy
Students must assume responsibility for registering for and completing the proper courses, maintaining normal academic progress and fulfilling all requirements for the degree.
While the college offers limited access to computers through its computer labs, students will be expected to purchase or lease a computer that is capable of dial-up or network connection to the Internet, graphical access to the World Wide Web, and productivity functions such as word processing and spreadsheet calculation. Costs of a computer will be included in financial aid considerations. Computers are used increasingly for classroom assignments, accessing the Internet, exchange of e-mail, etc. The college policy is designed to provide maximum flexibility. Below are the college's minimum and recommended hardware and software requirements.
Refer to the CIRCA web page at www.circa.ufl.edu/computers for general computer information as well as a link to the college's web page for specific requirements for each program.
The average course load for students in the school is 15 credit hours per semester. With adviser approval, students may register for additional hours if their academic record justifies the additional workload. Students should be aware that certain university privileges and benefits require a minimum registration of 12 hours per semester.
Upon admission to the school, a student should contact the Student Services Office for assignment of a faculty adviser. The faculty adviser assists the student in selecting a major and choosing electives. Students should follow the course sequences identified for their major. In the event of course scheduling conflicts and with adviser approval, students may substitute up to eight semester hours of required courses in the major; this substitution can include only one required FNR course.
The last 30 semester hours applied toward the bachelor's degree must be completed while registered as a student in the school. In special cases, this requirement may be waived in advance by approved petition.
No student may apply more than 18 semester hours of correspondence, extension or nonresident course work toward the bachelor's degree, of which no more than 12 semester hours may be applied in any one semester or academic year. Any student intending to apply correspondence course work toward a degree must have a minimum junior/senior level GPA of 2.5 and prior written approval.
Juniors and seniors whose grade point average falls below 2.0 will be placed on college probation. When that occurs, the student will be notified by the assistant dean for undergraduate academic programs that s/he is on probation and must bring the grade point average up to 2.0 during that semester and remove at least three (3) deficit points. As long as the student has a deficit record, s/he must continue removing three deficit points per semester until the overall UF grade point average is 2.0.
Failure to remove three deficit points per semester will result in college suspension for one semester. During college suspension, a student cannot register as a College of Agricultural and Life Sciences student. With approval of the student's undergraduate coordinator and the assistant dean, the student may complete approved courses at another institution. If a student does enroll at another institution, those grades will not reduce the deficit points on the UF record. Upon returning to the university, a student must remove a minimum of three deficit points per semester to continue enrollment.
Courses may be dropped during the drop/ add period without penalty. Thereafter, courses may be dropped only by college petition in accordance with the deadline. Drops requiring college petitions are subject to the following rules:
If a College of Agricultural and Life Sciences student withdraws from the university a second time, that student will be placed on college probation. A third withdrawal will constitute violation of the probation and the student will not be allowed to register again in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.