1981-1982 Senate Document #44 APC Document #26 Joint Program with North Carolina State University in Forestry I. Description of Joint Program Delete: Section entitled "Joint Program with North Carolina State University in Forestry." page 50 of the 1981-82 Catalog. Add: Joint Program with the North Carolina State University School of Forest Resources. The University of North Carolina at Asheville and the School of Forest Resources of North Carolina State University offer a program under which a student may take two years of work in a preforestry curriculum at UNCA and then transfer to North Carolina State University for completion of degree requirements. This program leads to a Bachelor of Science Degree in one of four degree areas offered by the School of Forest Resources: Forestry, Wood Science and Technology, Pulp and Paper Science and Technology, and Recreation Resources Administrations. For full admission to the transfer program, entering students must meet all entrance requirements of UNCA. UNCA students who have completed the two years of the preforestry program will be admitted automatically to the School of Forest Resources if their grade point average is 2.5 or higher. Students in the Forestry degree curriculum are required to take summer camp immediately after completing the sophomore year. Model programs and requirements of the four degree areas are available from the forestry advisor in the Department of Biology, Rhoades Science Building. Rationale: UNC-Asheville and North Carolina State are interested in establishing a more formalized 2 + 2 program with the School of Forest Resources at NCSU. The primary intent of the arrangement is to provide interested individuals in the Western North Carolina region with an opportunity to consider forestry as a viable major without incurring the expense and initial enrollment competition at NCSU. Forestry is frequently cited as an interest area by college-bound high school seniors. Though the number are not large, the addition of a transfer program coupled with already existing natural science programs will enable the University to more aggressively recruit quality high school students. Page 2 II. Courses to be Added to UNCA Offerings in Biology Following are course descriptions for the four courses to be added to Department of Biology offerings. These will satisfy specified requirements of the joint program. Add: 150 Introduction to Forestry (3) Overview of multiple use forestry; history, policy, practice, protection, national planning, forestry careers, and methods of obtaining and presenting forest data. Prerequisite: Biol 131. 250 Dendrology (4) Identification, ecological and taxonomic relationship, and geographic distributions of important woody plants of North America, concentrating on native species of the Southwest. Prerequisites: Biol 131, 133. 251 Basic Mensuration (4) Theory, principles, and techniques of procedure and instrumentation relative to proper collection and presentation of forest mensurational data. Emphasis on sampling problems. Prerequisites: Biol 131, 133. 252 Wood Structure and Properties (3) Macrostructure and microstructure of wood; physical properties and uses of several commercially important coniferous and deciduous woods with techniques of wood identification. Prerequisites: Biol 131, 133. Rationale: The above course additions will allow a student in the forestry transfer program to have the first two years of course work completed before transferring to NCSU as a junior. Our Biology 150, 250, and 251 will serve as prerequisites for this course and for the summer camp experience. Biology 252, as proposed above, is required in the Wood Science and Technology curriculum. NCSU will offer a continuation of the course, WPS 203, Wood Structure and Properties II, on the junior and senior level. The courses will be offered once a year depending on demand. They would be taught by part-time faculty from the Southeast Regional Forestry Laboraory and, in the case of Biol 250, by a UNCA faculty member. The estimated instructional cost would be $7,000-$8,000 annually. No equipment would be required since the laboratory of the Forest Service will provide any specialized Page 3 measuring devices. Use of personnel from the Forestry Laboratory will help to expand a cooperative relationship and could lead to some joint projects. The four courses above will count toward the science requirement in the Foreign Language Option for non-science majors. Biology 250 will count toward elective hours in the biology major; Biology 250, 251, and 252 will not be accepted toward the biology major. Another course, Engineering Graphics (2) is required in the Pulp and Paper Science and Technology curriculum. The UNCA student may take Drafting I and II (DFT 101 and 102) in Asheville-Buncombe Technical College's Division of Engineering Technology. The courses last for one quarter each and are cumulatively equivalent to 2 semester hours of UNCA/NSCU credit. DFT 101 and 102 are offered on a regular basis at AB Tech; some of UNCA's engineering students take these as part of that joint program. III. Course to be Added to UNCA Offerings in Physical Education The degree curriculum in Recreation Resources Administration requires that a course in recreation be offered by UNCA's Physical Education Department. Add: Rec 260 Introduction to Recreation (3) Introduction to the field of recreation. The main ideas of study will be: recreation history and objectives, sociological and economic aspects of recreation, leadership qualities, facilities, and settings for organized recreation in the modern society. Rationale: This course meets the requirements of the Joint Program with the North Carolina State University School of Forest Resources. It is expected that the course will not place any pressure on budgetary resources. The Physical Education Department plans to upgrade its library holdings in recreation out of the department's yearly library budget. The NCSU syllabus, course description, objectives, course outline, text, list of references, and course requirements are available and will be followed. Effective Date: August, 1982