Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College - University System of Georgia

9. Administration of the program:
The program will reside within the School of Liberal Arts, under the Department of History and Political
Science. The program administrator is the Head of the Department of History and Political Science.
10. Waiver to Degree-Credit Hour (if applicable):
The BS/BA will require a total of 120 credit hours, exclusive of ABAC's current 4-hour requirement for
Health and Wellness and physical education activity courses.
11. Accreditation: Describe disciplinary accreditation requirements associated with the program (if
applicable).
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is accredited through the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools-Commission on Colleges (SACS-CaC) and was most recently reaffirmed in 2007. (The next
anticipated SACS-CaC review will occur in 2012 for the Fifth-year compliance Certification.) The agency
evaluated the College for a Substantive Change in 2008, which resulted in the successful launch of a
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor Science degrees in Rural Studies.
12. Projected enrollment for the program especially during the first three years of implementation.
Please indicate whether enrollments will be cohort-based.
The success of ABAC baccalaureate Liberal Arts programs to date indicate that a 200% increase in
students from the first to the second year is entirely likely, and perhaps conservative. Projection
indicates that 25 students will matriculate Fall 2010, increase to 40 2012, and 65 in Fall 2013.
Enrollments are not cohort based. Currently there are 132 declared History and Political Science majors
in transfer programs.
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