Undergraduate Degree

Agricultural Industries

Program:
Agricultural Industries
Plan Code:
AGN1_ATCT
Program Level:
Undergraduate Certification
Award Type:
Technology Certificate
College:
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Department:
Agricultural Technology Institute


Excerpt from the official Academic Programs Catalog:

Listed below are the approved requirements for the program from the official Academic Programs Catalog.
Students must consult their advisors to learn which specific requirements apply to their degree programs.


College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Institute of Agricultural Technology

Programs
Agricultural Industries

The Agricultural Industries program provides students with in-depth agricultural industry expertise paired with essential business knowledge. Students can apply this knowledge to their own operations or for launching a career in various agricultural sectors. Through both on-campus learning and hands-on experiences, courses provide a background in crop and soil sciences along with agribusiness management. Upon completion of the program, students are often recruited by agricultural businesses within their chosen focus areas or are prepared to lead their own successful organizations. Some common career paths include crop production management; agricultural retail management; agricultural sales (such as seed, fertilizer, chemicals or feed); and crop and agricultural processing or manufacturing.

Requirements for Agricultural Industries
The student must complete 48 credits from the following:
1. All of the following courses (28 to 31 credits):
AFRE 100 Decision-making in the Agri-Food System 3
AFRE 130 Farm Management I 3
AT 45 Agricultural Communications 2
AT 55 Agricultural Finance 3
AT 71 Technical Mathematics 2
AT 214 Leadership Development in Agriculture and Natural Resources Industries 2
AT 293 Professional Internship in Agricultural Technology 3 to 6
CSS 101 Introduction to Crop Science 3
CSS 101L Introduction to Crop Science Laboratory 1
CSS 110 Computer Applications in Agronomy 2
CSS 126 Introduction to Weed Management 2
CSS 192 Professional Development Seminar I 1
CSS 226L Weed Science Laboratory 1
2. Two of the following courses (4 to 6 credits):
CSS 120 Issues in Food and Agriculture 3
CSS 135 Crop Scouting and Investigation 3
CSS 151 Seed and Grain Quality 2
CSS 201 Forage Crops 3
CSS 212 Advanced Crop Production 2
CSS 222 New Horizons in Biotechnology 2
3. One of the following courses (3 credits):
AFRE 222 Agribusiness and Food Industry Sales 3
AFRE 232 Commodity Marketing I 3
4. One of the following courses (2 or 3 credits):
CSS 203 World of Soils 2
CSS 210 Fundamentals of Soil Science 3
5. Complete a minimum of 5 to 11 elective credits in the college as approved by the program coordinator in the Institute of Agricultural Technology.