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Agricultural Business Major, 65 hours: B.S.–Collateral Field Required

CIP: 010102

This program prepares the student to work in agriculturally-related industries. Students receive a solid background in business management principles as well as technical agriculture. It prepares the student for management positions in the areas of marketing, grain merchandising, insurance, and banking sectors.

Requirements

The Northwest Core (44-47 hours)

Institutional Requirements (4 hours)

Required Courses (41 hours)

AGRI 03102Principles of Microeconomics in Agriculture *

3
 
CHEM 24112General Chemistry *

3
CHEM 24113General Chemistry Laboratory *

1
OR
CHEM 24114General Chemistry I *

3
CHEM 24115General Chemistry I Laboratory *

1
 
AGRI 03234Fundamentals of Soil Science

4
AGRI 03296Seminar

1
AGRI 03150Animal Science

4
AGRI 03302Agricultural Marketing

3
AGRI 03309Applied Futures Marketing

3
AGRI 03304Farm Management and Record Analysis

3
AGRI 03407Agricultural Finance

3
AGRI 03499Profession Based Integrated Experience

1
AGRI 03503Agricultural Law

3
Advisor-approved electives

9

AGRI 03102, CHEM 24112 and CHEM 24113 or CHEM 24114 and CHEM 24115: These courses fulfill a Northwest Core requirement as well as a requirement of the major, but the number of credit hours may be counted only once toward the total number of credit hours required for graduation.

Collateral Field Courses (24 hours)

ACCT 51201Accounting I

3
ACCT 51202Accounting II

3
FIN 53311Business Law I

3
MATH 17114General Statistics *

3
MATH 17116Mathematical Modeling *

3
MGMT 54310Business Communication

3
MGMT 54313Principles of Management

3
MKTG 55430Sales and Sales Management

3

MATH 17114 and MATH 17116 fulfill a Northwest Core requirement as well as a requirement of the major, but the number of credit hours may be counted only once toward the total number of credit hours required for graduation.

Free electives as needed to reach minimum 120 graduation hours

NOTE: Degree requires a grade point average of 2.25 in major courses.