Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications Major, BS in Agriculture – Agricultural Science Concentration

Requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Agriculture • Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications Major • Agricultural Science Concentration

* Meets University General Education Requirement .
¹ Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Electives may be selected from any courses in the college not already required for the major.
² One of the University General Education Electives, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Electives, Unrestricted Electives or a course taken as part of one of the minors must be a Communicating through Writing (WC) course. Unrestricted Electives may be selected from any courses not already required for the major.
³ Select one course (4 hours) from chemistry, physics, geology, ESS 210 ; GEOG 131 *, GEOG 132 *, GEOG 137 *. CHEM 130 * is a corequisite to BIOL 140 *. Therefore, students who choose BIOL 130 *-BIOL 140 * should take CHEM 120 *-CHEM 130 * for their physical science electives. BIOL 111 *-BIOL 112 * has no chemistry requirement.
⁴ Chosen from the University General Education list .
⁵ AREC 201 * (4) or ECON 201 * (4) satisfies the University General Education–Social Science requirement and the major requirement for economics. If the student transfers ECON LD for 3 credits, it will satisfy the major requirement but will not satisfy the General Education–Social Sciences requirement. In these cases, the student should take two courses from the Social Sciences list.
⁶ Select sequence from BIOL 101 *-BIOL 102 *, BIOL 111 *-BIOL 112 *, BIOL 130 *-BIOL 140 *, or BIOL 138 *-BIOL 148 *.
⁷ Students should select one of the minors offered by the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources: animal science, biosystems engineering technology, entomology and plant pathology, environmental and soil sciences, food and agricultural business, agricultural leadership, food science, food technology, forestry, international agriculture and natural resources, natural resource and environmental economics, plant sciences, wildlife and fisheries science, watershed, or one of the minors in the College of Communication and Information (see listing in this catalog), or submit an individualized plan of study before the third year, for approval by the advisor, department head, and the Dean’s Office. If the minor is less than 24 hours, the excess hours will become Unrestricted Electives.
⁸ Any courses not already required for the major.