Production Agriculture
Applied Agriculture
A.A.S. Degree (G)
The Production Agriculture option involves the growing and marketing of crops and livestock. A thorough knowledge of marketing, management, and finance as well as production skills are the keys to a career as an agriculture producer.
Program Graduate Competencies
The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.
- Apply basic agribusiness management procedures to production and marketing of agriculture products.
- Integrate pest management procedures into crop production techniques.
- Demonstrate production techniques related to sustainable agriculture.
- Demonstrate scheduling, production, marketing, harvesting, and safe handling of crops.
- Describe the importance of poultry, livestock, and crop production to the agriculture industry.
- Assess breeding, care, and nutrition of livestock animals.
Core Curriculum Competencies
The Core Curriculum Competencies listed below identify what you will be able to do as a graduate, regardless of your program of study. You will acquire these core competencies through general education courses and program-specific coursework. You will be expected to use relevant technology to achieve these outcomes:
- Apply clear and effective communication skills.
- Use critical thinking to solve problems.
- Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
- Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
- Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
- Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.
Graduation Requirements
Core Courses
Select 2 course(s) from:
Program/Major Courses
Program/Major Support Courses
| POS 215 | Poultry Production Management | 3 |
| SCI 206 | Pesticide Principles and Applications | 3 |
| SCI 223 | Applied Ecology | 3 |
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| FSY 100 | Introduction to Food Science | 3 |
| | Or | |
| FSY 120 | Technology of Food Processing | 3 |
Select course(s) from:
Select 1 course(s) from:
Suggested Pathway to Graduation (Course Sequence Sheet)
Semester 1
Semester 2
| ENG 102 | Composition II | 3 |
| Elective | OAT Elective | 3 |
| AGS 106 | Vegetable Crop Production | 3 |
| AGS 104 | Introduction to Agribusiness Management | 3 |
| | | |
| FSY 100 | Introduction to Food Science | 3 |
| | Or | |
| FSY 120 | Technology of Food Processing | 3 |
Semester 3
| AGS 230 | Production Ag Work Experience | 3 |
Semester 4
| Elective | Social Science Elective | 3 |
| SCI 206 | Pesticide Principles and Applications | 3 |
| SCI 223 | Applied Ecology | 3 |
| AGS 250 | Greenhouse Crop Production | 3 |
| AGS 204 | Animal Science | 3 |
Semester 5
| Elective | Social Science Elective | 3 |
| Elective | Science Elective | 4/3 |
| POS 215 | Poultry Production Management | 3 |
| AGS 240 | Hydroponics Production | 3 |
| AGS 202 | Agronomic Crops | 3 |
Approved Electives
Select two (2) social science electives.
Select one (1) science elective.
Select one (1) OAT elective.
To complete program requirements, you must pass the above courses and earn at least 64 credits. The number of courses and credits required for graduation may be more depending on your need for developmental education courses and the elective choices you make (if electives are a part of the program). Some programs also have college-level courses that you must take if you do not score at a certain level on the College Placement Test. If this applies to your program, the courses are listed at the top of the sequence sheet before the first semester of the course list.
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