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Undergraduate Agronomy

 

Undergraduate Curriculum in Agronomy

Maximum flexibility in curricula is provided in the junior and senior years so that each student, in consultation with the faculty advisor, can design a degree program that best serves each individual's career objectives in relation to projected employment opportunities at the time of graduation.

Degree Options

Freshman Year

First Semester (Th-Pr) Credit Hours
AGLS 101 Modern Agricultural Systems (1-0) 1
AGRO 101 Intro. to Soil and Crop Sciences (1-0) 1
AGRO 105 World Food and Fiber Crops 1 (2-2) 3
BOTN 101 Botany (3-2) 4
HIST 105 History of U.S. 2 (3-0) 3
MATH 141 Business Math. I
or
MATH 166 Finite Math (3-0) 3
* KINE 198 Health and Fitness Activity (0-2) 1
16
Second Semester
ENGL 104 Composition and Rhetoric 3-0 3
CHEM 101 Fund. of Chemistry I 3-3 4
POLS 206 American Natl. Govt. 3-0 3
Humanities elective 3 3
Social and behavioral sciences elective 3 3
* KINE 199 Required Physical Activity (0-2) 1
17

Sophomore Year

First Semester (Th-Pr) Credit Hours
AGLS 201 Computer Application in Ag. (2-2) 3
ENTO 201 General Entomology (2-2) 3
Any calculus or PHIL 240, 341 or 342 3-4
Visual and performing arts elective 3 3
Elective 4
16-17
Second Semester
AGRO 301 Soil Science (3-2) 4
HIST 106 History of U.S. 2 3-3 4
POLS 206 American Natl. Govt. (3-0) 3
Organic chemistry 3
Physics elective 3
Elective 3
16

Junior and Senior Years

First Semester (Th-Pr) Credit Hours
AGRO 481 Agronomy Seminar 1
BOTN 301 Taxonomy of Flowering Plants 4
POLS 207 State and Local Govt. 3
Genetics 4
Microbiology or bacteriology 3
Nutrition 3
Plant pathology 4
Plant physiology (MEPS) 3
Speech and technical writing 6
Electives 4,7 35-36
66-67

NOTES:

  • Students in the turf management option may select HORT 201.
  • Any course in American history approved by the Department of History.
  • To be selected from the University Core Curriculum. The University Core Curriculum includes a requirement for 6 hours of international and cultural diversity courses. Click here for a list of acceptable courses. A course satisfying another Core category, a college/department requirement, or as a free elective can be used to satisfy these requirements. See academic advisor.
  • CHEM 102 strongly recommended.
  • A total of 132 hours will be required for a B.S. degree.
  • Before registering as a junior each student must develop, in consultation with the faculty advisor, a degree program consistent with career objectives.
  • A minimum of 15 hours and a maximum of 25 hours of these electives will be taken in agronomy; the remaining electives may be chosen in any field consistent with career objectives.

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