Agronomy Major

System General Education Requirements*: 31-34

• Goal #1 Written Communication:
  ENGL 101
    and
  ENGL 201
    Credits: 6
• Goal #2 Oral Communication:
  SPCM 101*
    Credits: 3
• Goal #3 Social Sciences/Diversity: 
  ECON 202
    and
  SOC 100
    or
  SOC 150
    or
  SOC 240
    Credits: 6
• Goal #4 Arts and Humanities/Diversity
    Credits: 6
• Goal #5 Mathematics:
  MATH 102
    or
  MATH 115
    or
  MATH 120
    or
  MATH 121-121L
    Credits: 3-5
• Goal #6 Natural Sciences:
  BIOL 151-151L
    and
  BIOL 153-153L
    or
  BOT 201-201L
    Credits: 7-8

Institutional Graduation Requirements**: 8

• Goal #1 Land and Natural Resource Stewardship:
  PS 213-213L
    ^A Credits: 3
• Goal #2 Personal Wellness: 
  GS 143
    Credits: 2-3
• Goal #3 Social Responsibility/Cultural and Aesthetic Awareness
    Credits: 3

Major Requirements: 24-25

• PS 101 - Opportunities in Plant Science Credits: 1 ^A
• PS 103-103L - Crop Production and Lab Credits: 3 ^A
• PS 213-213L - Soils and Lab * ** Credits: 2 ^A (credits count for IGR #1)
• PS 223-223L - Principles of Plant Pathology and Lab Credits: 3 ^A
• PS 305-305L - Insect Biology and Lab (COM) Credits: 3 ^A
• PS 323 - Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrient Management Credits: 3 ^A
• PS 343-343L - Weed Science and Lab Credits: 3 ^A
• PS 390 - Seminar (AW) Credits: 1 ^A
• PS 494 - Internship Credits: 0.5-2 ^A
• ABS 475-475L - Integrated Natural Resource Management and Lab (AW) Credits: 3

Specialization and Elective Courses: 44-57

Total Required Credits: 128

Notes:

2    Can only be used to meet requirements in one section

A    Agronomy Major Core Curriculum: A student must have a 2.5 GPA or higher and a grade of C or higher in the courses used to satisfy the Agronomy core curriculum in order to graduate with a major in Agronomy.

Plant Science Electives:

Courses in Plant Science Electives cannot be used to meet other Agronomy major or specialization requirements.

Notes:

2    Can only be used to meet requriements in one section.

†    See Production Specialization for list of approved Plant Science Elective courses in crops, plant protection, and soils/environmental protection areas.

Business Electives:

• ACCT 211 - Principles of Accounting II (COM) Credits: 3
• ACCT 320 - Cost Accounting (COM) Credits: 3
• AGEC 271-271L - Farm and Ranch Management and Lab Credits: 4
• AGEC 354 - Agricultural Marketing and Prices Credits: 3 ††
• AGEC 421-521 - Farming and Food Systems Economics ** Credits: 3
• AGEC 454 - Economics of Grain and Livestock Marketing Credits: 3
• AGEC 473-473L - Rural Real Estate Appraisal and Lab Credits: 3 ††
• AGEC 478-478L - Agricultural Finance and Lab Credits: 3
• AGEC 479 - Agricultural Policy (AW) (G) Credits: 3
• AS 285-285L - Livestock Evaluation and Marketing and Lab Credits: 4 ††
• BADM 280 - Personal Finance (COM) Credits: 3
• BADM 310 - Business Finance (COM) Credits: 3
• BADM 350 - Legal Environment of Business (COM) Credits: 3
• BADM 351 - Business Law (COM) Credits: 3
• BADM 474 - Personal Selling (COM) Credits: 3
• ECON 201 - Principles of Microeconomics * (COM) Credits: 3 ††
• ECON 202 - Principles of Macroeconomics * (COM) (G) Credits: 3 ††
• ECON 330 - Money and Banking (COM) Credits: 3
• ECON 433 - Public Finance (COM) (AW) Credits: 3
• ECON 460-560 - Economic Development (G) Credits: 3
• ECON 472-572 - Resource and Environmental Economics ** (COM) Credits: 3
• ECON 476-576 - Marketing Research Credits: 3
• PS 473-473L/573-573L - Rural Real Estate Appraisal and Lab Credits: 3

Pest Management Electives: 15-20

At least two courses from each of the three areas listed.

Not to include courses used to fulfill the Biological Sciences Core or Natural Resources Stewardship Elective requirements for the major and specialization.

• BIOL 202-202L - Genetics and Organismal Biology and Lab Credits: 4

• or

• BIOL 371 - Genetics (COM) Credits: 3
• BOT 327-327L - Plant Physiology and Lab (COM) Credits: 4
• MICR 231-231L - General Microbiology and Lab (COM) Credits: 4

• or

• PS 421-421L/521-521L - Soil Microbiology and Lab Credits: 3
• CHEM 106-106L - Chemistry Survey and Lab* (COM) Credits: 4

• or

• CHEM 112-112L - General Chemistry I and Lab* (COM) Credits: 4
• CHEM 108-108L - Organic and Biochemistry and Lab* (COM) Credits: 5

• or

• CHEM 120-120L - Elementary Organic Chemistry and Lab* Credits: 4
• PHYS 101-101L - Survey of Physics * (COM) and Lab Credits: 4

• or

• PHYS 111-111L - Introduction to Physics I and Lab* (COM) Credits: 4
• STAT 281 - Introduction to Statistics (COM) Credits: 3
• ENGL 379 - Technical Communication (AW) Credits: 3

Note:

2    Can only be used to meet requirements in one section.

Choose one from the following:

• BIOL 202-202L - Genetics and Organismal Biology and Lab Credits: 4
• BIOL 371 - Genetics (COM) Credits: 3

Choose one from the following:

• CHEM 332-332L - Analytical Chemistry and Lab (COM) Credits: 4
• CHEM 464 - Biochemistry I (COM) Credits: 3
• CHEM 466 - Laboratory Methods- Biochemistry Credits: 1

Choose one from the following:

• MATH 121-121L - Survey of Calculus and Lab* (COM) Credits: 5
• MATH 123 - Calculus I * (COM) Credits: 4
• MATH 123L - Calculus I Lab (COM) Credits: 1

Note:

Courses are to have PS prefix and are not to include courses used to fulfill the Plant Science Biological Science cores of the major. Maximum of 3 credits from PS 492.