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Crookston Campus
Agricultural Business B.S.Agriculture and Natural Resources
Academic Affairs
The program blends a strong base of agriculture, business, and general education courses while maximizing flexibility that allows students to choose electives to fit their career interests and expectations. A wide array of challenging, satisfying, and rewarding careers await graduates as demand for trained personnel in agribusiness continues to outstrip the supply of qualified graduates. Clusters of employment opportunities include agricultural sales and marketing, agribusiness management, agribusiness finance, agribusiness information management, food marketing management, global agribusiness, and rural economic development.
Program outcomes; graduates demonstrate
• skills that lead to satisfying and rewarding opportunities for agribusiness careers in either rural or urban settings,
• knowledge of the basic general education that provides the foundation for applied knowledge and lifelong learning,
• knowledge and technical skills required for careers in agribusiness,
• polytechnic knowledge to make immediate contributions in the work place,
• skills to advance the agricultural business program in concert with industry to ensure rapid response to evolving needs.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Admission Requirements
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions
website.
General Requirements
All students are required to complete general University and college requirements. For more
information, see the graduation requirements.
Program Requirements
Students must complete 40 upper division credits.
Program Requirements
Required courses - 46 credits
ACCT 2101 - Principles of Accounting I
(3.0 cr)
AGEC 1004 - Introduction to Agribusiness
(3.0 cr)
AGEC 2310 - Agribusiness Financial Records
(3.0 cr)
AGEC 2530 - Professional Agriselling
(3.0 cr)
AGEC 3050 - Economics for AgriBusiness Management
(3.0 cr)
AGEC 3430 - Food Marketing Systems
(3.0 cr)
AGEC 3540 - Farm Business Management
(3.0 cr)
AGEC 3640 - Agricultural Finance and Valuation
(3.0 cr)
AGEC 4760 - Business Plan Development for Agribusiness
(3.0 cr)
GBUS 3107 - Legal Environment in Business
(3.0 cr)
GNAG 3899 - Pre-Internship Seminar
(0.5 cr)
GNAG 3900 - Internship
(0.5-3.0 cr)
GNAG 3901 - Post Internship Seminar
(0.5 cr)
GNAG 4652 - Senior Seminar
(1.0 cr)
MGMT 3200 - Principles of Management
(3.0 cr)
MKTG 3300 - Principles of Marketing
(3.0 cr)
Program Requirement Elective
AGRO 1183 - Field Crops: Production Principles
(3.0 cr)
or
ANSC 1004 - Introduction to Animal Science
(4.0 cr)
or
ASM 1021 - Introduction to Agricultural Systems Management
(3.0 cr)
or
HORT 1010 - Introduction to Horticulture
(3.0 cr)
or
TURF 1072 - Principles of Turf Management
(3.0 cr)
Liberal Education Requirements
A minimum of 40 liberal education credits are required. Students must complete the 10 goal areas of the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum with the following specific liberal education courses required:
BIOL 1009 - General Biology
[BIOL SCI, PEOPLE/ENV]
(4.0 cr)
CHEM 1001 - Introductory Chemistry
[PHYS SCI]
(4.0 cr)
COMP 1011 - Composition I
[COMMUNICAT]
(3.0 cr)
COMP 1013 - Composition II
[COMMUNICAT]
(3.0 cr)
ECON 2101 - Microeconomics
[HI/BEH/SSC]
(3.0 cr)
MATH 1031 - College Algebra
[MATH THINK]
(3.0 cr)
MATH 1150 - Introduction to Statistics
[MATH THINK]
(3.0 cr)
COMM 1101 - Public Speaking
[COMMUNICAT]
(3.0 cr)
Technology Requirement
Take 3 credits of any CA courses.
CA 1xxx
Agriculture/Business/Technology Electives
Students must complete 18 credits selected from the following prefixes and in consultation with an adviser: Agro AgEc, AnSc, ASM, EqSc, GnAg, Hort, Soil, SWM, Turf, Acct, Entr, Fin, GBus, Mgmt, Mktg, CA, ITM, SE.
Open Electives
Students must take enough open electives credits to meet the 120 credit requirement for graduation.
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