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Academic Program Model
Academic Program Model
Agriculture Production & Management (AAS.AGPRO)
This core curriculum is designed for those students who are planning a career in agricultural production, farming, ag production sales, and management or ownership in these areas. While this curriculum is designated for agricultural production, it also allows transferability to Illinois State, Southern Illinois and Western Illinois universities.
Program requirements may change over time. Specific degree/graduation requirements are determined by a degree audit.
FIRST YEAR
First Semester
Hours
ENG-120
Composition I
ENG-120
Composition I
Students will study the writing process by reading essays that illustrate a variety of rhetorical strategies, analyzing writing tasks and texts, and writing, revising, and editing short essays.
Course Outline
*
OR
ENG-098
Communications I
ENG-098
Communications I
Students will learn the principles of communications by listening, speaking, and writing. Emphasis is placed on communication skills related to the demands of the student's career area.
Course Outline
+
3.0
PSY-271
Intr/Psychology
PSY-271
Intr/Psychology
Focuses on psychology as a science, introducing Concepts, research methods and research in a variety of subfields, including neuroscience, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning and memory, cognition, motivation and emotion, development, personality, disorders and therapy, and social psychology.
Course Outline
OR
SOS-050
Human Relations
SOS-050
Human Relations
Provides an understanding of the human mechanism when associated with interpersonal relationships on the job. Emphasis is placed on vocational problems connected with motivation, communication, perception and how to work with others.
Course Outline
2.0
HED-178
Responding to Emergencies
HED-178
Responding to Emergencies
The purpose of the American Red Cross Responding to Emergency course is to provide the citizen responder with the knowledge and skills necessary in an emergency to help sustain life.
Course Outline
2.0
AGR-046
Introduction to Ag Occupations
AGR-046
Introduction to Ag Occupations
An introduction to the vast, complex business of agriculture, ways of doing business, guides for success of a person in the agricultural business of farm machinery technology, and familiarizes the student with the preparation for agricultural production, business, and mechanics jobs.
Course Outline
+
1.0
AGR-040
Agricultural Mathematics
AGR-040
Agricultural Mathematics
Applications of mathematics as it applies to the operation of grain and livestock farms, agriculture business and agriculture mechanization.
Course Outline
+
OR
MAT-116
General Education Math
MAT-116
General Education Math
Survey of mathematical topics with emphasis on solutions to real life problems. Topics will include set theory, consumer/financial math, measurement, and statistics. Problem solving projects involving detailed written solutions will be required. Calculators and computers will be used.
Course Outline
*
2.5
AGR-050
Soils
AGR-050
Soils
Planned learning activities and experiences designed to cover soil development, functions of soil minerals, soil types, and their class. A major study of soil types in Illinois and Indiana and their conservation practices are included.
Course Outline
+
OR
AGR-205
Intro/Soil Science
AGR-205
Intro/Soil Science
Application of the basics in the physical, chemical, and biological aspects in soils. Soils of Illinois and Indiana are emphasized along with concepts of fertility, conservation, and field descriptions.
Course Outline
3.5
AGR-060
Animal Husbandry
AGR-060
Animal Husbandry
Prepares students with a basic understanding of livestock care, production and management from selection through breeding and marketing of beef and dairy cattle, swine and sheep. Emphasis is placed on confinement plans and new trends.
Course Outline
+
OR
AGR-206
Intro/Animal Science
AGR-206
Intro/Animal Science
Focuses on a study of beef, swine, sheep, poultry, and horses; and the scientific factors affecting nutrition, selection and genetics, products, environment, and physiology.
Course Outline
3.0
Semester Totals
17.0
Second Semester
SPE-111
Intro to Speech Communication
SPE-111
Intro to Speech Communication
Focuses on the fundamental principles and methods of selection, analyzing, organizing, developing and communicating information, evidence, and points of view to audiences.
Course Outline
OR
ENG-121
Composition II
ENG-121
Composition II
Students will learn how to find, use, assess and document research sources, producing an extended writing project based primarily on library research.
Course Outline
*
OR
ENG-099
Communications II
ENG-099
Communications II
Students will continue to enrich the listening, speaking, and writing skills introduced in Communications I. Emphasis is placed on research, report writing, and communication skills for the upwardly mobile career student.
Course Outline
*
+++
2.0
CHM-101
Physical Science II
CHM-101
Physical Science II
An introductory discussion of chemical principles. Presents a balance between basic knowledge needed to understand the uses of chemicals and applications of chemicals in everyday life.
Course Outline
+++
3.0
AGR-049
OSHA/Ag Mach Safety
AGR-049
OSHA/Ag Mach Safety
Provides an intensified study into agricultural machinery safety. Focuses on why agriculture machinery accidents happen, how they can be prevented, and how to create a safe working environment. Visual aids are utilized to display effect.
Course Outline
+++
1.0
AGR-063
Animal Nutrition
AGR-063
Animal Nutrition
Covers fundamental principles of livestock nutrition with an understanding of the mono-gastric and ruminant digestive system, essential nutrients, feed ingredients and additives, and balancing of rations. Private and commercial feed sales implications are included.
Course Outline
+++
2.5
AGR-041
Supervised Occupational Exp I
AGR-041
Supervised Occupational Exp I
On the job experience as a full-time employee in selected agriculture occupation. Must be in curriculum that degree is awarded. (Repeatable 3 Times)
Course Outline
+++
3.5
AGR-121
Farm Business Records
AGR-121
Farm Business Records
An introduction into basic farm record keeping. Prepares students to compile records associated with specific farm enterprises. Record analysis is emphasized for farm efficiency measures.
Course Outline
+++
2.5
AGR-111
Intro to Agriculture Software
AGR-111
Intro to Agriculture Software
Use of computers in farm and agri-business management with emphasis on commercially available software for accounting, budgeting, record keeping and market analysis.
Course Outline
+++
OR
AGR-112
Computer Applic/Agriculture
AGR-112
Computer Applic/Agriculture
Covers the effective use of keyboard, manipulating agriculture files, using word processors, spreadsheets, database and presentation software, and discovering available agriculture software for accounting, budgeting, record keeping, and market analysis.
Course Outline
+++
2.0
Semester Totals
16.5
Summer Term
AGR-042
Supervised Ocupational Exp II
AGR-042
Supervised Ocupational Exp II
On the job experience as a full-time employee in selected agriculture occupation. Must be in curriculum that degree is awarded. (Repeatable 3 Times)
Course Outline
++++
2.5
AGR-120
Agriculture Economics
AGR-120
Agriculture Economics
An introduction to basic economic concepts of the agricultural sector with emphasis on costs, revenue, price determination, supply and demand, and farm policy.
Course Outline
++++
OR
AGR-207
Intro/Ag Economics
AGR-207
Intro/Ag Economics
Principles of economics applied to problems in agriculture, marketing of agricultural products, agricultural policy, and the role of agriculture in the U.S. and world economies.
Course Outline
+
3.0
AGR-053
Integrated Pest Management
AGR-053
Integrated Pest Management
Designed to develop a working knowledge of agricultural chemicals as they are related to herbicides and insecticides. Students should have a working knowledge of calibration and maintenance of agricultural chemical equipment. Identification of major weed species in this area and their control is emphasized.
Course Outline
++++
3.0
Semester Totals
8.5
SECOND YEAR
First Semester
Hours
AGR-052
Principles of Crop Production
AGR-052
Principles of Crop Production
Designed to develop needed skills involved in production of the major field crops in central Illinois and Indiana. Plant growth, crop choice, tillage, planting and sowing for maximum yields are emphasized.
Course Outline
+
OR
AGR-204
Prin/Field Crop Science
AGR-204
Prin/Field Crop Science
Designed to develop a working and scientific knowledge of modern crop production as a germination, growth, reproduction, tillage, and weed control of agricultural field crops. Emphasis is also placed on fertility, diseases and insects.
Course Outline
+++
3.0
AGR-090
Principles of Agri Mechanics
AGR-090
Principles of Agri Mechanics
Covers the fundamentals of basic preventive maintenance for tractors and familiarizes the student with setting and adjusting sprayers, tillage equipment, planters, and combines.
Course Outline
+
2.5
AGR-043
Supv Occup Exp III
AGR-043
Supv Occup Exp III
On the job experience as a full-time employee in selected agriculture occupation. Must be in curriculum that degree is awarded. (Repeatable 3 Times)
Course Outline
+
3.0
AGR-122
Farm Management
AGR-122
Farm Management
Economics principles applied directly to the organization and operation of midwest farms are discussed. Management effectiveness in cropping and livestock systems and resource utilization for maximum profit are stressed.
Course Outline
+
2.5
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Elective
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Elective
No Description Available
1.5
Semester Totals
12.5
Second Semester
POS-160
American National Government
POS-160
American National Government
The fundamental principles of the American Government are summarized. Such topics as federalism, civil liberties, citizenship, parties and elections, the Presidency, Congress, Judiciary, and national policies and politics are discussed within the framework of the American Constitutional system.
Course Outline
3.0
AGR-044
Supv Occup Exp IV
AGR-044
Supv Occup Exp IV
On the job experience as a full-time employee in selected agriculture occupation. Must be in curriculum that degree is awarded. (Repeatable 3 Times)
Course Outline
+++
3.5
AGR-123
Marketing of Ag Products
AGR-123
Marketing of Ag Products
An introductory course covering farm marketing strategies, futures markets, cash markets for livestock and grain, and general problems in pricing major agricultural commodities.
Course Outline
+++
2.5
AGR-124
Farm Credit and Finance
AGR-124
Farm Credit and Finance
An introduction to financing statements, capital and credit needs of farmers, sources of credit, and problems of borrowers and lenders.
Course Outline
+++
2.0
AGR-051
Soil Fertility
AGR-051
Soil Fertility
Enables those involved with soils and crops to make intelligent and efficient use of fertilizer materials available.
Course Outline
+++
2.5
Semester Totals
13.5
Total Program Hours
68.0
Suggested Electives
AGR-152
Intensive Crop Scouting
AGR-152
Intensive Crop Scouting
Scouting skills are taught with emphasis on insects and plant diseases. Life cycles, prevention and control measures are discussed.
Course Outline
+++
3.0
AGR-151
GPS/Applications in Ag
AGR-151
GPS/Applications in Ag
This class is designed to provide students the opportunity to become familiar with global positioning systems as they relate to agriculture and develop a working knowledge of variable rate systems.
Course Outline
+
3.0
AGR-054
Crop Harvesting/Drying/Storage
AGR-054
Crop Harvesting/Drying/Storage
Fundamentals of harvesting, drying, and storage. Opportunities of various systems are explored through visitations at different sites and systems.
Course Outline
+
2.5
CIS-094
Excel
CIS-094
Excel
The basics of the Excel software package will be covered. This includes spreadsheet basics, formulas, functions, charting, data management, and collaborative tools. (Repeatable 3 Times)
Course Outline
2.0
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