| FIRST YEAR | ||
| First Semester | Hours | |
| ENG-119 | Composition I Pathway ORENG-119Students will study the writing process by reading essays illustrating a variety of rhetorical strategies, analyzing texts, and writing, revising, and editing short essays. Course is for students who have assessed into developmental English, receiving supplemental instruction for course completion.
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| ENG-120 | Composition I ENG-120Students 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.
| 3.0 |
| BIO-100 | Bio Science I BIO-100This course provides an introduction to the fundamental processes and structures common to all living things along with their applications to society.
| 4.0 |
| MAT-130 | College Algebra ANDMAT-130Review of the real number system, radicals, equations, and exponents, relations and functions, logarithms, complex numbers, polynomials, and theory of equations. A graphing calculator is required. A graphing calculator is required. Ask instructor for calculator recommendation.
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| MAT-132 | Trigonometry ORMAT-132Develop the definitions, properties and graphical characteristics of trigonometric functions. Include radian measure, trigonometric identities and equations, solutions of oblique and right triangles and inverse trigonometric functions and polar coordinates. Graphing calculator required.
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| MAT-140 | Algebra With Trigonometry MAT-140A unified study of the algebraic and trigonometric concepts needed for calculus. Credit not granted for both this course and College Algebra. A graphing calculator is required. Ask instructor for calculator recommendations.
| 5.0 |
| PSY-271 | Intr/Psychology ORPSY-271Focuses on psychology as a science, presenting 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.
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| SOC-280 | Introduction to Sociology SOC-280Study of human interaction focusing on social influences shaping personality, structure and dynamics of human society. Topics include: sociological perspective, culture, society, social interaction; social change in global perspective; socialization; families; social class; and social stratification; race and ethnicity; and deviance.
| 3.0 |
| AGR-206 | Intro/Animal Science AGR-206Focuses on a study of beef, swine, sheep, poultry, and horses; and the scientific factors affecting nutrition, selection and genetics, products, environment, and physiology.
| 4.0 |
Semester Totals |
19.0 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| ENG-121 | Composition II ENG-121Students will learn how to find, use, assess and document research sources, producing an extended writing project based primarily on library research.
| 3.0 |
| MAT-241 | Analytical Geometry and Calculus I ORMAT-241Differential and integral calculus of elementary functions of one variable, such as polynomial, rational, radical, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions, will be covered. Applications include rates of change, optimization, curve sketching and area. A graphing calculator is required. Ask instructor for calculator recommendations.
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| MAT-211 | Math Analysis MAT-211This course covers mathematical analysis of polynomial calculus with applications to business and social sciences. It includes the mathematics of finance, techniques and applications of differentiation & integration, optimization theory and area. Graphing calculator required.
| 4.0 |
| BIO-116 | General Zoology BIO-116An introduction to the basic concepts of animal life and its diversity. Including: taxonomy, cellular and organismic structure and function, development and economic importance.
| 4.0 |
| POS-160 | American National Government ORPOS-160The 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.
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| SOC-286 | Racial and Ethnic Groups ORSOC-286An examination of American racial and ethnic diversity with an attempt to understand racial and ethnic relations. The examination is made emphasizing the sociological perspective while including material from the other social sciences.
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| 3.0 |
| ART-250 | Understanding Art ORART-250A survey of the visual arts from Ancient to contemporary times, an understanding the major cultural and historical relationships to the art forms.
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| --- --- | IAI Fine Arts --- ---
| 3.0 |
Semester Totals |
17.0 | |
| SECOND YEAR | ||
| First Semester | Hours | |
| COM-111 | Intro to Speech Communication COM-111Focuses on the fundamental principles and methods of selection, analyzing, organizing, developing and communicating information, evidence, and points of view to audiences.
| 3.0 |
| CHM-150 | General Chemistry I CHM-150General principles of chemistry for students majoring in chemistry, engineering or science professions. Topics include atomic theory, bonding, stoichiometry, gas laws and thermochemistry.
| 4.0 |
| ECO-231 | Principles of Economics I (Macro) ORECO-231Focuses on the nature and method of economics, basic supply and demand analysis, national income accounting, business cycles, inflation and unemployment, fiscal policy, money and banking, and monetary policy.
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| --- --- | IAI Social/Behavioral Science --- ---
| 3.0 |
| HIS-250 | Western Civil to 1660 ORHIS-250A survey of the political, economic, cultural and social development of Western Civilization to 1660. Topics include prehistory, ancient near east, Greco-Roman world, Germanic migrations, middle ages, Renaissance and Reformation, and the beginnings of the Modern World.
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| HIS-252 | West Civil/1660-Present ORHIS-252Survey of Western Civilization with topics including absolutism, the rise of modern science, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Age of Ideology, Imperialism, the Russian Revolutions, World War I, the Rise of Totalitarianism, World War II and the Contemporary Age.
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| --- --- | IAI Humanities/Fine Arts --- ---
| 3.0 |
Semester Totals | 13.0 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| CHM-151 | General Chemistry II CHM-151Continuation of the General principles of chemistry for students majoring in chemistry, engineering or science professions. Topics include solids/liquids, solutions, kinetics, equilibrium, thermodynamics and electrochemistry.
| 4.0 |
| HIS-153 | History/Culture of Third World ORHIS-153The course will introduce the student to history and culture in the third world from ancient civilizations to the modern era. This course will focus upon broad themes in history and culture and will examine those themes in each major historical era.
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| 3.0 |
| BIO-235 | Microbiology BIO-235This course covers a survey of microorganisms with detailed study of the biology, metabolism, growth, death, genetics, and methods of differentiation of bacteria. Also classification, control of organisms by physical and chemical methods, immunology and diseases are covered.
| 4.0 |
| AGR-207 | Intro/Ag Economics AGR-207Principles 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.
| 4.0 |
Semester Totals |
15.0 | |
Total Program Hours | 64.0 |
| Suggested Electives | ||
| AGR-064 | Beef/Dairy Production Skills AGR-064Prepares students with the necessary skills required in modern cattle production, the different methods and tools used to perform these skills and a close inspection of handling facilities.
| 1.5 |
| MAT-125 | Statistics MAT-125Application of elementary principles of descriptive statistics including frequency distribution, graphical presentation, measures of center, location and variation. Elements of probability, sampling techniques, binomial and normal distribution, correlation/regression and hypothesis testing. Graphing calculator and Excel required.
| 3.0 |
| PHY-130 | College Physics I PHY-130This course covers Newtonian Mechanics, heat, fluid motion. Intended for students in the pre-professional areas, arts and sciences, and four year technology majors. It is not intended for students who plan to major (or minor) in physics or engineering.
| 4.0 |
| AGR-065 | A.I. Management-Cattle AGR-065Provides a basic understanding of reproductive physiology and trains individuals to artificially inseminate beef or dairy cattle. Explains and gives hands-on experience in actual insemination producers.
| 1.5 |
| AGR-071 | Swine Reproduction and A.I. AGR-071Trains individuals to understand reproductive physiology, semen collection and artificial insemination.
| 1.0 |
| PHY-131 | College Physics II PHY-131An introduction to electricity and magnetism, wave motion, optics and basic modern physics for pre-professional, arts and sciences, and four year technology majors. This course is to be taken with PHY-130 to form a complete sequence.
| 4.0 |
| CHM-243 | Organic Chemistry I CHM-243Fundamental introduction to organic chemistry including a study of hydrocarbons and alcohols with spectroscopy, stereochemistry, and reaction mechanisms.
| 4.0 |
| CHM-253 | Organic Chemistry Lab I CHM-253Laboratory course introduces synthesis and the basic techniques for the separation, isolation, purification and identification of organic compounds.
| 1.0 |
| CHM-244 | Organic Chemistry II CHM-244This course is a continuation of Organic Chemistry I (CHM 243) with focus on aromatic chemistry, carbonyl functional groups, and biomolecules.
| 4.0 |
| CHM-254 | Organic Chemistry Lab II CHM-254Laboratory experiments in organic chemistry with a focus on multi-step synthesis and compound characterization.
| 1.0 |