Applied Agriculture & Food Studies Transfer to Morningside

This course introduces physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils, their formation, classification, and distribution.  A soil survey and other information sources will be used to balance agrono mic, economic, and environmental concerns in soil management.

This course is designed to help students explore and discover the many opportunities that are available in the profession of agriculture and related industries both nationally and internationally.

This course provides information about the cause, nature, prevention, and treatment of common health problems of animals. Topics include animal anatomy and physiology; animal nutrition, animal diseases; animal treatment practices.

This course is an exploration of writing as a process with attention to audience, purpose and patterns of exposition.
Pre-requisite: Recommended ACT Composite of 22. Students may complete aýwriting sample to gauge preparedness for the course and thenýaccess instructional staff and resources in the CometýLearning Center both before and during the course to beýsuccessful.

This course introduces students to the scientific study of mental processes and behavior with emphasis on psychological theories. This course explains the importance of evidence-based approaches in practice and literature. Students apply critical thinking in relation to research methods and ethics in the field of psychology.

This course introduces students to the College's expectations, environment, and resources so that students may become more competent participants in the learning process.

This course is a lecture and lab foundational course in agronomy.  Crop, soil, and environmental sciences are applied to understanding agricultural systems in the world.  Introduces the concepts of plant, soil, tillage, pest, environmental and sustainability in crop production.

This course is an overview of the structure, economics, organization, and function of the world food marketing system. Topics in past, present and future domestic and worldwide market issues are discussed. The course examines how the marketing system is influenced by governmental and private policy and effects those policies have on producers, commodity handlers, processors, middlemen, and consumers. Basic marketing and merchandising strategies are also covered.

This course is a study of the use of the principles of farm management in developing a farm or farm business operation.

This lecture course introduces the student to the global animal science industry. All specialized areas of animal science will be studied including nutrition, reproduction, genetics, health, and behavior. All major domesticated species of animals will be available for study.

This course provides a broad overview of business including internal and external functions. Topics include economics, marketing, entrepreneurship, and management as well as related domestic and international business issues.

This course examines basis, fundamental and technical price analysis, commodity futures, futures options, alternative cash contracts, sources and uses of marketing information, and relevant agricultural marketing strategies.

This course is a study of the terminology and tools of agricultural finance. It emphasizes the preparation of financial statements, cash flows, budgets and bookkeeping principles. It also discusses financial risk strategies and credit costs.

This course is a food science course in the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources career cluster. It deals with world food needs and available food supplies, types of food and their nutritive value and use, and the methods used and challenges involved in food production, transportation, preservation/ processing, storage, distribution, marketing and consumption. The course covers foods of animal origin.

This course focuses on threats to food system biosecurity. Students research and discuss contemporary issues regarding biosecurity, vulnerabilities of the food system from pre-harvest through post-processing, consumption and potential threats by class of agents.

This course provides tools to analyze the choices made by households, firms and governments, and how these choices affect various domestic market structures and international markets.

This course introduces students to the role of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling in formal and informal organizations of all sizes. This course presents theoretical bases and real world examples of implementation.

This course addresses the principles of selling applied to agricultural settings. Examination of agricultural consumers' buying habits and the development of sales strategies to meet these consumers' needs and wants serves as a foundation of the course. Two main activities dominate this course: students spend a day shadowing an agricultural sales professional to observe and report on specific practices, and in a final activity, students prepare and deliver a sales presentation to an agricultural sales professional.

This course explores the body of federal and state laws and regulations governing agriculture-related operations.  The course specifically addresses legal issues that students will likely face in agriculture-related careers.  The course pulls from a wide body of substantive law, including case law, statutory law, and administrative law.  A primary focus of the course will be to review the legal framework governing agriculture-related decision-making by firms, families, and individuals from a real-world perspective.  The course begins with a general review of the legal system and instruction on how to find legal materials as it pertains to the agricultural industry.

This course provides students the necessary information and knowledge to successfully improve the sustainability practices of a food production enterprise, including conversion from a conventional to a certified organic production system.

This course provides students the opportunity to collect, discuss, interpret, and defend current economic, environmental and social issues that affect the Agriculture Food and Natural Resources industry..

This course is a comprehensive study of animal nutrition. Topics include digestive systems, feedstuffs, processing, nutrition values, ration formulation and practical application.

The course combines theory of speech communication with public speech performance skills. Emphasis is on speech delivery, preparation, organization, support, and audience analysis. Practice of skills is through presentation and exercise.