Precision Agriculture Minor, 24-25 hours

Location(s): On Campus

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CIP: 019999

This minor consists of courses specifically designed to provide students with a broad exposure to the Agricultural and Geographic disciplines.

Several of the required and elective courses in this minor have a prerequisite of AGRI 03130 or BIOL 04112 /BIOL 04113 and CHEM 24112 /CHEM 24113 or CHEM 24114 /CHEM 24115 . In addition, several of the elective courses have a prerequisite of GEOL 27110 and GEOL 27111 or GEOL 27114 and GEOL 27115 and/or MATH 17118 . Students electing to take this minor should choose their Northwest Core science courses to satisfy these prerequisites.

Requirements

Required Courses (22 hours)

AGRI 03232 - Crop Production Credit Hours: 3
AGRI 03234 - Fundamentals of Soil Science Credit Hours: 4
AGRI 03440 - Introduction to Precision Agriculture Credit Hours: 3
AGRI 03445 - Applied Research in Precision Agriculture Credit Hours: 3
GEOG 32201 - Maps and Spatial Reasoning Credit Hours: 3
GEOG 32365 - Geographic Information Systems Credit Hours: 3
Advisor-approved elective Credit Hours: 3

Advisor Approved Electives (3-4 hours)

Choose 1 course:

AGRI 03292 - Introduction to Agricultural Pesticides Credit Hours: 3
AGRI 03381 - Applied Entomology Credit Hours: 3
AGRI 03434 - Weed Science: Ecology and Control Credit Hours: 3
AGRI 03443 - Precision Agriculture for Production Credit Hours: 3
AGRI 03444 - Precision Agriculture Services Credit Hours: 3
AGRI 03530 - Soil Formation and Classification Credit Hours: 3
AGRI 03536 - Soil Fertility Credit Hours: 3
AGRI 03582 - Plant Diseases Credit Hours: 3
GEOG 32362 - Introduction to Cartography Credit Hours: 3
GEOG 32462 - Advanced Cartography and Geovisualization Credit Hours: 3
GEOG 32463 - Remote Sensing Credit Hours: 3
GEOG 32465 - Introduction to Customized GIS Credit Hours: 3
GEOG 32565 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems Credit Hours: 3
GEOL 27340 - Introduction to Hydrogeology Credit Hours: 3
GEOL 27360 - Environmental Geology Credit Hours: 4

Note:

A three-hour advisor-approved elective may be substituted for Fundamentals of Soil Science (AGRI 03234 ), if Fundamentals of Soil Science is required in the student’s major.

NOTES: No courses may count for either a major in Geography or a major in Agricultural Science, Agronomy, Animal Science or Horticulture and this minor. Substitution of required courses should be made with courses listed under advisor approved electives.

Consultation with an advisor is required to properly select electives for this minor.