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2019-2020 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Agribusiness: Commodity Marketing Concentration, BS


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About the Program

Students completing a degree in Agribusiness must choose a concentration from five choices: Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Finance, Agricultural Marketing, Commodity Marketing, and Food Marketing.  The Commodity Marketing concentration requires courses in price analysis, commodity marketing, strategic management, and production agriculture. Students are prepared for careers in commodity merchandising and procurement for a vast number of agricultural firms such as grain handling companies; feed manufacturers; and meat, dairy, and poultry processing industries.

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Degree Requirements


120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Courses (39 credits)


Other Departmental /Program Course Requirements (63-64 credits)


Additional Degree Requirements


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Electives (17-18 credits)


  • Electives - Credit Hours: 17.00-18.00

 

University Core Requirements


  • Human Cultures Humanities
  • Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science
  • Information Literacy
  • Science #1
  • Science #2
  • Science, Technology, and Society
  • Written Communication
  • Oral Communication
  • Quantitative Reasoning

For a complete listing of course selectives, visit the Provost’s Website.

Prerequisite Information:


For current pre-requisites for courses, click here.


 

College of Agriculture & University Level Requirements


  • 2.00 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
  • 32 Upper division credits taken from Purdue
  • International Understanding Selective   - Credit Hours: 9.00
  • Multicultural Awareness Selective  - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • 6 Credits:  Written/Oral Communication or Social Science and Humanities categories must come from 30000+ courses or above - Credit Hours: 3.00 AND Written/Oral Communication or Social Science and Humanities categories must come from 30000+ or above or from a course with a required pre-requisite in the same department - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Humanities and/or Social Sciences outside the College of Agriculture - Credit Hours: 9.00

Program Requirements


15-16 Credits


Spring 1st Year


16 Credits


16 Credits


Spring 2nd Year


15 Credits


16 Credits


Spring 3rd Year


  • Food and Agribusiness Management Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Mathematics or Science Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Agronomy or Animal Science Selective (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Written or Oral Communication Selective (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

15 Credits


Fall 4th Year


  • Agricultural Economics Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Humanities or Social Science Selective (30000+level) - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Electives - Credit Hours: 5.00

14 Credits


Spring 4th Year


12-13 Credits


Notes


  • 2.0 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
  • Consultation with an advisor may result in an altered plan customized for an individual student.
  • Official and complete prerequisite lists are in the course catalog; the incomplete listing presented here regards this program and course sequencing.

Foreign Language Courses


Foreign Language proficiency requirements vary by program. 

For acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor: American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, (ancient) Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Critical Course


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In alignment with the Degree Map Guidance for Indiana’s Public Colleges and Universities, published by the Commission for Higher Education (pursuant to HEA 1348-2013), a Critical Course is identified as “one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.  Students who want to be nurses, for example, should know that they are expected to be proficient in courses like biology in order to be successful.  These would be identified by the institutions for each degree program”. 

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