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ASM 10400 - Introduction To Agricultural Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic principles of selection and operation of agricultural production equipment, including farm tractors and machines and crop-processing equipment. Planning considerations for crop storage and animal production systems and devices for water conservation and erosion control. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ASM 10500 - Agricultural Systems Computations And Communication
Credit Hours: 3.00. Use of computers to solve problems related to agricultural technology and businesses. Spreadsheets, word processors, and presentation software will be the focus. Emphasis will be on logical problem solving and data presentation using advanced features of office software. A 10000-level number is being used because it is intended as a first-year course. Typically offered Spring.
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ASM 20100 - Construction And Maintenance
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental principles in the selection and use of tools for the construction and maintenance of agricultural and related facilities, equipment, and machines. Areas covered include small engines, concrete and masonry, wood, plumbing, electricity, and metal. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ASM 21100 - Technical Graphic Communications
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to graphic communication methods using traditional techniques and emphasizing modern computer-based techniques. Topics covered include: free-hand sketching, lettering, and dimensioning; selection of data presentation methods; and plan interpretation and cost calculations. A majority of assignments will include use of commercially available computer-aided drawing packages. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ASM 21600 - Introduction To Surveying
Credit Hours: 1.00. Introduction to plane surveying, including instruction and practice in the use of surveying instruments. Basic overview of distance/angle measurement, leveling, direction, traversing, and mapping. Each weekly topic includes practical application and field exercises as applied to landscape architecture and forestry. Typically offered Spring.
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ASM 22100 - Career Opportunities Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00. An introductory course to acquaint students with career and employment opportunities in the field of agricultural systems management. Guest speakers are invited to share their experiences and philosophies with the students. Special emphasis is given to improving communication skills. Typically offered Fall.
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ASM 22200 - Crop Production Equipment
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of machine performance, capacity, machinery components, and operation. Study of tractors, trucks, utility vehicles, and combines. Equipment topics include chemical application, tillage tools, planters and seeders, hay and forage harvesters, electronic monitors and controllers. Computer-based analysis of equipment sizing and systems selection. Typically offered Fall.
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ASM 23600 - Environmental Systems Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of environmental systems with special emphasis on non-urban and agribusiness needs. Technological and sociological solutions to environmental problems. Computer-based tools are used to analyze global environmental issues, chemical use and management, waste disposal and management, water and air quality, soil and water conservation, sustainable agriculture, regulatory and policy issues. Typically offered Fall.
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ASM 24500 - Materials Handling And Processing
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of materials handling and processing. Physical properties and characteristics of food, fiber, and feed materials as related to harvesting, handling, processing, and storage. Processing of agricultural materials including drying, preservation, size reduction (e.g. grinding, crushing, shredding), mixing and blending, refrigeration, extrusion, and pelleting. Conveying and transport systems with consideration of their effects on damage and quality. The course elements are tied together by a treatment of scheduling and coordination of biologically based systems, which involve production, handling, quality control, and processing. Typically offered Spring.
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ASM 29100 - Special Topics
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Designed for specialized topic areas for which there is no specific course, but have enough student interest to justify formalized teaching of an undergraduate-level course. The course may be repeated by a student as long as the topic being taught is not repeated. The special topic that is offered will be indicated on the student’s record. Permission of instructor is required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 31100 - Advanced Technical Graphics Communications
Credit Hours: 3.00. Symbol library creation and manipulation, computer-aided drawing (CAD) data-base extraction for report generation, introduction to Lisp programming and drawing automation, three-dimensional wire frame modeling, surface rendering, and introduction to solid modeling. Assignments will include use of commercially available CAD packages. Typically offered Fall.
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ASM 33300 - Facilities Planning And Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of facility (system) planning and management involving buildings, equipment, and materials handling and flow. Student teams select a case firm (problem) with instructor approval. Principles learned week by week are applied to the development of an overall plan for the complex, over the course of the semester. Case examples can include firms handling supplies, seeds, grains, feeds, chemicals, wastes, and farm produce, as well as farming operations producing grain, forage, and/or livestock products. Students will learn to use AutoCAD to develop drawings, without prior computer drafting experience. Typically offered Spring.
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ASM 34500 - Power Units And Power Trains
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to power generation and transfer in mechanical and fluid power systems. Internal combustion engines, fuels, and cycles are introduced. Clutches, mechanical transmissions, automatic transmissions, hydrostatic transmissions, and final drives are discussed. Principles of hydraulics, fluids, cylinders, pumps, motors, valves, hoses, filters, reservoirs, and accumulators are studied. Typically offered Fall.
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ASM 35000 - Safety In Agriculture
Credit Hours: 1.00. An overview of the agricultural safety movement in the United States with consideration given to the specific human environmental and technological factors influencing farm-related accidents. Special emphasis is given to reduction of unnecessary risks in agricultural production. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Spring.
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ASM 39000 - Agricultural Systems Management Co-Op
Credit Hours: 0.00. Supervised professional experiences in agricultural systems management. Programs must be preplanned and conducted under the direction of the departmental coordinator with the cooperation of an employer. Students must submit a summary report. Consent of the departmental cooperative professional program coordinator required. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 40000 - Agricultural Systems Management Study Abroad
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 8.00. Utilized to record credits earned through participation in Purdue study abroad programs with cooperating foreign universities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 42000 - Electric Power And Controls
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals and application of electric power for agricultural facilities; safe wiring principles; operation and performance characteristics of electric motors; applications of control systems that include monitors, sensors, relays, and programmable logic controllers. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 42100 - Senior Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00. Professional attitudes and ethics, resume preparation and interview procedures, business correspondence, meetings, and career planning. Typically offered Fall.
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ASM 42200 - Advanced Machine Technology For Agricultural Crop Production
Credit Hours: 3.00. The course examines technologies and techniques associated with modern farming practices often referred to in general as precision agriculture. It is structured to center around expert presentations from industry, academia, and farming practice, with a focus on technologies and appropriate application of such technologies in crop production systems in the Eastern Cornbelt. Consent of instructor required. Typically offered Spring.
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ASM 44100 - Methods Of Teaching Agricultural Mechanics
Credit Hours: 1.00. Emphasis on facilities, shop layout, organization, course planning, and demonstrations. Course meets during weeks 1-6. For students seeking certification as teachers of agriculture. Typically offered Spring.
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ASM 49000 - Special Problems
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Assignment by consent of instructor in the field of selected study. Laboratory, field, and library studies and reports on special problems related to agricultural systems management not covered in regular coursework. A written report and oral presentation of final results is required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 49100 - Special Topics
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Designed for specialized topic areas for which there is no specific course, but have enough student interest to justify formalized teaching of an undergraduate-level course. The course may be repeated by a student as long as the topic being taught is not repeated. The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student’s record. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 49400 - Project Planning And Management
Credit Hours: 1.00. Discussion of topics relevant to project planning and execution in industry, including technical communication, budgeting, team management, intellectual property, and timelines. Student teams will develop project proposal to address contemporary issues in agricultural systems management. Typically offered Fall.
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ASM 49500 - Agricultural Systems Management Capstone Project
Credit Hours: 3.00. Planning, organization, and analysis of individual or team projects related to contemporary issues in agricultural systems management. Typically offered Spring.
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ASM 49600 - Project Planning And Capstone Project
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Topics relevant to project planning and execution in industry, including technical communication, budgeting, team management, intellectual property, and timelines. Students will develop a project proposal to address contemporary issues in agricultural systems management and complete that plan related to contemporary issues in agricultural systems management. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 49800 - Directed Experience In Teaching Mechanized Agriculture
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. This course is designed primarily for students majoring in agricultural education, extension education, agricultural systems management, and agricultural engineering. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 49900 - Thesis Research
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Thesis Research. Admission to honors program. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 51000 - Agrosecurity-Emergency Management For Agricultural Production Operations
Credit Hours: 3.00. Prepares individuals for management and loss control positions in agricultural production, agribusiness operations, and emergency management agencies. Addresses prevention, preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery from disasters such as fires, explosions, entrapments, tornadoes, floods, winter storms, earthquakes, vandalism, chemical releases, and bio-terrorism. Students complete a community service learning activity, in which they assist a farm or agribusiness manager in developing formal emergency preparedness plans. Typically offered Fall.
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ASM 53000 - Power And Machinery Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Management and selection of farm machines and power units with emphasis on cost analysis and evaluation of new machines and practices. Typically offered Fall.
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ASM 54000 - Geographic Information System Application
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals of GIS analysis applied to environmental, agricultural, and engineering-related problems. Topics include data sources, spatial analysis; projections; creating data and metadata, and conceptualizing and solving spatial problems using GIS. Typically offered Fall.
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ASM 55000 - Grain Drying And Storage
Credit Hours: 3.00. Crop drying and storage principles including equilibrium moisture, psychrometrics, and drying rates. Modern drying and conditioning techniques including dryeration, in-bin counterflow drying, and combination drying. Estimating fixed and variable drying costs, aeration of stored grain, and maintenance of grain quality. Offered in even-numbered years. Typically offered Spring.
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ASM 59000 - Special Problems
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Assignment by consent of the instructor in the field of selected study. Laboratory, field, and library studies and reports on special problems related to agricultural systems management not covered in regular coursework. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 59100 - Special Topics
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Primarily designed for specialized topic areas in agricultural systems management for which there is no specific course, workshop, or individual study plan, but having enough student interest to justify the formalized teaching of a course. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 69800 - Research MS Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ASM 69900 - ASM Research PhD Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of Instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGR 10100 - Introduction To The College Of Agriculture And Purdue University
Credit Hours: 0.50. Students are introduced to the College of Agriculture and Purdue University. Specific areas discussed include the diversity of career opportunities within agriculture, the relationships between different areas of agriculture, ethics, the impact of undergraduate coursework, including the core curriculum, on scholarship and career preparation, and the challenges facing the food, agricultural, and natural resource system. The use of guest lecturers provides a networking opportunity for students. Enrollment in this course is restricted to beginning freshmen students. Course meets weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 10700 - Pathway To Purdue
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is a required one credit introductory course for students participating in the Pathway to Purdue program. Students will learn about the Pathway to Purdue programs, study skills and techniques, transfer policies and requirements, as well as hear from a variety of guest speakers who will discuss relevant topics. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 11100 - Introduction To Agricultural And Biological Engineering Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering which include Agricultural Systems Management, Agricultural and Natural Resources Engineering, and Biological and Food Process Engineering. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 11200 - Introduction To Agricultural Economics Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Agricultural Economics. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 11300 - Introduction To Agronomy Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Agronomy, which includes Applied Meteorology, Agronomic Business and Marketing, Environmental Soil Science, International Agronomy, Plant Genetics and Plant Breeding, Soil and Crop Management, Soil and Crop Science, Turf Science, and associate degrees. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 11400 - Introduction to Animal Sciences Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Animal Sciences. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 11500 - Introduction To Biochemistry Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Biochemistry. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 11600 - Introduction To Botany And Plant Pathology Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 11700 - Introduction To Entomology Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Entomology. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 11800 - Introduction To Food Science Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Food Science. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 11900 - Introduction To Forestry And Natural Resources Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 12000 - Introduction To Horticulture And Landscape Architecture Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 12100 - Introduction To Youth Development And Agricultural Education Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Youth Development and Agricultural Education which includes Agricultural Communication and Agricultural Education. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 12200 - Introduction To Natural Resources And Environmental Science Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in Pre-Environmental Studies and Natural Resources and Environmental Science. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 12300 - Introduction To College of Agriculture Interdisciplinary Agriculture Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in Interdisciplinary Agriculture. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 12400 - Introduction To College Of Agriculture Pre Veterinary Medicine Academic Programs
Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in Pre-Veterinary Medicine. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 12500 - Introduction To Plant Science
Credit Hours: 1.00. An introduction to the academic programs offered in plant science. Topics include, but are not limited to, undergraduate plans of study, courses, and experiential programs including undergraduate research opportunities, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Typically offered Fall.
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AGR 20100 - Communicating Across Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will provide students with an opportunity to understand their place in a multicultural, multiethnic, multinational country, the United States. It is designed to provide an academic overview of the field of multicultural education as it evolved to this day. The course will offer an introductory overview of the many differences that exist within all human beings. Because the diversity among individuals is endless, we cannot study all differences, but will study a sampling such as race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, social class, disability, learning styles, and religion/spiritual orientation. Issues of poverty, language, and social justice may also be examined in relationship to the above major areas of emphasis. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGR 29000 - Special Topics In Agriculture
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. Presentation of subject matter not available in other courses offered by the college. The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student’s academic record. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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AGR 29400 - Directed Readings In Agriculture, Environment, and Society
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. Presentation of subject matter not available in other courses offered by the college. Directed reading and discussion of books and other documents of significant importance and current interest in agriculture, food systems, renewable natural resources, and the environment. The specific topic that is covered will be indicated on the student’s academic record. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGR 39500 - International Internship
Credit Hours: 3.00. Supervised international internship in agricultural, food, or natural resource disciplines. The international internship must be approved as part of a Purdue University study abroad program and conducted under the supervision of a College of Agriculture faculty member. Students must submit a summary report and fulfill all requirements established by faculty supervisor. Consent of the College of Agriculture International Programs in Agriculture and Office of Academic Programs staff required. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGR 40000 - Agriculture Study Abroad
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 8.00. Utilized to record credits earned through participation in Purdue study abroad programs with cooperating foreign universities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGR 49000 - Special Problems
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. Topics and credit hours to be arranged. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGR 49300 - Special Topics In International Agriculture
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. A course that provides students interested in international agriculture opportunity for in-depth study and analysis of major issues associated with the relationship of U.S. agriculture to world agriculture and agricultural development abroad. Current and significant topics will be selected. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGR 49400 - Advanced Readings In Agriculture, Environment, and Society
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. Presentation of subject matter not available in other courses offered by the college. Directed reading and discussion of books and other documents of significant importance and current interest in agriculture, food systems, renewable resources and the environment. The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student’s academic record. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGR 49500 - International Professional Experience In Agriculture, Food, Or Natural Resources
Credit Hours: 0.00. Supervised international professional experiences in agricultural, food, or natural resource disciplines. The professional experience period must be preplanned and conducted under the supervision of a College of Agriculture faculty member. Students must submit a summary report. Consent of the College of Agriculture international professional experience program coordinator required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGR 49600 - Multicultural Professional Experience
Credit Hours: 0.00. The multicultural professional experience must be pre-planned and conducted under the supervision of a College of Agriculture faculty member. The experience must be a minimum of four weeks in length. Students must submit a summary report. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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AGR 59500 - Current Topics In Agriculture, Natural Resources, And Related Sciences
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Critical examination of developments in specialized and emerging areas of agriculture not taught in other courses. Some topics include lecture, lab, directed reading or independent study. Students must have graduate standing or obtain permission of instructor. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGRY 10500 - Crop Production
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental principles of crop production and distribution. Emphasis is placed on applying technological advances in agronomy to active crop-production situations, including basic soils, agricultural meteorology, and crop physiology and breeding. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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AGRY 11000 - Survey Of Turfgrass Culture
Credit Hours: 1.00. (HORT 11100) A survey of the challenges and opportunities available in the turfgrass industry. Students will visit a wide range of turf sites to see turf problems and their solutions. Professional turf managers, upperclass undergraduate students, and faculty will share their experiences with the class to provide a broad perspective of the turf industry to the students. Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 12000 - Water And Food Security
Credit Hours: 3.00. General science introduction to global and regional water resources issues, especially with respect to food security. It will address the role of water in agriculture throughout the world and agriculture’s impact on water resources. Students will focus first on developing the scientific underpinnings of water supply and crop water use. With this background, they will explore key issues relating to water scarcity and balancing agricultural and urban demands for water, water quality and soil salinization, water footprints of food and the use of virtual water embedded in food to offset national water deficits, regulation and roles science and policy in solving water problems. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGRY 12300 - Genetics And Society
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the broad impacts that genetics and genomics have on society, from medicine, genetic testing and DNA evidence to agriculture, genetically modified crops and synthetic life. Background information is provided on a weekly topic followed by extensive in-class discussion. Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 12500 - Environmental Science And Conservation
Credit Hours: 3.00. (EAPS 12500, FNR 12500, NRES 12500) Introduction to environmental science and conservation includes topics in ecological principles, conservation and natural resource management, human impacts on the environment, toxic waste disposal, climate change, energy, air and water pollution, environmental geology and geologic hazards. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGRY 15500 - Introduction To Soil Morphology
Credit Hours: 2.00. This course features an introductory field experience in evaluating soil morphology. Students will develop skills determining horizon nomenclature, texture, soil color, structure, consistence and drainage. Basic concepts regarding the impact of soil morphology on use of soils for various purposes will be presented. Collegiate soil judging is a portion of the subject matter discussed. Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 20400 - Crop And Weed Identification
Credit Hours: 1.00 or 2.00. (BTNY 20400) The identification by sight of plant mounts and seeds of over 200 crops and weeds is taught. The first eight weeks, which covers restricted weeds, prohibited noxious weeds, common weeds, and seed diseases, can be taken for one credit; the last eight weeks covers cereals, grass and legume forages, and legume crops. The list of species to be studied for two credits is obtained from the Intercollegiate Crops Judging Manual. The species to be covered for one credit include the above-listed weeds and additional weed specimens pertinent to the weeds contest. The use and origins of the species are discussed briefly. Suggested course in preparation for AGRY 30500. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 21000 - Fundamentals Of Turfgrass Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. (HORT 21000) An introductory course in turfgrass management emphasizing turfgrass growth and development, species characteristics, their adaptation and basic cultural requirements for ornamental and functional turfgrass areas. The requirements and cultural inputs needed for proper establishment and maintenance of a high quality, low maintenance lawn will be discussed. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 21100 - Fundamentals Of Turfgrass Culture Laboratory
Credit Hours: 1.00. (HORT 21100) Companion lab to AGRY 21000. Laboratory exercises will focus on turfgrass and seed anatomy, morphology, identification as well as the hands-on basic principles of turfgrass culture. Designed for the student who intends to pursue a career in turfgrass management and plans to enroll in AGRY 510. Enrollment preference will be given to Turfgrass Science Majors. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 25100 - Introduction To Soils
Credit Hours: 1.00. Characteristics of soils and associated landscapes; soil genesis and classification; relation of soils to land use; soil management relative to erosion, tillage, drainage, moisture supply, and aeration. Credit cannot be given in both AGRY 25100 and AGRY 25500/NRES 25500 or AGRY 27000. Course meets during weeks 1-6. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGRY 25500 - Soil Science
Credit Hours: 3.00. (NRES 25500) Differences in soils; soils genesis; physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils; relation of soils to problems of land use and pollution; soil management relative to tillage, erosion, drainage, moisture supply, temperature, aeration, fertility, and plant nutrition. Introduction to fertilizer chemistry and use. Not available to students who have taken AGRY 27000. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGRY 27000 - Forest Soils
Credit Hours: 3.00. Development, distribution, and classification of soil profile; soil characteristics related to forest practices; nature and cause of soil differences; fertility and plant nutrition. Not available to students who have taken AGRY 25500 or NRES 25500. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 27500 - Honors Course - Lower Division
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Utilized to offer a new honors course for a maximum of three years. Variable title, credit, and instructional type. Course may be repeated for credit if content and titles are different. Offered primarily to first- and second-year students. Courses offered must be approved by departmental or program faculty and College of Agriculture Honors Committee. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGRY 28500 - World Crop Adaptation And Distribution
Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of how environmental factors, including climate and soils, impact the global distribution of major food crops. Identification of the types of naturally occurring plant communities and comparison of these communities with those of environmentally and economically sound field cropping systems. Exploration of how man’s intervention has maintained or modified the productivity of food crops in agricultural communities and how his intervention has affected the environment. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 30500 - Seed Analysis And Grain Grading
Credit Hours: 2.00. A practical study of factors influencing commercial grain quality and purity of seed lots. Training in the ability to recognize crop products for their market worth by knowing defects that reduce grain quality. Purity analysis of seed lots will be performed. In-depth identification of 200 crops and weeds important to United States agriculture. Intercollegiate crops judging is a portion of the subject matter discussed. Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 30600 - Seed Technology
Credit Hours: 2.00. An introduction to the seed industry with emphasis on morphological development, production, cleaning, and testing as well as storage and merchandising techniques. Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 31100 - Turfgrass Diagnostics
Credit Hours: 1.00. (HORT 31100) An intermediate to advanced level course covering relevant applied problem solving skills required to be a professional turfgrass manager. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 32000 - Genetics
Credit Hours: 3.00. The transmission of heritable traits; probability; genotypic-environmental interactions; chromosomal aberrations; polyploidy; gene mutations; genes in populations; the structure and function of nucleic acids; biochemical genetics; molecular genetics; coding. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGRY 32100 - Genetics Laboratory
Credit Hours: 1.00. Experiments with plants and microorganisms to elucidate the basic concepts of molecular and classical genetics as applied to genome analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGRY 33500 - Weather And Climate
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introductory course in meteorology and climatology with applications to daily life. The study of the fundamental physical principles behind weather and climate and how they apply to the homeowner and the world citizen. Emphasis is on how to interpret weather conditions and forecasts, what controls the wide range of climates in the world, and what the future may hold. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 33700 - Environmental Hydrology
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to provide undergraduate students with both the basics of how water moves through the environment and current theories as to how hydrologic response is modified by environmental change at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 33800 - Environmental Hydrology Laboratory
Credit Hours: 1.00. This laboratory course is designed to provide hands-on examples of the hydrologic concepts covered in the AGRY 33700 class and with practical experience in hydrologic field techniques. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 34900 - Soil Ecology
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introductory course that will cover the basic concepts of soil ecology. Biological diversity and the interactions between and within biotic and abiotic components of the soil ecosystem, nutrient cycling, and genetic engineering are introduced. Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 35000 - Global Awareness
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. A seminar-type course about world geography, cultures, and agriculture. Speakers are selected from the many Purdue graduate students and visiting scholars from around the world. Extra credit may be earned through independent study of a global issue. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 35500 - Soil Morphology And Geography
Credit Hours: 2.00. This course features field experience in advanced techniques in soil morphology including the study of the relationship of soils to landscaped, common parent materials of Midwest and classification of soils in the Soil Taxonomy. Course material emphasizes the development of detailed descriptions of soil properties and how these properties directly impact the interpretations and recommendations for land use options. Use and management of soils based on landscape position and morphology will be covered including on-site waste disposal, homes with basements as well as road and street construction. Collegiate soil judging is a portion of the subject matter discussed. Requires class trips. Students will pay individual lodging or meal expenses when necessary. Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 36500 - Soil Fertility
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of soil chemistry and physics influencing plant nutrition; emphasis on diagnosis and solution of problems on soil reaction and nutrient status; fertilizer chemistry and use; reaction of pesticides and growth regulators with soils. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 37500 - Crop Production Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Factors affecting management decisions in crop production systems. Development of small grain and row cropping systems. Interaction of factors affecting efficient production systems, including seed selection, tillage, planting management, pest management, and harvesting and storage considerations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGRY 38000 - Field Crop Diagnostic Techniques
Credit Hours: 1.00. (BTNY 380, ENTM 380) Identification of field crop problems via in-field diagnostic techniques, determination of the magnitude of problems utilizing in-field thresholds, evaluation of optional multidisciplinary management strategies, and development of appropriate strategies based upon economic, environmental, and cultural concepts. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer.
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AGRY 38500 - Environmental Soil Chemistry
Credit Hours: 4.00. (NRES 38500 ) Designed as an upper level introductory course covering environmental soil chemistry concepts in framework most applicable to inorganic and organic chemical contamination of soil and water resources and intended for students in environmental science fields that may not have a strong chemistry and/or math background. (el.5). Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 39000 - Professional Cooperative Programs In Agronomy
Credit Hours: 0.00. Supervised professional experiences in agronomy. Programs must be preplanned and conducted under the direction of the departmental coordinator with the cooperation of an employer. Students must submit a summary report. Consent of the departmental cooperative professional program coordinator required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGRY 39800 - Agronomy Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00. Weekly discussions of agronomic topics and other subjects relative to agronomic interest. Students are expected to participate in the discussions. Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 39900 - Individual Study
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Supervised individual study or research over topics not covered in other courses. Arrange with agronomy faculty before registering. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGRY 40000 - Agronomy Study Abroad
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 8.00. Utilized to record credits earned through participation in Purdue study abroad programs with cooperating foreign universities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGRY 43100 - Atmospheric Thermodynamics
Credit Hours: 3.00. (EAPS 42100 ) Structure and composition of the atmosphere. Thermodynamics of dry and moist air, including adiabatic and pseudoadiabatic processes, hydrostatic stability, and air mass determination. Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 43200 - Atmospheric Dynamics I
Credit Hours: 3.00. (EAPS 42200 ) A study of the general system of equations governing mass and momentum changes in the atmosphere; special horizontal wind representations; thermal wind relationships; circulation, vorticity, divergence, and vertical motion. Typically offered Spring.
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AGRY 43300 - Atmospheric Dynamics II
Credit Hours: 3.00. (EAPS 42300) An extension of AGRY 43200 with the emphasis on perturbation theory and hydrodynamic stability, air mass and frontal theory, barotrophic and baroclinic models, wave cyclone theory, and numerical weather prediction. Typically offered Fall.
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AGRY 44100 - Synoptic Laboratory I
Credit Hours: 1.00. (EAPS 43100 ) Analysis of vertical distributions of temperature and moisture with applications to adiabatic and pseudoadiabatic processes, hydrostatic stability, and air mass determination. Typically offered Fall.
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