Agriculture, BS, Sustainable Ranch Management Concentration

Location(s): Alpine

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The Agriculture curriculum is designed to be a broad-based student-centered program that prepares students with marketable technical skills within the agricultural field for careers in business, industry, education, and government.

The Sustainable Ranch Managment concentration emphasizes specialized coursework in several broad areas that are needed to be a successful ranch manager. The degree empahsizes hands on learning for the person that will be the on the ground decision maker on a ranch including ranch managment, agribusiness, range managment, wildlife management, construction, and animal science.

Program Requirements

Core Curriculum: 42

First-Year Seminar: 1

Agriculture Core: 28 Credits

ANSC 2312 - Current Issues in Ag Credit Hours: 3
NRM 2305 - Soils Credit Hours: 3
ANSC 3416 - Lvstk Wildlife Nutr Mgmt Credit Hours: 4
STAT 3308 - Agricultural Statistics Credit Hours: 3
ANSC 2301 - Introduction to Agriculture Credit Hours: 3
OR
ANSC 1419 - Introductory Animal Science Credit Hours: 4
AGB 2302 - Agri Economics Credit Hours: 3
ANSC 4305 - Agri Genetics Credit Hours: 3
NRM 2301 - Range Resources Credit Hours: 3
NRM 2303 - Prin Conservation Biology Credit Hours: 3
OR
NRM 2330 - Wildlife Conservation & Mgmt Credit Hours: 3

Notes:

ANSC 2312 and NRM 2305 should be taken to satisfy core requirements.

Sustainable Ranch concentration: 51 Credits

IT 1308 - Basic Electricity Credit Hours: 3
IT 1309 - Power Technology Credit Hours: 3
IT 4311 - Special Problems in IT Credit Hours: 3
IT 2307 - Welding Technology Credit Hours: 3 *
IT 2314 - Welding Technology II Credit Hours: 3 *
IT 2309 - Tech/Sm Eng Maint & Repair Credit Hours: 3
OR
IT 3319 - Gen Auto Maint & Repair Credit Hours: 3
AGB 3304 - Range Use Economics Credit Hours: 3 *
AGB 4308 - Natural Resource & Envir Econ Credit Hours: 3 *
AGB 4301 - Sust/Div Ranch Business Credit Hours: 3
OR
AGB 4303 - Agri-Business Management Credit Hours: 3
ANSC 3315 - Appl Anim Be & Welfare Credit Hours: 3 *
ANSC 3402 - Beef Cattle Prod & Mgt Credit Hours: 4 *
NRM 3305 - Wildland Plants Credit Hours: 3
NRM 4304 - Range Inventory & Analysis Credit Hours: 3
NRM 4308 - Big Game Management Credit Hours: 3 *
RCH 3302 - Outdr Hospitality Indstry Credit Hours: 3 *
NRM 4314 - Range Watershed & Hydrology Credit Hours: 3
RCH 2101 - Ranch Management Skills Credit Hours: 1
RCH 4101 - Adv Ranch Mgmt Skills Credit Hours: 1
RCH 3301 - Sustainability in Ag Credit Hours: 3
RCH 4301 - Ranch Ecosystem Mgmt Credit Hours: 3
RCH 4601 - Ranch Internship Credit Hours: 6

Notes:

IT 4311 should be taken as Ranch Construction. Pairs with * or ** take one class or other

IT 1308 should be taken to satisfy core requirements.

*Pairs with

Sustainable Ranch electives: 6 Credits

ANSC 2303 - Horsemanship I Credit Hours: 3
ANSC 2305 - Meat Animal & Carcass Eval Credit Hours: 3
ANSC 3406 - Meat Science Credit Hours: 4
ANSC 4303 - Meat Fabrication Credit Hours: 3
ANSC 4314 - Forage Production & Mgt Credit Hours: 3
GBAA 4355 - International Business Credit Hours: 3
GBAA 3351 - Business Law Credit Hours: 3
RCH 4302 - Ranch Maps & Mapping Credit Hours: 3

Notes:

Select classes from the list above

Total Hours: 120

Core Curriculum: 42

First-Year Seminar: 1

Required Core Courses: 28

Restrictive Electives in SRM: 51

Restrictive Electives in: 6

[3 classes (9 sch) that are listed in major sections can be taken as core.]