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

Required Major Core: 18 Credits

ANSC 1101 - Freshman Seminar Credit Hours: 1
ANSC 1419 - Introductory Animal Science Credit Hours: 4
STAT 3308 - Agricultural Statistics Credit Hours: 3
ANSC 2305 - Meat Animal & Carcass Eval Credit Hours: 3
OR
ANSC 3411 - Livestock Slaughter Insp Credit Hours: 4
OR
ANSC 3416 - Lvstk Wildlife Nutr Mgmt Credit Hours: 4
OR
ANSC 4302 - Food and Meat Safety Credit Hours: 3
OR
ANSC 4305 - Agri Genetics Credit Hours: 3
OR
AGB 2302 - Agri Economics Credit Hours: 3
NRM 2301 - Range Resources Credit Hours: 3
OR
NRM 2303 - Prin Conservation Biology Credit Hours: 3
OR
OR
NRM 2330 - Wildlife Conservation & Mgmt Credit Hours: 3
OR
NRM 3305 - Wildland Plants Credit Hours: 3

Required Concentration Core: 54 Credits

IT 1308 - Basic Electricity Credit Hours: 3
IT 2307 - Welding Technology Credit Hours: 3
OR
IT 2314 - Welding Technology II Credit Hours: 3
IT 3358 - Ranch Construction and Maintenance Credit Hours:
NRM 2301 - Range Resources Credit Hours: 3
NRM 2330 - Wildlife Conservation & Mgmt Credit Hours: 3
NRM 3305 - Wildland Plants Credit Hours: 3
NRM 4304 - Range Inventory & Analysis Credit Hours: 3
NRM 4308 - Big Game Management Credit Hours: 3
NRM 4314 - Range Watershed & Hydrology Credit Hours: 3
ANSC 3402 - Beef Cattle Prod & Mgt Credit Hours: 4
RCH 1301 - Animal Husbandry I Credit Hours: 3
AGB 3304 - Range Use Economics Credit Hours: 3
OR
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
AGB 4315 - Farm & Ranch Rec & Acc 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 3302 - Outdr Hospitality Indstry Credit Hours: 3
RCH 4301 - Ranch Ecosystem Mgmt Credit Hours: 3
RCH 4601 - Ranch Internship Credit Hours: 6

Restrictive Electives: 6 Credits

Students must choose any two lower or upper level courses in IT, ANSC, NRM, or RCH.

Total Hours: 120

Core Curriculum: 42

Required Core Courses: 18

Required Concentration Core: 54

Restrictive Electives: 6