Purdue University PURDUE AGRICULTURE
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Title

Agricultural Communication 

Degree Level

Bachelor of Science 

Minor Code

 

Advisor's Name

Mark A. Tucker 

Advisor's Phone

(765) 494-8429 

Advisor's Email

matucker@purdue.edu 

Information

Students interested in agriculture and communications can combine studies in these two disciplines to prepare for careers in mass media, advertising, public relations, sales and marketing, and governmental information agencies. Agricultural communicators are educated to gather scientific and technical information about agriculture and prepare it for use by both farm and consumer audiences. This program is coordinated by staff in the Department of Youth Development and Agricultural Education.

Credit Hours

130 

Description

Freshman Year

First Semester

(0.5) AGR 10100 (Introduction to the College of Agriculture and Purdue University)

(0.5) AGR 12100 (Introduction to Youth Development and Agricultural Education Academic Programs)

(4) BIOL 11000 (Fundamentals of Biology I)

(4) ENGL 10600 (First-Year Composition I)

(3) YDAE 15200 (Agricultural Communication Seminar)

(3)Agricultural elective

Total Credits: 15


Second Semester

(4) BIOL 11100 (Fundamentals of Biology II)

(3) COM 11400 (Fundamentals of Speech Communication)

(3) COM 25000 (Mass Communication and Society)

(3) Agricultural elective

(3) Social science elective

Total Credits: 16

Sophomore Year

Third Semester

(3) AGEC 21700 (Economics)

(3) CHM 11100 (General Chemistry)

(3) COM 20400 (Critical Perspectives on Communication)

(3) MA 22000 (Introduction to Calculus)

(3) Agricultural elective

(3) Written or oral communication elective

Total Credits: 18


Fourth Semester

(3) CHM 11200 (General Chemistry)

(3) COM 25200 (Writing for Mass Media)

(3) COM 31800 (Principles of Persuasion)

(3) STAT 30100 (Elementary Statistical Methods)

(3) Humanities elective

(3) Mathematics or sciences elective

Total Credits: 18

Junior Year

Fifth Semester

(3) COM 31100 (Copy Editing)

(3) Agricultural elective

(3) Humanities elective

(3) Mathematics or sciences elective

(4) Electives

Total Credits: 16


Sixth Semester

(3) YDAE 46000 (Agricultural Publishing)

(3) Agricultural elective

(5) Communication or agricultural communication electives

(2) Mathematics or sciences elective

(3) Social science or humanities elective (30000 + level)

Total Credits: 16

Senior Year

Seventh Semester

(3) YDAE 48000 (Agricultural Communication Capstone Seminar)

(3) Agricultural elective

(3) Communication or agricultural communication elective

(3) Social science, humanities, or international understanding elective

(4) Electives

Total Credits: 16


Eighth Semester

(3) Agricultural elective

(3) Communication or agricultural communication elective

(3) Science communication elective

(3) Social science or humanities elective

(3) Elective

Total Credits: 15

Additional Information

 

Department

YDAE 
Attachments
Created at 4/27/2009 1:44 PM  by Quesada, Virginia J 
Last modified at 6/12/2009 11:20 AM  by Haghighi, Nina