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Title

Agricultural Economics

Degree Level

Associate Degree

Minor Code

Advisor's Name

Jennifer Leeann Williams

Advisor's Phone

(765) 494-0262

Advisor's Email

leewill@purdue.edu

Information

Agricultural economics offers training that will be helpful for students contemplating employment as managers, extension workers, government employees, and employees in finance, in marketing, and in managerial positions in agricultural businesses. It also prepares qualified students to take graduate work as further preparation for college or government work, or for commercial economic research work. This Department of Agricultural Economics option has enough flexibility to permit a student to prepare for an international career in agricultural economics.

Credit Hours

Description

Freshman Year

First Semester

(3) AGEC 20300 (Introductory Microeconomics for Food and Agribusiness)

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

(0.5) AGR 11200 (Introduction to Agricultural Economics Academic Programs)

(3) COM 11400 (Fundamentals of Speech Communication)

(6) Agricultural electives

(3) Mathematics or sciences elective

Total Credits: 16

Second Semester

(4) ENGL 10600 (First-Year Composition)

(3) Agricultural elective

(3) Calculus or statistics elective

(3) Economics elective

(3) Mathematics or sciences elective

Total Credits: 16

Sophomore Year

Third Semester

(6) Agricultural economics, economics, or management electives

(3) Agricultural elective

(3) Mathematics or sciences elective

(3) Social Science or humanities elective

(2) Elective

Total Credits: 17

Fourth Semester

(6) Agricultural economics, economics, or management electives

(5) Agricultural electives

(3) Mathematics or sciences elective

(2) Elective

Total Credits: 16

Additional Information

Department

AGEC

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