Undergraduate Degree Requirements
Agricultural Communications
Agricultural Communications students communicate and advocate for the agricultural industry. Students develop and fine-tune written, verbal, visual, photography, and technological skills with this major. Within the Agricultural Communications major, students take 31 hours of agricultural communications courses and 3 hours of a communications elective in a supporting area (electronic media, print media, public relations and marketing).
An example degree program is included below.
Agricultural Communications Curriculum
First Year |
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| Fall | Spring | ||
| Life & Physical Science** | 4 | Life & Physical Science** | 4 |
| ENGL 1301, Essentials of Coll. Rhetoric | 3 | ENGL 1302, Adv. College Rhetoric | 3 |
| MATH 1320, College Algebra | 3 | HIST 2300, History of U.S. to 1877 | 3 |
| ACOM 1300, Intro. Ag. Communications | 3 | Basic Ag. Elective | 3 |
| AGED 2300, Intro to Ag Ed | 3 |
ACOM 2302, Science Communications |
3 |
| TOTAL | 16 | TOTAL | 16 |
Second Year |
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| Fall | Spring | ||
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AAEC 2305, Fund. Ag. Appl. Economics |
3 | ACOM 2303, Digital Imaging in Ag | 3 |
| Basic Ag Elective | 3 |
ACOM 2305, Digital Comm in Ag |
3 |
| MATH 2300, Statistical Methods | 3 | HIST 2301, History of U.S. Since 1877 | 3 |
| JOUR 2310, News Writing** | 3 |
Language, Philosophy & Culture* |
3 |
| ACOM 2200, Professional Dev in Ag Comm | 2 | Creative Arts* | 3 |
| TOTAL | 14 | TOTAL | 15 |
Third Year |
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| Fall | Spring | ||
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POLS1301, American Govt. Org. |
3 | ACOM 3300, Comm. Ag. to Public | 3 |
| COMS 2300, Public Speaking | 3 | Advanced Ag. Elective | 6 |
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Communications Elective |
3 |
Basic Ag. Elective |
3 |
| ACOM 3311, Web Design for Ag. | 3 |
POLS 2306, Texas Politics & Topics |
3 |
| ACOM 3301, Video Production | 3 |
Communications Elective ACOM 3305, Layout & Design |
3 3 |
| TOTAL | 15 | TOTAL | 18 |
Fourth Year |
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| Fall | Spring | ||
| ACOM 4000, Internship | 2 | ACOM 4305, Ag Comm Campaigns | 3 |
| Advance Ag. Electives | 12 | ACOM 4310, Dev. of Ag. Publications | 3 |
| ACOM 4311, Convergence in Ag Media | 3 | ||
| ACOM 4312, Adv. Design Principles for Ag. Media | 3 | ||
| TOTAL | 14 | TOTAL | 12 |
Minimum hours required for graduation - 120
*Choose from Core Curriculum requirements
**Must pass Basics of Writing Exam before enrolling in JOUR 2310.
Agricultural Education & Communications
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Address
Department of Agricultural Education & Communications, Box 42131-Lubbock, TX 79409-2131 -
Phone
806.742.2816 -
Email
steven.fraze@ttu.edu