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
Fall		Spring
Natural Science**	4	Basic Ag. Elective	3
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	AAEC 2305, Fund. Ag. Appl. Economics	3
ACOM 2305, Digital Comm. in Ag.	3	MATH 2300, Statistical Methods	3
TOTAL	16	TOTAL	15
Second Year
Fall		Spring
Basic Ag. Elective	3	JOUR 2310, News Writing***	3
Natural Science**	4	POLS1301, American Govt. Org.	3
ACOM 2302, Science Communications	3	ADV 3310, Principles of Advertising	3
HIST 2301, History of U.S. Since 1877	3	AGED 2300, Intro. to Ag. Education	3
Humanities Elective*	3	ANSC 1401, Intro. to Animal Science	4
TOTAL	16	TOTAL	16
Third Year
Fall		Spring
POLS 2302, Am. Public Policy	3	ACOM 3300, Comm. Ag. to Public	3
COMS 2300, Public Speaking	3	Advanced Ag. Electives	6
PR 3310, Prin. of Public Relations	3	Basic Ag. Elective	3
Advanced Ag. Elective	3	PHOT 2310, Basic Photography	3
ACOM 3301, Video Production	3
TOTAL	15	TOTAL	15
Fourth Year
Fall		Spring
ACOM 3305, Layout & Design	3	Specialized Elective	3
ACOM 4305, Ag Comm Campaigns	3	Advanced Ag. Elective	5
Visual & Performing Arts Elective*	3	ACOM 4310, Dev. of Ag. Publications	3
Advanced Ag. Elective	3	ACOM 3311, Web Design for Ag.	3
ACOM 4100, Seminar in Ag. Comm.	1
TOTAL	13	TOTAL	14

Minimum hours required for graduation - 120
*Choose from Core Curriculum requirements, one from Category E and one from Category F.
**Choose from Core Curriculum requirements, Category C.
***Must pass GSP before enrolling in JOUR 2410.