Texas Tech University

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

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

Fall Spring

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

Fall Spring

POLS1301, American Govt. Org.

3 ACOM 3300, Comm. Ag. to Public 3
COMS 2300, Public Speaking 3 Advanced Ag. Elective 6

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

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.