Total degree hours: 60.5
This degree is designed for the student whose career goals include direct involvement in ranch management as owner, operator, working manager, or partner. Students acquire skills and knowledge to be successful in the ranching industry, including an ability to communicate effectively on ranch and agriculture concepts, relate business and management concepts to ranching, and demonstrate an awareness of issues related to the ranching sector. Students further define their focus through elective courses and internships.
Students majoring in Ranch Management are expected to meet the following learning outcomes upon completion of the degree.
1. Effectively communicate in oral and written form.
2. Gather, assimilate, and process information to reach sound logical conclusions.
3. Apply traditional and emerging principles and practices in agriculture production in husbandry, production, and management.
4. Apply traditional and emerging principles and practices in agriculture production in accounting, marketing, and budgeting.
5. Exhibit essential knowledge and skills consistent with their chosen area of focus within agriculture production.
a. Relevant livestock, equine, and farm animal husbandry and management practices.
b. Relevant agronomy and crop production and management practices.
c. Relevant agricultural and related conservation, regenerative, and sustainable management practices.
d. Relevant agribusiness, animal health, meat and food quality, safety, technology, energy, environmental, legal, or other associated fields surrounding production agriculture.
e. Awareness of perspectives, experiences, relationships, and contributions across the spectrum of local, regional, national, and international agriculture production.
| Suggested 1st Semester (Fall) |
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Suggested 2nd Semester (Spring) |
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| Class |
Credit hours |
Class |
Credit hours |
| AGR 1000: Freshman Agriculture Orientation |
0.5 |
ASC 2125: Feeds and Feeding |
4(3-1) |
| AGP 2041: Beef Cattle Management I |
3(3-0) |
AGY 2140: Introductory Soil Science |
4(3-1) |
| ASC 1100: Animal Science |
3(3-0) |
AGP 2015: Animal Health |
3(3-0) |
| CIS 1018: Introduction to PC Applications |
3(2-1) |
ENG 1015: Technical English and Communication |
3(3-0) |
| MAT 1140: Career Math or Higher |
3(3-0) |
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| Electives (4 credits) |
|
Electives (3 credits) |
|
| AME 1005: Basic Agricultural Mechanics |
2(1-1) |
AGE 2108: Agricultural Finance |
3(3-0) |
| ASC 2188: Livestock Practicum |
2(1-1) |
ASC 2150: Live Animal and Carcass Evaluation |
3(1-2) |
| AGE 1102: Agricultural Economics (GT-SS1) |
3(3-0) |
EQM 1058: Equine Reproduction |
2(1-1) |
| EQM 1051: Horse Production |
4(4-0) |
AGP 1046: Artificial Insemination Management |
2(1-1) |
| Total |
16.5 |
Total |
17 |
| Suggested 3rd Semester (Fall) |
|
Suggested 4th Semester (Spring) |
|
| Class |
Credit hours |
Class |
Credit hours |
| ACC 1025: Computerized Accounting |
3(3-0) |
RFM 2081: Ranch/Farm Internship |
12(0-12) |
| AGE 2105: Farm and Ranch Management |
3(3-0) |
Total |
12 |
| AGE 2110: Ag Marketing |
3(3-0) |
|
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| COM 1150: Public Speaking |
3(3-0) |
|
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| RFM 2080: Intern Placement |
1(1-0) |
|
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| Electives (4 credits) |
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| AGY 1100: General Crop Production |
4(3-1) |
|
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| BIO 1005: Science of Biology (GT-SC1) |
4(3-1) |
|
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| AGP 1003: Practical Entomology |
4(3-1) |
|
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| AGR 2033: Applied Information Technology in Agriculture |
3(2-1) |
|
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| BUS 2017: Business Communications |
3(3-0) |
|
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| EQM 2051: Equine Management |
2(1-1) |
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| Total |
16 |
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