Concentration in
Agricultural Business

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This concentration will provide upper-division undergraduate students with the opportunity to specialize in the management of agricultural business to prepare for careers in farm management, agriculturally oriented financial institutions, and businesses primarily in agriculturally related products. The concentration provides for a seamless two-plus-two transition for students transferring from many community college agricultural programs, while fulfilling the prerequisites for the Business Administration core.

Requirements

1. Complete University General Education requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree (51 units minimum).
2. Complete the prerequisites to the concentration.
3. Complete the prerequisites to the Business Administration major.
4. Complete BUS 3100 Business Technical Writing Communication (WP).
5. Complete the Business Administration core.
6. Complete the concentration.

Prerequisites to the Concentration
The following courses are prerequisites to the Agricultural Business concentration. Those which count toward University lower-division General Education requirements are:
Introduction to Plant Science (G.E. area B2)
Soils (G.E. area B1)
Agricultural Economics (G.E. area D2)
Note: Community college Agricultural Program prerequisites must be approved in order to satisfy the G.E. requirements listed in parentheses. Verify information at the Enrollment Services Office or the transfer center at the community college.

Additional prerequisites to the concentration include:
Introduction to Animal Science
Agricultural Marketing or Sales
Lower-division agriculture elective (3 units)

Prerequisites to the Major (21 units)
ACC 2110 Financial Accounting, 3 units or Agricultural Accounting, 3 units
ACC 2130 Managerial Accounting, 3 units
BLW 2060 Law, Environment, and Ethics, 3 units
ECON 2500 Principles of Macroeconomics, 3 units
ECON 2510 Principles of Microeconomics, 3 units or Ag Economics (G.E. area D2), 3 units
MATH 1500 Finite Mathematics, 3 units
MATH 1610 Statistics for Decision Making (G.E. area B3), 3 units

Business Administration Core (24 units)
CIS 3700 Information Technology for Management, 3 units
FIN 3220 Business Finance, 3 units
MGT 3310 Management Theory and Practice, 3 units, or
MGT 3300 Farm Management, 3 units
MGT 3400 Seminar in International Business, 3 units
MGT 4900 Business Policy, 3 units
MKT 3410 Principles of Marketing, 3 units, or
MKT 3350 Agricultural Marketing, 3 units
OM 3010 Operations Management, 3 units
OM 3020 Management Science, 3 units

The Concentration (18-19 units)
Each course must be completed with a grade of C- or better.

Required Courses
AGST 4940 Agricultural Studies Internship, 3 units
ECON 4690 Agricultural Finance, 3 units
MGT 3340 Agricultural Commodity Futures, 3 units
MGT 4320 Appraisal of Agriculture Property, 3 units

Electives
Choose one from the following:
ECON 4640 Economics and Agriculture, 3 units
MGT 4930 Strategic Planning in Agriculture, 3 units
Choose one from the following:
ECON 4100 Labor Economics, 3 units
ECON 4455 The U.S. and World Trade, 4 units
GEOG 4070 Agriculture Geography, 4 units
MGT 4380 Public Policy in Agriculture, 3 units
MGT 4620 Seminar in Labor Management Relations, 3 units
MKT 4470 Global Marketing, 4 units
OM 4580 Supply Chain Management, 3 units
PSCI 4326 Planning Issues and Agriculture, 4 units