AGRI - Agriculture

Freshman Professional Practice will give students the opportunity to learn specific skills in the care and management of dairy animals at the college farm laboratory. Specific areas of management include feeding, milking, health care, foot care, record-keeping, and facilities maintenance. Students in AGRI 1492 will work in a team approach during the labs.

This course will introduce students to environmentally sound methods of agriculture. The goal is to help students understand methods and technologies for using water, soil, pasture and manure resources in ways that create a biologically healthy landscape for animals and for society.  This course will introduce students to a more natural approach to animal agriculture as well as to explore the synergy of an integrated organic cropping and animal agricultural systems.

The efficiency of animal husbandry depends on the ability of an individual to evaluate, judge and select animals based on their productive and reproductive abilities. Communication, both oral and written, makes the judges reasons much more effective.

This course enables the student to develop career professionalism, job finding techniques and the personal and social skills necessary for success in the world of work. A job search is organized, resumes prepared with cover letters, and practice interviews are conducted. Many types of jobs are studied using successful graduates. Professional and personal goals are discussed.

Students must have permission of their adviser and the department chair before enrollment. An outline of the study must be submitted before enrollment. Directed study provides an opportunity to continue study in an area of special interest. Study may be carried out within any program in the department in which the student is enrolled.