Agriculture Business, Certificate of Achievement

Upon successful completion of the Agriculture Business certificate, the student demonstrates the skills, knowledge, and training for employment in the following Agribusiness positions: Agricultural Accounting Assistant, Agriculture Administrative Assistant, Agricultural Inventory/Warehouse Technician, Agricultural Sales and Service Technician, Crop Insurance Agent, Customer Service Representative, Farm Insurance Agent, Farm/Ranch Personnel Supervisor, Feed-lot Supervisor, Field Representative, Food Processing Plant Shift Supervisor, Grain Elevator Manager, International Sales and Trade Technician, Quality Control Inspector, Public Relations Specialist, Sales Agent, Sales Representative, and Wholesale Produce Agent, demonstrates his or her ability to design and implement a record keeping system, design and implement a set of farm accounts, explain the basis for farm income tax computing, calculate measure of earnings applicable to farm records, and calculate the basic measure of depreciation, constructs inventory analysis procedures, operates a microcomputer, develops and uses templates to make management decisions, and evaluates a variety of software useful to agribusiness applications, practice skills to identify and design a marketing strategy for a specific agricultural product, chart and interpret market information, analyze marketing reports, and make a sales presentation on an agricultural product, and prepare the student for a successful transfer to a university for a baccalaureate degree. The certificate program closely follows the design developed by the Central Valley Consortium Agricultural Education Tech Prep.

Minimum Units Required: 60

Required Courses:

Units

AGBUS 010

Agricultural Accounting

3

AGBUS 012

Agricultural Economics

3

AGBUS 015

Agribusiness Computer Applications

3

AGBUS 046

Agricultural Marketing

3

AH SC 010

Principles of Animal Science

3

 

and

 

AH SC 010L

Principles of Animal Science Laboratory

1

PLANT 010

Principles of Plant Science

3

 

and

 

PLANT 010L

Principles of Plant Science Laboratory

1

ENG 001A

Written Communications

3

COM ST 001A

Fundamentals of Speech

3

CS 011

Fundamentals of Computer Science

3

MATH*

See Group I below

3-4

ECON 001A

Principles of Economics: Macro

3

HIST**

See Group II below

3

HUM***

See Group III below

3-5

Electives****

See Group IV below

19-20

*Group I (Electives)

(one course from the following)

AGBUS 013

Agriculture and Natural Resource Mathematics

3

MATH 080

Elementary Algebra

4

**Group II (History or Political Science)

(one course from the following)

HIST 017A

History of the United States

3

HIST 017B

History of the United States

3

POLSC 001

American Government and Institutions

3

***Group III (Humanities)

(minimum 3 units from Group III, Humanities, general education requirement for the Associate Degree)

****Group IV (Electives)

(minimum of 19 units from the following)

BIOL 001

Core Biology

4

CHEM 003A

Introduction to Chemistry

4

 

or

 

CHEM 001A

General Chemistry

5

MATH 012

Introduction to Probability and Statistics

4

MATH 038A

Precalculus I

4

BUS 001A

Principles of Accounting

5

Minimum Units 60

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