COLLEGE of AGRICULTURE and HOME ECONOMICS
Dean and Chief Administrative Officer • Jerry G. Schickedan
Associate Dean and Director of Academic Programs • Wesley
Holley
Associate Dean and Director of the Cooperative Extension Service • Paul
Gutierrez
Associate Dean and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station • LeRoy
A. Daugherty
Scholarship Coordinator • Edward Rodriguez
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture – Majors in Agricultural Biology, Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, Agricultural and Extension Education, Agronomy, Soil Science, Animal Science, Range Science, Wildlife Science, Fishery Science, General Agriculture, and Horticulture. Programs in Preveterinary Medicine and Preforestry
Bachelor of Science in Family and Consumer Sciences – Majors in Clothing, Textiles, and Fashion Merchandising;Family and Consumer Science Education; Family and Child Science; and Human Nutrition and Food Science
Bachelor of Science in Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science
Requirements for Bachelors of Science in Agriculture;
Family and Consumer Sciences; and Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management
- Constants or courses required of all qualifying for this degree.
- Generaleducation requirements.
- Courses to be takenin the particular field of your major interest.
- A minimum of 35 semester credits from the College of Agriculture and Home Economics and enrollment in a major of the college while taking the last 30 credits used to meet degree requirements
- Free electives sufficient to bring the totalnumber of credits to a minimum of 128 semester credits. Of this total at least 55 semester credits must bein upper-division courses(numbered 300 or above).
- A grade-point average of not less than 2.0.
Requirements for Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science,
Major Environmental Science
The requirements for the degree are the same as the above except for #4. Instead, the degree requires a minimum of 35 semester credits from courses with E S designation.
Typical Curricula in Agriculture
The following suggested curricula are presented for your guidance. With the consent of the head of the department in which you are majoring, you may select electives and changes in a curriculum except in the case of constants.
DEGREE: Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
MAJOR: General Agriculture
The curriculum in General Agriculture is administered by the Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Science for the Technical Agricultural Science option, and the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education for the Behavioral Agricultural Science option.
Technical Agricultural Science Option
Freshman year
ENGL 111G, Rhetoric and Composition ....................................................................... 4
BIOL 111G, Principles of Biology, or BIOL 211G, Cellular and Organismal
Biology ............................................................................................................................... 3
HORT 100G, Introductory Plant Science ...................................................................... 4
Mathematics elective............................................................................................................. 3
Agriculture, lower division ............................................................................................... 12
Elective.......................................................................................................................................... 6
Sophomore year
CHEM 111, 112, General Chemistry I, II......................................................................... 8
AXED 201G, Effective Leadership and Communication
in Agricultural Organizations, or COMM 253G, Public Speaking, or COMM
265G, Principles of Human Communication .................................................. 3
ECON 201G, Introduction to Economics, or ECON
251G, Principles of Macroeconomics, or ECON 252G, Principles of Microeconomics ........................................................................................................................ 3
SOIL 252, Soils ........................................................................................................................... 3
SOIL 252L, Soils Laboratory ................................................................................................ 1
Agriculture electives............................................................................................................... 7
Elective.......................................................................................................................................... 4
General education requirement ...................................................................................... 3
Junior year
AGRO 305, Principles of Genetics .................................................................................... 3
ENGL 311G, Advanced Composition, or ENGL 318G, Advanced Technical
and Professional Communication........................................................................ 3
EPWS 303, Economic Entomology ................................................................................. 4
E ST 311G, Statistical Applications .................................................................................. 3
Agriculture economics elective ........................................................................................ 3
Animal science, upper-division ........................................................................................ 3
Chemistry or physics.............................................................................................................. 4
Part III, General Education Requirements.................................................................... 3
Plant science, upper-division............................................................................................. 3
Elective.......................................................................................................................................... 3
Senior year
ANSC 304, Feeds and Feeding .......................................................................................... 3
EPWS 310, Plant Pathology................................................................................................. 4
Agricultural economics electives..................................................................................... 3
Animal science, upper-division ........................................................................................ 3
Part III, General Education requirements..................................................................... 3
Elective....................................................................................................................................... 13
Plant science, upper-division............................................................................................. 3
Behaviorial Agricultural Science Option
Freshman year
AG E 100, Introductory Agricultural Economics and Business.......................... 3
AG E 250G, Life with Microcomputers .......................................................................... 3
AXED 100, Introduction to Agricultural Extension Education........................... 3
AXED 105, Techniques in Agricultural Mechanization.......................................... 3
BIOL 111/111L, Natural History of Life/Lab ................................................................ 4
ENGL 111G, Rhetoric and Composition ....................................................................... 4
MATH (Basic Skills)............................................................................................................. 3-4
General education requirement (fine arts)................................................................. 3
Agriculture, lower division ..............................................................................................6-7
Sophomore year
AG E 305, Marketing and Pricing Agricultural Products....................................... 3
AXED 201G, Effective Leadership and Communication
in Agricultural Organizations............................................................................................. 3
AXED 303, Small Engine Technology............................................................................. 3
CHEM 110G, Principles and Applications of Chemistry ....................................... 4
ECON 337G or 384G, Natural or Water Resource Economics (VWW)........... 3
GEOL 111G, Survey of Geology........................................................................................ 4
HIST 201G or 202G, Early or Recent American History ......................................... 3
Agriculture, lower and upper division........................................................................... 6
General education requirement (English)................................................................... 3
MATH (General Education).................................................................................................. 3
Junior year
AXED 415 or 430, Youth Program Development and Management,
or Teaching Adultsin Nonformal Settings ................................................................. 3
PHYS 110G, The Great Ideas of Physics......................................................................... 4
General education requirement (Human Thought and Behavior)................. 3
General education requirement (Social Analysis)................................................... 3
General education requirement (second VWW course)...................................... 3
Agricultural economics electives..................................................................................... 3
Agriculture, lower and upper division.................................................................... 9-10
Electives........................................................................................................................................ 6
Senior year
AXED 421 or 444, Curriculum and Instruction: The Problem-Solving Approach in Vocational/Technical
Education, or Planning and Methods in Nonformal Education............................................... 3
Agricultural mechanics, upper division........................................................................ 3
Agricultural economics electives..................................................................................... 6
Agriculture, upper division .............................................................................................. 12
Electives sufficient to bring total credits to 128
Veterinary Medicine
(Preprofessional Training Only, Nondegree)
The Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) degree is a professional degree
that is not offered by any college or university in New Mexico; however, you
may complete at New Mexico State University the preparatory program required
for admittance to the professional colleges of veterinary medicine.
The D.V.M.
degree normally requires four years of training in a professional college subsequent
to completion of a preveterinary program that requires at least three years
of college-level instruction. In most instances a baccalaureate degree is a
distinct advantage to the applicant.
Curriculum requirements are determined
by the particular school or college of veterinary medicine. The Department
of Animal and Range Sciences maintains current requirements for Colorado State
University, Washington State, Oregon State, Texas A&M. You should check
with an adviser for specific course requirements. As a student from New Mexico,
you may be eligible for financial assistance under the program of the Western
Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). See the section on WICHE
in the "General Information" chapter under "Student Services" for
more information.