coursework
A total of 8 hours in required courses and 9 elective academic credit hours will be necessary
for attaining the Agrosecurity Certificate. Three courses will serve as core requirements for the Certificate
Program: CRSS 2001 – Terror and the Food Supply; also ADSC(AAEC,CRSS,FDST,POUL)3840 - Agriculture
Incident Response, a practical training course to provide knowledge of hazards and response skills; and AESC 4700 Agrosecurity Seminar, a capstone course to explore current agrosecurity topics through guest
speakers and independent research as a final accomplishment for certificate students. The total hours required for obtaining the certificate is 17 hours of academic credit.
Required Courses:
Select 9 hours from the following courses listed Below:
| Course: |
Credits: |
| AAEC 3100 - Food & Fiber Marketing |
3 |
| AAEC 3400 - Intro Ag Policy |
3 |
| AAEC 4720 - Food Security, Economic Development, Environment |
3 |
| ADSC(FDST) 3650 - Intro Meat Sci |
3 |
| AVMD 3730 – Poultry health |
3 |
| ENTO 3650/3659L - Medical Entomology |
3 |
| ENTO 4250 - Pesticides and Transgenic Crops |
3 |
| ENTO 4740 - Integrated Pest Management |
3 |
| FDST (EHSC)(MIBO) 4320/L - HACCP Food Inst |
3 |
| FDST 3000 - Intro Food Sci Tech |
3 |
| FDST 4090/L - Food Qual. Control |
3 |
| FDST 4100 - Govt Reg Food Safety & Qual. |
2 |
| FDST(MIBO) 4030/L - Food Micro |
2 |
| IDIS(POPH) 3110 - Food Animal Infectious Diseases |
3 |
| MIBO 3000 - Intro to Appl Microbiol |
4 |
| MIBO 3500 - Intro Microbiol |
3 |
| PATH 3530/L - Intro Plant Path |
3 |
| PATH 3830/L - Forest Path. |
2 |
| PATH 4280/L - Diag Mgmt Plant Dis |
4 |
| PATH 4300 - Clin Plant Path. |
2 |
| POUL (FDST) 4860 – Poultry Processing |
3 |
with option to Select no more than one of the following courses:
| Course: |
Credits: |
| ADSC 2000/L - Pract Animal & Dairy Sci |
3 |
| ALDR 3900 - Leadership and Service |
3 |
| CRSS 2010 – Crop Sci |
4 |
| FDST 2010 - Food Issues & Choices |
3 |
| FDST 2030 – Marvelous and Malevolent Microbes |
2 |
| MIBO 2500 - Microbiol & Health Care |
4 |
| POUL 2020/L - Intro Poultry Sci |
3 |
with option to Select no more than one of the following courses:
| Course: |
Credits: |
| AAEC 3020 - Analysis of Agribusiness and Natural Resource Issues |
3 |
| ADSC 3600/L - Beef Prod Mgmt |
3 |
| ADSC 3620/L - Dairy Prod Mgmt |
3 |
| ADSC 3610/L - Pork Prod Mgmt |
3 |
| POUL 3600 - Poul Prod |
3 |
| POUL 4010 - Adv Broil Prod |
2 |
