Minor Adviser: Kevin Rice, 2224 Plant and Environmental Sciences, 530-752-8529
Minor useful for the following majors: The minor is useful to students in majors whose subject matter involves economics, management, the environment and resource sciences.
Benefits: The minor provides the student with fundamental knowledge of issues involving sustainable agriculture production and range management. Agriculture is one of the major industries of California and the world, and plays a central role in human affairs. Linking knowledge of agriculture with the subject matter of the student's major provides a useful and interesting breadth of application in areas involving economics, management, and social and environmental issues.
Agricultural Systems and Environment.................................................................................... 18
Preparatory material: Course in statistics such as Statistics 13, 32, 100, Plant Sciences 120 or Sociology 42B, or equivalent. Course in plant science such as Plant Sciences 2, Biological Sciences 1C or 2ABC, or equivalent.
Students in the minor select one of the two following tracks:
Sustainable Agriculture track:
Plant Sciences 142 or 150.................................................................................................. 4
Soil Science 100.................................................................................................................. 5
Plant Sciences 176 or Entomology 110....................................................................... 3-5
Minimum of 6 units from the following:
Plant Sciences 110A, 110C, 110L, 112, 113, 114, 170A, 170B.......................................... 6
Range and Natural Resources track:
Plant Sciences 130............................................................................................................. 3
Minimum of 15 units from the following:
Plant Sciences 112, 131, 135, 150, Environmental Science and Policy 123, 172,
Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology 110, 151.......................................................... 15
Advising Center is located in 1220A Plant and Environmental Sciences Building (530-752-1715)
