Program Description

The AAS in Agribusiness is part of the Ag program at Snow College and provides students with essential skills in crop and livestock management, sustainable practices, and agricultural operations. This field is vital for students interested in understanding the complexities of food production, resource management, and the economic factors that drive agricultural success. It’s an excellent fit for those who aspire to play a key role in shaping the future of agriculture by making informed decisions that promote productivity and sustainability.

Program Outcomes

Students who complete the AAS in Agribusiness should expect the following outcomes from the program:

• Acquire Substantive Knowledge: Have acquired a balanced and inclusive knowledge of agriculture business management.
• Acquire Substantive Knowledge: Are familiar with current theories and processes in planning, analyzing, and directing an agriculture business.
• Acquire Substantive Knowledge: Are familiar with internal and external business and economic forces that affect the business environment of agricultural business.
• Communications: Are comfortable and confident in making decisions, expressing ideas and organizing ideas into presentations and able to interact with others.
• Communications: Be able to produce clear, purposeful and grammatically correct written documents.
• Computation: Have the ability to keep financial and production records and apply financial and production records in decision making.
• Computation: Be able to perform appropriate analyses for quantitative and qualitative data and decision making.
• Professionalism: Appreciate the relationship between producing food, fiber and fuel and caring for nature and their physical and life sciences.
• Professionalism: Appreciate the relationship between producing food, fiber and fuel and caring for nature and their physical and life sciences.
• Technology: Know fundamental use of computers in an agriculture business management setting using spreadsheets, accounting software and basic agriculture business analysis software.
• Technology: Be able to produce professional-looking documents, presentations and projects using current industry standard software.

Degree Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
AGBS 1010	Fundamentals of Animal Science	4
AGBS 1100	Career Exploration/Ag-Business	2
AGBS 2020	Introduction to Agricultural Economics	3
AGBS 2030	Managerial Analysis & Decision Making	3
English 1 GE Class
Quantitative Literacy GE Class
Humanities GE Class
Emphasis courses (14 credits)
BUS 1010	Introduction to Business	3
BIOL 1010	General Biology LS	3
BUS 1300	Social Media Marketing	3
BUS 1060	QuickBooks for Small Business	3
ECON 1740	US Economic History AI	3
BUS 1170	Human Relations in Organizations SS	3
Fine Arts GE Class