Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications Major, BS in Agriculture

A bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications will prepare you for careers in business and industry, agricultural education, agricultural extension education, and agricultural communications, while developing your leadership and communications skills.

Choose from four concentrations:

• Agricultural Education: Leads to teacher licensure in agricultural sciences in the state of Tennessee. Learn more about licensure.
  
  
• Agricultural and Natural Resource Communication: Provides a broad background in agriculture while building career skills in journalism, electronic media, marketing/management, and broadcasting.
  
  
• Community Engagement and Leadership Development: Prepares students to pursue careers in community or youth organizations, Extension, government, business/industry, or international environments by developing strong leadership skills and an understanding of how people learn and organizations function.
  
  
• Interdisciplinary Agriculture: The Interdisciplinary Agriculture concentration is designed for students who want to develop leadership and communication skills and pursue careers in or related to agriculture. Students who have an Associate of Science or Associate of Science in Teaching degree from a Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) community college or have completed 6-credit hours and have a 2.0 GPA may complete the Interdisciplinary Agriculture Concentration as an ALEC Distance Education student.

Available Minors

• Agricultural and Natural Resource Communication: The core courses give the student a broad background in the foundations of agricultural communications as well as an introduction to visual and strategic communication in agriculture. Careful selection of the directed electives allows the student to emphasize visual design, marketing, or other communication skills and strategies.

• Agricultural Extension: The core courses give the student a broad background in the foundations of agricultural extension as well as an introduction to positive youth development and adult learning theory.

• Agricultural Leadership: The purpose is to develop transferable leadership skills that are useful within any agricultural sciences and natural resources career.