Agricultural Systems Technology, BSAG
Requirements for Students Matriculating in or before Academic Year 2025-2026. Learn more about University Academic Regulation 3.1.
Minimum Overall Grade Point Average: 2.00
Total Hours: 120
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| General Education Requirements | ||
| English Composition | ||
| See Academic Regulation 3.5 | ||
| ENGL 1113 | Composition I | 3 |
| or ENGL 1313 | Critical Analysis and Writing I | |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Composition II | ||
| Critical Analysis and Writing II | ||
| Technical Writing | ||
| American History & Government | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Survey of American History | ||
| American History to 1865 (H) | ||
| American History Since 1865 (DH) | ||
| POLS 1113 | American Government | 3 |
| Quantitative Thought & Logical Reasoning (Q) | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Business Calculus (Q) | ||
| Calculus for Technology Programs I (Q) | ||
| Calculus I (Q) | ||
| STAT 2013 | Elementary Statistics (Q) | 3 |
| or STAT 2023 | Elementary Statistics for Business and Economics (Q) | |
| Understanding Humanities-Human Heritage & Cultures (H) | ||
| Courses designated (H) | 3 | |
| Courses designated (DH) | 3 | |
| Reasoning in the Natural Sciences (N) | ||
| Must include one Laboratory-Based Inquiry (L) course | ||
| PHYS 1114 | College Physics I (LN) | 4 |
| or PHYS 2114 | University Physics II (LN) | |
| Course designated (N) | 2 | |
| Exploring Society & Human Behavior (S) | ||
| SPCH 2713 | Introduction to Speech Communication (S) | 3 |
| or AGCM 3203 | Oral Communications in Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources (S) | |
| Diversity (D) | ||
| Courses designated (D) | ||
| May be paired with another designated course | ||
| Global Cultural Competency (G) | ||
| Courses designated (G) | 3 | |
| Additional General Education | ||
| Additional general education credit hours (at least 4 hours) are required to meet the total 40-hour minimum. If courses carry more than one general education designation and can be used to meet multiple minimum general education designation hours above, more than 4 hours of additional general education will be required here to meet the 40-hour minimum. | ||
| Courses designated (Q), (H), (N), (S), (D), (G), or (F). | 4 | |
| Hours Subtotal | 40 | |
| College/Departmental Requirements | ||
| Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources | ||
| UNIV 1111 | First Year Seminar (or other approved first year seminar course) | 1 |
| SOIL 2124 | Fundamentals of Soil Science (N) | 4 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Plant and Soil Systems (N) | ||
| Elements of Environmental Science (N) | ||
| Fundamentals of Food Science | ||
| AGEC 1113 | Introduction to Agricultural Economics (S) | 3 |
| or ECON 2103 | Introduction to Microeconomics (S) | |
| Written and Oral Communications | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Written Communications in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources | ||
| Written Communication | ||
| Technical Writing | ||
| Select one of the following: | 4 | |
| Chemical Principles I (LN) | ||
| Chemistry I (LN) | ||
| General Chemistry for Engineers (LN) | ||
| Hours Subtotal | 18 | |
| Major Requirements | ||
| Core Courses | ||
| AST 1413 | Introduction to Engineering in Agriculture | 3 |
| AST 2313 | Surveying | 3 |
| AST 3103 | Electrical Power and Industrial Control in Agriculture | 3 |
| AST 4213 | Safety and Health in Agriculture | 3 |
| AST 4203 | Agricultural Water Management | 3 |
| AST 4303 | Automation, Sensors and Controls for Agricultural Systems | 3 |
| AST 4013 | Capstone for Agricultural Systems Technology | 3 |
| AGEC 3213 | Quantitative Methods in Agricultural Economics | 3 |
| AGEC 3423 | Farm and Agribusiness Management | 3 |
| or MGMT 3013 | Fundamentals of Management (S) | |
| Select from one of the following pairs of courses: | 6 | |
| Financial Accounting | ||
| Managerial Accounting | ||
| OR | ||
| Survey of Accounting | ||
And select one of the following: | ||
| Principles of Finance | ||
| Agricultural Finance | ||
| Foundational Accounting Skills | ||
| Foundational Accounting and Data Skills | ||
| Technical Agriculture Electives | ||
| Select 21 hours from any AST, BAE, any course that satisfies a Ferguson College of Agriculture minor requirement, or any of the following courses not used elsewhere with at least 12 of the 21 hours upper division. Check with your advisor about using these hours and electives to minor in an area in the Ferguson College of Agriculture: | 21 | |
| Introduction to the Animal Sciences | ||
| Introduction to the Animal Sciences and Introduction to the Animal Sciences Lab | ||
| Live Animal Evaluation | ||
| Livestock Feeding | ||
| Meat Animal and Carcass Evaluation | ||
| Meat Science | ||
| Animal Genetics | ||
| Global Agricultural Biosecurity and Forensics | ||
| Pesticide Applications | ||
| Insects and Society (N) | ||
| Insects in Global Public Health (N) | ||
| Introduction to Entomology (LN) | ||
| Livestock Entomology | ||
| Horticultural Insects | ||
| Insects in Forest Ecosystems | ||
| Insect Morphology and Physiology | ||
| Insect Biology and Classification | ||
| Quality Control | ||
| HACCP in the Food Industry | ||
| Food Microbiology | ||
| Plant Sanitation for Food Processing Operations | ||
| Food Chemistry I | ||
| Principles of Food Engineering | ||
| Food Safety Modernization Act | ||
| Food Safety Audit Schemes | ||
| Principles of Horticultural Science (LN) | ||
| Herbaceous Plant Materials | ||
| Woody Plant Materials | ||
| Plant Propagation | ||
| Greenhouse Management | ||
| Turf Management | ||
| Fruit and Nut Production | ||
| Commercial Vegetable Production | ||
| Geospatial Technologies for Natural Resources | ||
| Principles of Rangeland Management | ||
| Natural Resource Biometrics | ||
| Applied Plant Science | ||
| Plant Genetics and Biotechnology | ||
| Fundamentals of Weed Science | ||
| Soil Nutrient Management | ||
| Precision Agriculture | ||
| Environmental Soil Science | ||
| Soil and Water Conservation | ||
| Soil Microbiology | ||
| Hours Subtotal | 54 | |
| Electives | ||
| Select 8 hours or hours to complete required total for degree | 8 | |
| Hours Subtotal | 8 | |
| Total Hours | 120 | |
Other Requirements
- A minimum of 40 semester credit hours and 100 grade points earned in courses numbered 3000 or above.
- A 2.00 GPA or higher in upper-division hours.
Additional State/OSU Requirements
- At least: 60 hours at a four-year institution; 30 hours completed at OSU; 15 of the final 30 and 50% of the upper-division hours in the major field completed at OSU.
- Limit of: one-half of major course requirements as transfer work; one-fourth of hours earned by correspondence; 8 transfer correspondence hours.
- Students will be held responsible for degree requirements in effect at the time of matriculation and any changes that are made, so long as these changes do not result in semester credit hours being added or do not delay graduation.
- Degrees that follow this plan must be completed by the end of Summer 2031.