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Agricultural Business
Agricultural Sciences & Technology
2012-2013 California State University, Fresno General Catalog 105
research proposal, feasibility study, project
review, business plan, strategic management,
case study; written reports and oral presenta-tions.
(Formerly AGEC 170)
Special Topics (AGBS)
AGBS 80. Undergraduate Research
(1-4; max total 4)
Prerequisites: AGBS 1 and permission of
instructor. Directed study or research on
particular problems in the fi eld of agri-cultural
economics and business. Consult
department policies and procedures govern-ing
undergraduate research. Approved for
RP grading. (Formerly AGEC 80)
AGBS 85T. Topics in Agricultural
Business (1-3; max total 6)
Agricultural economics, farm manage ment,
agribusiness management, fi nancial plan-ning,
agricultural development, public
policy, product marketing, and decision
analysis. Topics may require lab hours.
(Formerly AGEC 85T)
AGBS 173. Wine Marketing (3)
Prerequisites: ENOL 45; AGBS 1. Market-ing
principles as applied to wine. Role of
wholesalers, distributors, retailers, coopera-tives.
Advertising. Regulations. Interstate and
international trade. P (Formerly AGEC
173)
AGBS 180. Undergraduate Research
(1-4; max total 4)
Prerequisites: senior standing, upper-divi-sion
writing skills requirement, permission
of instructor. Directed study or research
Product Marketing (AGBS)
AGBS 160. Agricultural
Market Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: AGBS 100 or permission of
instructor. Commodity transformation
and product fl ow through processing and
distribution channels; mar ket structure,
conduct and performance; marketing system
effi ciency and marketing bill components;
over supply, marketing orders, grading and
standards, and price stabilization; price
forecasting, futures market trading, and risk
management. (Formerly AGEC 160)
AGBS 162. Commodity
Futures Trading (3)
Prerequisite: AGBS 160 or permission of
instructor. Study of commodity futures
and options markets; speculative trading
and techniques of fundamental and tech-nical
analyses; crop and livestock hedging
strategies for commodity procurement and
marketing; integrating options and futures
trading for risk management; and develop-ment
of futures trading plans. (Formerly
AGEC 162)
AGBS 163. Agricultural
Export Marketing (3)
Prerequisite: AGBS 160 or permission of
instructor. Determination of potential over-seas
markets for U.S. agricultural products
through export mar k eting studies; foreign
business environment and distribution
channels; product preparation and transpor-tation
abroad; cultural-specifi c promotional
and advertising programs; international
sales agreements, fi nancial transactions,
plus banking and shipping documentation.
(Formerly AGEC 163)
AGBS 164. Agribusiness
Sales Management (3)
Prerequisite: AGBS 1. Marketing manage-ment
strategies for stimulating business and
consumer demand for agricultural goods and
services; food and fi ber merchandising using
institutional, functional, value approaches;
sales program organization and staff devel-opment
for effective communication of
product information and timely completion
of transactions. (Formerly AGEC 164)
Decision Analysis (AGBS)
AGBS 71. Agricultural Business
Statistics (3)
Prerequisite: ELM requirement met. Study
of statistical techniques and formal reason-ing
applications to management and social
and agricultural sciences. Calculation, inter-pretation,
critical evaluation, and historical
relevance of quantitative tools, data analysis,
and results including graphical presenta-tions,
descriptive and inferential statistics,
hypothesis formulation and testing, and
regression. (Formerly AGEC 71)
AGBS 76. Agribusiness
Microcomputer Applications (3)
Applied microcomputing for agribusiness
man agement; use of spreadsheet, database
man agement, and presentation software;
applications to basic farm accounting and
fi nancial budgeting, farm production re-cordkeeping,
crop and livestock enterprise
management, and commodity price trend
tracking. (Formerly AGEC 76)
AGBS 78. Agribusiness
Quantitative Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: ELM requirement met. Func-tional
relationships, marginal analysis and
decision-making models in agribusiness;
logic and probability in diagnosing prob-lems,
designing operations and achieving
objectives; identifi cation of procedures for
effi cient resource utilization. (Formerly
AGEC 78)
AGBS 170. Advanced Agribusiness
Applications (3)
Prerequisites: AGBS 110, 120, 130,
150, 160; upper-division writing skills re-quirement.
Research methods applied to
agricultural business; problem defi nition
and solution formulation; data collection
and analysis using statistics and other tech-niques.
Culminating activities may include
Object Description
| Title | 2012-13 General Catalog |
| Creator | California State University, Fresno |
| Format | PDF Document |
| Date of publication | 2012-05 |
| Subjects | California State University, Fresno. Curricula. Catalogs |
| Object type | Document |
| Location | Fresno, California |
| Language | eng |
Description
| Title | Page 105 |
| Full Text Search | Agricultural Business Agricultural Sciences & Technology 2012-2013 California State University, Fresno General Catalog 105 research proposal, feasibility study, project review, business plan, strategic management, case study; written reports and oral presenta-tions. (Formerly AGEC 170) Special Topics (AGBS) AGBS 80. Undergraduate Research (1-4; max total 4) Prerequisites: AGBS 1 and permission of instructor. Directed study or research on particular problems in the fi eld of agri-cultural economics and business. Consult department policies and procedures govern-ing undergraduate research. Approved for RP grading. (Formerly AGEC 80) AGBS 85T. Topics in Agricultural Business (1-3; max total 6) Agricultural economics, farm manage ment, agribusiness management, fi nancial plan-ning, agricultural development, public policy, product marketing, and decision analysis. Topics may require lab hours. (Formerly AGEC 85T) AGBS 173. Wine Marketing (3) Prerequisites: ENOL 45; AGBS 1. Market-ing principles as applied to wine. Role of wholesalers, distributors, retailers, coopera-tives. Advertising. Regulations. Interstate and international trade. P (Formerly AGEC 173) AGBS 180. Undergraduate Research (1-4; max total 4) Prerequisites: senior standing, upper-divi-sion writing skills requirement, permission of instructor. Directed study or research Product Marketing (AGBS) AGBS 160. Agricultural Market Analysis (3) Prerequisite: AGBS 100 or permission of instructor. Commodity transformation and product fl ow through processing and distribution channels; mar ket structure, conduct and performance; marketing system effi ciency and marketing bill components; over supply, marketing orders, grading and standards, and price stabilization; price forecasting, futures market trading, and risk management. (Formerly AGEC 160) AGBS 162. Commodity Futures Trading (3) Prerequisite: AGBS 160 or permission of instructor. Study of commodity futures and options markets; speculative trading and techniques of fundamental and tech-nical analyses; crop and livestock hedging strategies for commodity procurement and marketing; integrating options and futures trading for risk management; and develop-ment of futures trading plans. (Formerly AGEC 162) AGBS 163. Agricultural Export Marketing (3) Prerequisite: AGBS 160 or permission of instructor. Determination of potential over-seas markets for U.S. agricultural products through export mar k eting studies; foreign business environment and distribution channels; product preparation and transpor-tation abroad; cultural-specifi c promotional and advertising programs; international sales agreements, fi nancial transactions, plus banking and shipping documentation. (Formerly AGEC 163) AGBS 164. Agribusiness Sales Management (3) Prerequisite: AGBS 1. Marketing manage-ment strategies for stimulating business and consumer demand for agricultural goods and services; food and fi ber merchandising using institutional, functional, value approaches; sales program organization and staff devel-opment for effective communication of product information and timely completion of transactions. (Formerly AGEC 164) Decision Analysis (AGBS) AGBS 71. Agricultural Business Statistics (3) Prerequisite: ELM requirement met. Study of statistical techniques and formal reason-ing applications to management and social and agricultural sciences. Calculation, inter-pretation, critical evaluation, and historical relevance of quantitative tools, data analysis, and results including graphical presenta-tions, descriptive and inferential statistics, hypothesis formulation and testing, and regression. (Formerly AGEC 71) AGBS 76. Agribusiness Microcomputer Applications (3) Applied microcomputing for agribusiness man agement; use of spreadsheet, database man agement, and presentation software; applications to basic farm accounting and fi nancial budgeting, farm production re-cordkeeping, crop and livestock enterprise management, and commodity price trend tracking. (Formerly AGEC 76) AGBS 78. Agribusiness Quantitative Analysis (3) Prerequisite: ELM requirement met. Func-tional relationships, marginal analysis and decision-making models in agribusiness; logic and probability in diagnosing prob-lems, designing operations and achieving objectives; identifi cation of procedures for effi cient resource utilization. (Formerly AGEC 78) AGBS 170. Advanced Agribusiness Applications (3) Prerequisites: AGBS 110, 120, 130, 150, 160; upper-division writing skills re-quirement. Research methods applied to agricultural business; problem defi nition and solution formulation; data collection and analysis using statistics and other tech-niques. Culminating activities may include |
