Montana State University Bozeman - Montanan Yearbook (Bozeman, MT)

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College of Agriculture This is also reflected by the variety of options offered by the college, which range from Crop Science or Farm and Ranch Management to Landscaped IX-sign or Science and Technology options. The degrees offered by the College of Agriculture have an equally wide range: Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Education, Agronomy, Animal Science, Horticulture, In- dustrial Arts. Mechanized Agriculture, Range Science, and Soils. The college also offers a preforestry program and a preveterinary medical ■ program. Students may get an Agricultural Short Course Certificate from the school before-transferring to a degree-granting curriculum. However, all the academic programs offered would not be very effective without facilities like the Miller Stock Pavillion. Swine Center, and the Nutrition Center. Combined with the eight agricultural experiment stations throughout Montana. MSU offers the student of agriculture an excellent variety of academic and practical education. Although many people unfairly discount the academic requirements of the agriculture industry, the College of Agriculture makes rigorous demands of its students. Freshmen must take a series of courses that results in a good grounding in biology and chemistry as well as economics and agriculture-specific courses. Study in any of the curricula will give the agriculture student not only a technical knowledge of his her area of specialization, but also a balanced perspective on agriculture both technically and as an area of economics. MSU also provides a wide-ranging basic education. The college also has an honor society specifically for agriculture students, Alpha Zeta, to acknowledge academic success by qualified students. There are also other extra-curricular activities and clubs that cater to agricultural interests so that each student will be able to find their place. Finding one's place in the agribusiness industry is the ultimate goal of the agriculture student. All curricula are designed to give the student the best preparation for a career in the industry. Every year, many agriculture students graduate from MSU and find jobs at all levels of the industry thanks to a college that is constantly updating its information and facilities. Part of this updating is the College's effort to respond to the recent farm crisis affecting every part of the agribusiness industry. To give a responsible and scholarly response to students concerning this issue is another example of MSU keeping its students at the forefront of issues and problems facing them in their chosen fields. 22 Denim Spunkcl

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A Cornerstone of MSU College of Agriculture by Carolyn Flscy Although those students working with livestock or up to their elbows in horticulture experiments may not constantly think about it, it should be stated for the record that the College of Agriculture is one of the foundations upon which Montana State University was built. It has remained a cornerstone, its programs attracted 649 students for the 1986-87 academic year. As any student graduate can tell you, those facts don't mean much when you are involved with some of the more physical experiments required in some of the college's classes. Other classes, however, emphasize the aspects of agriculture that do not directly deal with what most people usually associate agriculture with. Agricultural economics and computer science requirements show the shift to recognizing the importance of agriculture's business aspect.

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