Subject course numbers in parentheses at the end of the course description represent the course equivalent in the Texas Common Course Numbering system.

2302 Agricultural Economics (3-0)
Orientation to the application of economic theory to agribusiness management. Microeconomic principles pertaining to the production and marketing of agricultural products. Offered spring only.

3402 Agricultural Marketing (3-0)
An overview of the nature and structure of agricultural product markets in the U.S.; agricultural product prices, price determination and price discovery processes; use of commodity futures as a marketing tool. (AGRI 1325).

3310 Special Topics (3-0)
Selected in the field of agricultural business. Topics selected according to student interest and need. May be repeated as topics vary.

4301 Federal Income Taxation of the Agribusiness (3-0)
Current income tax with particular emphasis on provisions that uniquely affect farmers, ranchers, and agri-business. The focus is on tax planning and how it influences business management decisions.

4302 Agricultural Salesmanship (3-0)
Fundamentals of salesmanship as they apply specifically to selling for agri-business. Includes topics as the psychology of selling, understanding customers, communication in sales, the process of selling, carreer opputrunity in sales, and selling in the future.

4303 Farm and Ranch Management (3-0)
Farming and ranching as a business. Types of legal organizations of farm and ranches. Principles if business management applied to the farm and ranch with emphasis on factors affecting profits, choice of enterprizes and the efficient use of natural, financial, and human resources. Offered spring only.

4304 Financial and Estate Planning for Agriculture (3-0)
An overview of wealth accumulation strategies, investments, insurance, retirement planning, and estate tax minimization techniques including the use of trusts and charitable giving.

4308 Range-Use Economics (3-0)
Business management and economic characteristics of western ranches; microeconomics production theory applied to the use and management of rangelands. Offered fall only.

4311 Problems in Agricultural Business (3-0)
Individualized instruction in all facets of agricultural business. This course is developed to meet specific needs of individual students. May be repeated with approval of NRM Chair. Offered all semesters.

4315 Farm and Ranch Records and Accounting (3-0)
A review of the principles of accounting as they apply to the modern farm or ranch. Fundamentals of cost and managerial accounting applied directly to agricultural production at the farm and ranch level: product costing, planning, control, standards and budgeting, and profit-cost volume relationships. This course will emphasize the use and applications of spreadsheet programs. Offered spring only, alternate (odd) years. Prerequisite: ACC 2330.

4316 International Development Agriculture (3-0)
Degradation of the environment, explosive population growth, poverty, hunger and the associated political unrest continuously threaten world peace. These are perhaps the most critical problems of today as well as the foreseeable future. This course is an interdisciplinary approach to the role of agricultural development in solving these problems within the economic growth process. It focuses on neoclassical economic theory but stresses the importance of modifying that theory to fit the specific regional/cultural situation. Offered spring only, alternate (even) years.