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3.00 Credits
Operations in the movement of agricultural commodities from producer to consumer, including the essential marketing functions of buying, selling, transporting, storing, financing, standardizing, pricing, and risk bearing. Three lecture hours per week. TSI Requirement: M1; R2; W1. Prerequisite: None
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3.00 Credits
Biological and scientific aspects of modern industrial food supply systems. Food classification, modern processing, and quality control. The on-hoof and carcass evaluation of domestic meat animals in relation to quality and yield grades. The subsequent slaughter and processing of the animals with emphasis on carcass evaluation, federal grading, and health inspection. The evaluation of meat cuts, meat processing, and preservation of meat products. Two lecture and two laboratory hours per week. TSI Requirement: M1; R2; W1. Prerequisite: None. Lab Fee: $24
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a basic overview of range and wildlife ecological concepts with an emphasis on conservation and management practices. The concept of integrated rangeland and wildlife management is discussed. Three lecture hours per week. TSI Requirement: M1; R2; W1. Prerequisite: None
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4.00 Credits
Scientific animal agriculture. Importance of livestock and meat industries. Selection, reproduction, nutrition, management, and marketing of beef cattle, swine, sheep, goats, and horses. An introductory survey course of scientific principle applications involving genetic selection and reproduction. Three lecture and three laboratory hours per week. TSI Requirement: M1; R2; W1. Prerequisite: None. Lab Fee: $24
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3.00 Credits
Selection, use, and maintenance of hand and power tools; arc and oxy-acetylene welding; and construction materials and principles. A study of the equipment, materials, and processes used for brazing, welding, and cutting of metals with emphasis on metallurgy, testing, inspection of welds, and heat treating by the oxyacetylene process. Two lecture and four laboratory hours per week. TSI Requirement: M1; R2; W1. Prerequisite: None. Lab Fee: $24; Supply Fee: $24
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3.00 Credits
Selection, use, and maintenance of hand and power tools; arc and oxy-acetylene welding; and construction materials and principles. Advanced welding involving pipe, welding and fitting, welding involving non-ferrous alloys, hard facing, and oxyacetylene burning. Attention given to trade practices and welding processes used in industry. Two lecture and four laboratory hours per week. TSI Requirement: M1; R2; W1. Prerequisite: AGRI 2303. Lab Fee: $24; Supply Fee: $24
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3.00 Credits
Fundamental economic principles and their applications to the problems of the industry of agriculture. The field of agricultural economics and its relationship to other sciences. The characteristics of our economic system and basic economic concepts. Survey of the farm and ranch firm and its organization and management; structure and operation of the marketing system; functional and institutional aspects of agricultural finance; government policies and programs related to agriculture. Three lecture hours per week. TSI Requirement: M2; R2; W1. Prerequisite: None
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3.00 Credits
Principles and practices used in the production and improvement of wildlife resources. Aesthetic, ecological, and recreational uses of public and private lands. An introduction to the wildlife resources of the United States with special reference to Texas. The ecology and management of wildlife populations including native, exotic, and endangered species. This course provides an overview habitat management across forests, rangelands, and wetlands of North America Three lecture and one laboratory hours per week. TSI Requirement: M2; R2; W1. Prerequisite: None. Lab Fee: $16.25
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3.00 Credits
Field and laboratory techniques used in wildlife management and research: aging, sexing, marking, capture, monitoring, disease surveys, food habitats and nutrition analysis, habitat assessment and population estimation. Two lecture and two laboratory hours per week. TSI Requirement: M1; R2; W2. Prerequisite: WMGT 1305, WMGT 1310, WMGT 1300, AGRI 1309. Lab Fee: $24
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3.00 Credits
Study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions. Introduces the major subfields: physical and cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology. An introduction to the working principles in the field of anthropology. Brief attention is given to physical anthropology, linguistics and archeology, while the major emphasis is placed on comparative or cultural anthropology, including attention to institutions of family, religion, social order, diet, kinship, role, and status distinction, art and crafts, and subsistence. Reference is given to prehistoric and preliterate peoples, the Native Americans and the impact of modern western technology on primitive and modern peoples. Three lecture hours per week. TSI Requirement: M1; R2, R3C; W2. Prerequisite: None
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