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2.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 2.00. An in-depth background on the origin, operation, and application of futures and options in risk management for agriculture. Covers grain, livestock, and yield futures and options. Applications of futures and options to price and yield risk management is provided. Comparison of expected results from various risk management alternatives and decision-making processes to use in selecting a risk management strategy. Course meets during weeks 1-10. Typically offered Fall. 2.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture College of Agriculture College Agricultural Economics Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Management of nonfarm, agriculturally related businesses. Topics include tools for management decision making, legal forms of business organization, basics of accounting, and important financial management techniques. Case studies and computer simulation game. Typically offered Fall Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture College of Agriculture College Agricultural Economics Department Course Attributes: E Engr Excluded Gen Ed Courses, Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. The principles of salesmanship and their application to the agricultural business. Topics include attitudes and value systems, basic behavioral patterns, the purchase decision process, relationship of sales tomarketing, selling strategies, preparing for sales calls, making sales presentations, handling objections, and closing sales. Emphasis is placed on application of principles to real-world situations and on building selling skills through class projects. Requires class trips. Students will pay individual lodging or meal expenses when necessary. Typically offered Fall Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture College of Agriculture College Agricultural Economics Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Distribution factors that affect the food industry. Particular attention to the food wholesaling and retailing sectors. Presentation of economic tools to evaluate performance in the food industry. Discussion of the relative importance of each of the major departments in the modern supermarket. Discussion of current and future industry prototypes. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture College of Agriculture College Agricultural Economics Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to introduce students to issues and problems related to international economic development. Topics covered include a description of the current situation in developing countries and the history of growth and development. The course is grounded in the body of theory associated with economic development, but concentrates on the many practical problems such as poverty, population growth, urbanization, education and the environment. The three areas with the greatest attention are agricultural development, international trade, and policy analysis for developing countries. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture College of Agriculture College Agricultural Economics Department Course Attributes: E General Education Electives, LA Global Perspectives, M International Electives, S Language & Culture, Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to mathematical programming and computing as an aid to agricultural decision making by firms, linear programming, game theory and strategy, simulation, the waiting-line problem, the equipment replacement decision, and multiproduct scheduling methods. Typically offered Fall. 0.000 OR 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture, Recitation College of Agriculture College Agricultural Economics Department Course Attributes: E Engr Excluded Gen Ed Courses, Upper Division
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1.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is a study of the process of conducting economic research. The course examines the research problem and objectives, literature review, conceptual framework, methods and procedures, and reporting research. Students will identify a research topic and project advisor. For Honors program students only in Agricultural Economics. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall. 1.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture College of Agriculture College Agricultural Economics Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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0.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 0.00. Supervised professional experiences in agricultural economics. Programs must be preplanned and conducted under the direction of the departmental coordinator with the cooperation of an employer. Students must submit a summary report. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. 0.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Experiential College of Agriculture College Agricultural Economics Department Course Attributes: Coop, E Engr Excluded Gen Ed Courses, Full-Time Privileges, Upper Division, Variable Title
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0.00 - 8.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 8.00. Utilized to record credits earned through participation in Purdue study abroad programs with cooperating foreign universities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. 0.000 TO 8.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study College of Agriculture College Agricultural Economics Department Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. (FNR 406) Introduction to economic models of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources and the use of these models in the analysis of current resource use and environmental issues. Typically offered Fall Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture College of Agriculture College Agricultural Economics Department Course Attributes: E General Education Electives, Upper Division
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