About the Courses
Department CORE Policy: Includes AAEC 2401, AAEC 3315, and AGSC 2301. All students expecting to graduate on schedule are strongly advised to complete the CORE before beginning their senior year. Students failing to do so may delay their graduation date.
AAEC 2305; AGSC 2301; all courses in MATH, ECO, and ENGL; and all courses in business administration (including ACCT, BECO, FIN, ISQS, MGT, and MKT) must be completed with a grade of C or better.
To advance to the upper division of the business administration program, satisfactory completion of the first and second year courses and a 2.75 GPA at Texas Tech are required.
2.75 GPA required for ACCT 2300 and ACCT 2301
Department CORE Policy: Includes AAEC 2401, AAEC 3315, and AGSC 2301. All students expecting to graduate on schedule are strongly advised to complete the CORE before beginning their senior year. Students failing to do so may delay their graduation date.
AAEC 2305; AGSC 2301; all courses in MATH, ECO, and ENGL; and all courses in business administration (including ACCT, BECO, FIN, ISQS, MGT, and MKT) must be completed with a grade of C or better.
To advance to the upper division of the business administration program, satisfactory completion of the first and second year courses and a 2.75 GPA at Texas Tech are required.
2.75 GPA required for ACCT 2300 and ACCT 2301
Modules
First Year
Fall
Lab Science 4 Semester Credit Hours *
ENGL 1301 - Essentials of College Rhetoric 3 Semester Credit Hours
MATH 1330 - Introductory Mathematical Analysis I 3 Semester Credit Hours
POLS 1301 - American Government 3 Semester Credit Hours
Total: 13
Spring
Lab Science 4 Semester Credit Hours *
ENGL 1302 - Advanced College Rhetoric 3 Semester Credit Hours
MATH 1331 - Introductory Mathematical Analysis II 3 Semester Credit Hours
AAEC 2305 - Fundamentals of Agricultural and Applied Economics 3 Semester Credit Hours (fulfills Social and Behavioral Sciences requirement)
AGSC 2301 - Agribusiness Data Analysis and Modeling with Spreadsheets 3 Semester Credit Hours
Total: 16
Second Year
Fall
ECO 2302 - Principles of Economics II 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 2300 - History of the United States to 1877 3 Semester Credit Hours
ACCT 2300 - Financial Accounting 3 Semester Credit Hours
Sophomore English 3 Semester Credit Hours †
POLS 2306 - Texas Politics and Topics 3 Semester Credit Hours
Total: 15
Spring
AAEC Elective 3 Semester Credit Hours ‡
AAEC 2401 - Agricultural Statistics 4 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 2301 - History of the United States since 1877 3 Semester Credit Hours
ACCT 2301 - Managerial Accounting 3 Semester Credit Hours
Creative Arts/Multicultural Course 3 Semester Credit Hours (choose from the university core curriculum a course that fulfills both the Creative Arts and the Multicultural requirements)
Total: 16
Third Year
Fall
AAEC 3315 - Agricultural Price Theory 3 Semester Credit Hours
FIN 3320 - Financial Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
PCOM 3373 - Business Communication 3 Semester Credit Hours
MKT 3350 - Introduction to Marketing 3 Semester Credit Hours
BLAW 3391 - Business Law I 3 Semester Credit Hours
OR
AAEC 4320 - Agribusiness Law 3 Semester Credit Hours
OR
AAEC 4330 - Natural Resource Law 3 Semester Credit Hours
Total: 15
Spring
AAEC 3100 - Seminar 1 Semester Credit Hours
AAEC 3316 - Applied Risk Analysis and Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
ECO 3311 - Intermediate Macroeconomics 3 Semester Credit Hours
AGBS Group 3 Semester Credit Hours §
MGT 3370 - Organization and Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
ISQS 3344 - Introduction to Production and Operations Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
Total: 16
Fourth Year
Fall
AAEC 4317 - Commodity Futures Trading and Analysis 3 Semester Credit Hours
AGBS Group 6 Semester Credit Hours §
MGT 4380 - Strategic Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
OR
AAEC 4315 - Strategic Agribusiness Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
Free Elective 2 Semester Credit Hours
Total: 14
Spring
COMS 2358 - Speaking for Business 3 Semester Credit Hours (fulfills Oral Communication requirement)
BA Group 6 Semester Credit Hours #
AGBS Group 3 Semester Credit Hours §
AAEC 4302 - Statistical Methods in Agricultural Research 3 Semester Credit Hours
OR
AAEC 4312 - Applied Optimization Methods 3 Semester Credit Hours