B.S. in Agriculture: Animal Science, Livestock Production Specialty Requirements

This is content from the Catalog 2019–2020 back issue. Please visit the current catalog for current information.

Group 1. General Education Foundation, Diversification, Structural, and Integrative Requirements in effect Fall 2018

Students may choose to graduate under the General Education Foundation, Diversification, Structural and Integrative requirements and graduation requirements in force at the time they entered the UH System, when they entered UH Hilo, or when they graduate, provided there is no break in enrollment.

Students should meet with their academic advisor to ensure that they enroll in courses that will enable them to meet these requirements as well as requirements for the major and for graduation. Some courses may meet both General Education requirements and major requirements.

The new GE foundations, diversification, structural and integrative requirements and lists of certified courses are posted on the General Education website.

Group 2. Major Requirements and Assigned Credits (73-75 credits)

1. Agriscience Requirements (52)
   • AG 230 Sustainable Agriculture (3)
   • AG 496 Senior Seminar in Agriculture (1)
   • AGBU 110 Microcomputing for Ag (3)
   • AGBU 320 Agribus Management (3) or AGEC 330 Farm Management (3)
   • AGEN 231 Intro To Ag Mech (3)
   • AGRN 310 Agronom Crop Prod Tropics (3) or AGRN 410 Soil-Plant Herbivore Interrltn (3)
   • ANSC 141 Intro To An Science (3)
   • ANSC 254 Fundamentals of Nutrition (3)
   • ANSC 321 Applied Animal Nutrition (3)
   • ANSC 350 Anatomy/Physiol Of Farm Animal (3)
   • ANSC 445 An Breeding/Genetics (3)
   • ANSC 450 Physiology Reproduction (3)
   • Choose three courses from the following ANSC courses:
     • ANSC 342 Beef Cattle Production (3)
     • ANSC 351 Swine Production (3)
     • ANSC 353 Horse Production (3)
     • ANSC 355 Goat & Sheep Production (3)
   • ENTO 304 General Entomology (3)
   • HORT 262 Princ Of Hort (3)
   • SOIL 304 Tropical Soils (3)
2. Supplemental Requirements (21-23)
   • BIOL 171-171L Introductory Biology I (3), Introductory Biology I Lab (1)
   • BIOL 172-172L Introductory Biology II (3), Introductory Biology II Lab (1)
   • Chemistry (Choose one sequence from the following three sequences):
     • Sequence 1: CHEM 151-151L Elementary Survey of Chemistry (3), Elementary Survey of Chem Lab (1) and CHEM 141 Surv Organ Chem & Biochem (3)
     • Sequence 2: CHEM 161-161L General Chemistry I (3), General Chemistry I Lab (1) and CHEM 162-162L General Chemistry II (3), General Chemistry II Lab (1)
     • Sequence 3: CHEM 162-162L General Chemistry II (3), General Chemistry II Lab (1) and CHEM 141 Surv Organ Chem & Biochem (3)
   • ENG 225 Writng for Sci & Technology (3)
   • MATH (Choose one course from the following courses):
     • MATH 135 Precalc: Elementary Functions (3)
     • MATH 140 Precalc:Trig/Analytic Geometry (3)
     • MATH 140X Precalculus (4)
     • MATH 241 Calculus I (4)
     • MATH 242 Calculus II (4)

Group 3. Electives, To be determined

Elective hours will vary depending upon which GE courses are selected by the student.

See your advisor for possible electives.

Total Semester Hours Required for the B.S. in Agriculture: Animal Science—Livestock Production

123 credits required.