Equine and Ranch Management - Lower Division - B.S.
It incorporates both traditional and progressive ranch management, and performance horse methods. The degree provides a hands-on learning environment with a comprehensive curriculum, outstanding instructional facilities, exceptional full-time faculty and staff, and extensive agriculture industry connections, all to ensure students will acquire the practical, intellectual and communication skills necessary to meet the needs of the agriculture industry. Students pursuing the Bachelor of Science Degree can choose to take extra courses throughout their time at Feather River College and graduate with both an associates degree and a bachelor’s degree.
Courses
- ENVR 480 — Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
- HIST 400 — The American West
- AGAS 302 — Advanced Techniques in Equine Training-Fall
- AGAS 303 — Advanced Techniques in Equine Training Spring
- AGAS 307 — Advanced Techniques in Equine Sale Preparation I
- AGAS 308 — Advanced Techniques in Equine Sale Preparation II
- AGAS 360 — Technical Veterinary Skills
- AGAB 364 — Promotion and Marketing in the Equine and Beef Cattle Industry
- AGPS 370 — Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition
- AGAB 410 — Equine and Ranch Management Leadership Seminar
- AGAS 450 — Applied Beef Cattle Reproductive Management
- AGAS 455 — Applied Equine Reproductive Management
- AGAS 350 — Reproduction, Breeding Systems, and Genetics of Livestock
- AGAS 402 — Training of the Hackamore Horse
- AGAS 403 — Training of the Bridle Horse
- AGPS 210 — Introduction to Soil Science
- ENVR 210 — Introduction to Soil Science
- CHEM 100
- CHEM 102 — General Chemistry I
- AGAS 120 — Introduction To Animal Science
- AGPS 104 — Introduction to Plant Science
- BIOL 100 — Concepts in Biology
- BIOL 102 — Cell and Molecular Biology
- BIOL 104 — Animal Biology, Evolution and Ecology
- BIOL 106 — Plant Biology, Evolution and Ecology
- STAT C1000 — Introduction to Statistics
- BUS 106 — Principles of Economics-Macro
- ENVR 180 — Environmental Policy
- POL 180
- HIST 108 — The United States to 1877