Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

1. Students will be able to describe the various components of the agricultural ecosystem and effectively explain how each of these components work together to influence agricultural productivity, environmental quality and human dimensions.
2. Students will be able to synthesize information from a variety of sources to draw conclusions and formulate recommendations that consider economic, social, and environmental aspects of agricultural ecosystems sciences.
3. Students will be able to individually, or operating as part of a multidisciplinary team, explain to a broad audience in oral, written, and visual formats the importance of agriculture and agriculturally-related issues from multiple viewpoints.
4. Students will demonstrate proficiency in the use of fundamental natural, biological, mathematical principles to solve problems relevant to agricultural ecosystem sciences.