Course Selection GUIDE
Course Selection GUIDE
(10-12) - Credit: 1.0
Prerequisite: Introduction to Agriculture
Interested in earning a scholarship for going to class? Enrollment in this course provides students with a scholarship by serving as a student manager of the Mahomet-Seymour Ag Supply Store and Greenhouse. While learning about concepts of agricultural business with first-hand management work experience, students earn consumer education credit for graduation. Students taking this course may be interested in establishing their own agribusiness in credit and loans, hotel and restaurant management, insurance, and agricultural equipment sales and products. (A201)
Additionally, this course is designed to develop student knowledge and skills in operating an agribusiness. Instructional units include: establishing, managing, and financing the agribusiness; marketing and advertising, product development, sales techniques and strategies, and communicating with employees and customers. Student’s skills will be enhanced in math, reading comprehension, and writing through agribusiness applications. The class will set up and run a cooperative business. This course meets the Consumer Education requirement for graduation as it manages and operates the MSHS supply store and greenhouse. (A202)
Ag Business can be taken multiple times for credit; however, dual credit (through Parkland College) is only available for Ag Business 1.