An Overview of Agricultural Communications Programs and Curricula
Ann Reisner
Agricultural communications faculty and administration must periodically reexamine
programs and curricula. A survey of 30 universities examined current program structure and
curricular requirements in agricultural communications programs. The study found that the
programs' most predominant characteristic is variety. Four different types of administrative units
in colleges of agriculture, liberal arts, and humanities, offer agricultural communications majors.
Agricultural curricular requirements vary from highly prescribed to no specific required
agricultural courses. All schools require a core communications curriculum plus electives. The
program requirements closely parallel professionals' curricular preferences, but fall short of
recent curricular recommendations by agricultural deans and directors.
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