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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Undergraduate Bulletin of Information 2001-2002AGEX 4009. SEMINAR IN EXTENSIONEDUCATION. One credit hour. One hour oflecture per week. Prerequisite: AGEX 4005.Discussions of problems related to programplanning development, rural development, farmhome development, or other phases of extensionwork. Areas to be discussed are selected at thebeginning of the course.AGEX 4015. INTRODUCTION TOAGRICULTURAL COMMUNICATION.Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture perweek.Principles and practices in communications;skills and knowledge for person to person,group, and mass communication; panel andgroup discussions. Practical exercises.AGEX 4016. GROUP DYNAMICS ANDLEADERSHIP. Three credit hours. Three hoursof lecture per week.Discussion of the research and theory in thestudy of small groups with emphasis onmotivational forces involved, and the leadershipfunction in the attainment of the group goals.DEPARTMENT OFAGRICULTURAL ANDBIOSYSTEMSENGINEERINGThe program of Mechanical Technology inAgriculture, administered by the Agriculturaland Biosystems Engineering Department forstudents of agriculture emphasizes the practicalapplication of engineering principles to theproblems encountered in modern farming. Inpursuing this objective, all of the major divisionsof the agricultural engineering field areconsidered: farm power and machinery, soils andwater management, farm structures andenvironmental control, rural electrification, andagricultural products processing.The first year of the Mechanical Technology inAgriculture Curriculum is the same as thatprescribed in most of the other undergraduatecurriculums in the College of AgriculturalSciences; specialization gradually begins duringthe second year. The student, in consultationwith his advisor, selects 12 credits ofprofessional electives during the last two years ofhis program. The professional electives arechosen from the course offerings of theAgricultural and Biosystems EngineeringDepartment and related areas. The student alsoselects 12 credits of free electives to refinecurricular balance in accordance with hisparticular interests. During the summer betweenthe third and fourth year, the student participatesin a summer field practice which is administeredin cooperation with the various governmentagencies and private industries.Most of the agricultural activities in Puerto Riconeed to be effectively mechanized in order to beeconomically viable and profitable. As a resultof a continuing process of agriculturalmechanization, there has been an increasingdemand for graduates of the MechanicalTechnology in Agriculture program.PROGRAM OF STUDYMECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY INAGRICULTURE CURRICULUMFIRST YEARFirst SemesterNumber Course Credits*ENGL 3--- First year course inEnglish 3*SPAN 3101 Basic Course in Spanish 3*MATH 3171 Pre-Calculus I 3CHEM 3001 General Chemistry 4BIOL 3435 Elementary Botany 4AGED 3005 Agricultural Orientation 118Second Semester*ENGL 3--- First year course in English 3*SPAN 3102 Basic Course in Spanish 3*MATH 3172 Pre-Calculus II 3CHEM 3002 General Chemistry 4BIOL 4015 General Zoology 3PHED ---- Physical Education Elective 117SECOND YEARFirst SemesterENGL 3---Second year course inEnglish 373