SVCC Catalog/Handbook 2017-2018

120 Southside Virginia Community College
phasizes interviewing techniques, employer/employee
relationships, motivation theory, legal issues, safety, and
environmental concerns. Includes development of team
building and interpersonal skills through activities and
cases. Explores diversity and cultural differences at they
apply to human resource compliance and performance
issues. Lecture 3 hours per week.
AGR 190 Coordinated Internship
(1-5 Cr)
Supervises on-the-job training in selected business,
industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.
Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be
repeated for credit. Variable hours.
AGR 205 Soil Fertility and Management (3 Cr)
Studies the factors influencing soil productivity with
emphasis upon fertilizer materials from production to
application. Discusses time, sources, and soil acidity.
Presents soil testing techniques, interpretation of soil
tests, and the addition of nutrients to correct or prevent
deficiencies. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total
4 hours per week.
AGR 231 Agribusiness Marketing, Risk Management,
and Entrepreneurship
(3 Cr)
Covers marketing techniques required to create an effective
marketing plan addressing product, price, place,
promotion, and people considerations of an agribusiness.
Emphasizes unique aspects of agricultural products
and risk management including price fluctuations
and biosecurity. Projects explore entrepreneurship and
creative marketing plans for a proposed farm or agribusiness.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
AGR 232 Professional Selling for Agribusiness (3 Cr)
Explores sales and marketing careers in the agricultural
industry. Analyzes customer’s personality profile and
needs to formulate an effective value-based sales presentation.
Covers psychology of personality styles, buyer
motivation, and conflict resolution. Researches agriculture
customers and products to make a realistic sales call
with actual sales professionals. Lecture 3 hours per week.
AGR 233 Food Production, Safety, Biosecurity, and
Quality Control
(3 Cr)
Explores food production practices and their influence on
food product quality, nutrition, and safety. Covers
processing techniques for reducing spoilage, increasing
farmer’s share of the food dollar and diversifying farm
incomes. Includes analytical methods for tracking and
reporting quality control practices. Explores equipment,
packaging, laws, regulations, standards, and financial
sources for on farm and small-scale processing. Lecture
3 hours per week.
AGR 234 Chemical Application and Pest
Management
(3 Cr)
Teaches concepts of proper application of pesticides and
other agricultural chemicals used in landscape and turf
management and in production agriculture; including
application methods, equipment calibration and configuration,
occupational health and safety, and pesticide
laws and regulations. Lecture 3 hours per week.
AGR 241 Agricultural Policy, Leadership, and
Professional Service
(3 Cr)
Enhances personal and professional leadership skills to
build consensus and collaboratively solve agricultural
issues. Uses the Virginia legislative process to track and
influence relevant policy. Partners with stakeholders and
key agricultural groups to advocate agriculture’s
importance to society and remove barriers that prevent
farm/agribusiness acquisition and transition. Identifies
relevant professional service and leadership opportunities
that will affect changes for the benefit of agricultural
and rural communities. Covers current policy and public
programs related to taxation, land use, environmental
protection, water quality, population changes, water
conservation, climate change and quality of rural life.
Reinforces written and oral communication skills. Lecture
3 hours per week.
AGR 242 Animal Production, Products and Emerging
Technologies
(3 Cr)
Teaches theoretical and practical science-based animal
production and management systems; principles of
nutrition, reproduction, economics, and breeding and
selection of beef cattle, swine, sheep, poultry, goats, fish
and other specialty animal enterprises. Includes management
practices, marketing, housing, and mitigation of
environmental impacts with emphasis on profitable
business enterprises for small to medium sized producers
and collaborative opportunities to expand profitability
for traditional enterprises. Introduces emerging
technologies influencing production practices and new
products. Lecture 3 hours per week.
AGR 244 Agricultural Alternative Energy Solutions
(3 Cr)
Explores agricultural animals, plants, and specialty
enterprises that produce energy as well as wind and solar
energy solutions. Encourages students to assess current
energy use of an existing residential or commercial site
and implement energy reduction strategies, and student’s
proposals implement current technology