Agriculture and the Undergraduate

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Publication Year:1992

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Front Matter	i-xii
Overview	1-16	(skim)
Title Page	17-18	(skim)
1 Introduction	19-26	(skim)
Part I: Conference Papers	27-28	(skim)
2 Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The University Vantage Point	29-34	(skim)
3 Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Public Policy Vantage Point	35-40	(skim)
4 The Challenges for Professional Education in Agriculture: A Corporate Vantage Point	41-50	(skim)
5 The Environmental Curriculum: An Undergraduate Land-Grant Future?	51-54	(skim)
6 Environment and Ecology: Greening the Curriculum, A Public Policy Perspective	55-59	(skim)
7 The Inherent Value of the College Core Curriculum	60-67	(skim)
8 General Education and the New Curriculum	68-74	(skim)
9 Agriculture: A System, a Science, or a Commodity	75-85	(skim)
10 Educating a Culturally Diverse Professional Work Force for the Agriculural, Food, and Natural Resource System	86-94	(skim)
11 Scientific Literacy: The Enemy is Us	95-103	(skim)
12 The Priority: Undergraduate Professional Education as the Priority	104-108	(skim)
13 Positioning Undergraduate Professional Education as the Priority	109-112	(skim)
14 Science, Technology, and the Public	113-120	(skim)
15 A Challenge, a Charge, and a Commitment	121-122	(skim)
Part II: Conference Discussions	123-124	(skim)
16 Teaching and Research: Balance as an Imperative	125-140	(skim)
17 Rewarding Excellence in Teaching: An Administrative Challenge	141-147	(skim)
18 Integrating Agriculture into Precollege Education: Opportunities from Kindergarten to Grade 12	148-157	(skim)
19 Toward Integrative Thinking: A Teaching Challenge	158-164	(skim)
20 Striving Toward Cultural Diversity	165-172	(skim)
21 Designing an Environmentally Responsible Undergraduate Curriculum	173-187	(skim)
22 Breaking Tradiations in Curriculum Design	188-198	(skim)
23 Changing the Image of Agriculture Through Curriculum Innovation	199-203	(skim)
24 Teaching Science as Inquiry	204-207	(skim)
25 Emphasizing the Social Sciences and Humanities	208-221	(skim)
26 Teaching Agricultural Science as a System	222-236	(skim)
27 The Social and Ethical Context of Agriculture: Is It There and Can We Teach It?	237-244	(skim)
28 The Economic Context of Agriculture	245-250	(skim)
29 The Global Context of Agriculture	251-256	(skim)
Appendixes	257-258	(skim)
A: Program Participants	259-278	(skim)
B: Poster Exhibits	279-280	(skim)

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This book presents efforts to chart the comprehensive changes needed to meet the challenges of undergraduate professional education in agriculture. The United States needs to invest in the future--in human capital and the scientific knowledge base--to revitalize one of its leading industries, the agricultural, food, and environmental system. That objective can be met by educating all students about agriculture as well as by educating others specifically for careers in agriculture.
Agriculture and the Undergraduate includes perspectives on rewarding excellence in teaching and formulating curricula to reflect cultural diversity, the environment, ecology, agribusiness and business, humanities and the social sciences, and the economic and global contexts of agriculture.

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