Note: Active immunization against tetanus (available through
Student Health Services) is a prerequisite for registration in
any laboratory course in agriculture and for any student employment
on the University Farm.
Note: Cost to the student of extended field trips will vary each
semester depending upon itinerary. The student should ask the
course instructor.
1. Agricultural Orientataion (1)
Agriculture and its related agencies; job opportunities.
27. Agribusiness Mathematics (3)
Not open to students with credit in Bus Ad 21 or Math 29, or equivalent.
Fundamental operations, percentage and interest, bank account
reconciliation, equations, ratio and proportion, averages, areas
and volumes, square root, measurement sygems; applications to
milk mixtures, fields, rations, tanks, silos, soils, lumber, concrete,
personal buying and loans.
31. Agricultural Economics (3)
Prerequisite: Econ 1A. Farm credit, taxation, marketing and commnodity
problems; government agencies and farm price structures.
40. Project Records (1)
For students planning to sign up for a project; may be taken
concurrently. Organization of the Agricultural Foundation; budgets,
contracts, and records needed to conduct an agricultural project
under college supervision. (See Supervised Projects in the Animal
and Plant Science Departments.)
112. Farm Management (3)
Prerequisite: junior standing. Farm management; basic economic
principles relating to farm management; organizing the individual
farm unit; balancing crop and livestock enterprises; farm business
administration. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
151. Farm Accounting (3)
Prerequisite: Econ 1A, Ag 27, or permission of instructor. Farm
accounting systems, farm records, budgets, income tax returns.
(2 lectures, 3 lab hours)
180. Special Problems (1-4; max total 4)
Open to juniors or seniors with permission of instructor. May
not be substituted for course requirements in major. Exploratory
work on a suitable agricultural problem in agricultural education,
agricultural mechanics, dairy industry, enology, or food science.
190. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Regulations and Procedures -- Independent Study.
186. Methods of Teaching General Agriculture (3) (Former
Ag 186)
Prerequisite: E Ed 105; S Ed 163 or permission of instructor.
Philosophy and teaching techniques in general agriculture; organization
of teaching materials; professional standards for teachers.
187. Vocational Education (2)
Prerequisite: AgEd 186. Philosophy and organization of vocational
education; educational priniciples for agriculture.
188. Group Study in Agricultural Mechanics (2)
Agricultural mechanics in the vocational agriculture program;
organization of course of study and implementation of program;
demonstration and analysis of teaching techniques.
189. Adult and Continuation Education in Agriculture (2)
Organization, histor, philosophy, administration; teaching
out-of-school youth and adults; development of rural and urban
adult education programs, Young Farmer programs; techniques and
methods of leadership.
15. Agricultural Mechanics (2)
Mechanical skills in field of agriculture; selection, care
and use of common farm tools; projects of wood and metal in farm
appliances. (1 lecture, 3 lab hours)
17. Farm Tractors (2)
Operation and maintenance of farm tractors; operation of farm
tractor under field conditions; service, maintenance and minor
repair of gas, diesel, and butane type engines of wheel and crawler
type. (1 lecture, 3 lab hours; and total of 5 hours of field operation.)
18A-B. Agricultural Welding (2-2)
Prerequisite or concurrently: AgM 15. (A) Arc and oxyacetylene
welding as a tool of construction and repair in the farm shop;
brazing; building up worn parts; burning with hand torch. (B)
Hard facing by arc and gas welding; AC and DC welding and application
to farm construction and repair; welding projects and farrn appliances.
(1lecture, 3 lab hours)
25. Agricultural Drafting (2)
May be taken concurrently with AgM 15. Use of drafting instruments,
lettering, dimensioning, scale drawings and working drawings of
projects in agricultural mechanics; elementary plan and perspective
drawings of small buildings. (1 lecture, 3 lab hours)
81. Farm Structures and Equipment (2)
Prerequisite: AgM 15. Construction and repair of farm structures
and equipment; farm carpentry and construction principles; engineering
principles, codes; farmstead layouts and basic requirements of
farm structures. (1 lecture, 3 lab hours)
91. Farm Surveying (2)
Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of instructor.
Use of the steel tape, level, transit and compass; field problems
in chaining distances, laying out building lines, profile leveling
for irrigation ditches and drains, land leveling, and measuring
land areas. (1 lecture, 3 lab hours)
111. Rural Electrification (2)
Prerequisite: junior standing. Fundamentals of alternating current,
wiring practices, circuit layouts and problems, motor and branch
circuit protection; safe use of electricity; wiring of farmstead.
111L. Rural Electrification Laboratory (1)
Laboratory experiments to accompany AgM 111. (3 lab hours)
115. Farm Machinery (2)
Prerequisite: AgM 15. Study and operation of tillage tools, interaction
of the soil and tool; cotton, grain, and specialized harvesting
machinery and equipment. (1 lecture, 3 lab hours)
116. Farm Machinery (2)
Prerequisite: AgM 15. A study of farm machinery used in spring
and summer operations. Orchard and field spraying equipment, field
and row crop planters, cultivating tools, and haying machinery.
(1 lecture, 3 lab hours)
121. Advanced Agricultural Welding (2)
Prerequisite: AgM 18A-B, Arc and gas welding processes in construction
and repair of farm equipment; inert arc welding; radiograph and
shape burning; aluminum and stainless steels; welding tests and
design of welded structures. (1 lecture, 3 lab hours)
151A-B. Farm Power (2-2)
Prerequisite: AgM 15. (A) Principles of the internal combustion
engine; adjusting, servicing, and minor repairs practical in farming
operations. (B) Overhauling and repairing of gasoline and diesel
farm tractors and engines; field servicing and repairing of auxiliary
power plants on farm machinery. (1 lecture, 3 lab hours)
158A-B. Unit Operations I and II (3-3) (Former V 158A-B)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Basic principles of plant
operations in the food industry. Application of chemistry and
physics to transformation of energy, heat transfer, flow of fluids,
evaporation, heat exchange equipment, distillation, and drying.
(2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
159. Pumps and Motors (3)
Prerequisite: AgM 15, PlSc 50. Operation and study of centrifugal
and deep well turbines; testing of pumps and motors under operating
conditions to determine efficiency; installation, protective devices,
maintenance and proper selection of single and three-phase motors
used on the farm. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
53. Market Milk (3) (Former DS 53)
Prerequisite: AnSc 12 or permission of instructor. Principles
of market milk production, processing, and distribution; modem
processing methods and equipment. (2 lectures, 3 lab hours)
103. Manufacturing Dairy Products (3) (Former DS 111)
Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. Making
common varieties of cheese, mix making and freezing desserts,
churning butter, and culturing dairy products. (1 lecture, 6 lab
hours)
113. Manufactured Dairy Products (3) (Former DS 112)
Prerequisite: DI 53 or 103, or permission of instructor. Chemistry,
physics, and mathematics applicable to the production of butter,
concentrated products, cheese, and ice cream.
123. Dairy Bacteriology (3) (Former DS 151)
Prerequisite: Mcrb 20. Bacteria, yeasts, and molds in manufacture
of dairy products. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
133. Dairy Plant Management (3) (Former DS 154)
Prerequisite: DI 53. Principles, practices, and problems in management
of modem dairy plants.
143. Marketing Milk Products (3) (Former DS 156)
Prerequisite: DI 53. Practices and principles of marketing and
pricing dairy products.
153. Dairy Inspection (3) (Former DS 165)
Prerequisite: AnSc 12, DI 53. Application of the California Agricultural
and the United States Public Health Codes to the inspection of
dairies, dairy plants, and dairy products.
163. Dairy Chemistry and Testing (3) (Former DS 185)
Prerequisite: Chem 2A-B. Milk constituents and application of
chemical laboratory tests as used in food plants. (2 lecture,
3 lab hours)
173. Evaluation of Dairy Products (3) (Former DS 189)
Prerequisite: DI 103. Evaluation, scoring, and grading dairy products;
methods of defect control. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
15. Enology (3) (Former V 15)
History and development of the wine industry; mechanics of various
processes and factors involved in wine making.
115. Wine Analysis and Production (5) (Former V 116)
Prerequisite: Chem 109, Enol 15, Mcrb 20 or 104, PlSc 127. Principles
and practices of preparation and analysis of dessert and table
wines; operation of plant equipment; controlled tests. (3 lecture,
6 lab hours)
165. Wine Technology (3) (Former V 160)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Technological study of
winery equipment; evaluation, location, and operation; sanitation
procedures. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; 3- or 4-day field trip)
175. Winery Management (3) (Former V 171)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Physical properties of
a winery; administrative organizational set-up; personnel; purchasing,
packaging, and shipping; local, state, and federal regulatory
statutes.
1. Food Science and World Food Problems (3)
Modern food processing; world food problems; basic characteristics
of processed foods.
110. Food Chemistry (3)
Prerequisite: Chem 8 (or concurrent), or permission of instructor.
Composition, structure, and properties of food; chemistry of changes
occurring during processing and utilization.
120A-B. Food Engineering (3-3)
Prerequisite: Phys 2A-B, physical chemistry, or permission of
instructor. (A) Laws of thermodynamics, closed and open (control
volume) systems; thermodynamic properties; thermodynamic cycles,
phase, and chemical equilibria; gas dynamics. (B) Fluid flow,
heat transfer, connection, radiation, heat exchangers. (2 lecture,
3 lab hours)
130. Food Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: one year of general chemistry, qualitative analysis.
Principles of food analysis; sampling, separation, physical measurements,
chemical and biochemical techniques. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
140A-B. Food Processing (3-3)
Prerequisite: FS 110; Chem 8 (or concurrent), or permission of
instructor. (A) Food preservation by heat, low temperature, dehydration,
fermentation, and radiation. (B) Sanitation and control of microbiological
problems involved in processing and storing foods; case studies.
(B: 2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
170. Food Microbiology 1 (3)
Prerequisite: Micro 20. Control of microorganisms in production
and handling of foods; microbiological methods of examining foods.
191. Food Science Literature (1)
Prerequisite: senior standing. Review of recent literature.
200. Experimental Methods (3)
Prerequisite: Math 40 or equivalent; permission of instructor.
Principles of research emphasising procedures, collection of data,
summarization and publication of results. Design, conduct, and
analysis of experiments in agriculture.
220. Readings in Agriculture (2-3)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Individually directed
readingsin a field of special concern to the student's graduate
program; appropriate reports and evaluation required.
240T. Seminar in Animal Science (3; max total 12)
Prerequisite: Upper division animal science appropriate to
topic; permission of instructor. Investigation of topic in animal
science: anatomy, physiology, pathology, nutrition, genetics,
or economics.
250T. Seminar in Plant Science (3; max total 12)
Prerequisite: upper division plant science appropriate to
study topic; permission of instructor. Advanced studies in a given
area: crop physiology, plant breeding, plant pathology, plant
nutrition, or economics.
260. Seminar in Animal Science (1; max total 4)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Written and oral reports
on selected areas of research on problems in animal science.
270. Seminar in Plant Science (1; max total 4)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Reviews and reports
on recent literature and problems in agronomy, horticulture, irrigation,
soils, ornamental horticulture or viticulture and enology.
280. Seminar in Agriculture (1-3; max see below)
Maximum total credit 9 units in any given area or any combination
of the three areas. Prerequisite: bachelor's degree in agriculture
or permission of instructor. Advanced problems in agriculture;
research and experimentation in a selected area: animal science,
plant science, or agricultural mechanics.
290. Independent Study(1-3; max see reference)
See Regulations and Procedures - Independent Study.
299. Thesis (2-6; max total 6)
Prerequisite: see Master's Degrees-Thesis Requirements. Preparation
and submission of an acceptable thesis for the Master's degree.