Our AIM major provides you with a solid background in the three core areas of communications studies, business management, and applied agricultural sciences. As part of the program requirements, you will also participate in at least one internship experience. As you complete these requirements, you will cap off your program by choosing one of three specialization areas. These areas are:

Three Specialization Areas

Food Industries: This emphasis studies the basic food and life sciences while exploring complex problems facing the food industry. Students seek employment in food or food-related businesses, where knowledge of food science, marketing, and general business management is important. Your coursework will prepare you for careers in manufacturing and operations management, technical sales, food product marketing, or similar areas.

Crops and Soils Industries: This emphasis is for students seeking entry level positions in companies working in the world of agricultural production inputs (e.g., seeds, fertilizers, crop protection products) and in other functional management areas in agribusiness such as agricultural banking, agricultural sales, agrichemicals, crop consulting and scouting, seed marketing, and grain merchandising.

Individualized: If you want to self-design your area of specialization, this emphasis is for you. In consultation with the AIM coordinator, you select courses that thematically relate to your interests. Examples of individualized emphases include: agriculture journalism, avian science, and sustainable agriculture.