Certificate Overview
The CALS Business Management for Agricultural and Life Sciences Certificate is an excellent complement to your CALS degree. Develop business analysis, communications and problem solving skills to supplement your degree work and enhance your appeal to employers.
The certificate requires four core courses and two electives, to be layered into your CALS degree plan. The required courses are offered in partnership with the Departments of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Life Sciences Communication, the Wisconsin School of Business and the Renk Agribusiness Institute. This certificate is available exclusively to CALS degree holders. Agricultural Business Management majors are ineligible due to course overlap.
Completion of the certificate requires a total of 18 credits.
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Core (12 Credits)
- AAE 101: Introduction to Agricultural and Applied Economics
- GEN BUS 211: Fundamentals of Management and Marketing for Non-Business Majors
- GEN BUS 310: Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance for Non-Business Majors
- LSC 270: Marketing and Communication for the Sciences
No substitutions are allowed for the core courses. A limit of two courses may be used for both certificate and degree credits.
Elective (6 Credits)
- AAE 319: The International Agricultural Economy
- AAE 320: Agricultural Systems Management
- AAE 322: Commodity Markets
- AAE 323: Cooperatives and Alternative Forms of Enterprise Ownership
- AAE 335: Introduction to Data Analysis Using Spreadsheets
- AAE 419: Agricultural Finance
- AAE 421: Economic Decision Analysis
- AAE 422: Food Systems and Supply Chains
- AAE/ECON 526: Quantitative Methods in Agricultural and Applied Economics
- AAE/MHR 540: Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Technology
- DYSCI 233: Dairy Herd Management I
- DYSCI 234: Dairy Herd Management II
- DYSCI 535: Dairy Farm Management Practicum
- LSC 250: Research Methods in the Communication Industry
- LSC 251: Science, Media and Society
- LSC 432: Social Media for the Life Sciences
- LSC 435: Brand Strategy for the Sciences
Explore & Declare
More information can be found in The Guide.
To schedule an appointment with certificate advisor Michaela Thaw (pthaw@wisc.edu), please use Starfish.
To declare this certificate, please use this online form.