ANSC 1251

Evaluation of the study trip to the Central Valley

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

In this course, we will spend time debriefing the trip and evaluating the businesses that were visited. Also, as a class, we will work through the learning outcomes from AnSc 1250 in a critical and systematic manner and you will be expected to provide oral and written feedback in a manner consistent with a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) style analysis. This will need to include options for food production to what you observed if you the weaknesses and threats are significant. In other words, if the Central Valley becomes incapable of that level of productivity for any reason, what are the alternatives and how much food production would need to be shifted to other parts of the country?

Fees Course fee: TBA.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY, CU-CEL)

Last 4 Terms Offered (None)

Outcomes

• Critically evaluate the scale of agriculture and food production in the Central Valley of California.
• Compare the scale of agriculture and food production you are familiar with compared to what you observe and articulate the potential benefits and pitfalls of both systems.
• Determine and critique the human resources and capital costs required to allow this region to produce the quantity of food grown in this region compared to what you are familiar with.
• Assess the use of natural resources, how they are managed and who should have rights to them.

When Offered Multi-semester course: Spring.

Comments This is part of a multi-term course sequence with ANSC 1250.

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