AGRI-BUSINESS SPECIALIZATION

The development of commercial agriculture has relied on a large supporting sector of manufacturing and service companies involved with the supply of inputs to farming and the transportation, processing, marketing, and retailing of agricultural and food products. With this specialization, you will take courses in agricultural sciences, farm management and have access to courses at McGill's renouned Desautels Faculty of Management. Career opportunities in this field include management, farm finance and banking, and marketing positions in the agri-food industry. Farm advisors are organized through the Canadian Association of Farm Advisors

Students in this specialization should take MGCR-211 Intro. to Financial Accounting (Faculty of Management) as it is a pre-requisite for other courses in this specialization.

If you are interested in becoming a professional agronome in Quebec, you must combine this program with the Specializationn in Professional Agrology .

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Core Required and Complimentary Courses: 42 Credits

Specialization Required Courses: 24 Credits (see below)

Course Number	Subject	Credits
AGEC-332A	Farm Management & Finance	3
AGEC-242A	Management Theories & Practices	3
AGEC-450B	Agr. Bus. Management	3
ANSC-250A	Principles of Animal Science	3
AEBI-210A	Organisms I	3
and	9 credits from the following list:
AGRI-301A	Agr. & Environmental Internship	3
BUSA-364A/B	Business Law I	3
ACCT-361A/B	Int. Management Accounting I	3
MGCR-341A/B	Finance I	3
MGCR-352A/B	Marketing Management I	3
MGSC-373A	Operations Research I	3
MGCR-382A/B	International Business	3
ORGB-321A	Leadership	3
Total Required Course Credits for the Option:		24

PLUS: Electives to meet the minimum 90 credit requirement for the degree.

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Some courses offered through the Faculty of Management are also offered by the Centre for Continuing Education