LSU College of Agriculture Minors

Minors are offered through the college and departments within the college. For questions about a minor listed below, students should contact the owning department for that minor.

A minor in agriculture allows you to gain a broad knowledge of agricultural topics. Choose from coursework in agricultural economics, agronomy, animal sciences, environmental management systems, entomology, nutrition and food sciences, horticulture, agricultural education, textiles, and renewable natural resources.

Requirements:

To graduate with a minor in agriculture: 

  • Choose nine hours from the following: AGEC 2003; AGRI 1005; AGRO 1001; ANSC 1011; EMS 1011; ENTM 2001; NFS 1049; NFS 1110; HORT 2050; AEEE 2001; TAM 2045; RNR 1001.
  • Choose nine hours from any course (3000/4000-level) within the College of Agriculture.  

To earn a minor in Agricultural Communication, a student must complete: MC 2010 with a “B” or better.


The following courses must be completed with a grade of “C” or better: MC 2000, AEEE 2011, AEEE 3010, and one additional course chosen from: MC 2035, MC 2040, MC 3010, MC 3504, AEEE 4011 

The minor in agricultural business is not available to students majoring in agricultural business.

To graduate with a minor in agricultural business (18 hrs.),  must complete:

  • AGEC 2003 and ECON 2030, or ECON 2000 and ECON 2010
  • at least six credit hours of approved electives chosen from AGEC 3003, AGEC 3203, AGEC 3303, AGEC 3413, AGEC 3503, and AGEC 3803;
  • at least six credit hours of approved electives chosen from AGEC 4203, AGEC 4243, AGEC 4273, AGEC 4403, AGEC 4443, AGEC 4603, AGEC 4613, and AGEC 4623.*

*Students should be aware that some 3000 and 4000 level AGEC classes have prerequisites beyond the required courses for the minor in Agricultural Business (AGEC 2003 and ECON 2030, or ECON 2000 and ECON 2010).

To graduate with a minor in agricultural pest management, students must complete a minimum of 18 hours of coursework in pest management.

Specific requirements include:

  • ENTM 2001; PLHL 4000; AGRO 4070; and seven additional hours chosen from ENTM 4005, ENTM 4006, ENTM 4012, ENTM 4018/PLHL 4018, PLHL 4001, AGRO 4071.
  • Of the seven elective hours, at least one course must be from entomology.

The School of Animal Sciences offers a minor in animal sciences. A minor in animal sciences gives students a broad background in animal nutrition, management, and reproduction. The selection of electives allows the student to emphasize coursework pertaining to specific species.

Requirements:

To graduate with a minor in animal sciences (19 hrs.), students must complete:

  • ANSC 1011, ANSC 2050, ANSC 2053, ANSC 2060, and ANSC 3010
  • at least 2 credit hours of approved electives chosen from ANSC 2020, ANSC 2033, ANSC 2040, ANSC 2042, or ANSC 2093.
  • at least 3 credit hours of approved electives chosen from ANSC 4052, ANSC 4054, ANSC 4081, ANSC 4084, ANSC 4086, or ANSC 4088.

The minor in animal sciences is not available to students majoring in animal sciences.

To graduate with a minor in applied statistics, students must complete a minimum of 18 hours of coursework consisting of:

  • EXST 2201, EXST 3201, EXST 4050; and Six hours from EXST 3999, EXST 4012, EXST 4025, EXST 4087, and EXST 4142.

This minor is open to all majors and areas of concentration.

To graduate with a minor in aquaculture (23-27 hrs.), students must complete the following: required courses (14-15 hrs.) – RNR 1010 or RNR 1001, RNR 4022, RNR 4025, RNR 4037, RNR 4145; fisheries− RNR 4023 or RNR 4040; plant taxonomy and ecology− select one from:  RNR 4020/BIOL 4020 or OCS 4308/BIOL 4308.

To graduate with a minor in agronomy, students must complete AGRO 2051 and 14 additional hours in agronomy. At least six hours of the 14 must be at the 3000 or 4000 level. The minor in agronomy is not available to students in plant and soil systems.

To graduate with a minor in entomology, students must complete a minimum of 18 hours of coursework in entomology with at least nine hours at or above the 3000 level.

Specific requirements include:

  • ENTM 2001 and ENTM 4005 and 11 hours from the following: ENTM 3002, ENTM 4002, ENTM 4006, ENTM 4007, ENTM 4012, ENTM 4018, ENTM 4040, ENTM 4099, ENTM 4100, and ENTM 4199.

To graduate with a minor in environmental management systems, students must complete 18 hours consisting of EMS 1011, EMS 2011, EMS 3040, and EMS 3050, and 5 hours chosen from any 3000 or 4000 level EMS course.

Note: Some courses require prerequisites.

This minor is not available to students majoring in Environmental Management Systems.

This minor is open to all majors and areas of concentration except the natural resource ecology and management fisheries and aquaculture area of concentration. Courses in this minor have pre-requisites not listed. Please check pre-requisites before attempting this minor.

To graduate with a minor in fisheries (24-25 hrs.), students must complete the following courses:

  • fisheries– RNR 2002, RNR 4023, RNR 4025, RNR 4037, RNR 4040, RNR 4106, and RNR 4145
  • plant taxonomy and ecology−select one from RNR 4020/BIOL 4020 or OCS 4308/BIOL 4308.

This minor is open to all majors and areas of concentration except natural resource ecology and management areas of concentration in forest enterprise, forest resource management, and wildlife habitat conservation and management. Courses in this minor have pre-requisites not listed. Please check pre-requisites before attempting this minor.


To graduate with a minor in forestry, students must complete the following:

  • forest biology−RNR 2001, RNR 2003, RNR 2101
  • silviculture−RNR 3002, RNR 4001; measurements−RNR 2102, RNR 3103
  • forestry electives−select five hours from ENTM 4018/PLHL 4018; RNR 3105, RNR 4032, RNR 4033, RNR 4036, or RNR 4038.

To graduate with a minor in horticulture, students must complete seven hours consisting of HORT 2050, HORT 2061, and HORT 2070; and 11 additional hours in HORT. This minor is not available to students majoring in plant and soil systems.

To graduate with a minor in human nutrition, students must complete at least 18-23 hours including NFS 1110, NFS 2110, NFS 2112, NFS 3110 and NFS 3115.

In addition, students must choose one of the two areas of study options listed below:

  • Community Nutrition—choose one from NFS 3114 or NFS 3116
  • Nutrition—NFS 4111 and NFS 4114.

An undergraduate minor in plant biotechnology and crop development is available to students in all majors except Plant and Soil Systems.

To graduate with this minor, students must complete 18 hours consisting of the following courses: PLHL 3060 (BIOL 3060) and AGRO 4064 and ten additional hours from among AGRO 3010, AGRO 4052, AGRO 4056, AGRO 4071, ENTM 4006, HORT 2860, HORT 4096,​ PLHL 3900, PLHL 4000, PLHL 4001, PLHL 4444. 

This minor is not available to students majoring in textiles, apparel, and merchandising.

To graduate with a minor in textiles, merchandising, and apparel, students must complete 13 hours consisting of TAM 2040, TAM 2041, TAM 2045, TAM 3022, TAM 3032; and six additional hours chosen from TAM 3030, TAM 4041, TAM 4043, TAM 4044, TAM 4070, TAM 4071, or TAM 4072.

Students must comply with all prerequisites and must have a 2.0 GPA in the courses used to satisfy the minor.

This minor is open to all majors and areas of concentration except the natural resource ecology and management wildlife ecology area of concentration.

To graduate with a minor in wildlife ecology (21-25 hrs.), students must complete the following:

  1. required courses− RNR 1010 or RNR 1001, RNR 2101, RNR 2031, RNR 2039;
  2. area courses−one course selected from the following: RNR 2102, RNR 3004, RNR 4013, RNR 4103, RNR 4107, or RNR 4051;
  3. plant taxonomy−one course selected from the following: RNR 2001, RNR 2018, RNR 2900, RNR 4020, RNR 4060; BIOL 4041 or BIOL 4055;
  4. animal taxonomy−one course selected from the following: RNR 3018, RNR 4012, RNR 4016, RNR 4130, BIOL 4145 or BIOL 4141, BIOL 4142, BIOL 4146.

 

To graduate with a minor in youth development and extension, a student must complete a minimum of 18 hours of coursework in AEEE with at least 12 hours at the 4000 level.

Students must complete 6 hours from the following: AEEE 2001, AEEE 2002, AEEE 3010

Students must complete 12 hours from the following: AEEE 4010, AEEE 4026, AEEE 4027, AEEE 4101, AEEE 4102, AEEE 4505, AEEE 4506 

This minor is not available to students majoring in Agricultural & Extension Education.